Posted on 06/18/2023 5:58:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Colorado Circle K employee is suing the company after she was fired for putting her hands on an armed thief that snatch a pack of cigarettes from behind the counter.
Mary Ann Moreno, 75, claims in her lawsuit against Circle K Stores, Inc. that she was wrongfully terminated from the Westminster store she had worked at for 18 years for her brief interaction with the criminal.
“I really did not think I would get fired for something like that. [Maybe] If I had chased him out the door or, you know, argued with him,” she told KDVR.
On Oct. 4, 2020, Moreno was behind the counter when Tyler Wimmer walked into the convenience store with a knife in one hand and a sealed package in the other that also contained a knife.
It’s not clear in surveillance footage obtained by KDVR whether or not he ever threatened Moreno with the knife, but Willmer did ask if she would give him a pack of cigarettes for free. Moreno declined, telling him she would get fired if she did.
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Tobacco takes a long time to kill, if it dies. That is not good punishment or payback.
We’ll see.
You fear “assaults” from 75-year old women.
The soy is strong in this one.
It confused me to, at first. I thought the headline meant the cigarette thief was suing. No, he is not suing. She will be suing because of the store’s policy to fire any employee who interferes with a shoplifter. Not nice, not fair, not even logical, but I don’t think she has a case. This was the company policy she agreed to when she began working there.
Bad things happen to you when you do.
Bring back the Chain Gangs, OREGON BOOTS and Whipping posts FOR THE small time CRIMINALS!
No, this predates that insanity. This sort of give up before the fight was caused by lawyers who refuse to fight and won’t allow the company to spend $$ to hire outside lawyers to fight. They are cowards and skinflints — can’t risk being showed up as the losers they are.
I had to deal with this BS. Short-sighted “risk assessment”: “It will cost more to fight than to simply pay the thief to go away”. Total BS if looked at in long term. Always.
i hope she gets rich and enjoys it.
John Wayne spits says the pilgiams need to grow up.
America is finished.
Circle K is a terrible company. They bought up some good places and then converted them to garbage models. They do not take care of things, and they pretend that they have customer service, but they do not. Avoid them.
But then we’ll be whining about food deserts and retail deserts and demanding the corporations do something about it!
The stupid women didn’t know her job. Good riddance.
You are more angry with the poor clerk than you are with the thief.
You don’t deserve a society with many of her in it.
You deserve a society of thieves.
And you are going to get it.
The Circle K people don’t want to pay for his retirement. The theft of the cigs has nothing to do with the employees dismissal.
headline stinks... guy who got stabbed sues?
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I thought the same thing.
It’s time to go loot Circle K. They just put a target on themselves. Stupid.
At first I thought the thief was suing the store.
Not lawyers. Underwriters.
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