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Shoplifting question?
I work in a grocery store in Tennessee as a assistant manager, and we had this one lady who came in to the store on a daily basis and charged food products for a local restruant, anyways on Jan 25 she came in as usual and charged some stuff including 8 packs of shredded cheese afterward the cashier went the the store manager and told him that she thought that the cheese was priced to cheap, it had 99 cent stickers on it. so exactly one week from that day he went to her work place and accused her of altering the prices, and she got fired, that was on a Friday, on the following sunday as i was making out a order for the store i found another pack of cheese on the shelf that had a 99 cent sticker on it (the regular price for the cheese was $3.29) so that was just shrugged off anyways the tuesday after that we then found four more packs priced the same way and at that point i decided to check the whole store for messed up prices, and ended up finding over 3 full pages of stuff priced wrong
however only about 10 to 12 items with 99 cent stickers throughout the store, does this women have any legal rights with the manager costing her job only on what he thought she had done with no proof? and for waiting a week to confront her about it?
to the second person yeah i am already looking into other jobs, this is a small town and really the only reason i've stayed so long is that it like 2 mins. away from my home
it is actually a private owned store, and this is a small town and the manager is the type of person no matter how much hard evidence that he is in the wrong he would never admit it, i even went as far as taking picture of all the other item that we priced wrong and he still won't back down and i hate to say it but its all about where you go to church in this town and if you go to the one he goes to, everyone 80 percent of the county will take his side....its just a crappy situation for her and i feel bad for her about it!
typo - were price wrong in the above details
4 Answers
- cyanne2akLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes, she can indeed have a claim against the manager in civil court! You might also want to look for another job...sounds like your store has some serious problems.
- PaschaLv 71 decade ago
If you do go work somewhere else, you may want to tell the woman who lost her job that you will testify for her?
Is your store manager someone who would not be horrified if he knew he had made such a mistake? Maybe he would be willing to make things right.
Or, if you are assistant manager and the store has a headquarters elsewhere, you could raise the issue of sloppy pricing, accusations against customers, etc., and you might become the new manager.
- JuliLv 51 decade ago
If I was in your shoes I would talk to the Manager about her loss of a job and innocently offer her a position within the store since she was not "price Changing" and it might help her pay her bills. The store messed up and should rightfully stand up and take responsibility.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
There is little this lady can do to get her job back : Her character has already been deformed. The fault is with the store and the cashier for not checking the rest of the inventory AND for going to her place of work to accuse her of it (should have been dealt with legally). She has the legal right to sue the store and/or the cashier, and she will probably win if she does.
