Sainsbury’s worker sacked for tackling Champagne thief hours after he performed CPR on security guard
Source: tylerthe-theatre
Sainsbury’s worker sacked for tackling Champagne thief hours after he performed CPR on security guard
Source: tylerthe-theatre
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I can’t believe that doing someone good doesn’t mean you get three to four free gross misconducts
Fookin wokie pokies
No supermarkets allow staff to stop shoplifters. This is well known and I would imagine its made very clear to staff.
It does say he was already warned about following Sainsbury’s policy on handling shoplifters.
The intent is obviously public sentiment. But if he isnt following policy then the sacking was fair.
Someone I work with saved someone’s life with CPR recently. Found out through the company newsletter – but it was buried like 2/3rds of the way down under the standard announcements from finance and HR with a sentence like “And a special thanks goes to…”
It’s like that meme that goes round of a doctor getting a 4 star review for saving someone’s life, and wondering how to earn that final star.
I get it, you go to work and watch the dregs of society ruin it for everyone else while your just doing your job because we all know stealing champagne is defiantly a staple of needing to survive.
But I also get why the company doesn’t want to be held liable for injury.
I wonder if these ‘do not engage with shoplifters’ policies is an insurance requirement.
Well that’s quite the shift, saved a life, stopped a thief and lost his job
The bloke sounds like George Clooney in ER if he moonlighted as Batman, and the reward is getting sacked. Unreal.
What’s the point in these kinds of stories making national news?
Why would any shop worker care to put themselves in harms way when they’re being explicitly told “do not touch suspects shoplifters, just save the CCTV and report them”. And are we expected to care that a guy broke the rules and was sacked for trying to save sainburys £40 when sainsburys said not to?
Is this a “wokeness gone mad” narrative where we’re expected to want sainsburys to give machetes to their checkout workers to dish out justice?
Insurance companies are middle management making the rules
He’s not brave he’s an idiot. The shoplifter could have had a knife.
And how do you do “a bit of CPR” on someone? You either do CPR which or you don’t. Sounds like he pushed his luck after being told not to tackle shoplifters in the past.
What a fucking joke.
Tell you what, you pissed off about this too?
THEN ORGANISE!
Get in touch with these guys, they’re better than all other unions as they’re organised by the workers themselves, they don’t have higher ups on £70k+ per year.
https://www.instagram.com/solfed.iwa/
Also BOYCOTT Sainsbury’s until they reinstate or pay this man.
Spread the word!
This stops when you stop taking it ✊🏼
Whilst I disagree with this guy losing his job for doing something good. Big Corpo doesn’t care about the little man, he shouldn’t put his life on the line for a bottle of Champagne
Yeah, always punish the guy doing the right thing. Then complain why people don’t help anyone on the street.
This practice by companies to punish staff with dismissal for tackling theft must end. Little wonder we have incidents like the raid of M&S when the criminals are being educated by employers that they can do what the hell they like without comeback.
Shop workers need to stop trying to enforce the law. Your job is to serve customers or put stock on the shelves. Not to RKO the local petty thief
This is the sort of stuff that happens when crimes aren’t enforced. You get people seeing this day in day out, and get fed up with them taking the piss of everyone, brazingly doing it. At some point, you will snap, and it’s also how you end up with vigilantism.
The dude came back and started throwing glass bottles at staff, at which point the dude tackled the shoplifter. Should be praised for protecting colleagues from these vile people. Yet people are saying the worker is the problem. And that’s why we have these issues in this country.
I think it’s a little different to normal if he’s just carried out CPR and saved someone’s life. Shouldn’t be working the rest of the shift, it will be something they need to process emotionally and they may act out of the ordinary in that heightened state.