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Popeyes restaurant worker fired for not paying back $ after robbery

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and you SOB's are making me hungry with all of this biscuit talk. 😡 i could go for about 6 of those honey butter biscuits right about now.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Keep WHAT from happening?

Getting robbed? Apparently, that policy didn't help much.

Or to keep from losing $400 instead of $200? If you're firing someone who just went through getting robbed over $200, you deserve to be ridiculed in the news.
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Yeah, wait a month before firing them so the heat dies down.
 
I am heading out for some spicy Popeyes' chicken and then a cold Coke. Yummy.

Edit: Two orders of 2 pcs spicy mixed (breast and wing and breast and leg) and a cold drink = happiness. 😀
 
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Sometimes reading posts on P&N\OT gives the idea that the US is a third-world country where "fuck you all" is the motto, zero tolerance for anyone and anything is the norm and more - just with more money than other third world countries.

Really, I've never seen such lack of empathy and "follow the rules, no matter how dumb they are, or DIAF" attitude in posts by people from other countries.
 
Harabec said:
Sometimes reading posts on P&N\OT gives the idea that the US is a third-world country where "fuck you all" is the motto, zero tolerance for anyone and anything is the norm and more - just with more money than other third world countries.

Really, I've never seen such lack of empathy and "follow the rules, no matter how dumb they are, or DIAF" attitude in posts by people from other countries.
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I can't feel much pity for this lady, because I know how the system actually works and she wasn't doing her job right. In order to leave an extra $200 in the register like that, she would have had to REPEATEDLY ignore warnings from the register to clear out her cash drawer for about a dozen sales.

She was being completely incompetent at her job, and should have been fired for that reason alone.
 
I'm not reading this whole thread, so I'm sure some of this has been said already. I also have only read the story in the OP, so some of this might change with more info. That said...

Didn't have time to drop the money? Somebody fucked up. Whether it was the cashier for not taking the time, the GM for telling her not to step away to drop money, the owner for not having a proper quick-drop safe...that's not listed in the story. Need to know in order to assign responsibility. But "didn't have time" sounds more like "didn't make time", especially if it has happened before, and especially considering her IDGAF-sounding quotes. However, if she's done it before, how many times? If she'd only received one warning, that's one thing, but if she's done it multiple times and is still working the register, management / ownership is also to blame and should not ask her to pay it back. Should not let her to continue to work there either, though.

Pregnant? Irrelevant. You don't get to do something stupid (if indeed she did) because you've got a bun in the oven.

See, the real issue here isn't about the missing money. It's about, if a crackhead can get away with $400, they are MUCH more likely to do it again (and to tell their scumbag friends to) than if they'd gotten $100. It paints a target on everybody working a register for 20 miles. She (or whoever was actually responsible) just let down everybody she works with and exposed them to increased risk.

But some bleeding heart will hire her so she can ignore procedures there and expose her new co-workers to risk as well. She'll be fine. Shit, somebody will probably buy her a new car for courageously not doing her job.
 
Phokus said:
These idiots never figure in weighing bad publicity on their bottom line when making these decisions.
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Obviously not, dick moves like these lose me as a customer for life. Not only just that location, but the entire company since the franchise is allowed to behave this way.
 
Harabec said:
Sometimes reading posts on P&N\OT gives the idea that the US is a third-world country where "fuck you all" is the motto, zero tolerance for anyone and anything is the norm and more - just with more money than other third world countries.

Really, I've never seen such lack of empathy and "follow the rules, no matter how dumb they are, or DIAF" attitude in posts by people from other countries.
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It isn't zero tolerance, They broke the rules multiple times.

What if you're warned repeatedly not to mop the floors during rush hour and a customer slips and breaks a leg? Should that be no hard feelings too?
 
This chick has got a great lawsuit on her hands. The excuse corporate gave for firing her is weak even if it is written in the employee manual.
 
zephyrprime said:
This chick has got a great lawsuit on her hands. The excuse corporate gave for firing her is weak even if it is written in the employee manual.
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No, she doesn't. "Why did you fire the plaintiff" "She repeatedly broke policy, ignored warnings put in place to remind her, and caused a monetary loss of $200". Case fucking dismissed.
 
CZroe said:
They will settle but Popeye's could easily win this. Unfortunately, "easily" doesn't mean "for less money than it would take to get her and her lawyer to settle." I think it's going to be in quarter-mil territory.
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I don't think Popeyes would win this. If her violation of company policy is what they are firing her for, then how would her paying the money back allow her to keep her job? Sounds to me like the owner only cares about getting his money back, and tried to extort it out of his employee by holding her job over her head.

You can fire employees who screw up, but you can't make them pay restitution for their mistakes unless those mistakes are criminal.

And Popeyes corporate really stepped in it when they said:

"We recently became aware of a story in Houston involving a Popeyes restaurant and employee," CEO Cheryl Bachelder said in a statement. "We have spoken to the local franchise owner of the restaurant, and he has taken immediate action to reach out to the employee to apologize and rectify the situation.

While the facts are gathered, we will closely monitor this until it is appropriately resolved," she said. "We deeply regret the distress this situation has caused."

You don't apologize or seek to appropriately resolve a situation if you handled it correctly in the first place.
 
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Paladin3 said:
I don't think Popeyes would win this. If her violation of company policy is what they are firing her for, then how would her paying the money back allow her to keep her job? Sounds to me like the owner only cares about getting his money back, and tried to extort it out of his employee by holding her job over her head.

You can fire employees who screw up, but you can't make them pay restitution for their mistakes unless those mistakes are criminal.

And Popeyes corporate really stepped in it when they said:

"We recently became aware of a story in Houston involving a Popeyes restaurant and employee," CEO Cheryl Bachelder said in a statement. "We have spoken to the local franchise owner of the restaurant, and he has taken immediate action to reach out to the employee to apologize and rectify the situation.

While the facts are gathered, we will closely monitor this until it is appropriately resolved," she said. "We deeply regret the distress this situation has caused."

You don't apologize or seek to appropriately resolve a situation if you handled it correctly in the first place.
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#1: "They" didn't handle it in the first place
#2: You can chose not to take drastic measures if the employee makes it right. It might not have even gone down like that in the first place.

They could have told her that they were firing her for repeated policy violations and she then may have begged them not to, asking what she needed to do to keep her job. Knowing that she probably couldn't pay the money back, they graciously gave her the option anyway.

There is no law that says that they have to fire her for violating their own policy. There is no law that says they can't give her another appropriate option to make it right and avoid termination. They weren't using her employment status to force her to pay money she didn't owe because they were already entitled to fire her. Simple. Even then, the only one that should realistically be sued is her boss/franchise owner, not Popeyes.
 
They could win if they fought it out, but the number crunchers will probably figure it's cheaper to settle for a quarter mil and be done than take the ongoing hit to their reputation being seen "picking" on this women in the media circus. The woman is probably smart banking on the settlement because after being made to look like a fool and forced to apologize on the national stage, there's no way that franchise owner would simply allow bygones to be bygons. Payback would have been exacted after she returned to work, either through getting all kinds of crazy changing daily shifts, the most grating tasks always being allocated to her, all kinds of crap etc. until she resigns. Better to cash out and leave.
 
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