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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 524785" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Well that word and box is apparently marked on ALL termination hearing cases - so I got uspet on that count for NO reason according to attorney. He said EVERYONE gets upset over that - and chuckled a little but stifled it. </p><p></p><p>My thought was - They do have a handbook. They do have written rules. I did my best to obey all the rules. The way MY MANAGERS interpreted those rules to ME from the time before I was hired there has been the same way. Then one day - out of the blue because I did the same thing, the same way I'd always done it and a woman I worked for had it out for me? SHE called LP and said "Watch the video" and I was fired. </p><p>I'd never been written up before for that - </p><p>I'd always called a manager to ring up my fiance, but managers NEVER not once ever, not for me or any OTHER employee made me or anyone else- step away and rung him up.....they just stood there while I rang up my fiance, my Mother. (Issue 1). (Issue 2) They said I am not allowed to use MY credit card for purchases. MY credit card is DF's credit card - it has MY name on it. Not a joint card wtih 2 names on it and I can prove by bank account transaction records that he's come in and used my card NUMEROUS times. So why all those times didn't they write me up, verbally warn me? Fire me? Not once in all the OVER THIRTY TIMES - did that come up? I'm unsure as to how many times I rang him up -but ever time? I called for a MANAGER - every time - a manager came to the register, and every time - I STILL rang him up. SO now I'm a manger, the manager that wanted me in trouble stood 100' away and watched. The other associate was less than 10' - BOTH have been with the company Manager 5 years, associate three years - BOth watched me ring him up and NEITHER said - NO NO that's a violation - you will get into trouble, but ONE made sure LP was called. SHE said she would help me IF I took a job I didn't want - and when I did - she made sure that I got in trouble. NOT helped. I didn't want the position - I took it so another young man with a baby and a wife could get a job - I was TOLD he had a baby and a wife, and NEEDED the job - I had until noon to decide. I figured if I took the manager job - I felt I was NOT ready for - HE would have a job, be able to take care of wife and baby - and I would get help for the things I didn't know as a new manager. I did not - I got hawked, over nickles, and policys that were okay for months and then all of a sudden weren't. Then I got fired. I think the manager KNEW this would happen, wanted it to happen. She knew my fiance, she KNEW he'd been in there numbers of times, she KNEW he paid by DEBIT....and never questioned it any other time. </p><p>THAT"s my problem in a nutshell.....they all said "Oh there are policies, but there are LOOPHOLES." I took a job I didn't necessarily want, and got fired for doing something I didn't know was wrong because it was the way I had been trained to do it, and when I was training to be manager and did it wrong? I was NOT corrected? Didn't KNOW I should have been corrected but OBVIOULSLY someone knew it was wrong and instead of assisting me - they didn't call the store manager, they called the people they knew would get me in trouble, and it got me fired. Pretty sad management if you ask me. </p><p></p><p>Now because it's in a handbook and the STORE MANAGER interpreted the way we did.....SHE got written up.......SO HOW did I interpret what I did WRONG? The rule in the book was taught to me - gone over by management at a meeting, and then I get to my store, as an associate, and trainee - and it's done X YZ way - and has been since day one - and I NEVER got written up for it, there is NOTHING in my personel file about it.....but because it's an AT WILL company - they have the right to interpret their rules their way - and legal eagles get them out of the junk???? THat's not right. I was honest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 524785, member: 4964"] Well that word and box is apparently marked on ALL termination hearing cases - so I got uspet on that count for NO reason according to attorney. He said EVERYONE gets upset over that - and chuckled a little but stifled it. My thought was - They do have a handbook. They do have written rules. I did my best to obey all the rules. The way MY MANAGERS interpreted those rules to ME from the time before I was hired there has been the same way. Then one day - out of the blue because I did the same thing, the same way I'd always done it and a woman I worked for had it out for me? SHE called LP and said "Watch the video" and I was fired. I'd never been written up before for that - I'd always called a manager to ring up my fiance, but managers NEVER not once ever, not for me or any OTHER employee made me or anyone else- step away and rung him up.....they just stood there while I rang up my fiance, my Mother. (Issue 1). (Issue 2) They said I am not allowed to use MY credit card for purchases. MY credit card is DF's credit card - it has MY name on it. Not a joint card wtih 2 names on it and I can prove by bank account transaction records that he's come in and used my card NUMEROUS times. So why all those times didn't they write me up, verbally warn me? Fire me? Not once in all the OVER THIRTY TIMES - did that come up? I'm unsure as to how many times I rang him up -but ever time? I called for a MANAGER - every time - a manager came to the register, and every time - I STILL rang him up. SO now I'm a manger, the manager that wanted me in trouble stood 100' away and watched. The other associate was less than 10' - BOTH have been with the company Manager 5 years, associate three years - BOth watched me ring him up and NEITHER said - NO NO that's a violation - you will get into trouble, but ONE made sure LP was called. SHE said she would help me IF I took a job I didn't want - and when I did - she made sure that I got in trouble. NOT helped. I didn't want the position - I took it so another young man with a baby and a wife could get a job - I was TOLD he had a baby and a wife, and NEEDED the job - I had until noon to decide. I figured if I took the manager job - I felt I was NOT ready for - HE would have a job, be able to take care of wife and baby - and I would get help for the things I didn't know as a new manager. I did not - I got hawked, over nickles, and policys that were okay for months and then all of a sudden weren't. Then I got fired. I think the manager KNEW this would happen, wanted it to happen. She knew my fiance, she KNEW he'd been in there numbers of times, she KNEW he paid by DEBIT....and never questioned it any other time. THAT"s my problem in a nutshell.....they all said "Oh there are policies, but there are LOOPHOLES." I took a job I didn't necessarily want, and got fired for doing something I didn't know was wrong because it was the way I had been trained to do it, and when I was training to be manager and did it wrong? I was NOT corrected? Didn't KNOW I should have been corrected but OBVIOULSLY someone knew it was wrong and instead of assisting me - they didn't call the store manager, they called the people they knew would get me in trouble, and it got me fired. Pretty sad management if you ask me. Now because it's in a handbook and the STORE MANAGER interpreted the way we did.....SHE got written up.......SO HOW did I interpret what I did WRONG? The rule in the book was taught to me - gone over by management at a meeting, and then I get to my store, as an associate, and trainee - and it's done X YZ way - and has been since day one - and I NEVER got written up for it, there is NOTHING in my personel file about it.....but because it's an AT WILL company - they have the right to interpret their rules their way - and legal eagles get them out of the junk???? THat's not right. I was honest. [/QUOTE]
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