Posted on 04/23/2010 10:29:27 PM PDT by george76
Two Denver men said their efforts to be good citizens cost them their jobs.
Paul Shoemaker and Mike McGee... were fired from the Sprint store inside the Cherry Creek Mall after chasing a suspected shoplifter.
The two claim they were walking out of the store when they stumbled upon a security guard in the hall, clearly in need.
"(He) came right basically in front of us, and was like, 'Help me, Help me.' Out of breath. You could totally hear he was distraught," said Shoemaker...from the Apple store.
"It's the way I was raised as a kid. You see something that's going on wrong you step in and try to help whatever way you can," said McGee.
The men said the Sprint corporate policy is not to chase shoplifters. They argue they were on break and the suspected shoplifter wasn't even taking their merchandise.
There have been similar cases before.
In 2009, two men were fired from a Best Buy in Broomfield. They were let go after they tackled a shoplifter taking cell phones.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
>> In 2009, two men were fired from a Best Buy in Broomfield. They were let go after they tackled a shoplifter taking cell phones.
Best Buy hates heroes and Christmas!
Screw you Best Buy!
Sprint’s self interest in the matter is not to get sued by a shoplifter who gets hurt in the course of being apprehended by an employee. Their liability insurance policy may dictate this.
Cool. I’ll never have to bother considering Sprint for anything anymore.
Denver Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Brandon Darnell Smith, 21, in connection with last week’s iPad snatch from the same Apple store in the same Cherry Creek mall that severed a man’s finger.
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-ipad-severed-042310,0,5648532.story
Just one more reason NOT to shop at best buy.
If we were to boycott every company that did something displeasing to conservatives at some time (why not the others with identical policies who haven’t yet had it published in the news?) we might end up with as rich a choice as Soviet Russia’s marketplace.
I don’t buy from them anymore. They are really against their customers.
But this happened outside the store and only involved people who happened to work for Sprint. Sprint has 0 liability here just as any employer whos employees may act dangerously outside work hours or off their property.
It would turn on whether the employees were in fact off the clock. Being AWOL but still on the clock means Sprint was still legally exposed.
Exactly. They should go file for unemployment and make Sprint sweat.
Ping
More thieving thugs at the Cherry Creek Mall. This is the same mall where the man had his fingered severed the other day. Also, check the link in one of the above posts—Amish strike again.
Oops, above link from post #5 IS from the severed finger incident. Don’t know if this was Amish or not—maybe Quakers this time.
Years ago I read about a restaurant employee who dashed across the parking lot of the restaurant to drag a woman and her child out of a burning motel room. The restaurant fired him for leaving the job. Let no good deed go unpunished.
Any company that makes it a policy to punish people who make a choice NOT to be an institutionalized coward in the image of leftist should never be supported. tehse companies make it a policy in their store and I agree with them making their own rules for their own business but at a cost, I will not support them.
We are losing our ability to be a country where the best of us always comes to the top in a time of need. But trial lawyers and leftists have made sure to hand-cuff the good guys in our country.
or not....you might teach these stores to use a little common sense and change their policies
There needs to be Good Samaritan laws to defend those who defend themselves or others during direct criminal activity while in the scope of their employment.
The fact that an employer can fire someone, while that employee has been put in the dangerous situation by the employer....is nothing more than Business Socialism and Corporatism run amok. Anyone that handles cash or other monetary instruments...and/or merchandise...is a target.
We have Good Sam. laws for life saving emergencies....we now need it for defense during criminal activity
You know, I noticed that the other day. And it isn’t like one employee comes back periodically, they parade past you. I actually noticed them standing in a group, and then one by one, they came up to us over the period of 15 minutes or so. Needless to say, I didn’t buy anything. My daughter, off looking at video games, being left alone, did end up buying something... but maybe never again.
Another reason to not use Sprint or Best Buy.
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