Fired Best Buy security guard who tackled suspect outside California store can have his [tr]

NY Daily News ^ | 29 January 2019 | David Boroff

[oh8eleven]

FULL TITLE = "Fired Best Buy security guard who tackled suspect outside California store can have his job back, company says"

The employee had been discharged for violating company policy after helping law enforcement apprehend Timothy Trujillo outside the Roseville store earlier this month. However, Best Buy said in a statement to the Daily News on Tuesday that it has taken "another look at what happened."

"In the end, we understand he made a split-second decision to do what he thought was right and, while we wish he hadn’t put himself or anyone else at risk, we regret our initial decision and will be offering him his job back," the statement read.

[oh8eleven]

arrest Best Buy for being the biggest ripoff in electronics.
Have shopped there for decades - no problems.
You want to elaborate?

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[Best Buy said ....that it has taken “another look at what happened.”]

What happened was blowback and boycott threats from the public....

[JayAr36]

Best Buy run by WIMPS!!!

[V_TWIN]

“How on earth are they even still in business?”

well, Circuit City folding tent didn’t help thats for sure.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[Once he gets his job back, he should try to arrest Best Buy for being the biggest ripoff in electronics.
How on earth are they even still in business?]

Because unlike a lot of companies that have priced themselves out of business (Toys R Us is a great example), Best Buy actually price matches other retailers, including Amazon.

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe they realized that to be a good citizen in society, they can't just stand by and ignore the thief who robbed the next store, on the grounds that it wasn't OUR store being robbed.

Neighborhood policing, even in malls, would suggest that if there is a robber anywhere in the neighborhood, it could just as much be your place that gets hit as anyone else's. Therefore, remove the threat for everyone by taking an action.

-PJ

[17th Miss Regt]

That’s what this was about.. BEST BUY doesn’t care about doing the right thing, just not getting sued of having liability...

They are cowards, like all corporations

The liability aspect rules. A jury judgement can cost a lot more than any money saved by catching shoplifters. The shoplifter or guard can be injured which could cost a bundle. If the shoplifter is the right type he/she/it can scream discrimination and sue for a ton of money. I'm not saying it is morally right, but it is the correct business decision.

[dragnet2]

I’d tell them to shove their the job and their corporate PR. They don’t give a cheet about their own people when they send them out there as unarmed, unprotected “security guards” all because of their fear of liability and losing $$.

Do they not understand the bad guys know these people are sitting ducks?

[RedStateRocker]

The potential cost of smacking a scumbag’s head on concrete, given a worst-case jury decision, is many times more money than anything ten of us could carry out of there.

I had a security guard get in my face once, when I hadn’t done anything (their fault), and while I went back in (and got a *FULL* apology)since I had nothing to worry about- if I had been in a different frame of mind, very bad things would have happened, with either Mr. rent-a-cop or me going to the hospital (any altercation involving me, only one person is going to be functional afterwards), and since I would have had no legal obligation to stop in either case they would have been up for a serious hospital bill.

[V_TWIN]

Same thing with banks, policy is to have the tellers give bank robbers what they want and not interfere and the perps know it. I doubt most bank robbers even carry weapons these days.

[TexasGator]

This premium elite customer says you don’t know what you are talking about.

[TexasGator]

There are a couple of dudes here that haven’t been in BB in the last 15 years but always visit these threads

[Bigtigermike]

Plus this story was everywhere and many customers for the first time became aware that the Best Buy security guard is a ‘security monitor’ and they the customer are really on their own if something bad were to happen to them. There’s a level of comfort for some in seeing a guard nearby but now they know if a thief runs out to the parking lot and tries to carjack them...the guard and employees are just going to stand by doing nothing

[MrEdd]

Because their competition was abysmal.
Remember the idiocy by which Circuit City committed Mercantile suicide?

[oh8eleven]

BEST BUY doesn’t care about doing the right thing, ... They are cowards, like all corporations
Yet Best Buy had the courage to do the right thing and reverse their decision.

[HamiltonJay]

Cowardly arguments all.

You either support the right thing, or you don’t...

Best Buy and most corporation don’t, their justification for it are just excuses.

[HamiltonJay]

See 36.

[wally_bert]

Unreal but totally believable.

[HamiltonJay]

Only after they caught hell...Should have done the right thing without being humiliated into it because their cowardice was exposed...

Do you think this security guard would have gotten his job back has this story not gotten play in the media?

Best Buy had no intention of doing the right thing... only reacted to the backlash..

Cowardly, like nearly all corporations

[dragnet2]

No it’s not the same. Banks have cameras everywhere, they have exploding dye packs, many higher risk banks use armed plain clothes security and some have armed uniformed security people, they have alarms which notify the cops immediately, and many banks have bullet resistant barriers for the tellers nowadays.

Not the same.