Wal-Mart: YOU'RE FIRED!!!

[gblowfish]

This story was in the KC Star this morning. Wal-Mart fired a brain damaged cashier who worked there for almost 20 years for discounting a jug of sweet tea for a customer by fifty cents. I hope he sues their ass off. Story is here:

Thousands of people are rallying behind a brain-damaged Walmart worker who was fired last week.

Frank Swanson was a cashier at a Walmart in West Plains, Missouri for nearly two decades.

He was well known in the local community as an enthusiastic worker who loved to hug customers.

He was fired just 20 days short of his 20-year anniversary with Walmart.

A Walmart spokesman said he was fired for violating a pricing policy.

"Letting an associate go is never easy," the spokesman said. "For this associate, point-of-sale policies had not been followed in some instances. A recent violation of those policies moved the associate to the final step of our discipline process, resulting in his dismissal."

Swanson's supporters claim he was terminated for giving out hugs, and they are planning a protest at the West Plains Walmart on Saturday to show their support.

More than 1,500 people have committed to attending the rally on a Facebook page called "Hugs for Frank" and another 3,100 said they are interested in attending.

"Walmart has decided to fire Frank, the sweetest employee you'd ever meet, for hugging a costumer," the page reads. "So we're going to gather at Walmart on Saturday April 9th with signs or t-shirts offering free hugs. Let's do this for Frank."

The workers' rights group Making Change at Walmart also released a statement on the matter.

"It appears Walmart fired workers for being decent and kind. So, if you believe in hugs or being nice to customers, don’t apply for a job at Walmart," said Jess Levin, communications director for MCAW.

Swanson's bosses cited his hugs as inappropriate, but that's not why he was fired, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Swanson broke store policy on at least one occasion by discounting a jug of tea by 50 cents, after a customer told him a competitor was selling the tea for 50 cents cheaper,the Post-Dispatch reports. He took the customer at her word, but under store policy, he should have asked her to produce a printed circular proving the competitor's price.

Swanson's sister, Babbi Marsh, confirmed that Swanson was terminated for excessive price matching.

"He never let anyone walk out without paying for their merchandise. What he was told was that he was being let go for excessive price matching," she told the West Plains Daily Quill.

Swanson suffered severe injuries including brain damage following an accident when he was young that left him in a coma for six weeks and temporarily paralyzed, his family told KSPR TV.

Walmart customer Jenn Harper called Swanson a "sign of hope."

"I feel like one of our own has been hurt," she told KSPR. "He's a sign of hope, he made your day better. If you were having a bad day at Walmart, he would light up your whole trip."

http://www.businessinsider.com/walma...0-years-2016-4

[stevieray]

..sounds like the other cashiers are slacking.

[Simply Red]

Frank seems nice.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

It's bogus. A 50 cent mistake doesn't get people fired.

It does if you do it over and over again. It's a behavioral issue, if anything.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Valiant

My family is from there, Walmart is literally a lot of peoples highlight in the day. I remember going as a child and being so bored out of my mind. But the girl that lived next to my great aunt that worked at the diner turned into a porn star. So there is that. Well a one off porn star, who I just happened to see in Hustler in the 90s.

My dads whole family is from there too, I like the town. One uncle owns a pallet company, one was a barber for years

[KCUnited]

As a consumer not trying to pull one over, I applaud ol boy for keeping the line moving by not requiring some decrepit, extreme couponing hag to have to fish around in her purse for the competitors ad. Promote this guy to xpress lane.

Everyone cares about the business til they're 8 deep in line, holding 2 items, and some CP'ers wife is trying to produce an ad, checkbook in hand, while her husband goes full Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the women's restroom.

[Dayze]

uhggg....
don't even get me started on 'Extreme Couponing'.

[Deberg_1990]

In this day and age a male just cannot go around giving women unsolicited hugs.


But he was Brain damaged....,

[Hoopsdoc]

Originally Posted by Cochise

All you really know in a blowfish thread which contains some bit of 'news' intended to incite rage or derision against someone is that you are never getting the whole story

Glad to see people are becoming educated to George's bullshit.

FTR, I know nothing at all about this story but I know the history of the OP. It's pretty much always bullshit.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Dayze

uhggg....
don't even get me started on 'Extreme Couponing'.

I need 100 boxes of Tide please


Then stopping having 10 kids!!

[Dayze]

"I spent $400 on rice cakes, so i can use my coupon for a free tub of butter"!


these idiots talk about saving money by buying a bunch of shit they probably wouldn't otherwise buy in the first place, just to 'save money'. saw one lady with probably 50 bottles of ketchup, and heard her remark that due to her coupons, they were only $.25 a piece"!!
or, just not buy a shit load of ketchup and save the $12.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Glad to see people are becoming educated to George's bullshit.

FTR, I know nothing at all about this story but I know the history of the OP. It's pretty much always bullshit.

There will literally never be an OP that contains the whole story. It's simply not possible.

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

"Letting an associate go is never easy," the spokesman said. "For this associate, point-of-sale policies had not been followed in some instances. A recent violation of those policies moved the associate to the final step of our discipline process, resulting in his dismissal."

Without reading through the rest of the thread....

This statement from Walmart makes it sound that the guy had a history of discounting items, had been warned, and terminated when he did it again.

If that's the case - that's on the employee. If you are warned not to do something that is against company policy, and you do it anyway, then you deserve to be fired.

If that's not the case - then screw Walmart.

However, I reserve my judgement until I see what actually happened.

[Toby Waller]

Lol at the,article saying tgat under normal circumstances hugging would be considered sexual harassment.
I'm not defending annoying random hugging but it's not sexual harassment.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Dayze

"I spent $400 on rice cakes, so i can use my coupon for a free tub of butter"!


these idiots talk about saving money by buying a bunch of shit they probably wouldn't otherwise buy in the first place, just to 'save money'. saw one lady with probably 50 bottles of ketchup, and heard her remark that due to her coupons, they were only $.25 a piece"!!
or, just not buy a shit load of ketchup and save the $12.

Well if you could sell 49 bottles for half price you come up quick.

[SAUTO]

I should have my wife start extreme couponing and selling the shit for half price, "would you like some toilet paper or tide with your oil change today? How about some tampons or a case of Gatorade?"