I suspect it was the confrontation with the owner. It probably was not handled well.
No good deed goes unpunished. /s
Lately I have been hearing a great deal of negative reports about Walmart.
“Her manager then called her into his office later that same day, she said.
Cheney said that after the manager listened to her side of the story and asked if she would come to him with any problems in the future — she said she wouldn’t because of his earlier inaction on the same issue — the manager told her she was fired.
When she asked once again to be told why she was fired, he said she was fired for being rude to a customer, Cheney said.”
Seems like she was told by the manager to come to him first instead of confronting the customer, and she said she would not...
IF she wanted to really help the guy out instead of “report him”, she should have told him when she saw the dog in there, before he went into the store, “Hey, do you know you forgot to roll down your windows so your dog can handle the heat better?”
Simple helpful reminder instead of official snitch and bitch.
Ping!
Leaving a dog in a car (with free water) where the interior temp is below 100 deg F will not kill the dog.
I think the employee’s attitude of saying the owner shouldn’t do something was the issue. I get irritated when people inform me of something in a manner that acts as though I am beholden to follow any and all orders they give me.
I think the appropriate manner for the employee to do this would have been, “Excuse me, I noticed your dog is inside a car on a hot day, did you forget to let one of the windows down a little?”
That said, the customer should not have reacted how he did.
I am offering a free broken window to anyone who leaves a dog to die in a hot car.
What if this had been a human child?
Would they have fired the employee?
The dog wasn’t harmed so i guess the owner knew what he was doing.
Sounds like the manager is a wimp and didn’t like the employee taking charge of a situation that he wouldn’t take care of...seeing this alot in management - they are there to take up a spot and do nothing else...the woman is better off seeking employment somewhere else...hopefully the canine escapes a stupid owner and finds a better one as well...
The human race is broken. Perhaps G-d will press the reset button soon...
People who defy their bosses get fired.......not a particularly hard concept to comprehend!!!!
There’s more to this story. And some of it is between the lines.
The story reads that the called the SPCA right off and LATER confronted the owner. That was stupid. After calling the SPCA she should have kept her mouth shut and become invisible. She was probably angry and wanted to read the owner the riot act. Understandable, but foolish.
No one is stupid enough to think it’s safe to leave a dog in a hot car like that. It’s just plain criminal, they just don’t care. Confronting that man was pointless.
Don’t meddle and expect your employer to keep you.
She should have reported to her boss.
Zealotry is counter productive
She could have called the ASPC and then let them handle it. In our county the cops come and bust out the windows of a car with a dog in it in hot weather, and the owner is subject to arrest. (And no, they don’t shoot the dog.) Usually, however, it’s enough for the owner just to have to confront the damage his stupidity has caused and get a tongue-lashing from everybody. There’s no need for an employee to march out into the parking lot and confront the owner, no matter how great the owner’s stupidity. He’s going to have to fork out for the deductible on car repairs as it is.
Me, I’d bust out the windows myself if the cops couldn’t get there fast enough. But around here they do, thank goodness.
I worked at Walmart for a short while, nights. A long time, and good, night supervisor (8 years or more) followed a shoplifter out of the store, got the plate as he drove off. Called the cops.
He was fired the next morning at 8am when the store manager came on duty.
In Houston you just call the cops. It is against the law to leave your dog closed up in your car with no a/c.
I just call the police when I see that. Morons.