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Home Depot employee in her 70s fired for failing to stop $5K in fraudulent transactions: lawsuit
Abc7news ^ | 08/08/2024 | Melanie Woodrow

Posted on 08/10/2024 4:24:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- A 72-year-old former Bay Area Home Depot employee is suing the retailer for age discrimination and wrongful termination after she was fired for failing to stop $5,000 worth of fraudulent transactions. The incident happened at the San Ramon Home Depot three months after a loss prevention officer was shot and killed at a Pleasanton Home Depot while trying to stop a theft attempt.

Carleen Acevedo was fired from Home Depot last July for "creating a security or loss prevention risk" according to her termination letter. She says she felt scared and intimidated by the person at her register, who was paying with a suspicious card.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: charlieavocado; failing; fired; fraudulent; homedepot; stopfailingsomuch
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To: blueunicorn6

And she was model employee! If it weren’t for the four returns I was ready to criticize Home Depot since they’ve been firing people for speaking up.


21 posted on 08/10/2024 5:56:56 PM PDT by Reno89519 (“We believe in the collective,” says Gun Grabbing Harris and Stolen Valor Timmy "Tampon" Walz.)
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To: Jonty30

“ She didn’t stop it, fired.
Had she tried to stop it, fired.
Had she refused the transaction, fired.

Where is the sweet spot for her?”
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Maybe just calling a manager?


22 posted on 08/10/2024 6:01:04 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAXkansas )
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To: House Atreides

She tried to call the manager each time.

No luck.

This is why Home Depot is going to lose in court imho.


23 posted on 08/10/2024 6:02:49 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: House Atreides; Jonty30

Oops… I see she tried to call her manger. Sounds like a management/process problem.


24 posted on 08/10/2024 6:03:24 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAXkansas )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Carleen was \ is a flea. She made several poor choices and then blamed it on her age (my opinion). Someone should check to see if she had ever been fired from a job and her complete work history.

Carleen knows the rules and the ways to get paid by evading them.

Digging in a graveyard will always bring up old bones.


25 posted on 08/10/2024 6:21:56 PM PDT by Dacula (Catholics against Kamala)
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To: House Atreides

*She tried to get a supervisor. No answer.*
*She tried to call the manager each time.*
*No luckOops… I see she tried to call her manger. Sounds like a management/process problem.*

See a pattern? Most of these first level supervisors are useless cowards. They’re very brave when they tell you what the latest policy from above is. Will they take that chance with the customer every worker puts up with all day? That’s their job.


26 posted on 08/10/2024 7:13:26 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: All

Those of you who didn’t read the article ought to be ashamed.

That includes ‘mr crappy excerpt OP’.


27 posted on 08/10/2024 7:37:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Theoria

“Ok, that’s why ya say no, and let your supervisor take the bullet with the override, protects ya”

Did you read the story? She tried calling the manager but got no response.


28 posted on 08/10/2024 8:12:48 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: cgbg

I hope she has a copy of the employee rules when it comes to thieves and shoplifters.


29 posted on 08/10/2024 8:51:57 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: CFW

Usually the case...


30 posted on 08/11/2024 2:28:12 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦......Say it fast...Kamala D. Harris = KALAMITY Harris...)
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To: CFW

I work part time at Home Depot I am 72, over the last 6 months my store has hired at least 20 team members that are between 65 and 75 years old!! We work part time, they save on benefits, we ALWAYS show up for work, we LOVE talking to the customers AND giving service, most of us are very knowledgeable because of life experiences with yard and fixing things around our homes!! It is a win win for Home Depot and seniors who need to supplement their retirement because of Bidenonmics!! I really don’t think this had anything to do with her age she is in the RIGHT however we are instructed to NEVER confront a thief NEVER, if our asset protection person is not in the building then you let the thief walk!! I am in CA. and if they don’t have at least $1,000 in product we just let them walk regardless because the police won’t even do a damn thing!! EVERYTHING in our stores are locked behind gates now we have to unlock, get the product AND walk the product to the register with the customer PAIN IN THE ASS!!! Our store alone had 2 million in asset losses last year multiply that by every damn store in the company and it is no wonder everything is so damned expensive now!! Insurance companies NO LONGER cover asset losses they can no longer afford to cover the asinine permission to steal by legislators who LOVE criminals!! I don’t believe this woman was terminated for the reason she is giving something else is going on here!!


31 posted on 08/11/2024 3:00:19 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: heartwood

Yeah, someone needs to ask her manager, “Just exactly what is it you do here?”


32 posted on 08/11/2024 3:06:53 AM PDT by CFW
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To: Jonty30
Where is the sweet spot for her?

She should have gone Full Dirty Harry and pulled out a .44 Magnum with an 10" barrel and asked "Do you feel Lucky Punk ?" And added that your credit card is being revoked.

33 posted on 08/11/2024 3:45:30 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Jonty30

Call her supervisor to deal with the issue, that’s what they are paid to do.


34 posted on 08/11/2024 8:42:58 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a nuisance lawsuit. HD will pay a few thousand dollars and her attorney fees. The good news for the Attorney is that he is going to tens of thousands of dollars unlike the clerk.


35 posted on 08/11/2024 8:45:30 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And at my job, I’m not allowed to say boo about someone stuffing twenty boxes of Benadryl into their backpack. I’m not allowed to record (IL law) and I’m not allowed to approach.

All I can do is tell management and be a witness for law enforcement.


36 posted on 08/11/2024 11:57:43 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Acevedo says as an employee she received annual computer-based training by Home Depot on what to do in the event of a shoplifting or active shooter.

“I was instructed not to do a thing. Do not approach, do not touch, do not try to dissuade, to interfere, just let them go,” she said.

“She was doing everything she could. She asked for backup. She’s making copies of the receipt. You know she can’t risk her life for merchandise and employees are explicitly taught not to risk their life for merchandise,” said Chambord Benton-Hayes, Acevedo’s attorney.

Benton-Hayes also questions the timing of her termination. According to the lawsuit, six months prior, Acevedo learned a teenage new hire at the store had a starting salary of $21 an hour. Acevedo, who was 70 at the time and had been working at Home Depot for seven years, was making $20.17 an hour. She complained and the following month received a $2 raise.

“They really just wanted an excuse to terminate her,” said Benton-Hayes. “The moment she complained, she’s terminated within a few months.”

By email, a Home Depot spokesperson told the I-Team, “I can’t discuss ongoing litigation.”


37 posted on 08/11/2024 1:09:50 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: smokingfrog

This team member was correct in everything she did, in the last 3 years Home Depot has had 3 employees murdered in their stores due to shop lifters one poor man was 80 years old checking receipts at the front door!! As far as the woman’s hourly wage went the starting wage at Home Depot in CA. is 21.00 an hour I have been at Home Depot for 3 years and EVERY January have received a $2.50 an hour raise,Home Depot pays very well AND the benefits are GREAT most places don’t offer ANYTHING for part time, HOWEVER if you are 65 Home Depot has supplemental coverage for Medicare AND it is far better and far less expensive than going through Medicare advantage!! I believe there is something else going on here with this woman and her employment at Home Depot, I can tell you without a doubt that she was NOT terminated for NOT handling a shop lifter NO WAY!!


38 posted on 08/11/2024 1:34:02 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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