Home Depot Fires Men Who Stopped Thieves

WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 6-6-2007

[tophat9000]

I think it's an outgrowth of a tactic by leftist lawyer to destroy private property ...sue any one that defends their private property to the point that they will never defend it

Trial lawyer have castrated companies with lawsuits so much that the companies are afraid to defend themselves and instead forbid employee to fight back and fire them if they do

[Old Professer]

What can you shoplift from Dennys, the greasy plates?

[al baby]

Fork yes

[Salamander]

ZIG for great justice ping.

[Gabz]

WalMart ping to absolute utter IDIOCY.............SHEESH.

[Tirian]

I just did it here: http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?pn=About_Our_Stores&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053 Maybe send them a link to this thread so they can see all the interesting replies ....

[over3Owithabrain]

Which is why banks have the same policy, btw.

Wrong. Banks specifically train their branches to call the police, either through call buttons, money clip-triggers, or immediately phoning once the perp is leaving.

[newcthem]

EXACTLY...........to cover their *ss on liability, the customers or supposed to foot the bill for their losses.........no thanks, the local Menards is just as handy, and they do stop shoplifters............

[bmwcyle]

I wonder if the policy changes if this story is all over all news sources for 5 days.

[Inquisitive1]

Robbery son, robbery.

[garv]

The sad part is almost every major retailer has the same policy. A very good friend is the manager of a large retail clothing store and the have the same policy. Everyday they lose thousands of dollars of stuff. She says they find security tags all over the floor of the dressing room.

My favorite story is from my brother. He worked for a major pharmacy chain and they had a policy that you could return items without a receipt. The store he worked in was in a less than desirable area and he said people would come in, take items off the shelf and bring them to the register and "return" them.

They did away with that policy.

[Stark_GOP]

“What I don’t understand is not notifying the police.”

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They arrived to tackle the guy with the chainsaw.

[Right Wing Assault]

I’m going to steal one of their rental trucks and load the sucker up!

[SmoothTalker]

More proof that we are becoming a wussy country.

[napscoordinator]

There has to be more to this story. I mean it is so absurd. However they are HUGE military supporters so before you send the letter try and find out more information. I mean at least wait a few days until we find out more information....thanks.

[NavyCanDo]

What do you expect from a store that welcomes illegal aliens to line up in front of their store each morning as day laborers for Home Depot customers.

[FreedomPoster]

>>The customer service has gone to crap

Actually, the customer service is coming back, post-Naradelli. He was really a huge board of directors screw up. It will take a while to repair, though. Especially the perceptions. And stories like this don’t help their image any, with honest people who want to see crooks dealt with.

[teletech]

If this is their policy for employees, I wonder what it is for looters? Go ahead, take everything, you can do it! We can help! HOME DEPOT where shoplifters are welcome!

[Badeye]

‘Which is why banks have the same policy, btw.

‘Wrong. Banks specifically train their branches to call the police, either through call buttons, money clip-triggers, or immediately phoning once the perp is leaving.’

Actually, banks FIRE EMPLOYEES that try to stop robbers.

And I’m 100% correct, perhaps you misunderstood.

[wideawake]

I’m talking about the putative Home Depot policy that instructs employees not to notify police for shoplifting.