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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Walmart Worker Fired For Stopping Assault On Customer Won’t Go Back To Old Job

You may remember last week’s story of the Walmart employee in Michigan who was fired after he intervened to stop an assault against a customer in the parking lot. The retailer subsequently decided to offer him the chance to return to work, but he’s not biting.
“The entire situation has left me with incredible anxiety,” the former Walmart worker, who lost his $8.70/hour job on Oct. 15, tells USA Today. “Walmart feels it’s absolutely not their responsibility to help an associate harmed while on the clock. I have refused their offer to take my job back for fear of retaliation.”

The 30-year-old explains that he wants a formal apology from Walmart, and for the company to remove the fact that he was fired for violating store policy from his employee record.

“They could not guarantee that nothing would happen from management if I did take my job,” he says. “It’s a day-to-day struggle. I feel like if I say the wrong thing, I’m going to have a company coming after me.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like an intelligent young man.Now he'll have job offers galore.

Anonymous said...

I completely agree with this young man. Watch out for Walmart (corp) will stab you in the back the first chance they get.

Anonymous said...

Bet you that this guy is just setting things up for a lawsuit.

Anonymous said...

screw walmart and the idiots that work there. went to fruity walmart tonight. nobody working cameras or electronics. when i finally did find a guy i had to chase him down around an aisle because he was avoiding me and didnt want to help.

went to camera section and if either one of those women smiled, their face would crack.

They have jobs and are miserable. Or maybe they are miserable because they have jobs. They certainly didn't know what customer service is all about.