Walmart offers job back to worker fired for helping assaulted woman
Source: Detroit Free Press
HARTLAND TOWNSHIP Walmart has backtracked on the firing of a Good Samaritan employee for coming to the aid of a woman who was being attacked in a store parking lot.
Kristopher Oswald, 30, of Linden was fired for scuffling with a man who was attacking his former girlfriend. The story of his firing made nationwide news and caused a furor against Walmart on social media sites like Twitter.
"We took a step back and looked at all the information," said company spokeswoman Ashley Hardie. "We realize his intentions were good and we've reached out to him to offer him his job back and let him know that he's welcome back at the store."
Hardie said store officials left a message with Oswald but had not yet spoken to him in person.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20131018/NEWS06/310180058/Michigan-Wal-Mart-worker-fired-for-helping-assaulted-woman
derby378
(30,252 posts)The fact that Walmart wouldn't stand by its employee's actions in protecting the innocent and upholding the law really says a lot.
indepat
(20,899 posts)May the sand flies of a thousand camels rhetorically nest in the pubic hairs of each officer who has helped formulate personnel policies for Walmart until Walmart begins treating their employees as human beings having certain unalienable rights as delineated in the Declaration of Independence.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)... this constitutes "theft of time". (Seriously, I did not make this up.)
When will Walmart start treating employees as human beings? Not any time soon, I fear.
strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)(They were sued for that and settled IIRC.)
Do as I say, not as I do...
Hypocrites.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)And this guy only got offered his job back because a stink was raised about this incident.
indepat
(20,899 posts)egregiously sub-human wages?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Staff are forbidden from using words like "meeting," "committee," "organize," "volunteer" !), etc. People get disciplined for saying those, regardless of context.
"Language unbecoming a Wal-Mart employee" is the official term for it.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)if I had to work there.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Booster
(10,021 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)I read the statement you issued when you fired him. You made it plain you knew what he did and that you were firing him anyway. Now that the public has made its displeasure known, you are having second thoughts.