BigLots Manager FIRED For Saving Someone From Being Assaulted

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Komentáře • 510

  • @bobkaiser8782
    @bobkaiser8782 Před 14 dny +673

    This is what happens when criminals have more rights than victims.

    • @Samizouza
      @Samizouza Před 14 dny +29

      Sadly that's what's happening these days

    • @qc6057
      @qc6057 Před 14 dny

      The left only has sympathy for the worst people.

    • @itsmomo777
      @itsmomo777 Před 14 dny +14

      No truer words

    • @commonsenseoldman1959
      @commonsenseoldman1959 Před 14 dny

      Sinz Whun? 😂

    • @balasaashti3146
      @balasaashti3146 Před 14 dny +11

      @@Samizouza Remember that the Chinese CCP did this. My late great uncle who escaped during the great leap forward knew this well.

  • @clawsthewolf89
    @clawsthewolf89 Před 14 dny +353

    Why the fuck are we defending criminals this shit is wild

    • @kaineandrews3790
      @kaineandrews3790 Před 14 dny +22

      Because somewhere along the way those who actually have any say in things decided that not offending people or accusing them of anything - regardless of circumstance or evidence - was more important than making people behave… and now that cancerous thinking is so ingrained in every level of society that any pushback results in punishment for those who actually want to function like social animals instead of rabid dogs.

    • @akumabazooka9169
      @akumabazooka9169 Před 13 dny +11

      ⬛ Privilege

    • @mrsleep0000
      @mrsleep0000 Před 13 dny +4

      Democrats...

    • @dylantimal
      @dylantimal Před 13 dny

      White liberal saviors

    • @o.gparamount3099
      @o.gparamount3099 Před 13 dny

      ​@@kaineandrews3790EXACTLY💯🎯

  • @alexbeardsley751
    @alexbeardsley751 Před 14 dny +98

    Big Lots basically sent out metaphorical bat-signal in the night saying "PLEASE, STEAL OUR SHIT, WE WONT DO SHIT ABOUT IT."

    • @emilianolalaurette2813
      @emilianolalaurette2813 Před 13 dny +7

      thats the first thing i thought about as well 😂

    • @347Jimmy
      @347Jimmy Před 13 dny +6

      Instead of the bat silhouette, it's a hand ✋ to symbolise the Five Finger Discount

  • @BeckyMassReports
    @BeckyMassReports Před 14 dny +407

    The cowards that sacked this person should be sacked. Do they know the criminals.

    • @purkle200
      @purkle200 Před 14 dny +19

      Probably

    • @louisbabycos106
      @louisbabycos106 Před 14 dny +19

      It's called Anarcho-Tyrrany

    • @TayWoode
      @TayWoode Před 13 dny +5

      You’d think if they knew them the criminals would have a shred of decency to not do this to their friends place of work, but then again those people crap on each other all the time

    • @Frosty1026
      @Frosty1026 Před 13 dny +4

      Corporate cares about losing money in liability more than the workers lives and stealing gotta love the world

  • @Tservo243
    @Tservo243 Před 14 dny +76

    Man spent 2 decades with Biglots as a company. That's a fucking saint in my book.

    • @vla1ne
      @vla1ne Před 13 dny +12

      2 years in retail is annoying. 20 whole years is a full quest.

  • @charlespittsjr604
    @charlespittsjr604 Před 14 dny +242

    Where is that woman he saved and her family sticking up for this guy . The World is horrible and we all know its wrong.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Před 14 dny +9

      Why would they? They got what they wanted out of him.

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny +38

      @@stevenschnepp576 Because it's the right thing to do, that's why.

    • @Dragon359
      @Dragon359 Před 14 dny +23

      @@Tiabliaj1989 Fewer people are doing the right thing nowadays, for different reasons.

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny +21

      @@Dragon359 True, but it should still be what we as a society strive to do, regardless of those who care only what's right for them.

    • @Aaron-zt5ee
      @Aaron-zt5ee Před dnem

      It’s possible they have no idea this is going on. Or they’ve been messaging the company and they’re just ignoring her.

  • @Lukemyfather1
    @Lukemyfather1 Před 14 dny +103

    He didnt follow a shoplifter, he followed a criminal who assaulted an employee

  • @cardinmalone4974
    @cardinmalone4974 Před 14 dny +167

    Sue Big Lots for everything they got. This is unjustified for the innocent manager who was doing the right thing.

    • @kilerog
      @kilerog Před 14 dny +5

      Their justification is going to be that he violated a posted store policy after there was no longer any threat or danger. From what Leon is saying, the guy had left the store--meaning he was no longer any sort of threat nor still committing any sort of wrongdoing--and the manager chose to follow him outside, in violation of store policy. Store employees are not cops, they do not actually have the right to detain or stalk people outside store property. And if there had been some sort of altercation because the manager followed this guy, the store could be sued and held liable for any damages to the thief. The store does not need that. If they determined that the manager was too much of a risk of repeating such behavior, then I can see why they decided to fire him.

    • @j-town4408
      @j-town4408 Před 14 dny +29

      @@kilerog Are not aware of what a citizen's arrest is? He most definitely had the legal right to detain the person who committed assault.
      The point you are making is that profit is more important to Big Lots than upholding the safety and well-being of the communities they operate in.

    • @kilerog
      @kilerog Před 14 dny +6

      @@j-town4408 No the point I am making is that the store does not want to get sued for actions unilaterally taken by its employees in violation of store policy. The store has no obligation to enable its employees to make citizen's arrests. Even security guards can be found liable for trying to stop or grab someone that was leaving the store or had left the store. And those people can then claim to have been injured or damaged and will sue the store itself, potentially for thousands to millions of dollars, for being responsible for its employees actions.
      It's one thing to decide to make a citizen's arrest as a private citizen but another to do so an an employee or worse, a manager, of the store. As a manager, you are essentially acting on the store's behalf when you do this. You are not protecting the store, but endangering it. It does not need nor want you to play hero. And the store has very explicitly told you NOT to try and attempt this behavior. So if you choose to go against clearly stated instructions then, yeah, the store has cause to fire you.
      Ultimately, there was no further threat to their employees' lives or persons--the wrongdoer had left. You are not helping the person that was assaulted by following them. There was no reason to try to take action into your own hands other than just calling the cops and letting them handle it. And whatever the store will lose from any shoplifting is not worth the cost of having to defend against potential lawsuits and then having to pay out settlement.

    • @trailertrish2587
      @trailertrish2587 Před 13 dny

      In some states you can't sue if your are injured during the commission of a crime

    • @bobh6728
      @bobh6728 Před 13 dny

      @@j-town4408How can profit be the motivation when they are being robbed of there profits by their policies.

  • @oliverklosov5153
    @oliverklosov5153 Před 14 dny +40

    These big companies are afraid of being sued by people who are stealing from them. The fired employees should do the same. Sue the absolute shit out of them! Make a change!

  • @Kal_g
    @Kal_g Před 14 dny +217

    Ah, retail. A job where you face verbal abuse on a daily basis, and potential assault for crappy pay.

  • @GannAinm
    @GannAinm Před 14 dny +88

    Corporate shoplifting policy almost makes one wish for Judge Dredd to come true.

  • @johnwick-ii6il
    @johnwick-ii6il Před 14 dny +29

    We called this decades ago. When the ambulance chasing lawyers began suing for damages to criminals injured during their own crimes. We knew this was coming.

  • @VforVictory00
    @VforVictory00 Před 14 dny +39

    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

  • @irelandishsac13
    @irelandishsac13 Před 14 dny +62

    There's no reason to be loyal to these corporations anymore. They did it to themselves.

  • @QwalterLark
    @QwalterLark Před 14 dny +56

    Never setting foot in a Big Lots again. What a reprehensible company ran by reprehensible people.

    • @JamesVomit
      @JamesVomit Před 13 dny +9

      You could do that. Personally, I think it might be open season for shoplifting at Big Lots now that they have made it abundantly clear they won't try to stop it.

    • @Frosty1026
      @Frosty1026 Před 13 dny +1

      Well don’t set foot in any big retail store this is their policy for all of them it’s stupid but all of them follow and will fire any employees that try and stop shop lifters or robbers

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 Před 12 dny

      I don’t want to be around a place where crimes are happening. It sounds dangerous to be there. If they want to invite crime, then I’m uninvited. Any place with such a dangerous policy is a place I don’t want to shop.

  • @DemonMul
    @DemonMul Před 14 dny +33

    As a former Walmart employee, it’s really gonna come to a point where people may have to ask a associate to unlock a case so people can get a loaf of bread as sad as it is to say

    • @EllanaWolf
      @EllanaWolf Před 14 dny +8

      That is what it's like in certain areas here in England, especially in London. They even lock up chocolate bars in stores down there. I'm glad I live in the North east where this sort of thing is not as bad.

    • @Lockon_Stratos
      @Lockon_Stratos Před 14 dny +3

      I've already had to deal with that when I worked at a Vons store in Santa Monica, but with hair care, lotion, oral health products, etc.

    • @kaineandrews3790
      @kaineandrews3790 Před 14 dny +10

      They’re already on the way to that in a lot of places. Of course, every time they install another locked cabinet or security camera, people scream about -isms and how they hate being treated like criminals and how they refuse to shop there under those conditions, other people just walk in with crowbars and take what they want anyway, and nothing changes except the prices going up.

    • @l0sts0ul89
      @l0sts0ul89 Před 10 dny +2

      They locked up TEETH WHITENING STRIPS in my Walmart

  • @BenTheDragon
    @BenTheDragon Před 14 dny +71

    just watching that porch pirate literally steal a package right in front of the man delivering's face... it put me into depression. Why do people like that exist..

    • @paullangland6877
      @paullangland6877 Před 14 dny +19

      Yea it makes me sad too and angry too. What's worse is that any kind of prosecution is damn near outlawed at this point. It almost feels like we're better off just going to a store and picking up the package. And if there isn't a Fedex or UPS store, then maybe have a storefront act as a dropoff spot. I know the Dollar Generals in my hometown are authorized Fedex dropoff spots, maybe they can be pickup spots too.

    • @tatsuostatic8567
      @tatsuostatic8567 Před 14 dny +13

      Because they know that they're not going to be held accountable for their actions. A reminder that the good is punish while evil is rewarded

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny +17

      They exist because they're getting away with it. I feel so bad for that Fedex guy, I feel it's somehow going to be blamed on him despite video of the thief being too fast and about 20 years younger.

    • @kaineandrews3790
      @kaineandrews3790 Před 14 dny +9

      People like that exist because we allow it. They rarely bother to arrest or prosecute, and on the rare occasions they do, it’s never any kind of lasting punishment and they’re back at it almost immediately. Add in a sizable chunk of society that will explain all the reasons *you’re* the problem if you take issue with the situation, and go to extremes to punish you if you act against these sorts, and… well. Here we are. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @brighterphantom4530
      @brighterphantom4530 Před 13 dny

      The delivery person or the thief?

  • @kuramayoko23
    @kuramayoko23 Před 14 dny +133

    Thieves aren't customers.

  • @XeroFailGames
    @XeroFailGames Před 14 dny +46

    Yall remember when the dude fell through a skylight trying to rob someone and he sued the homeowner?

    • @anthonyurbina3924
      @anthonyurbina3924 Před 14 dny +10

      I think that’s from Liar Liar. But wouldn’t be surprised if it was a real story 😢

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny +9

      That happened? I literally just referenced that story from Liar, Liar to my husband while showing him this video and commenting that a Jim Carrey movie was becoming reality LOL. JFC it's worse than I thought.

    • @brighterphantom4530
      @brighterphantom4530 Před 13 dny +6

      I'm pretty sure such things have happened. It's ridiculous. People who put themselves into a position where they might die or get maimed or seriously injured shouldn't have the ability to sue when that happens. If you fall and hurt yourself robbing someone, get shot or brutalized for attempting to burglarize someone's house, etc, then you don't have a leg to stand on.

    • @BlueBD
      @BlueBD Před 13 dny +8

      ​@@brighterphantom4530 there was a guy that fell through a ceiling. It's those drop ceilings. The ones with like 3 feet of space before that actual ceiling that have like no actual integrity to it because your not suppose to be in there without a ladder
      He fell on a row of shelves at 3 in the morning. Sued and won for being hurt from his own crime

    • @brighterphantom4530
      @brighterphantom4530 Před 13 dny +1

      @@BlueBD We've established that many can sue after being injured. This doesn't change suing a person because you tried to wrong them and got hurt in the process.

  • @dianas2754
    @dianas2754 Před 14 dny +107

    This is just going to encourage more shoplifters. wtf is happening to this country? Why are criminals being protected over law-abiding citizens??

    • @achocolatebiscuit5087
      @achocolatebiscuit5087 Před 13 dny +7

      It's kinda everywhere now unfortunately.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 13 dny

      Because Democrats

    • @teamtx1578
      @teamtx1578 Před 13 dny

      Because our government is currently being run by cultists.

    • @fifedogg511
      @fifedogg511 Před 13 dny

      This is exactly what the people in charge want chaos in the streets, us fighting against each other for dumb reasons pushed by the msm on the news every day all day. We The People need to wake up and see who the real enemy is.

    • @fifedogg511
      @fifedogg511 Před 13 dny

      CZcams you suck, censor the truth and trying to keep people divided absolutely disgusting by this platform

  • @dizfunctionaldes
    @dizfunctionaldes Před 14 dny +36

    We should stop shopping at stores with these kind of policies, and stick to locally owned stores that don't put up with nonsense!

    • @coffeehousedialogue5684
      @coffeehousedialogue5684 Před 14 dny +4

      Yep. And, use dropboxes that thieves cannot access.

    • @Joe-Przybranowski
      @Joe-Przybranowski Před 13 dny +2

      The insurance companies did this.

    • @nickwarner8158
      @nickwarner8158 Před 12 dny

      While I agree with the sentiment, people demanding low cost crap from China because they didn't value quality or American jobs created a storm Bezos capitalized on and so a lot of places don't have the ability to shop there. Those small businesses got killed off thanks to people making Amazon the greatest ever in their eyes and those places aren't coming back. I shop locally as much as possible and refuse to buy on Amazon no matter how good a "deal" it seems but most people just don't give a damn about quality anymore and all they care about is price. They would rather buy it five times from China because it breaks all the time than buy it once in America. The people accepting garbage quality and sacrificing their neighbor's jobs for a price point are what led to this. That and not taxing the very billionaires who in the time it took to type this gained (I will not say earned) more money than both of us combined will ever make in our lives.

  • @katemaloney4296
    @katemaloney4296 Před 14 dny +200

    I had a friend who told me, "I have the right to shoplift from Walmart because they always forget to give me my bag when I leave." I told her, "If your shit was so important that it turned you into a criminal, why wasnt it important enough to do a double-check after Suzy said 'Did you get all of your bags'?" She told me, "You obviously have no compassion and dont know what you're talking about!"

    • @kuramayoko23
      @kuramayoko23 Před 14 dny +20

      Ick.

    • @sol-hunter2332
      @sol-hunter2332 Před 14 dny +42

      Compassion for me, but not for thee, it seems.

    • @elioraimmanuel
      @elioraimmanuel Před 14 dny +33

      I would never trust such a person!

    • @saigyl9149
      @saigyl9149 Před 14 dny

      your friend is too stupid to realize they log whenever something was forgotten at a register by a customer and will give her the items if she went back

    • @savioblanc
      @savioblanc Před 14 dny +1

      "Had a friend" - good that this pos is no longer a friend

  • @billaveda6408
    @billaveda6408 Před 14 dny +24

    The companies and CEOs are so afraid of the criminals and lawsuits from the criminals that they are willing to throw their loyal employees under the bus.

  • @mattcarper9853
    @mattcarper9853 Před 14 dny +25

    This shit is all by design. Destabilize and Demoralize. This is all unreal.

    • @barbarat5729
      @barbarat5729 Před 14 dny +1

      Then, make sure all citizens know that only our gment can get us out of this mess.
      That is what we are being set up for.

    • @jenjoestar.
      @jenjoestar. Před 13 dny

      Always

  • @bluered3228
    @bluered3228 Před 14 dny +18

    We need to stop shopping at places that refuse to stop shoplifting since we are subsidizing this behavior with our money. They continue to pass the cost on to us and I've had enough.

  • @tarotreadingsbysteven8545
    @tarotreadingsbysteven8545 Před 14 dny +25

    Yet companies like this are more than happy to pass along the cost of this thievery onto their actual paying customers.

  • @jule3480
    @jule3480 Před 14 dny +29

    No wonder people are too afraid to help other people these days. Criminals are emboldened and protected.

  • @Acoto
    @Acoto Před 14 dny +44

    Dont think of it as getting fired, think of it as the company providing the opportunity for you and your lawyer to get the biggest paychecks of your lives.

  • @daytonfryhling
    @daytonfryhling Před 14 dny +71

    I get companies don't wanna be held reliable for employees fighting criminals, but until people stand up and stop shop lifting and assault it'll only get worse.

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden Před 14 dny +6

      i agree. we have to all look out for other law abiding citizens like its our own families and stick together. that love is contagious and spreads fast

    • @little1942
      @little1942 Před 14 dny +4

      This! Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.

  • @beckinfidelis3916
    @beckinfidelis3916 Před 13 dny +6

    They fired a 62 year old, 20-year employee for getting the license plate of a man who punched a woman in the face!!?? 😖💀💀💀 *Boycott Big Lots!* They literally wrote a rule "don't follow in an attempt to identify... A CUSTOMER!" The violence perpetrating shoplifter is a customer! 😂 If that's their customer base, good luck with that!

  • @CLRaider
    @CLRaider Před 14 dny +15

    bullies and criminals have more freedom than victims. there is a game here and most of us is tired of playing it.

  • @lesewing
    @lesewing Před 14 dny +56

    Victims and innocent people are criminals and criminals are victims and innocent.

  • @EternalStorm796
    @EternalStorm796 Před 14 dny +53

    So... I can just walk in, take what I want, and go?
    You might as well just put up a sign that reads, "Buy what you want! Or don't. I don't don't give a shit."

    • @itsZombieMan
      @itsZombieMan Před 14 dny

      Under socialism, basically yes. The government (public ownership) runs the stores and therefore you can just take whatever you want. That’s clearly where the progressives want to take us…

    • @GladDestronger
      @GladDestronger Před 14 dny +7

      And yet if I did it... I'd get thrown in the slammer. Cops would laugh right in my face.

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny

      @@GladDestronger Ah, a fellow paleface I assume?

    • @EternalStorm796
      @EternalStorm796 Před 14 dny +6

      @GladDestronger actually, with my luck, so would I.

    • @kaineandrews3790
      @kaineandrews3790 Před 14 dny +9

      That’s pretty much how most places in Oregon, Washington and California are these days. They won’t arrest or prosecute unless it’s over $1,000, and even if it is, they just release the thieves immediately and never bother to hound them when they - almost inevitably - skip their court date or get arrested again. Then everyone gives a surprised Pikachu face when the business closes or tries to move.
      Of course, if you’ve spent (or wasted) your life being a reasonably law abiding citizen, then it doesn’t quite work out that way. Those folks they’ll crucify. Anyone who complains about this or does anything to stop it, likewise. It’s pretty neat.

  • @l.e.e8349
    @l.e.e8349 Před 14 dny +7

    Businesses "how can we possibly stop this rampant theft?"
    Workers "we could confront and hold the thieves accountable for their actions"
    Business "how dare you even consider such a thing!"

  • @400KrispyKremes
    @400KrispyKremes Před 14 dny +9

    It's nice to know that every corporate store will now do nothing at all to protect their customers.

  • @chadhendrix3613
    @chadhendrix3613 Před 14 dny +5

    This man should be employee of the year and get a raise

  • @theblackmantbm
    @theblackmantbm Před 14 dny +13

    Another reason why a lot of people are jobless. Its f-ing sad! It just makes me wanna leave the country just to get a job.

  • @AJadedLizard
    @AJadedLizard Před 13 dny +5

    Nothing makes me angrier in my day to day life than theft.
    "What are you gonna do? Do you value your stuff more than their life?"
    I value my _breakfast_ more than their life.

  • @pamphileay
    @pamphileay Před 14 dny +16

    Again, "You took the words right out of my mouth". I work at a place where "One of our people" stole a high-priced item. Someone asks him why he did it, "They shouldn't put it out for me to take it".

  • @jenn1218
    @jenn1218 Před 14 dny +5

    3:07 "pursue, detain, or identify a CUSTOMER." Um, wow, Big Lots.

  • @Bernz66
    @Bernz66 Před 14 dny +14

    This is one way to get rid of someone who is getting near retirement…… Normally he should just get a counseling statement. A write up. That’s it…. Looks like I won’t be shopping Big Lots ever again.

  • @johncosta8538
    @johncosta8538 Před 14 dny +6

    I carry, and I have my permit to do so, but it is getting to the point that if I ever had to use it in self-defense I may as well just turn it on myself. Now THAT would be one confusing bit of CCTV footage.

  • @Ziguly
    @Ziguly Před 14 dny +14

    This is why in so many of these ravaged cities it “looks like” crime is down. No, people are just tired of reporting and having nothing done. We’re still paying taxes tho.

  • @2ingrams
    @2ingrams Před 13 dny +4

    I hope he sues the crap out of them.

  • @Teresia12
    @Teresia12 Před 14 dny +18

    Makes me worry for my grandson's as they become old enough for their first job at 15 or 16 in retail for minimum wage because they want their own money. If y'all pray, pray for the safety of all these responsible, honest young people. It seems the odds are more and more stacked against them.

  • @joncooper3188
    @joncooper3188 Před 14 dny +19

    The problem is that everyone thinks this is America.
    Take a good look around, America is gone.

  • @user-hn3lc6jt2j
    @user-hn3lc6jt2j Před 12 dny +4

    I had a heart attack at work I went to the ER. I got written up for leaving work early. If my job treats their employees like me, I will hate to see how they treat their customers.

  • @ChampagneRayn
    @ChampagneRayn Před 14 dny +3

    We need to start supporting these people and calling these businesses and saying that THIS IS NOT OK!!!!

  • @JDWalker495
    @JDWalker495 Před 14 dny +81

    How the f*ck does that work?
    Seriously, how does that conversation go when the employer calls into the office.
    Boss: Sorry man, you are fired for stopping a thief and saving someone's life.

    • @kilerog
      @kilerog Před 14 dny +1

      From what details I can garner, it seems he wasn't fired for stopping a thief but for following him outside the store after there was no longer any danger. That's the problem, because store employees very much aren't police and do not actually have any right to detain or tail persons after they have left store property and are no longer an active danger to anyone. If some sort of altercation had happened between them, then the employee could have opened up the store to liability, with the thief being able to sue to store for claimed damages to his person. Even security guards trying to grab someone could potentially land the store into a lawsuit.
      Given that they had a posted policy not to follow shoplifters out of the store, that the employee chose to break and follow the guy out anyway, I can see how they decided that this employee was too much of a risk and could potentially land them in a lawsuit that they did not need.

    • @GladDestronger
      @GladDestronger Před 14 dny

      Which is just a load of corporate bullshit so they can cover their ass.

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny +15

      @@kilerog So you're cool with shoplifters and people who assault retail workers facing no repercussions? I expect that from faceless corporations who don't make a secret about how little of a f*ck they give, but it's always weird to hear regular people parrot those "justifications".

    • @kilerog
      @kilerog Před 14 dny

      @@Tiabliaj1989 That has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Shoplifters and assaulters should face repercussions from the justice system. If it fails to do so then the failure is on law enforcement and the courts for not doing their jobs. It's not the store's job to make sure that bad guys get punished.
      The store should only be responsible for safeguarding its customers and employees. If the manager had intervened in the assault itself and was acting to protect someone then 100% I would be on his side. But he was not doing that. The assault had been over. Any shoplifting had also already been done. The instigator had left the premises. At that point, following the guy does nothing to protect the store or its property and it DOES potentially endanger both the manager and the store.
      Store employees have been held liable for assault, kidnapping, etc., when they got into unnecessary altercations with shoplifters. A store that's already facing robbery does not need to have its employees endangering themselves or the customers, and opening the store up to legal action by playing vigilante. So the store is well within its rights to establish policies telling its employees not to engage in such behavior and to fire employees that refuse to comply with store policy. Especially a frigging manager--aka, the guy who should be enforcing the policies, not breaking them.
      The store cannot force the cops and courts to do their jobs. But it can protect itself and its employees by disincentivizing dangerous interactions between its employees and other persons.

    • @theblitzblader3967
      @theblitzblader3967 Před 14 dny +8

      @@kilerog Stopping assualt wouldn't be an unnecessary altercation. The only excuse that the store could've even bullshitted up was the fact that he left the store after the robber had left. If they fire a person for stopping an assualt that's actual bullshit.

  • @bruhverlybruh4012
    @bruhverlybruh4012 Před 14 dny +5

    I think they should argue hazard pay on top of it. If you are expected to put yourself in danger to such an extent, then most other jobs are required to give it.

  • @theforkedman3030
    @theforkedman3030 Před 14 dny +4

    These companies are our economy and things like this are an example of why things are getting worse. They punish the guy trying to do right and reword the guy doing wrong. Then they blame an increase in price on theft and loose.

  • @tamaraspencer4024
    @tamaraspencer4024 Před 14 dny +5

    Customer service employees and customers that are assaulted/have g#ns put in their faces should all start suing the company for not doing anything to ensure their safety while in their establishment. When these companies have to start paying out for lawsuits then they will start doing something about this crap.

  • @Deathwish777
    @Deathwish777 Před 14 dny +8

    this is the point. go after those who would defend to persuade society not to defend. they want war in the streets to establish martial law. massive chaos gives them complete control.

  • @I_am_ENSanity
    @I_am_ENSanity Před 14 dny +10

    The higher ups need to be fired.

    • @GladDestronger
      @GladDestronger Před 14 dny

      No, they need their IQ's checked and psyche evals.

  • @denisrichard58
    @denisrichard58 Před 14 dny +42

    All this shit needs to be stopped where it begins... at home, with parents doing a proper job raising kids.

    • @Acoto
      @Acoto Před 14 dny

      While true, we cant do anything about that without incentives, and the incentive we can use today is to punish the companies, the criminals, and the politicians backing them for endangering society.

    • @Tiabliaj1989
      @Tiabliaj1989 Před 14 dny +4

      At a certain point kids become adults and need to take responsibility for their shitty behaviour. Spoiler alert: not everything is mommy and daddy's fault. Accountability is crucial, if you're suggesting that needs to be taught at home, I'll agree.

  • @ShaneDelaney-uo3xf
    @ShaneDelaney-uo3xf Před 14 dny +4

    I'd have my lawyer file a case for the company's entire worth ! I can attest that upper management doesn't give a rats ass about nothing they don't experience.

  • @spaceracer23
    @spaceracer23 Před 13 dny +1

    Boycott Big Lots.
    Take all their customers away and let them keep the criminals.

  • @KitsuneAdorable
    @KitsuneAdorable Před 14 dny +5

    It’s going to get to the point where employees are going to say “I don’t care anymore, steal whatever shit that you’d like.” Retail will soon become mainly online. And I think that would be a good thing. No brick and mortar, just warehouses to send products out. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @ashleybrooke2087
    @ashleybrooke2087 Před 14 dny +11

    Except I've also worked in retail with at least 3 different companies in 3 different cities where members of management were declined pay increases or career advancement due to issues with loss prevention because there were too many shoplifting incidents in their stores. So there's almost no way for anyone to win except for the shoplifter.

  • @jerryshelton1481
    @jerryshelton1481 Před 14 dny +6

    When the store gets sued cause their policies gets someone either killed or serious injured

  • @TheTrueRman
    @TheTrueRman Před 12 dny +2

    "Never leave the store to pursue a Customer"
    If you going into a shop to steal, you aint a Customer.

  • @dublinoseven3279
    @dublinoseven3279 Před 14 dny +17

    Big Lots-empty ones-is all that will be left after these stores are robbed out of existence.

  • @bjj1132
    @bjj1132 Před 14 dny +82

    And women ask why men don't ever help people out anymore. You get arrested and you get fired for doing the right thing while criminals get to walk free. You don't punish good people who do good things if you want to see a functioning high trust society that's safe for law abiding citizens.

    • @Teresia12
      @Teresia12 Před 14 dny +12

      Exactly

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden Před 14 dny

      thats convenient for cowards. >heros dont ask permission to be heros, they just did what came natural

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Před 14 dny +4

      And more often than not, the woman you help will stand with the crowd and denounce you with them.
      I'll defend my wife. If you're a stranger, I might call the cops if it's not too inconvenient. Don't like it? Tough. This is the world you've made. Enjoy it.

    • @GladDestronger
      @GladDestronger Před 14 dny +3

      Apparently, that's the world feminists today want. Let 'em enjoy it.

    • @bjj1132
      @bjj1132 Před 14 dny +7

      @@GladDestronger The problem with that mentality is that people other than those who pushed for this world must suffer the consequences of how the world is today. This includes you, me, children, and other innocent people. Doing nothing now will not do anything to heal society.

  • @sarahpace5376
    @sarahpace5376 Před 14 dny +6

    The coporates aren't thinking these policies through. Even if they have no sympathy or empathy for others, surely they can understand that firing employees for stopping violent acts is just going to lose them employees to the point they lose franchise locations due to understaffing (who wants to stay at a job where your employers are okay with you being physically attacked and are actively against fellow employees trying to help you?) as well as customers (because who wants to go to stores where you can be assaulted without aid because the employees aren't allowed to help you or call the police to help you?). I hope Big Lots and other chains who implement these policies lose money until they realize how unsustainable things as they stand are in the long run.
    Also more judges need to throw out frivolous lawsuits made by criminals so companies stop fearing being sued by people who have no legal legs to stand on.

  • @PanicOregon
    @PanicOregon Před 14 dny +2

    Ah BigLots, Someone to not give my money.

  • @kareemfowler5328
    @kareemfowler5328 Před 14 dny +2

    We should have the right to defend ourselves despite the situation something is fishy why should I let the criminal get his way with me? THESE HIGH SEAT executives have no idea what these workers are dealing with

  • @chelsearlawsonn
    @chelsearlawsonn Před 14 dny +20

    i’ve been a manager and i was told to just ask shoplifters if they need help finding something and just watching them. i couldn’t do anything and i wasn’t allowed to confront them or i could get fired.

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden Před 14 dny +2

      they havent done anything until they leave the store technically . i learned that back in the 80s as a shoplifter that actually had to hide what i was doing. these people have no talent

    • @HopeNeff
      @HopeNeff Před 14 dny +1

      Mind boggling...

    • @chelsearlawsonn
      @chelsearlawsonn Před 14 dny +4

      @@chrhadden talent? shoplifting isn’t a talent it’s literally a crime lmao. i agree with leon when he asks if it’s okay to steal everyone’s stuff if it’s okay for people to steal because it is that stores merchandise, it is their product. it’s a “rule for thee, not for me” crap and it’s not fair to the workers who make a living to get fired for protecting someone, themselves, and their place of employment.

    • @pamharris7596
      @pamharris7596 Před 14 dny +3

      Sounds like Ross....

    • @chelsearlawsonn
      @chelsearlawsonn Před 14 dny

      @@pamharris7596 i actually worked at ross, i wasn’t a manager. one of the worst places ive ever worked

  • @Chodaboy65
    @Chodaboy65 Před 14 dny +4

    Bernie Goetz had the right attitude.

  • @johnny718bravo
    @johnny718bravo Před 13 dny +1

    Why are these stores protecting the criminals?!

  • @psylintzu6036
    @psylintzu6036 Před 14 dny +34

    This is why nobody is willing to jump and stop someone from beating someone else’s ass bc they will end up being the bad guy.

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden Před 14 dny

      not if we all do it. the less it happens the more they will oppress us. we have to keep fighting for whats right man

  • @347Jimmy
    @347Jimmy Před 13 dny +1

    The manager guy makes a very strong point that the shoplifting wasn't even the issue here, an employee got assaulted.
    Then the news coverage spams the word "shoplifter" at us about 100x

  • @elizabethandjoshua
    @elizabethandjoshua Před 14 dny +4

    2 Words..... Bail Reform

  • @thespinningwitch1074
    @thespinningwitch1074 Před 14 dny +4

    Well, we're not safe in Big Lots so I guess we shouldn't go in there anymore. They suck anyway.

  • @greghefner5193
    @greghefner5193 Před 9 dny

    Corporate executives are more concerned about being sued than the safety of their employees.

  • @rhondah.1478
    @rhondah.1478 Před 11 dny

    These companies are more concerned with lawsuits than protecting customers and employees.

  • @BlackPhoenix313
    @BlackPhoenix313 Před 14 dny +1

    Each company that does this, will not receive a single dollar from me.

  • @stephenskinner3851
    @stephenskinner3851 Před 14 dny +23

    Perhaps we should sue the guys that went up the beaches on D-Day?

    • @patrickotis3884
      @patrickotis3884 Před 14 dny +5

      All those soilders landing on the beach were creating a hostile work environment for the poor "victims" in the bunkers.

  • @jokerace8227
    @jokerace8227 Před 14 dny +1

    It's also a clue about the real intentions of the Owners Club members, given this is happening at most corporate retail.

  • @seniormale
    @seniormale Před 14 dny +3

    Why doesn't everybody just walk out without paying what will these stores do then.

  • @josephh891
    @josephh891 Před 14 dny +2

    If he doesn't get compensated.... 😡

  • @Acoto
    @Acoto Před 14 dny +2

    Sue the companies into the ground.

  • @J-wm6jo
    @J-wm6jo Před 14 dny +2

    Walmart owns Big Lots and Walmart only cares about money not moral and just outcomes. They don’t start caring about theft until there’s so much of it that they can’t get theft insurance at that location anymore. They don’t care about the assault, they only care that the manager could’ve tripped and sprained his ankle trying to get their tag number and made a Workmen’s Comp. claim for a couple hundred bucks for the doctor visit.
    I once had a sheriffs deputy tell me that they would not respond to Walmart to take a report on a group returning stolen merchandise to our store because they said Walmarts return and shoplifting policies promoted theft, and that managers didn’t even enforce our pathetically weak return policy. Hours later when the store manager asked if law-enforcement had come to take a report, I told him no and they’re not coming,of course he wanted to know why so I repeated what the deputy said . He just shrugged and walked off.

  • @fonsusali
    @fonsusali Před 14 dny +3

    This is just sad, i feel bad for the man, he 62 fam

  • @LunaMane
    @LunaMane Před 14 dny +1

    I'm not surprised that Big Lots doesn't have their HQ contact info available. These major companies want to squeeze customers for all their money and hard workers for pretty much their lives, but they don't want to be beholden to the very people they rely on to keep said companies running! Corporate executives are some of the most emotionally soft people in the world.
    Like that one CZcamsr said. "Buy product, don't ask questions. Just consume product. Then be excited for next product". That's how companies see us.

  • @TayWoode
    @TayWoode Před 13 dny

    Who are the people that make the laws defending criminals? More importantly, why? How can this possibly benefit anybody no matter how corrupt a politician is?

  • @sanguis7897
    @sanguis7897 Před 14 dny +3

    Dude I worked at a big lots in North Carolina when I was 18 and a bunch of crackheads would come in and steal stuff. My manager was cool she’d kick out people suspected of shoplifting and being one of the few men there I got to help escort people out. We had that same sign in our break room too. Also we reference customers as “Jennifers” since Jenifer was the most common name of people in our rewards program so yeah the company is run by a bunch of tools.

  • @bobroberts2581
    @bobroberts2581 Před 13 dny +1

    This is why men need to just stop risking our lives for others. There’a no actual positive safe outcome for us this past decade.

  • @och70
    @och70 Před 14 dny +2

    He's too good for that company. I have a feeling this guy will be hired somewhere else that will appreciate him more that the out of touch corporate dummies at BigLots. If they have an official Twitter account, I wonder how long it will be until they turn off replies because people are wrecking them over this.

  • @user-ok2lw9cc1z
    @user-ok2lw9cc1z Před 14 dny +1

    I used to work in retail store at the Riverwalk in New Orleans. My store would constantly get robbed; they would come in with duffle bags. They knew that security was a joke, one even said as he flipped off my manager, that he will be gone by the time the police got there. And he was right, mall security would arrive too late to stop the thieves. Or they would tell us that we should call the police, but the police would tell us to call mall security and there was one security guard who did nothing but flirt with me and my co-workers.
    We couldn't do anything about it, except let them rob us even when we caught them red handed. The company told us to take a picture of them, I took a picture of one of the thieves and it still didn't help. And I was told I couldn't have taken the picture, even though they told me too. Those thieves would steal about over $500 - $1,000 worth from us (shirts, jackets, backpacks, and pants). Around the time COVID hit the store closed its location.

  • @ashurmom2969
    @ashurmom2969 Před 14 dny +2

    I work retail and it’s gotten beyond ridiculous, help!

  • @anthonyshoop575
    @anthonyshoop575 Před 9 dny

    Have to love the corporate structure in America. Screw the little guy at every turn.

  • @davedaagee8742
    @davedaagee8742 Před 13 dny

    Time to stop shopping at BigLots!!! If they can’t support us the customers then we can’t support their pocketbooks.

  • @FoolsAmongUs
    @FoolsAmongUs Před 13 dny +1

    I hope that these Managers makes $$$$$$, and he never have to work again.

  • @cgill4269
    @cgill4269 Před 14 dny +10

    When I worked at one of those large home improvement stores & was told not to do anything if you notice a shoplifter bcuz the company doesn't want A BAD IMAGE!! What image exactly are they trying to protect??

    • @Teresia12
      @Teresia12 Před 14 dny +1

      Which one? I need some shit 😂😂 jk. I could never do that.

    • @cgill4269
      @cgill4269 Před 13 dny

      @@Teresia12 Both actually but the Depot was really anal about stopping shoplifters.. but they made sure to check my receipt when I grabbed a drink!!

  • @FromPointAtoMe
    @FromPointAtoMe Před 14 dny

    Companies have all these rules and fire the employee who goes above and beyond because they're afraid of being sued

  • @jokerace8227
    @jokerace8227 Před 14 dny +1

    Yep, doesn't pay to be in a services job, not in this totally lost Nation.

  • @2chillvibes37
    @2chillvibes37 Před 14 dny +11

    Everything good is now bad and vice versa....that's how everything in the world is becoming

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden Před 14 dny

      thats because these people are stacking the deck for evil to win. this is all the rothchilds. this problem is way bigger than people are willing to accept. if they knew we would address it and evil is using that against us. it has no values or principals.

  • @pir8prod
    @pir8prod Před 13 dny

    Call their corporate offices!

  • @knottheory79220
    @knottheory79220 Před 14 dny +1

    Sometimes, you can keep your job or you can keep your conscience.

  • @GamingWithRashad
    @GamingWithRashad Před 14 dny +3

    This is why I stopped working in retail stores because of stuff like this