Wal-Mart: YOU'RE FIRED!!!

[gblowfish]

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

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by Hamwallet

Are you brain damaged also? Forcing physical contact by withholding your property is not even the same universe as hugging your kids.

Once you make hugging sexual harassnent, you can argue that kids don't know any better and use it against someone.
You talk about a pc and dumbed down culture and yet you are being just that when you buy into this crap.
You let the legal system do your thinking for you.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

Once you make hugging sexual harassnent, you can argue that kids don't know any better and use it against someone.
You talk about a pc and dumbed down culture and yet you are being just that when you buy into this crap.
You let the legal system do your thinking for you.

When discussing a crime that is usually a sound course of action...

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

As a consumer not trying to pull one over, I applaud ol boy for keeping the line moving by not requiring some decrepit, extreme couponing hag to have to fish around in her purse for the competitors ad. Promote this guy to xpress lane.

Everyone cares about the business til they're 8 deep in line, holding 2 items, and some CP'ers wife is trying to produce an ad, checkbook in hand, while her husband goes full Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the women's restroom.

what does- go tomb of the unknown soldier- mean?

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by vailpass

When discussing a crime that is usually a sound course of action...

You of course don't comprehend what I meant.

You let the legal system define truth for you.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

what does- go tomb of the unknown soldier- mean?

Protecting unknown women from the trans, I guess.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

Protecting unknown women from the trans, I guess.

I think it means the husband is standing silently by the restrooms (which are at the front after the cash register) while his couchbeast is checking out

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

You of course don't comprehend what I meant.

You let the legal system define truth for you.

You act like it's a choice...

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Cochise

I think it means the husband is standing silently by the restrooms (which are at the front after the cash register) while his couchbeast is checking out

No, when I typed it, I'm almost positive I was envisioning a CP'er standing guard over the women's restroom from the trans while his couchbeast is checking out.

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by vailpass

You act like it's a choice...

just because someone has the law on their side, doesnt make them or the law right or true.
apparently your comprehension is pretty low.

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

Then you wouldn't be able to hug your own children you stupid ****.
You are showing you just believe what ever your told and the legal system is your god.

Something that is rightly theirs? What a bunch of made up junk that still doesn't mean sexual harassment.

I don't want just anyone hugging me but that doesn't make it sexual harassnent just because I don't like it.

What's next? Patting a chick on the knee or elbow is rape?

God you're an idiot.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

just because someone has the law on their side, doesnt make them or the law right or true.
apparently your comprehension is pretty low.

I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and actually responded to you.
My bad.

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

God you're an idiot.

anyone defining a hug as sexual harassment is the idiot.

its nothing more than an annoying invasion of space that I didnt permit.
At worst youll get punched for it.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

anyone defining a hug as sexual harassment is the idiot.

its nothing more than an annoying invasion of space that I didnt permit.
At worst youll get punched for it.

I am guessing you are having a meteoric rise in the most ignored CPer rankings, generic troll

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Well if you could sell 49 bottles for half price you come up quick.

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

I should have my wife start extreme couponing and selling the shit for half price, "would you like some toilet paper or tide with your oil change today? How about some tampons or a case of Gatorade?"

Yep. My wife is on a few local for sale pages on Facebook and there are people constantly selling surplus goods that I assume they got by extreme couponing.

[TimBone]

STOP RESPONDING TO TOBY

Also, KCUnited and Rain Man are winning this thread.