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walgreens fires someone for how they handled a robbery
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/08/us-crime-walgreens-lawsuit-idUSTRE7876B220110908?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=76
I would have been tempted to do the same thing, but with a policy like Walgreen's I'd have taken myself and the other employees/customers and hidden. I'd just let the robber walk off with anything he wants. If you don't have authority to try to stop them what else can you do? I'm sure the pharmacist doesn't make enough to put his life on the line like that.
BTW - there were 3 employees working; one was held hostage *until* the gunman jumped over the pharmacy counter - where did that employee go when the robber jumped the counter and pointed the gun at the pharmacist? Surely, the robber didn't drag that employee over with him, so they would have been free to get help. AND, where was the 3rd employee through all of this?
Is it safe to assume that there were no customers in the store and/or if there were, none of them had a cell phone?... trust me, I carry my cell phone all the time and if I were ever in a store and saw something like that going on, I'd have the cops there so fast their heads would spin.
Was neither "unengaged" employee willing to use their cell phone to call for help? Or does Walgreen's forbid employees to carry cell phones at work? AND I've been in Walgreen's many times, so I happen to know that there are multiple phones in every store, so couldn't one of the employees that didn't have a gun to their head, get to another phone to call 911? I also know that every Walgreen's store has multiple exits, so assuming that no one could get to a phone (unlikely), someone could have gotten outside to summon help.
I'm not sticking up for Walgreen's but if the guy wasn't supposed to be packing a gun, he knew the consequences if he was caught. There are too many unanswered questions.
I don't think he has a leg to stand on.
BTW - there were 3 employees working; one was held hostage *until* the gunman jumped over the pharmacy counter - where did that employee go when the robber jumped the counter and pointed the gun at the pharmacist? Surely, the robber didn't drag that employee over with him, so they would have been free to get help. AND, where was the 3rd employee through all of this?
Is it safe to assume that there were no customers in the store and/or if there were, none of them had a cell phone?... trust me, I carry my cell phone all the time and if I were ever in a store and saw something like that going on, I'd have the cops there so fast their heads would spin.
Was neither "unengaged" employee willing to use their cell phone to call for help? Or does Walgreen's forbid employees to carry cell phones at work? AND I've been in Walgreen's many times, so I happen to know that there are multiple phones in every store, so couldn't one of the employees that didn't have a gun to their head, get to another phone to call 911? I also know that every Walgreen's store has multiple exits, so assuming that no one could get to a phone (unlikely), someone could have gotten outside to summon help.
I'm not sticking up for Walgreen's but if the guy wasn't supposed to be packing a gun, he knew the consequences if he was caught. There are too many unanswered questions.
I don't think he has a leg to stand on.
I agree that since he signed the contract...he had to expect to be fired....but...
I would have thought they would be a bit thankful...
Of course had he caused the hostage to be shot, that could have gone bad too...
I would have thought they would be a bit thankful...
Of course had he caused the hostage to be shot, that could have gone bad too...
Darn tooten!
I would have done the EXACT same thing as Hoven.
He had every right to defend himself against the robbery, and Walgreen's should be made to answer for their actions.
That being said, if it's expressly written in his employee handbook that weapons aren't allowed on the property, unfortunately, he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
My office has the same policy, and we all leave our guns in our cars/trucks in the parking lot.
If we carried a weapon INTO work, we'd be terminated immediately.
I would have done the EXACT same thing as Hoven.
He had every right to defend himself against the robbery, and Walgreen's should be made to answer for their actions.
That being said, if it's expressly written in his employee handbook that weapons aren't allowed on the property, unfortunately, he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
My office has the same policy, and we all leave our guns in our cars/trucks in the parking lot.
If we carried a weapon INTO work, we'd be terminated immediately.
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