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Who Thinks This is Overkill?
15 years ago
OK, so the other day I was opening at Barnes and Noble. Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I am NOT at all a morning person. So while Im opening the cafe I decide to make myself my usual machiatto and drink it before we open. About an hour later my backup came and I paid for it. Little did i realize that someone in the back had been watching me make the drink and decided to call me to the back office around 2pm. The said that it was a serious breach of LP policy and that I was suspended until further notice.
Fast forward to today. I get called in knowing that Ill probably be marked down or have my hours cut. What I wasnt expecting to be told was that because of my"serious breach of store policy" that I was not only fired but was banned from ever going into the store again. All of this over a cup of coffee....really?
At starbucks we can have drinks in the back all we want and as long as its either marked out or paid for they could care less, but being completely BANNED from a store feels kinda like overkill to me. One thing is for sure, if they are that adamant about keeping me out then I will never EVER step foot in a Barnes and Noble again. Plus, I liked Borders better anyway :P
Fast forward to today. I get called in knowing that Ill probably be marked down or have my hours cut. What I wasnt expecting to be told was that because of my"serious breach of store policy" that I was not only fired but was banned from ever going into the store again. All of this over a cup of coffee....really?
At starbucks we can have drinks in the back all we want and as long as its either marked out or paid for they could care less, but being completely BANNED from a store feels kinda like overkill to me. One thing is for sure, if they are that adamant about keeping me out then I will never EVER step foot in a Barnes and Noble again. Plus, I liked Borders better anyway :P
Jaxa
~jaxa
They're a little craaazy~ Lol.
furryswag
~furryswag
WTF. Someone was seriously out to get you.
Colfax
~colfax
OP
the thing is, I got along well with everyone in the store, including the managers. Its the HR department that had final say in all this
furryswag
~furryswag
Oh well. Things happen
dune_buggy
~dunebuggy
Would have to agree, really sounds like someone didn't want you around anymore, especially just being over a cup of coffee
Colfax
~colfax
OP
*points to previous reply* I honestly dont believe anyone in the store really wanted to get rid of me, just their HR dpt is full of a bunch of hard nosed fucktards is all
Windthor
~windthor
The fuck.
WolfeMasters
~wolfemasters
Call corporate and talk to management. If you need their information, I can get it for you. As a GameStop employee, I can get the Barnes & Noble information easily enough. If you talk to the district and regional managers and tell them that you feel the firing manager was being unfair, you can easily get hired back in. BUT, since that would make it a hostile work environment, you can ask that something else be done about it. Whether or not you want to go back there, I would complain about this to the higher ups. And I mean complain a lot. Do not name call, do not insult anyone, just make it known that you are not happy with the results and if they wanted to fire you over something like this, you feel that suspending you first was inappropriate and you would have appreciated it if they did not play childish games with you. Drag this out for as long as you have to, in order to make the firing manager's life hell. I have complained before about being fired from a job and I got the firing manager fired and an in-person apology from someone very high up (I forget exactly how high up) on the corporate ladder.
Colfax
~colfax
OP
im not gonna waste my time appealing their decision honestly. I work for Starbucks still and plus Im moving in a month anyway so it wouldnt make sense to make trouble. As I said they will never see me in their stores again, which is a shame since I spend a ton on books :P
WolfeMasters
~wolfemasters
Well, if you are moving in a month anyway, who cares if they like you when you move? Personally, I would make them regret being stupid. But, I have nothing better to do with my time anyway.
Gaius_Deer
~gaiusbaltar
I too got suspended and eventually fired fomr complete bullshit reasons from my job, such as being suspended for 5 days for being 5 mintes late when arriving from downtown (an hour trip away) and recieving the suspention as 3 cashiers walk past, more than half an hour late.
Charn
~charn
Goingthrough stuff like that at my job too, all i can say is, it sucks you didnt keep your receipt and/or pull in the other cashier to confirm it was paid for, technically you didnt steal it at all.
onyxdragon
∞onyxdragon
I agree with the "make their life hell" bit... I just had to walk from my job because my boss literally made it impossible to do my job, and now she is refusing to pay me my last wages... kinda wish I could move out of my apartment and sue her for damages and shit >.< see, I don't care that I'm never working for her again...I just wanna fuck her world up... because what it amounts to is that we had to walk because she and her husband were fucking with us to keep the accountant from realizing they were skimming from the books... (which the accountant figured out like 2 months prior anyway and was just compiling evidence)
Colfax
~colfax
OP
well being just one guy, I dont feel like trying to make trouble with a multi-million dollar corporation. Its just sucky cause I wont be able to be around all my cool co-workers again :P
faruzah
~faruzah
Oh corporations, way to live up to the evil/retarded stereotype.
Colfax
~colfax
OP
and sadly....its a bookstore D: so just imagine how the REAL big evil corporations are to their employees
faruzah
~faruzah
I know right? Damn, I liked them too. But Jesus, over a cup of coffee?!? What the hell do they do if you actually steal a book? Rape your family?
Colfax
~colfax
OP
pretty much....I have seen it happen @_@
Jiraiyadude
~jiraiyadude
Total overkill if you ask me
