Walmart employees fired...for disarming shoplifter

unfortunately that's the way america is going towards. I've read many articles about homeowners getting robbed in their own house, shoot the perp, then be sued by the perp's family cause he was killed.

It's gotten to that point that us honest people have to make the decision to let the bad guys get away and take everything, or us stand up for our selves and risk going to jail.

 

A number of companies have a "do not resist" clause in their employee handbooks. But instead of making it such an all-encompassing rule, how about taking into account the specifics of the incident?

Considering if the store was crowded, the characteristics and/or behaviors of the perp, the imminent danger to others in the store, etc. should all be evaluated instead of the employees being dealt with in such a knee-jerk way. They may well indeed have been heroes.

Thanks, Wal-Mart. For yet another brilliant maneuver.

 

"Peace through strength".

Individually or nationally...

 

So what will Walmart say if other employees don't offer resistance and become victims of violent crime?

I mean really this is not just about protecting Walmart property from theft. The decision to fight or run and maybe get shot in the back is what these people are faced with.

These days you don't know what a criminal might do. Maybe they just want to dump off Walmart stuff in a Pawn shop or maybe they would like to tie you up and pour gasoline over you and burn you alive.

 

Way to go WALLY WORLD.
You could of had many dead people in your store.Had not these 4 had done something. Then you woul had to fo closed the store, clean up the mess, etc, and not making any money for as long as it was closed

 

The corporate policy is that the Wal Mart associate (s) is supposed to back off when faced with a gun. Well, they were in an office and had no where to go and did what they did to protect themselves.

Otherwise, the gunman would have killed all of them and then would have probably killed someone (s) else in the store during a hostage stand-off.

I hope that there is enough public pushback that these people will be able to return to their jobs. I would like to see the corporate policy of Wal Mart to be changed to reflect situations that may arise that would require immediate action and that no adverse situation would be leveled at the employee (s). These people were heroes and now they are treated like dirt. Wal Mart has a big public relations problem with this one.

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Here's the contact page ...

http://walmartstores.com/7663.aspx

 

Reason company's Like Walmart, Target, etc. have non-resistance clauses in their employee manuals, is because if the attempt fails, people die.

You can't predict how suicidal, nor homicidal a person is. It's why Asset Protection, doesn't chase shoplifters, ever. THey only serve to provide deterrence, and provide evidence to Law Enforcement, and then they take it from there.

Those employees put the lives of everyone in that facility at risk. The deed does NOT outweigh the gravity of how bad crap could have hit the fan if they had failed.

If a CUSTOMER would have been shot/injured/killed, it'd be Walmart who pays every dime. It's all about liability. If you can't grasp it, I'm sorry.