Walmart employee fired after reporting dog in hot truck

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Ex-employee says she called police, confronted customer about dog left in truck on hot day

Carla Cheney told CBC News she hadn't yet started her shift and was in her own clothes outside the store with colleagues on Tuesday when she spotted a Walmart customer leaving his dog in a parked truck.

The dog jumped out of the open window twice to follow the man, Cheney said.

The man took his dog back to the truck and rolled up the windows, leaving them open about an inch, Cheney said. The man then headed into the Walmart.

Cheney also said that another former Walmart employee was scolded last week for confronting a customer about leaving a dog inside a vehicle. She said that person had already given his two weeks' notice, but that the manager sent him home and told him he'd be paid for the rest of the two weeks.

"Now I'm worried that other associates won't say anything and they'll be afraid that they'll lose their job if they do say something," Cheney said.

"The manager said I was fired because I was rude to a customer, but I felt because I was not even on the clock, it shouldn't have been an issue anyways. And I don't think it should be an issue even if I was on the clock … because it's on the news and we're being told not to leave animals and children in cars.

"I thought I was doing the right thing."

More at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/07/10/ottawa-walmart-hot-cars-vehicles-dogs-animals-worker-fired-cheney-parking-lot-customer.html

[flvegan]

1. Fuck WalMart and their shitdiot management "technique"

Tools and morons. I hope the publicity of this good deed lands Ms. Cheney another job, and a better one at that.

[HiPointDem]

4. +1. thing to do, walmartites, is report anonymously. oh wait, that's right, you can't. because

they're bugging our phones.

everytime i've called the cops they always ask me for my personal info -- but if i hesitate or ask why, they always make it clear that they already know from what phone i am dialing, the address, & the resident at that address.

so why do they ask me for my personal info anyway, while crime is in progress?

[Trillo]

6. Presumption of guilt.

Prove your innocence by stating the same information they have on file.

[BrotherIvan]

2. So glad she did the right thing and here's hoping she finds a better job

Awesome PR for WalFail. Jeesh, they can't get any worse.

[petronius]

3. WalMart has an incredible genius for finding new ways to be offensive - just when you

think you've got them figured out, they come at you from a whole new unexpected direction of awfulness...

[Blue Owl]

5. I will never shop at that shit hole.

Ever.