Why Not to Shop at Wal-Mart, An Endless Series
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Michael Walsh of Schenectady, a Wal-Mart maintenance worker for 18 years, was fired on Nov. 6, a few days after he turned in $350 in cash he found in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market.
He was called into a manager’s office, interrogated and terminated for “gross misconduct.”
His offense? He waited about 30 minutes before he turned in the money.
“The only thing I did wrong was hesitate,” Walsh said, who is 45. “I didn’t steal anything. They didn’t give me any warning. They just fired me.”
See, Wal-Mart prefers to actually take other people’s money, and without hesitation!
The firing happened on the same day that Thomas Smith, 52, of Albany, an East Greenbush Wal-Mart employee, was fired for redeeming $2 worth of cans and bottles left behind in a shopping cart.
Redeem some abandoned cans and you lose your job, steal a lot and you can be a Wal-Mart executive.