Wal-Mart Employee Fired for Helping Assaulted Woman

[cosermann]

If you're ever a victim of violence while at Wal-Mart, don't count on the staff doing the right thing (like this guy did). It's against policy.

Seems like defending yourself from attack violates Wal-Mart's "workplace violence" policy.

Michigan Walmart worker says he was fired for helping assaulted woman | Fox News

Excerpt:
"Oswald, 30, said he was in his car on his break about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when he saw a man grabbing a woman. He said he asked her if she needed help and the man started punching him in the head and yelling that he was going to kill him. Oswald said he was able to get on top of the man, but then two other men jumped him from behind."

 

[eldirector]

Many businesses have a similar policy. I know my employer does.

Fortunately, my "policy" requires that I do the right thing, regardless of what my employer says.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

If the facts are actually as presented in the article, Walmart should be promoting this guy to full time instead of firing him.

 

[koutsevil]

If the facts are actually as presented in the article, Walmart should be promoting this guy to full time instead of firing him.

Not Wally World's thinking. Management sees an employee that stands up and helps out. Means he wants to fight company policy. Bring in unions and cause friction with other employees. Wally World only wants sheeples to work for them.

 

[HoughMade]

This is about the 457th time I've said this on INGO, but:

It's good to be your own employer.

 

[Mark 1911]

If the facts are actually as presented in the article, Walmart should be promoting this guy to full time instead of firing him.

Apparently Walmart would prefer that the employee had turned his back and the woman removed from their property in an ambulance. Apparently that would have been better for his Walmart career than any compassion toward a woman in danger on their property.

 

[koutsevil]

Apparently Walmart would prefer that the employee had turned his back and the woman removed from their property in an ambulance. Apparently that would have been better for his Walmart career than any compassion toward a woman in danger on their property.

The only time Walmart and compassion will be used in the same sentence.

 

[h20addict3231]

Sounds like a possible law suit! What , wheres the security guy that's always driving around?

 

[88GT]

Walmart should be free to set their own policies.

Employees should be free to accept or reject those policies by accepting or rejecting employment.

This isn't an issue except where people are making it an issue. Surely, this isn't the first time you people have seen corps make decisions that aren't "good for society?"

 

[koutsevil]

Walmart should be free to set their own policies.

Employees should be free to accept or reject those policies by accepting or rejecting employment.

This isn't an issue except where people are making it an issue. Surely, this isn't the first time you people have seen corps make decisions that aren't "good for society?"

Agreed. Which is why I donnot shop there.

 

[David D]

If I were the woman who was being assaulted, I would write an open letter to Walmart thanking them for the intervention provided by their former employee, then asking them what action they would have preferred their employee take. I would send this letter to all local media.

 

[El-Cigarro]

Agreed. Which is why I donnot shop there.

Awwwww, Comon Now!!!! Kouts ain't EVIL!!!! I LUV that TOWN!!!!!

 

[printcraft]

This is about the 457th time I've said this on INGO, but:

It's good to be your own employer.

Yeah, but what if your boss is a jerk like mine?

 

[Rookie]

Yeah, but what if your boss is a jerk like mine?

Punch him in the ovaries.

 

[HoughMade]

Yeah, but what if your boss is a jerk like mine?

My boss is an a-hole.

 

[7.62]

I wish there was a law protecting Good Samaritans from employer retaliation for doing the right thing.

 

[HoughMade]

I wish there were less laws, less "policies" and more common sense.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I wish there were less laws, less "policies" and more common sense.

This.

It's probably because of the myriad laws and threats of lawsuits companies reject reasonableness and common sense in favor of written policies. It's got to be easier to point to some text and do as it prescribes than to listen to cases and decide on action(s) based on the facts and mitigating circumstances.

 

[hoosierdoc]

they only have a policy because someone probably went too far in something that they shouldn't have before a policy was in place. Then walmart didn't have a policy violation to use to fire the person. Now, they have a policy.

 

[cmr13]

Sounds like a possible law suit! What , wheres the security guy that's always driving around?

I've never seen a security guard at a Walmart. Cops, occasionally, but never a security guard like you see at the mall cruising the parking lots.