Walgreens Employee Fired For ‘Stealing’ Chips During Diabetic Attack

[Phokus]

Probably a middle management fuck up.

I'd wager the upper management is just as outraged as we are.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, upper management are MORE sociopathic than middle management. The only reason they'd give a damn is because it makes the company look bad and maybe hurts profits.

 

[SandEagle]

sounds like a set up. she carried no money on purpose. she knew there would be media hype around this. now she will win millions.

 

[AstroManLuca]

HAHAHAHAHAHA, upper management are MORE sociopathic than middle management. The only reason they'd give a damn is because it makes the company look bad and maybe hurts profits.

BUT they might actually give a damn even if it's for the "wrong" reasons. Lower managers are exceptionally petty for all the wrong reasons.

 

[grrl]

Zero tolerance generally means "zero common sense".

Exactly, it's the mentally lazy's idea of good policy.

 

[nanette1985]

This thread is making me hungry for potato chips.

Potato chips are a pretty good choice to raise your blood sugar level and they were probably right there at the register.

Potato chips do raise the blood sugar level, but slowly, so they aren't the best choice for an attack. There are better choices. I always carry glucose tablets in my purse just in case because you never know. I'm diabetic.

Then again, low blood sugar affects your brain and you can't always think straight. And, it's not a diabetic attack - it's a low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) attack. Just nitpicking here.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea sept 9, figured it was an old story. her excuse was lame.

 

[angminas]

Our country is lawsuit happy, but I hope she takes Walgreens to the cleaners over this. Insulin shock isn't fatal (unless left untreated for days) but it sure as hell isn't a pleasant experience for a person to go through.

What happens if you pass out while standing up? Very dangerous.

Most walgreens that i've been in, the registers are surrounded by candy... better 'sugar' food.

Low blood sugar makes it hard to think. That is something the judge should look at, though.

 

[LTC8K6]

This thread is making me hungry for potato chips.



Potato chips do raise the blood sugar level, but slowly, so they aren't the best choice for an attack. There are better choices. I always carry glucose tablets in my purse just in case because you never know. I'm diabetic.

Then again, low blood sugar affects your brain and you can't always think straight. And, it's not a diabetic attack - it's a low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) attack. Just nitpicking here.

My father was diabetic. iirc processed potatoes have the kind of carbs that raise your blood sugar quickly.

I believe the thinking has changed on such starches these days. They used to believe they were converted to sugar slowly, but now they know that processed complex carbs are converted quickly by the body. More quickly even than something like fructose. It's because the mfg has started the breakdown for us.

2) Misconception: Starches (complex carbohydrates) are broken down slowly in our bodies.
Not true. The vast majority of the carbs in the grocery store are rapidly digested. This is because the food manufacturers have kindly begun the process for us, by grinding grains into flour, refining grains and sugar, puffing rice and making it into rice cakes, etc. Whole wheat flour is almost as glycemic is white flour (though it is much more nutritious). (Read more about whole wheat bread on low-carb diets)

 

[nanette1985]

My father was diabetic. iirc processed potatoes have the kind of carbs that raise your blood sugar quickly.

I believe the thinking has changed on such starches these days. They used to believe they were converted to sugar slowly, but now they know that processed complex carbs are converted quickly by the body. More quickly even than something like fructose. It's because the mfg has started the breakdown for us.

My meter disagrees. I know, that's anecdotal, and therefore doesn't mean anything . Everybody's different, and the same foods can test wildly different under different circumstances. Visits to the ER are no fun.

 

[lothar]

Way to go Walgreens. Just lost my business. Although 95% of the time im at CVS anyways, but still.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4374637/asthma-sufferer-denied-inhaler?playlist_id=86892

 

[lothar]

Taking glucose tablets, drinking a glucose shot, or hell even drinking a soda will increase your blood sugar much faster than eating a bag of potato chips.

 

[grrl]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4374637/asthma-sufferer-denied-inhaler?playlist_id=86892

WTF is wrong with people?

 

[LTC8K6]

Taking glucose tablets, drinking a glucose shot, or hell even drinking a soda will increase your blood sugar much faster than eating a bag of potato chips.

Well, we weren't there.

I'm sure if she had the others handy, she'd have used them. She could probably reach the chips without leaving the register, or without getting up if she had to sit down.

 

[0roo0roo]

Well, we weren't there.

I'm sure if she had the others handy, she'd have used them. She could probably reach the chips without leaving the register, or without getting up if she had to sit down.

you can pick up the intercom call and leave or whatever, it isn't a prison. anyone that has worked store duty before knows this... there are many options before you just start grabbing stuff off the shelf and start eating in front of customers. it was stupid regardless.

 

[LTC8K6]

you can pick up the intercom call and leave or whatever, it isn't a prison. anyone that has worked store duty before knows this... there are many options before you just start grabbing stuff off the shelf and start eating in front of customers. it was stupid regardless.

Low blood sugar might have meant she couldn't go anywhere. She might have had to sit down to keep from falling. We don't know. I saw my dad at times with low blood sugar. He was not himself. Once he could not think where his glucose tabs were. I had to give them to him, even though they were right there.

 

[arrfep]

It was probably just one of the typical corporate sack of shit stuffed suit types that pulled this. If anything, instead of WG as a whole being sued, that guy should have a salted railroad spike shoved through the tip of his dick all the way up into his liver, and be dumped and left to bleed to death.

:thumbsup:
This earned a hardy LOL because i just finished reading the pedophile thread where people were debating whether or not child rapists deserve the death penalty.

 

[Eli]

Another win for "zero tolerance policies"....

They may as well rename them "zero brains policies".

 

[drebo]

She may have just not wanted to ring herself up on the register. Looks kinda bad if you do that. Maybe she wanted to wait until another cashier was available to take her money so she wouldn't get fired for theft.

That didn't work out so well, but I could understand the mentality.

In a retail position, you're generally not allowed to ring yourself up.

While I am generally against "no tolerance" policies, and I am in this case, as well, I can see where the store has a valid point. It isn't just that she stole, she also ate while at her post in plain view of customers not during her regularly scheduled break times.

I don't agree with firing her, but she did put the store in an ackward position. On one hand, common sense dictates that firing her is going overboard. On the other hand, she could have established a president that it's OK for store employees to munch on whatever they want whenever they want and "pay for it later."

What she should have done is called someone over to releive her so she could go to the break room and drink some soda/juice.

Honestly, her story is just a little too convinient. She probably does this regularly and management simply had enough of it. The longer someone works at a place, the more they treat it like home. She got caught and now is facing the music.

 

[SlitheryDee]

eating chips makes it sound like an excuse. Go to the fridge aisle and drink a juice.

Eh? I would enjoy a juice more than chips, so leaving my post to go get one rather than grabbing something that's am arms length away would look more like an excuse to me.

 

[Locut0s]

Probably a middle management fuck up.

I'd wager the upper management is just as outraged as we are.

Middle management types in retail stores are some of the worst people around in my experience. Certainly store managers can be ass holes but by and large they have to deal with the actual realities of running the store and are therefore usually somewhat reasonable. Those near the top of course can seem cold hearted but they have to view the company with the "big picture" in mind and they usually really do know the value of good customer service and a good company image. The middle management types are far too often just on mini power trips. When working at 7-11 I can't remember the number of times we had some middle management guy come down with some decision they wanted all their stores to implement which may have sounded good around the office coffee table but which make absolutely no sense at the store level. Most managers knew it too and just implemented these ideas while groaning and rolling their eyes. Small example.

MM Idea: Move all the small high GP, high value items to the front of the store in clear view of those entering the store. Things like batteries, medication, energy shots and the like. These items had some of the highest markups of anything in the store and some of them were impulse buy items so they really wanted to push them.

Manager of a down town store: We can't see those front shelves very well from the cashier counter. That might work out in the sticks where you know 1/2 your customers on a first name basis but down here in panhandler alley? Are you fucking kidding me? Why not just put out a sign saying easy pick'ns?

MM: I don't want to hear it, implement it. And I don't want to hear about increased theft either.

2 week later loss due to theft is through the roof. MM: Okay change it back.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

she had to wait until she could leave her CASHIER'S post to pay for them? derp

well I guess she didn't have money with her lol

She can't ring herself up. That's a surefire way to get fired.

 

[blackangst1]

Diabetes is a disability?

Yes. Protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.

She may not have been able to get that far. I've got family members that are diabetic and I've seen attacks come on. It's very fast and disabling (both physically and mentally). I'm not going to begrudge them for grabbing what was probably immediately at hand.

+1

Especially when it is not managed properly as in this case.

Are you implying a well controlled diabetic doesnt have hypoglycemia? Let me clue you in. For well controlled diabetics, such as myself (Ive had A1C's between 6 and 6.5 for the last 7 or 8 years) hypoglycemic unawareness tends to be a problem. In my case, for example, I usually dont start feeling low until Im at about 60 or so. If I dont treat right away, Im into the 40's in a short period of time. What does that mean? Possibly unconcious, seizures, and an ER visit.

Please dont pass judgement for which you know nothing about.

 

[arcenite]

Yeah... how is this different than picking a bottle of water off of the shelf, drinking some or all of its contents while shopping, and paying for it as you check out.

 

[HeXen]

Zero tolerance generally means "zero common sense". I hope she sues and wins a bunch of money, that's just messed up.

no whats messed up is there used to be a thread here asking if you ever stole your co workers lunch.
you know, everyone here was all zero tolerance about such behavior.
i mentioned i did once during a diabetic attack.
i got called most everything but a white boy in that thread. saying how it was my own fault, i should have brought this or that..blah, blah...and now i read these responses and laugh.

seriously guys? WTF. some here are just hypocritically ate up

 

[Locut0s]

Yeah... how is this different than picking a bottle of water off of the shelf, drinking some or all of its contents while shopping, and paying for it as you check out.

It's only comparable if the bottle of water is going to save your life. She was diabetic and was about to have an attack. I can understand stores not wanting you to drink and eat items in the store before you pay for them.