Pregnant restaurant manager fired after armed robbery (Popeyes)

[Garion_55]

Source: http://www.13newsnow.com

CHANNELVIEW, Texas — After a fast-food restaurant was robbed, the pregnant shift manager said she was fired for refusing to reimburse the company the money that was stolen.

The heist happened March 31 at a Popeyes (PLKI) fried-chicken restaurant here and was captured on surveillance video. The Harris County Sheriff's Office still has not identified the gunman more than three weeks after the crime.

Officials from the Popeyes franchise owner, Z&H Foods of Sugarland, Texas, wouldn't talk on camera.

However, a spokesman in the company's human resources department said Holcomb was fired because she didn't follow company policy, leaving too much money in the cash register. And this wasn't her first offense.

That spokesman, who refused to be identified, also said that if she were given the option to pay money back, the company knew nothing about it.



Read more: http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/22/pregnant-woman-robbery/26173521/

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https://www.facebook.com/PopeyesLouisianaKitchen?fref=ts

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. tick tick tick

keep fucking with people who have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to not starve or freeze

[donnasgirl]

3. Oh how right you are

And if you didn't notice, how about the excuse the company is using.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

6. Of course and even if she is guilty of that, so what. Here is what should happen

employee gets attorney to sue company for pain and suffering from trauma of robbery

ding ding ding

[donnasgirl]

8. NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT ONE, GOOD CALL.

[wordpix]

23. a look at security would be interesting

or lack of security. Employees should be safe and that means an effective security system

[Omaha Steve]

2. Popeyes Customer service: 1 [phone]

I already called!

Franchise owner, Z&H Foods Inc.

[niyad]

4. z and h foods:

281-988-5726

[donnasgirl]

5. Thanks Steve

[Plucketeer]

10. I tried to call

but all I got was robo-phone runaround. They don't have humans to talk to - only their website to complain to. How convenient - for them.

[Omaha Steve]

14. I got through to a voice

I even told the recording I'd stay on hold instead of getting a call back.

Maybe they are swamped now!

[Plucketeer]

19. I did wonder

if maybe they'd gotten tired of being berated.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

7. Hey WAIT, if assholes can collect money for homophobic pizza makers, why cant we for her?

Anyone here know how to do one of those things?

[donnasgirl]

9. THATS WHAT I LIKE

People who think straight when pissed, does anyone know how to do this.

[Plucketeer]

11. I don't know, but I've got bucks if someone figures it out!

[McCamy Taylor]

12. How much money did she leave in the register?

I hate to say it, but insiders often participate in robberies.

[Enrique]

17. she says in the story

Holcomb said that Tuesday was busy: The restaurant offers a two-piece chicken meal for $1.19, and she moved money into the safe as fast as she could.

"They got what they got because that's what we made within one hour," she said.

I know from experience that these company policies are impossible to follow completely. They just pile these requirements on you so everything is the employee's fault because they "didn't follow policy".

[wordpix]

24. "two-piece chicken meal for $1.19" = zero quality food/low wages

Here's how Popeye's can make money off that meal: buy the cheapest of cheap chickens, factory farm-raised and sharing small cages for 4, all chickens too crowded to stand. Chickens are fed the cheapest of cheap feed, probably GMO soy meal grown with Monsanto's Roundup containing highly teratogenic (DNA-damaging, mutation-causing) glyphosate. Chickens are also fed antibiotics b/c they are so tightly packed into the chicken jail that any bacterial disease in one chicken would wipe out the whole flock. Pay poor Latinos min. wage or less to slaughter and clean chickens all day long, day after day. Get chickens to Popeyes where they'll be dredged in lots of salty/sugary/ MSG goodness and fried in transfats. Now the meal is ready for the customer, served by a min. wage worker who doesn't get health care benefits and doesn't belong to a union.

YUM, and enjoy your dinner

[Taitertots]

22. If only someone took important information and put it on a website

We can call it the news. I think I'm a make a lot of money with this new idea.

[SoapBox]

13. If they were angered that the thief got away with too much money...

Maybe a little boycott will reduce the money in that till!

Nice that there was more concern for money vs. the pregnant gal...grrrrr.

[truthisfreedom]

15. No more Popeyes for me until she's rehired

And receives a full apology and back pay.

[Enrique]

16. good for her for going to the media

she says "I don't think it's right", and of course it's not right, and now people will know about this awful policy. I'm sure most people will be surprised they do this, and are even allowed to do this.

I'm especially disgusted by the cowardly scumbag company fucks who decline to comment.

[turbinetree]

18. Hey

Popeye's, have one quick questions;
Do you think its appropriate for a national boycott and a boycott on the holding company, pretty lame excuse to fire someone for having to much money in cash register drawer, because just maybe----just a guess, she was going to transfer it to the safe, but then she gets robbed---what would you say if she got shot, since in your screwed up state you now have the so called right to carry a gun anywhere in your state ---just think you don't know who the bad guys are or who the good guys are, when they walk into one of your "fine" places to eat (quit eating there ever since the BP disaster and foreign shrimp from Vietnam) -----what a messed up state

[strategery blunder]

20. In the article it says the amount the robber got away with was $400

Assuming that was most everything in the till, that is not an egregious policy violation. Not at either of the two stores I work at, anyway.

Yes the register would be saying that it needs to have cash removed and put in the safe at that point. But that kind of warning had likely just come up shortly before, if that was the amount that was taken. If the store was busy, she almost certainly had not had a chance to get to it within the last 15 minutes (and I can make a pretty educated guess that the cash warning was less than an hour old). So while technically "policy was violated," it really has more to do with unfortunate timing of the heist than any negligence on the part of employees at that point. At most, she should be written up IMO.

Now, if it was $1400 that was lost in the robbery, that would indicate that the manager simply had ignored the cash removal requirement for a long time, and for that I could understand firing the manager...

[CreekDog]

38. i bet the warning was closer to 5-10 minutes old

it was Tuesday night, and that's the night of the 2 piece special (I know this because it makes it impossible to go to my Starbucks next door because you can't get on the parking lot.

anyway, there are usually 2 registers and on that night, there's a line out the door and it's mostly people buying big meals cheaply in family size portions.

so imagine $15 coming into each register every 3 minutes, or about $300 every 30 minutes total in both. if $400 was stolen, then I think that was all the cash she could access.

considering registers are stocked with change, it couldn't have been long since the warning popped up, and on that crazy night, as those Tuesdays are, she was likely handling a lot of stuff.

i'll boycott that Franchisee until this is fixed and she is treated fairly.

[PADemD]

21. Would the manager have been fired if she wasn't pregnant?

[QC]

25. They have apologized and offered to rehire her.

But you can still unload on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/PopeyesLouisianaKitchen?rf=109717555829133

[bullwinkle428]

27. I would be suspicious that they're just doing this so they can fire her again

in 2 or 3 weeks when this blows over and they feel that no one else is looking.

[QC]

28. That was my first thought, too. n/t

[tblue37]

33. Well, if they do, she can burn them big time with bad publicity by going to the media again. nt

[joshcryer]

35. It's on the franchisee and managers.

Corporate made some phone calls. Said that the manager that fired her wasn't following protocol, etc. Of course, how many times does this happen and the person doesn't go to the media, you got to wonder.

[Enrique]

37. so is she

Holcomb is not only being offered her old position, but $2,000 in back pay. For the pregnant mother of three, the decision is tough.

"I do need a way to support my kids," she says. "I don't want to go back to a business where I'm treated the same and I just get pushed back out if something else happened."

[wordpix]

31. lol, thanks, I unloaded

[QC]

32. Fun, isn't it?

I want the asshole to lose his franchise.

[midnight]

26. Wow... The store sure doesn't respect life does it.

[customerserviceguy]

29. The way I see it

is that she was fired for not following policy, and I really don't see where her gender and her gestational status really had anything material to do with it.

Was it a reasonable policy? How long does it take to accumulate $400 (including money in the till for change-making) when you sell $5-and-under fast food meals?

I see from postings above that they've bowed to pressure and have asked to have her back. Would that have happened if this were a male manager fired for the same reason?

[Enrique]

36. she was fired because she didn't cough up the $400

it's an outrage and it should be illegal.

[wordpix]

30. I'm doing cash/check pickup for a non-profit event soon

I offered to do "other" as well but my friend running the show said no, he just wants me to do the rounds collecting the $ from the cash boxes so there won't be much accumulating in them.

How come the executive director of a small non-profit knows you shouldn't spread your cash runner too thin, but big corporate Popeye's doesn't? If Popeye's wants the cash put away more than once/hr., they need to hire someone to do it, and not expect the cash runner to do it while she's busy with other jobs.

[tblue37]

34. THIS! nt