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Popeyes restaurant worker fired for not paying back $ after robbery

JEDI

JEDI

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http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/22/pregnant-woman-robbery/26173521/

- After the robbery, Holcomb claimed that one of her managers gave her a choice: Pay the money back or be fired. Less than 36 hours later, she was fired.

- However, a spokesman in the company's human resources department said Holcomb was fired because she didn't follow company policy, leaving too much money in the cash register. ($400)


wtf? never ok to make employee pay back $ after being robbed.
 
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JEDI said:
http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/22/pregnant-woman-robbery/26173521/

- After the robbery, Holcomb claimed that one of her managers gave her a choice: Pay the money back or be fired. Less than 36 hours later, she was fired.

- However, a spokesman in the company's human resources department said Holcomb was fired because she didn't follow company policy, leaving too much money in the cash register. ($400)


wtf? never ok to make employee pay back $ after being robbed.
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She didn't get fired because she was robbed, she got fired because she had $400 in the register which is against policy. That policy is there to keep things such as this from happening.

Agree or not....they are within their right unfortunately. The making her pay it back was their half-assed attempt to let her keep her job (although more so to get their money back, they may still have fired her even if she had paid the money back).
 
Yeah, total dick move by the franchise owner. Depending on the staffing if there was a big rush she may not have been able to rake the drawer fast enough. Typically it's only managers/assistant managers that have access to the safes. It'd be on them to deposit it. At least that was my experience when working around fast food places.

But any publicity is good publicity right? Especially when you are firing a pregnant woman who just got held at gun point.
 
These idiots never figure in weighing bad publicity on their bottom line when making these decisions.
 
The restaurant has reached out to her and apologized (now that they're getting a lot of negative publicity). And, it was "a busy hour." That's all a franchise like that pulls in over one hour? Especially if you consider needing some money in the drawer for change??
 
vi edit said:
Yeah, total dick move by the franchise owner. Depending on the staffing if there was a big rush she may not have been able to rake the drawer fast enough. Typically it's only managers/assistant managers that have access to the safes. It'd be on them to deposit it. At least that was my experience when working around fast food places.
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That's what she says, the money was what was made in the last hour and they were too busy for her to move the money to the safe.

The franchisers pressured the restaurant owner into rectifying the situation. She'll probably get her job back.

I don't know if her pregnancy should be much of a factor in what kind of latitude they're willing to show her, but I do think they could have been more merciful to a person who was just held at gunpoint as a consequence of her job. That is, if they had a good argument to fire her in the first place, which they don't, and of course trying to blackmail her into compensating them for the loss is way out of line (aren't they insured??)
 
DrPizza said:
The restaurant has reached out to her and apologized (now that they're getting a lot of negative publicity). And, it was "a busy hour." That's all a franchise like that pulls in over one hour? Especially if you consider needing some money in the drawer for change??
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if it's anything like here, 90% of customers are paying with a credit/debit card.
 
vi edit said:
Yeah, total dick move by the franchise owner. Depending on the staffing if there was a big rush she may not have been able to rake the drawer fast enough. Typically it's only managers/assistant managers that have access to the safes. It'd be on them to deposit it. At least that was my experience when working around fast food places.
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Yep, that's pretty normal for a lot of places.

This is one of those situations where nobody's in the right. The story said she was a repeat offender for leaving too much cash in the tills. We'll assume that's true. Though the manager on duty should have been ensuring that the cash was being put in the safe in a timely fashion. Especially if it were a known issue at that location, and especially since they're the only person that can do so.

Also knowing the kinds of people who run these franchises, I'm going to assume the lady is telling the truth. That she was asked for make up the difference after the robbery. That's illegal in many jurisdictions. The company probably gave the media the cash drawer excuse to keep the Department of Labor off their back.

Popeye's corporate has also apologized for the incident.

This is the problem with the franchise system though. Corporate has very little control over consistency and policy at individual locations. Some just end up buying out franchisees entirely when problems to add up. Happened at the car rental agency I used to work at. Head office got fed up of all the bad press and completely eliminated their franchise program. That was shortly before I was hired, but I heard the horror stories from longtime employees.
 
loki8481 said:
if it's anything like here, 90% of customers are paying with a credit/debit card.
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Undocumented hispanics and lower income people typically pay in cash. I'm guessing the demographics of this place are slightly different than New Jersey.
 
These franchisees are the same people that require their minimum wage employees to get a doctor's note if they get sick and miss a shift ... even if they have no health insurance. Get a note or lose your "job".
 
You can get two pieces of chicken meal for $1.19? Jesus fuck I can't even get one piece alone for less than $2.99...
 
DrPizza said:
The restaurant has reached out to her and apologized (now that they're getting a lot of negative publicity). And, it was "a busy hour." That's all a franchise like that pulls in over one hour? Especially if you consider needing some money in the drawer for change??
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$400 was cash.
people also paid by credit cards?
 
Popeye's not changing their spicy chicken recipe right? As long as that ain't happening, IDGAF about the employees that work there. Get a better job and learn to follow policy better.
 
loki8481 said:
if it's anything like here, 90% of customers are paying with a credit/debit card.
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different types of places have different clientele.

From what I have seen of PopEyes (across multiple states); cash is common at least half the time.
 
ImpulsE69 said:
She didn't get fired because she was robbed, she got fired because she had $400 in the register which is against policy. That policy is there to keep things such as this from happening.
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This exactly. She could have staged the robbery and got a cut. Either way, it's her fuck up. She might as well have left $400 on the counter while she turned her back to make some french fries.
 
Rakehellion said:
This exactly. She could have staged the robbery and got a cut. Either way, it's her fuck up. She might as well have left $400 on the counter while she turned her back to make some french fries.
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Wat?

So, before this thread, how many of you that have never worked at a Popeye's or other fast food place knew there was a cash limit to drawers? \

And, with how easy it is to rob a fast food place, why would someone actually be deterred unless they just watched Coming to America? $400, $200, whatever. It is a quick stop for fast cash. If you're into that sort of thing.
 
smackababy said:
Wat?

So, before this thread, how many of you that have never worked at a Popeye's or other fast food place knew there was a cash limit to drawers?
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"However, a spokesman in the company's human resources department said Holcomb was fired because she didn't follow company policy, leaving too much money in the cash register. And this wasn't her first offense."

She did.
 
JEDI said:
http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/22/pregnant-woman-robbery/26173521/

- After the robbery, Holcomb claimed that one of her managers gave her a choice: Pay the money back or be fired. Less than 36 hours later, she was fired.

- However, a spokesman in the company's human resources department said Holcomb was fired because she didn't follow company policy, leaving too much money in the cash register. ($400)


wtf? never ok to make employee pay back $ after being robbed.
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Are you completely ignoring the possibility that the employee arranged it or stole the money herself?
 
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