News Wal-Mart: YOU'RE FIRED!!! - Page 12

**gblowfish** · 04-25-2016, 11:54 AM

This story was in the KC Star this morning. Wal-Mart fired a brain damaged cashier who worked there for almost 20 years for discounting a jug of sweet tea for a customer by fifty cents. I hope he sues their ass off. Story is here:

Thousands of people are rallying behind a brain-damaged Walmart worker who was fired last week.

Frank Swanson was a cashier at a Walmart in West Plains, Missouri for nearly two decades.

He was well known in the local community as an enthusiastic worker who loved to hug customers.

He was fired just 20 days short of his 20-year anniversary with Walmart.

A Walmart spokesman said he was fired for violating a pricing policy.

"Letting an associate go is never easy," the spokesman said. "For this associate, point-of-sale policies had not been followed in some instances. A recent violation of those policies moved the associate to the final step of our discipline process, resulting in his dismissal."

Swanson's supporters claim he was terminated for giving out hugs, and they are planning a protest at the West Plains Walmart on Saturday to show their support.

More than 1,500 people have committed to attending the rally on a Facebook page called "Hugs for Frank" and another 3,100 said they are interested in attending.

"Walmart has decided to fire Frank, the sweetest employee you'd ever meet, for hugging a costumer," the page reads. "So we're going to gather at Walmart on Saturday April 9th with signs or t-shirts offering free hugs. Let's do this for Frank."

The workers' rights group Making Change at Walmart also released a statement on the matter.

"It appears Walmart fired workers for being decent and kind. So, if you believe in hugs or being nice to customers, don’t apply for a job at Walmart," said Jess Levin, communications director for MCAW.

Swanson's bosses cited his hugs as inappropriate, but that's not why he was fired, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Swanson broke store policy on at least one occasion by discounting a jug of tea by 50 cents, after a customer told him a competitor was selling the tea for 50 cents cheaper,the Post-Dispatch reports. He took the customer at her word, but under store policy, he should have asked her to produce a printed circular proving the competitor's price.

Swanson's sister, Babbi Marsh, confirmed that Swanson was terminated for excessive price matching.

"He never let anyone walk out without paying for their merchandise. What he was told was that he was being let go for excessive price matching," she told the West Plains Daily Quill.

Swanson suffered severe injuries including brain damage following an accident when he was young that left him in a coma for six weeks and temporarily paralyzed, his family told KSPR TV.

Walmart customer Jenn Harper called Swanson a "sign of hope."

"I feel like one of our own has been hurt," she told KSPR. "He's a sign of hope, he made your day better. If you were having a bad day at Walmart, he would light up your whole trip."

http://www.businessinsider.com/walma...0-years-2016-4

**Bugeater** · 04-26-2016, 01:37 PM

It's ok when Ramtard ****s up a thread, but not Hootie or Clay.

Beef Supreme · 04-26-2016, 01:38 PM

**loochy** · 04-26-2016, 01:44 PM

DaNewGuy · 04-26-2016, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by KCUnited

Great, one less checkout person.

Valiant · 04-26-2016, 02:07 PM

Wow, we have another brain damaged person it seems.

**gblowfish** · 04-26-2016, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BigChiefTablet

NO TONGUES!!

**fan4ever** · 04-26-2016, 02:18 PM

Evidently somebody on this thread relates to the fired employee and decided to do him one better...and go full reerun.

Toby Waller · 04-26-2016, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by fan4ever

Evidently somebody on this thread relates to the fired employee and decided to do him one better...and go full reerun.

Wrong again. I disagree with hugging randomly.

Lol at accusing me of derailing a thread.i just gave
A view you don't like and you are derailing it by making personal attacks.

How the hell can you even try to argue against my point that the legal system just makes up laws to create work for themselves.
When you define hugging as sexual harassment,it means you are making stuff up to create red tape and confusion to profit from stupid people.

**fan4ever** · 04-26-2016, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Toby Waller

Wrong again. I disagree with hugging randomly.

Lol at accusing me of derailing a thread.i just gave
A view you don't like and you are derailing it by making personal attacks.

How the hell can you even try to argue against my point that the legal system just makes up laws to create work for themselves.
When you define hugging as sexual harassment,it means you are making stuff up to create red tape and confusion to profit from stupid people.

So much of what you say makes no sense so I'll leave it at this; you've done something very unusual here on CP and that is to make quite a number of people who rarely agree on something...agree on something.

As far as the personal attacks, you've been quite active in that yourself.

Mr. Plow · 04-26-2016, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fan4ever

So much of what you say makes no sense so I'll leave it at this; you've done something very unusual here on CP and that is to make quite a number of people who rarely agree on something...agree on something.

As far as the personal attacks, you've been quite active in that yourself.

This must be your first encounter with the idiot known as smellypitts.

**kysirsoze** · 04-26-2016, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TimBone

STOP RESPONDING TO TOBY

Also, KCUnited and Rain Man are winning this thread.

This post could have been made in at least 95% of the threads around here.

Dayze · 04-26-2016, 07:14 PM

Smelly is like that piece of toilet paper....after you've wiped 10 times, but give it one more go, and discover more 'material'.

It's like "cool....it's gone. never to reappear again. Let's just give it one more go. aw, **** me".

Eleazar · 04-26-2016, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dayze

Smelly is like that piece of toilet paper....after you've wiped 10 times, but give it one more go, and discover more 'material'.

It's like "cool....it's gone. never to reappear again. Let's just give it one more go. aw, **** me".

No kidding. At what point will that turd get flushed?

threebag · 04-26-2016, 07:36 PM

Is he cupping ass while hugging?

**Rain Man** · 04-26-2016, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by threebag02

Is he cupping ass while hugging?

I would certainly hope so. Otherwise it would be a huge waste of hugging at-bats.

04-25-2016, 11:54 AM
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