“Sprint” Employees Fired for Pursuing Alleged Shoplifter. Your thoughts?
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Two retail employees say they were fired last week after they chased down a suspected shoplifter.
Wait: The tale gets even loopier. The men – Paul Shoemaker and Mike McGee – apparently were on their break and chasing an alleged store shoplifter not in their store, but in an adjacent Apple Store.
The pair were heading out of the Sprint store where they used to work in Denver’s Cherry Creek Mall when they came upon a frantic security guard in the hall. “[He] came right basically in front of us, and was like, ‘Help me, Help me.’ Out of breath. You could totally hear he was distraught,” Shoemaker told Denver’s 7News.
The pair pitched in to help capture the alleged shoplifter.
“It’s the way I was raised as a kid,” McGee said. “You see something that’s going on wrong you step in and try to help whatever way you can.” http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/04/sprint-fires-employees-for-pursuing-shoplifter.html?partner=yahoobuzz
Edit:
You know what this is really about? Sprint doesn’t want to have to pay for workman’s comp if their employees gets injured. Plus they don’t want the perp suing them for injuries inflicted by their employees. ( o _ 0 ) Sprint sucks!
Best answer:
Answer by beartree
We all still have the right to make a citizen arrest I hope.
What do you think? Answer below!
Wow- you really think this is about worker’s comp? It’s about stupidity! Company policy most likely states to not chase down shoplifters. The employees (while doing the right thing) but themselves in harms way and invited retaliation on the store. Their job is not to provide security, it’s to sell service.
Sounds like they oversteps their boundaries, put themselves in harm’s way and were not present to actually to their jobs for a fair amount of time because of it.
That being said, I would have probably done the exact same thing as these guys.
this country is fuked up go to europe can smoke pot free healthcare nude beaches lol “freedom” and liberty my fucking asshole
I’ve heard of employees being killed outside a store by the shoplifter they were trying to chase. Everybody wants to be a hero. They need to let go of that. You never know who is armed and willing to kill you to get away. ∠°)