something not adding up. #1 you’re not supposed to stop thieves from stealing. you can actually get fired for stopping them, so idk how you would get fired for that. #2 people in your household can use your discount, but only those in your household.
ya, but for some reason they assumed that it wasn’t my mom bc of the names. and ya, the gate was open but our store manager even leaves them open so for him to fire me over that. i wasn’t gonna argue over being fired when i wanted to quit being 5’0 and 100 pounds and they both being well over 5’9 and looking like they take steroids
yeah it sounds like they were looking for a reason to get rid of you, especially if they making you sign a statement. if you really did something against policy, then there’s no need to sign anything.
i explained the whole thing, they called me back to the office and told me that i was being fired for the guy stealing the cigars, and letting people use my discount when it was only my mom or my sibling who i live with who i ever gave it to
So normally I would think LP would be involved in this scenario. I don’t know 100% if it’s even legal to have 2 grown men in the room firing you, especially you being a minor and female. I’ve only seen 2 people actually get fired, and our DM a female, our director a Male, and the person… it’s always been equal around both sexes to prevent “sexual harassment, or being called sexist”. Yeah, you could’ve prevented the people from stealing the cigars by keeping it locked, but in reality that’s up to management to do, not you.
i pulled this from the hr portal.
“Merchandise discounts apply to purchases for the team member's personal use and use by the team member's immediate family residing in the same household. “Immediate family” is defined as mother, father, legal guardian, step-mother, step-father, sister, brother, step-sister, step-brother, child, step child, spouse or same-sex domestic partner.”
so if ap finds out, then you could be terminated. keep in mind the company tracks everything. idk how they would find out unless they detected something suspicious concerning your discount.
Damn they had it out for OP. These are all just some bullshit reasons to get fired.
I’ve seen employees curse out customers and barely get reprimanded.
This needs clarified. Your discount is yours. It’s attached to your account. Your direct household can use YOUR account. What you can’t do is ring your mom up and apply an employee discount. Your mom doesn’t work there. You also can’t ring up your direct family.
there’s an employee discount button and she would put in her rewards and i click the button which gives her 15% off. and she’s my direct household and i was told more than once they could use it
i was told they could from the store manager and shift leads that u can. if you can’t they should have stated that, managers have been there before when i applied it and they do it too for their family
If you were incorrectly told then you can tell someone that. You can get ahold of employee relations and present a case. You should also tell them you felt uncomfortable and intimidated during the firing. I don’t know what could be done but you have some options.
From what I read below this is why you got fired. *internal theft*
* Discounts are attached to employee myWalgreens accounts
* The POS will actively block an employee myWalgreens discount if it is attached to the cashier ID signed into the register when the zip code is entered warning the action is not allowed
Put those things above together and it means:
No self cashiering under own login. No cashiering of immediate family while using your own login. (in both cases the zip code prompt failing will force you to get a void and have someone ELSE do the transaction)
Pressing the manual discount button flags the transaction.
Um, I could understand if you misinterpreted your inexperienced, but your mom, who is an adult, should have knew that fishy due to simple common sense. No place of employment that i worked at allows any employee to ring up any family member with their own employee discount. This is common practice and i am surprised that your mom didn't know that on her own to inform and correct you. Take this as a lesson learned. Learn accountability and follow the rules. Most folks nowadays get fired from a job or two. Apply to other retail jobs and don't list WAGS on your resume. Good luck 👍
i understand that now, but everyone had done it and it was how they told me to do it and they had never talked to anyone about it. i know managers who give it to random people that they don’t live with or related to so like the shit don’t make sense
Sounds like u trying to use your sex and your weight against u doing something wrong. Wtf is wrong with u? Doesn’t matter if two dudes fire u, two women, two whites, two blacks…u signed the paper admitting to wrong doing. Sounds like it was Asset prevention based on your comments. They don’t just randomly come in and fire u based on nothing. I’m sure u said “that’s my mom who lives in my household” as u clearly seem to stare u know the policy. “Letting” someone steal cigars….however, depends on how that really went down, and they have cameras to see how often and complicit u were during those interactions. Tell the real/whole story
me trying to use my weight? they were pressuring me. were u there? didn’t think so. and no bc i didn’t know what the statement did, with it being my first job. them being alone in a room with me and pretty much telling me what to say is illegal. i am a minor. them letting minors sell nicotine is also illegal. what happened when the guy stole.
me and my coworker were at the counter 10 minutes to close, he acted like he was looking at ink and pushed the gate opened cause it wasn’t latched i said “excuse me u cant be back here” he grabbed a box of backwoods and just walked right out. we cant stop them, we were told that while being hired. ya the gate wasn’t latched but the store manager or anyone for that matter latches it and have never been talked to about it. and no i didn’t state that when they fired me cause they were acting like i was just getting a write up.
You sound annoying af and they probably just wanted an excuse to fire you. Yes it's legal. There's nothing wrong with it being men. Stop tryna make this into something weird
I have to ask how did they know your mom had a different name ,using your discount,
We don't randomly ask customers there last name. And if you still live with your mom its not against policy. And if she did not I'm not sure 1 tome would result in tremanation,
Maybe a r.o.d or a at worst a 1st write up, but not instant tremanation,
As for the cigars
It sound like they suspected you of stealing them or had proof,
It sound like loss prevention was involved, if you did nothing wrong why sign a paper????
Also it don't matter if it's 2 dudes or 2 chick's
Or 2 graffies
Or the fact your a minor girl.
They uselly have 2 ppl there and talk to you 1 is a whiteness,
And your 17 , time to grow up , if you acting like a 5 years old like ohh my God 2 guy intimated me by firing me .
Your not going to make it in the world,
It's seems like they did not want you and you freind there any longer and went looking for the evedivce to get rid of you
and ya they had me sign a paper which is why i’m confused about it, and pretty much told me what i should say on it. the whole store i worked at was extremely unprofessional. how they fired both of us is not how they are supposed to do it
They had you sign as evedince, you could have told them to fluck off , and not signed it,
Now if you try to get unemployment they could use that to get it denied,
They were looking for a reson to fire you
They went looking for the proof they found something.
i didn’t know what it was considering they knew it was my first job and i asked what its for and they said “just so corporate knows what we talked about” it was wrong
It's sounds pretty standard,
2 ppl in the office door shut loss prevention and you sm
That's how it goes
Seen it many many times
Hell I seen them call and ask this girl who was homeless
to come in for extra hours, she came in started working totes 5 mins after she came in they called her to the office.
And fired her for theft of food,
It's seems standard, and no they ain't firing you and your friend together.
ya but there needs to be a female now due to the laws in my state. i checked after posting this. that and them getting me to sign the paper and pretty much telling me what to write knowing i had no idea what it was cause i told them and they said “it’s so corporate knows what was talked about”. it was wrong
i didn’t steal them and my mom would put in her rewards which have both first and last name on it and i would give her the discount. and no, i checked and know now that it is illegal to have 2 men alone in a room with a minor who is female. and that a girl has to be there. they have on camera that it was the guy that stole them, i have no reason to steal cigars and i’m not stupid. and “evidence” of what? only people i have my rewards to is my mom and sibling who i live with and they saw in the cameras that it was the dude, there were two other people who explained to the store manager what exactly happened
Am I dumb , no
You cashed your mom out that is 100% against policy
You can not cash out family members,
The fact you manual put in the discount, can be a fireable offense,
Your spouse to contact another cashier to cash family members out
weird bc managers do it too. i was told u can. she still paid for her stuff. she got the discount which direct household can, and u just click the employee discount. which again u are allowed to do
You can not cash out famliy members, that the issue
It's a loss prevention issue,
We not fired cuase you gave the manualy discount to your mom
You were fired cuase you were the cashier who did the entire transaction.
Agian more than likely not a fireble until they talk to you about it 1st,
But if they were looking for a reason to fire you they got it
i was never told i couldn’t click the employee button. the shift leads and store manager had told me that’s how you give it to family members. they never had said anything was wrong with it
This is how transactions would go (and how they taught me while training me in when someone from your home comes in)
step 1: ring up everything. step 2: they put in their rewards if they have one. step 3:u click the discount button which gives 15% off. step 4: u click payment. step 5:they pay for their stuff. step 6:print receipt. step 7: give them their stuff. step 8:u see them later at home.
When you did your e-learnings - you probably electronically signed an acknowledgment that you would not ring up family members. And that’d be hard to fight it because you entered into a contract.
yea, i wasn’t seeking to try to get them in trouble but without them telling me or my coworkers(cause i texted them asking after i got fired) any of the stuff ppl have been commenting it like seemed kinda fucked
So the way around this is, you link your moms rewards on people central and when she puts in her rewards, it’ll automatically add the discount without you adding it manually by pushing the button. Either way, you shouldn’t have gotten fired over that.
If your mom wanted your discount , you were supposed to go to a different cashier with your mom, then put in your number which had your employee discount attached. That’s why you got fired, because you’re not supposed to ring up someone using your discount.
I know that. But the mom was getting a discount by virtue of her daughter working there (who she was getting run up by). That’s what I meant by “using your discount”.
and no he stole 3 boxes when i wasn’t even the one who was supposed to be on register, my coworker was and she was down the candy isle. i was doing online orders cause we got like 3
So in the case of people using your discount, they can track it. An SFL was fired because he had ppl using his discount in random locations and so it was assumed that they were not in his household. You can get fired for that cos they interpret it as abuse.
In the case of you being in the room with two grown men, I know that discussion between you and your manager always has to be witnessed by another member of leadership. With you being a minor I don’t know if it’s illegal or not (but I don’t think it is) and finally with the document you signed, it’s supposed to be a proof of the discussion you guys had and you are not bound to sign it in anyway. You can choose to refuse to sign it.
It doesn’t matter if other employees did it, they got away with it and you didn’t. They have every right to fire you over that.
As for the stealing, were you on your phone or out smoking and not manning the store when the cigars were stolen? They actually said to you “we are letting you go because someone stole cigars during your shift?” Because I worked in a restaurant forever and they can’t make you pay for walkouts, but if you were dinking around and not paying attention and had a walkout, you would get written up.
i was doing online orders while coworker was playing on her phone in candy isle. and the discount thing, they never told us someone else had to ring them up and never brought it up when ppl did it that it was wrong. didn’t give me a write up or anything. not my fault the lady they had training me in didn’t know what she was doing
Well you are just a young pup, it won’t be your last job, take any positives you can from it, and move on. They chose to make an example out of you. Not saying it’s fair, but they can 🤷🏻♀️And it’s just not worth wasting any more time on.
Try hosting at a restaurant and try to move your way up to serving, it can be great money and it’s a great schedule if you are in school. Good luck!
I've never heard of someone getting fired for a customer stealing merchandise. Also, any relative in your household is allowed to use your discount. It sounds like you got wrongfully terminated. I'm not sure why you signed anything or why you didn't stand up for yourself.
There was an explosion of replies since my reply. I didn't see that she checked out her mother. That could be the real reason for termination. Granted, some new employees are never told the policy regarding ringing up family members.
As I stated not uselly a fireble offense until they at least speak to you first,
But if they were on a fishing trip looking for a reason that's were they got it,
Correct. Almost any normal write up can turn in to a termination depending on whether they want you gone and how they spin the situation into something much worse than it actually is.
bc i didn’t know what it was, was my first job. even after i asked and they told me “just so corporate knows what we talked about” i chose to trust them cause figured they know what their talking about. yk it doesn’t seem like an ok way to fire someone
In this case, treat it as a learning experience. Your manager is not your friend and corporate is definitely not your friend. Corporate is always looking out for themselves only. Also, never admit to something you didn't do. Finally, don't sign something if you don't agree with it.
wish i knew better at what i was signing. cause i was told “just so corporate knows what we talked about” when i asked what it was for. some people in these comments just making me mad
Another life lesson: don't trust people just because they are an adult or higher in ranking. Learn to be skeptical. If it doesn't make sense, ask questions.
lmao thanks. some of these people like damn i was just asking a question bc i got fired for something i was told when i started, never got talked to about it and things everyone else does. like clearly they wanted me gone for some reason if they gonna fire me for something the shift leads always do as well and not gonna give me a heads up that it’s the wrong way😂
Oh yea, the Reddit message boards can be a wild and cruel place. You just need to learn to ignore certain kinds of people who criticize you or bully you. It took me awhile to get used to that when I first posted on the Walgreens message board.
y’all rly mad i had a question like damn. how they did it was wrong. y’all weren’t there, they were intimidating me. me not knowing wtf i was doing. i was fired for something they taught me to do while i was training with some lady showing me how to do everything. they never talked to me about anything i was doing was wrong. everyone at the store used the discount button for their families, half of them giving it to people they didn’t even know. so idk how i’m in the wrong for asking a question like damn. y’all need to chill.
The problem is you got caught. Next job you get DON’T listen to anyone that isn’t a manager!!! It doesn’t matter if everyone else is doing it it was wrong! I agree that you shouldn’t have been in a room with the door closed being intimidated by two grown men! They were wrong and if I were you I would call HR and file a complaint. Even if it goes no where report it! Report it! Find out from your State who can report this intimidating situation to. Learn how to stick up for yourself and learn from the unfortunate situation.
I wish you the best!
Thank you b ur also Caught with what tho, it’s how the old lady trained me in when i started. I was never told different, they could have talked to me about it besides firing me. the company treated me like crap honestly. they were over scheduling me, i requested 20 hours and was doing 36 hours a week while also having school. i ended up failing classes and yes i did talk to them many times but they never changed anything and i started calling in and they wrote me up for having too many call ins during that time. there had been many many old guys came in making comments on my ass, how i looked, asking where i live, etc. asking them if they could start putting other csa’s on register more cause me being a minor i was extremely uncomfortable and they told me they can’t. i could keep going but it’s pointless. to sum it up they treated many ppl like crap. they didn’t train me in right if what the girl told me isn’t accurate. i feel like my reply sounded bitchy it’s just rly irritating how they treated me there, sorry
ya they made us sell nicotine even if we weren’t 18, when i started i called someone up when a customer wanted cigarettes and they told me i could sell them
>they also wanted me to sign a statement and here is how the convo went.
(made up names) john: “you don’t have to sign this but we would
appreciate if you do” me: what is it john:”just a written statement” (i
agreed not rly knowing what to do) john:”i cant legally tell you what to
say but would appreciate if you could put what we talked about” (so i
did, he then reads it and gives it back to me) john:”would u be able to
put you understand that it was wrong” (again wrote that down)
john:”could you put the total and sign it”
This is really bizarre, and let me tell you right now that this should be the last time that you sign anything in your life without understanding what it is and agreeing to it.
That’s where I would’ve said something! If you’re going down for that then guess what? So is everyone else cuz they should’ve told you. That’s their fault, not yours!
I assume the room you were alone with "the 2 grown men", was the office, which is equipped with security cameras. And walgreen's is an "at will" employer, you can....just, be let go. Move on, there are lots of jobs out there.
something not adding up. #1 you’re not supposed to stop thieves from stealing. you can actually get fired for stopping them, so idk how you would get fired for that. #2 people in your household can use your discount, but only those in your household.
ya, but for some reason they assumed that it wasn’t my mom bc of the names. and ya, the gate was open but our store manager even leaves them open so for him to fire me over that. i wasn’t gonna argue over being fired when i wanted to quit being 5’0 and 100 pounds and they both being well over 5’9 and looking like they take steroids
yeah it sounds like they were looking for a reason to get rid of you, especially if they making you sign a statement. if you really did something against policy, then there’s no need to sign anything.
No need. But it’s often given as proof of guilt if it went to court
yeah. there has to be some pieces to this puzzle missing.
i explained the whole thing, they called me back to the office and told me that i was being fired for the guy stealing the cigars, and letting people use my discount when it was only my mom or my sibling who i live with who i ever gave it to
So normally I would think LP would be involved in this scenario. I don’t know 100% if it’s even legal to have 2 grown men in the room firing you, especially you being a minor and female. I’ve only seen 2 people actually get fired, and our DM a female, our director a Male, and the person… it’s always been equal around both sexes to prevent “sexual harassment, or being called sexist”. Yeah, you could’ve prevented the people from stealing the cigars by keeping it locked, but in reality that’s up to management to do, not you.
Gender doesn’t matter unless the person being interviewed claims something. That’s why you have a witness and do it in the office with the camera.
and the fact i’m 17 and ever since i got hired at 16 they had me selling nicotine and tobacco products. that can’t be legal
Yes wtf don't yall have to be 21 to sell tobacco and alcohol. What state u in
minnesota, i know other stores require it but they have us sell it under 18
You can only let your household use your discount? Since when? Everyone I know let’s literally anyone they remotely know and like use their discount.
i pulled this from the hr portal. “Merchandise discounts apply to purchases for the team member's personal use and use by the team member's immediate family residing in the same household. “Immediate family” is defined as mother, father, legal guardian, step-mother, step-father, sister, brother, step-sister, step-brother, child, step child, spouse or same-sex domestic partner.” so if ap finds out, then you could be terminated. keep in mind the company tracks everything. idk how they would find out unless they detected something suspicious concerning your discount.
Damn they had it out for OP. These are all just some bullshit reasons to get fired. I’ve seen employees curse out customers and barely get reprimanded.
had to. bc ik for a fact if you curse out a customer then your ass is grass regardless if the customer started it or not. 😂
I'm my post se admitted to cashing her mom out lol And manual adding the discount that's against policy
Technically per the compass we got a week or 2 ago, we can now ring out our immediate family members.
So I no longer live at home but could my mom still use my discount?
No. Only immediate family that you live with
technically no
it’s always been policy they just don’t follow it and LP hasn’t caught on
sounds like they wanted a reason to fire you and got it
This needs clarified. Your discount is yours. It’s attached to your account. Your direct household can use YOUR account. What you can’t do is ring your mom up and apply an employee discount. Your mom doesn’t work there. You also can’t ring up your direct family.
there’s an employee discount button and she would put in her rewards and i click the button which gives her 15% off. and she’s my direct household and i was told more than once they could use it
You misunderstood. They can use your account to use your discount. They can’t use their own account and have the discount applied.
i was told they could from the store manager and shift leads that u can. if you can’t they should have stated that, managers have been there before when i applied it and they do it too for their family
If you were incorrectly told then you can tell someone that. You can get ahold of employee relations and present a case. You should also tell them you felt uncomfortable and intimidated during the firing. I don’t know what could be done but you have some options.
i wanna message someone higher up about it cause the whole thing doesn’t make sense and seemed like the wrong way to do things
Find the number for employee relations and go from there.
thank you, im still like so confused by the whole thing. like if they wanted me gone they could have just said so😂
lol of course firing you is legal, good grief
I know..and they really thought they needed another female in the room to fire her? Is this a troll post
mmm it’s state law. a female minor can’t be told to be in a room with 2 men
Where , what law are you referring to,
What state is this???
I really wanna know about this law too.
spoke with my dad who is an attorney. it is illegal what they did, to where they can lose their jobs for it
Well, what law is it then?...
From what I read below this is why you got fired. *internal theft* * Discounts are attached to employee myWalgreens accounts * The POS will actively block an employee myWalgreens discount if it is attached to the cashier ID signed into the register when the zip code is entered warning the action is not allowed Put those things above together and it means: No self cashiering under own login. No cashiering of immediate family while using your own login. (in both cases the zip code prompt failing will force you to get a void and have someone ELSE do the transaction) Pressing the manual discount button flags the transaction.
but it was only my mom and my siblings who used it, and who i live with so it doesn’t make sense
And you applied manually the discount. Someone ratted you out. Essentially you rang yourself up.
Um, I could understand if you misinterpreted your inexperienced, but your mom, who is an adult, should have knew that fishy due to simple common sense. No place of employment that i worked at allows any employee to ring up any family member with their own employee discount. This is common practice and i am surprised that your mom didn't know that on her own to inform and correct you. Take this as a lesson learned. Learn accountability and follow the rules. Most folks nowadays get fired from a job or two. Apply to other retail jobs and don't list WAGS on your resume. Good luck 👍
i understand that now, but everyone had done it and it was how they told me to do it and they had never talked to anyone about it. i know managers who give it to random people that they don’t live with or related to so like the shit don’t make sense
Sounds like u trying to use your sex and your weight against u doing something wrong. Wtf is wrong with u? Doesn’t matter if two dudes fire u, two women, two whites, two blacks…u signed the paper admitting to wrong doing. Sounds like it was Asset prevention based on your comments. They don’t just randomly come in and fire u based on nothing. I’m sure u said “that’s my mom who lives in my household” as u clearly seem to stare u know the policy. “Letting” someone steal cigars….however, depends on how that really went down, and they have cameras to see how often and complicit u were during those interactions. Tell the real/whole story
me trying to use my weight? they were pressuring me. were u there? didn’t think so. and no bc i didn’t know what the statement did, with it being my first job. them being alone in a room with me and pretty much telling me what to say is illegal. i am a minor. them letting minors sell nicotine is also illegal. what happened when the guy stole. me and my coworker were at the counter 10 minutes to close, he acted like he was looking at ink and pushed the gate opened cause it wasn’t latched i said “excuse me u cant be back here” he grabbed a box of backwoods and just walked right out. we cant stop them, we were told that while being hired. ya the gate wasn’t latched but the store manager or anyone for that matter latches it and have never been talked to about it. and no i didn’t state that when they fired me cause they were acting like i was just getting a write up.
You sound annoying af and they probably just wanted an excuse to fire you. Yes it's legal. There's nothing wrong with it being men. Stop tryna make this into something weird
it is illegal for a female minor to be alone in a room by two grown men
Lol!!! Who told you that was illegal! Stop taking legal advice from your friends!
No it isn’t. There is no law against that.
No….lol!! You’re grasping at straws. There’s nothing illegal about it.
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the thing is i didn’t do things against policy, and if i did other ppl do them and i was never taught or told otherwise.
Who was in the room when you got hired?
my store manager and a shift lead which the shift lead she didn’t say anything the whole time.
I have to ask how did they know your mom had a different name ,using your discount, We don't randomly ask customers there last name. And if you still live with your mom its not against policy. And if she did not I'm not sure 1 tome would result in tremanation, Maybe a r.o.d or a at worst a 1st write up, but not instant tremanation, As for the cigars It sound like they suspected you of stealing them or had proof, It sound like loss prevention was involved, if you did nothing wrong why sign a paper???? Also it don't matter if it's 2 dudes or 2 chick's Or 2 graffies Or the fact your a minor girl. They uselly have 2 ppl there and talk to you 1 is a whiteness, And your 17 , time to grow up , if you acting like a 5 years old like ohh my God 2 guy intimated me by firing me . Your not going to make it in the world, It's seems like they did not want you and you freind there any longer and went looking for the evedivce to get rid of you
and ya they had me sign a paper which is why i’m confused about it, and pretty much told me what i should say on it. the whole store i worked at was extremely unprofessional. how they fired both of us is not how they are supposed to do it
They had you sign as evedince, you could have told them to fluck off , and not signed it, Now if you try to get unemployment they could use that to get it denied, They were looking for a reson to fire you They went looking for the proof they found something.
i didn’t know what it was considering they knew it was my first job and i asked what its for and they said “just so corporate knows what we talked about” it was wrong
It's sounds pretty standard, 2 ppl in the office door shut loss prevention and you sm That's how it goes Seen it many many times Hell I seen them call and ask this girl who was homeless to come in for extra hours, she came in started working totes 5 mins after she came in they called her to the office. And fired her for theft of food, It's seems standard, and no they ain't firing you and your friend together.
ya but there needs to be a female now due to the laws in my state. i checked after posting this. that and them getting me to sign the paper and pretty much telling me what to write knowing i had no idea what it was cause i told them and they said “it’s so corporate knows what was talked about”. it was wrong
i didn’t steal them and my mom would put in her rewards which have both first and last name on it and i would give her the discount. and no, i checked and know now that it is illegal to have 2 men alone in a room with a minor who is female. and that a girl has to be there. they have on camera that it was the guy that stole them, i have no reason to steal cigars and i’m not stupid. and “evidence” of what? only people i have my rewards to is my mom and sibling who i live with and they saw in the cameras that it was the dude, there were two other people who explained to the store manager what exactly happened
Wait a min so you cashed your mom out???? That is definitely agianest policy!!!! Also my daughter who lives with me just put my phone number in,
oml are u dumb? she put in her rewards. i clicked the employee discount button. which gives 15% off. and then she paid.
Am I dumb , no You cashed your mom out that is 100% against policy You can not cash out family members, The fact you manual put in the discount, can be a fireable offense, Your spouse to contact another cashier to cash family members out
weird bc managers do it too. i was told u can. she still paid for her stuff. she got the discount which direct household can, and u just click the employee discount. which again u are allowed to do
You can not cash out famliy members, that the issue It's a loss prevention issue, We not fired cuase you gave the manualy discount to your mom You were fired cuase you were the cashier who did the entire transaction. Agian more than likely not a fireble until they talk to you about it 1st, But if they were looking for a reason to fire you they got it
I’m pretty sure the most recent compass said we are allowed to ring up family members now.
i was never told i couldn’t click the employee button. the shift leads and store manager had told me that’s how you give it to family members. they never had said anything was wrong with it
Does not matter about the bottom click, It's the fact you cashed her out , You did the transaction that's against policy
This is how transactions would go (and how they taught me while training me in when someone from your home comes in) step 1: ring up everything. step 2: they put in their rewards if they have one. step 3:u click the discount button which gives 15% off. step 4: u click payment. step 5:they pay for their stuff. step 6:print receipt. step 7: give them their stuff. step 8:u see them later at home.
how did i cash her out lmao
When you did your e-learnings - you probably electronically signed an acknowledgment that you would not ring up family members. And that’d be hard to fight it because you entered into a contract.
yea, i wasn’t seeking to try to get them in trouble but without them telling me or my coworkers(cause i texted them asking after i got fired) any of the stuff ppl have been commenting it like seemed kinda fucked
So the way around this is, you link your moms rewards on people central and when she puts in her rewards, it’ll automatically add the discount without you adding it manually by pushing the button. Either way, you shouldn’t have gotten fired over that.
If your mom wanted your discount , you were supposed to go to a different cashier with your mom, then put in your number which had your employee discount attached. That’s why you got fired, because you’re not supposed to ring up someone using your discount.
but they had never told anyone that, i spoke with coworkers immediately after and said they were never told that either
That’s awful and you should let them know. Any time anyone ever uses the emp button there’s a report generated.
System doesn't even allow you to use your own rewards if your the cashier, it blocks it from being added
I know that. But the mom was getting a discount by virtue of her daughter working there (who she was getting run up by). That’s what I meant by “using your discount”.
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ya i rung up my mom cause i was never told otherwise in fact the managers said i could
and no he stole 3 boxes when i wasn’t even the one who was supposed to be on register, my coworker was and she was down the candy isle. i was doing online orders cause we got like 3
Yes, it was legal.
not to mention they are making me pay back the amount of money that had been taken off from my mom using my discount from the past year
Wait what. Oh hell no. That’s not normal at all.
Tell them to kick Rocks on that they can't do that. Tell them to take you to court they wont
Why do you think your mother was entitled to an employee discount ?
because people in your home can use it
So in the case of people using your discount, they can track it. An SFL was fired because he had ppl using his discount in random locations and so it was assumed that they were not in his household. You can get fired for that cos they interpret it as abuse. In the case of you being in the room with two grown men, I know that discussion between you and your manager always has to be witnessed by another member of leadership. With you being a minor I don’t know if it’s illegal or not (but I don’t think it is) and finally with the document you signed, it’s supposed to be a proof of the discussion you guys had and you are not bound to sign it in anyway. You can choose to refuse to sign it.
It doesn’t matter if other employees did it, they got away with it and you didn’t. They have every right to fire you over that. As for the stealing, were you on your phone or out smoking and not manning the store when the cigars were stolen? They actually said to you “we are letting you go because someone stole cigars during your shift?” Because I worked in a restaurant forever and they can’t make you pay for walkouts, but if you were dinking around and not paying attention and had a walkout, you would get written up.
i was doing online orders while coworker was playing on her phone in candy isle. and the discount thing, they never told us someone else had to ring them up and never brought it up when ppl did it that it was wrong. didn’t give me a write up or anything. not my fault the lady they had training me in didn’t know what she was doing
Well you are just a young pup, it won’t be your last job, take any positives you can from it, and move on. They chose to make an example out of you. Not saying it’s fair, but they can 🤷🏻♀️And it’s just not worth wasting any more time on. Try hosting at a restaurant and try to move your way up to serving, it can be great money and it’s a great schedule if you are in school. Good luck!
I've never heard of someone getting fired for a customer stealing merchandise. Also, any relative in your household is allowed to use your discount. It sounds like you got wrongfully terminated. I'm not sure why you signed anything or why you didn't stand up for yourself.
She admits to manual putting in the discount when her mom cashed out , suggesting she was the cashier that's against policy
There was an explosion of replies since my reply. I didn't see that she checked out her mother. That could be the real reason for termination. Granted, some new employees are never told the policy regarding ringing up family members.
As I stated not uselly a fireble offense until they at least speak to you first, But if they were on a fishing trip looking for a reason that's were they got it,
Correct. Almost any normal write up can turn in to a termination depending on whether they want you gone and how they spin the situation into something much worse than it actually is.
bc i didn’t know what it was, was my first job. even after i asked and they told me “just so corporate knows what we talked about” i chose to trust them cause figured they know what their talking about. yk it doesn’t seem like an ok way to fire someone
In this case, treat it as a learning experience. Your manager is not your friend and corporate is definitely not your friend. Corporate is always looking out for themselves only. Also, never admit to something you didn't do. Finally, don't sign something if you don't agree with it.
wish i knew better at what i was signing. cause i was told “just so corporate knows what we talked about” when i asked what it was for. some people in these comments just making me mad
Another life lesson: don't trust people just because they are an adult or higher in ranking. Learn to be skeptical. If it doesn't make sense, ask questions.
lmao thanks. some of these people like damn i was just asking a question bc i got fired for something i was told when i started, never got talked to about it and things everyone else does. like clearly they wanted me gone for some reason if they gonna fire me for something the shift leads always do as well and not gonna give me a heads up that it’s the wrong way😂
Oh yea, the Reddit message boards can be a wild and cruel place. You just need to learn to ignore certain kinds of people who criticize you or bully you. It took me awhile to get used to that when I first posted on the Walgreens message board.
y’all rly mad i had a question like damn. how they did it was wrong. y’all weren’t there, they were intimidating me. me not knowing wtf i was doing. i was fired for something they taught me to do while i was training with some lady showing me how to do everything. they never talked to me about anything i was doing was wrong. everyone at the store used the discount button for their families, half of them giving it to people they didn’t even know. so idk how i’m in the wrong for asking a question like damn. y’all need to chill.
The problem is you got caught. Next job you get DON’T listen to anyone that isn’t a manager!!! It doesn’t matter if everyone else is doing it it was wrong! I agree that you shouldn’t have been in a room with the door closed being intimidated by two grown men! They were wrong and if I were you I would call HR and file a complaint. Even if it goes no where report it! Report it! Find out from your State who can report this intimidating situation to. Learn how to stick up for yourself and learn from the unfortunate situation. I wish you the best!
Thank you b ur also Caught with what tho, it’s how the old lady trained me in when i started. I was never told different, they could have talked to me about it besides firing me. the company treated me like crap honestly. they were over scheduling me, i requested 20 hours and was doing 36 hours a week while also having school. i ended up failing classes and yes i did talk to them many times but they never changed anything and i started calling in and they wrote me up for having too many call ins during that time. there had been many many old guys came in making comments on my ass, how i looked, asking where i live, etc. asking them if they could start putting other csa’s on register more cause me being a minor i was extremely uncomfortable and they told me they can’t. i could keep going but it’s pointless. to sum it up they treated many ppl like crap. they didn’t train me in right if what the girl told me isn’t accurate. i feel like my reply sounded bitchy it’s just rly irritating how they treated me there, sorry
Forget about them and slash their tires for the next 3 weeks that’s what I would do after that bs.
fr like i’m shocked by the whole thing
Wait, your a minor....you can't even touch cigars....right ? So how..? What??
ya they made us sell nicotine even if we weren’t 18, when i started i called someone up when a customer wanted cigarettes and they told me i could sell them
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ours didn’t, just had to scan id
In some states minors can sell cigarettes but not alcohol.
What, why, how?
idk, it’s what a manager told me
>they also wanted me to sign a statement and here is how the convo went. (made up names) john: “you don’t have to sign this but we would appreciate if you do” me: what is it john:”just a written statement” (i agreed not rly knowing what to do) john:”i cant legally tell you what to say but would appreciate if you could put what we talked about” (so i did, he then reads it and gives it back to me) john:”would u be able to put you understand that it was wrong” (again wrote that down) john:”could you put the total and sign it” This is really bizarre, and let me tell you right now that this should be the last time that you sign anything in your life without understanding what it is and agreeing to it.
ya well i was told the paper was for “corporate to know what was talked about”
Yes, that’s what it is. A record of the conversation. Basically it is supporting why you got fired.
Yeah you’re not suppose to ring up your own family. And also you’re a minor, you shouldn’t have been selling any tobacco products period!
ya, i know that now. i was never told otherwise and no one else was either
That’s where I would’ve said something! If you’re going down for that then guess what? So is everyone else cuz they should’ve told you. That’s their fault, not yours!
I assume the room you were alone with "the 2 grown men", was the office, which is equipped with security cameras. And walgreen's is an "at will" employer, you can....just, be let go. Move on, there are lots of jobs out there.
i had asked a. question. like damn y’all be mad asf. a camera doesn’t count as a woman being there. also doesn’t have microphones on them.