{"id":294,"date":"2015-02-07T06:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=294"},"modified":"2015-02-07T06:50:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:50:57","slug":"walmart-manager-fired-after-stepping-over-10-ft-out-of-his-store-to-catch-shoplifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Walmart manager fired after stepping over 10 ft out of his store to catch shoplifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikecooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/shoplifting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry but have to side with Walmart on this one. \u00a0My company has the same policy. \u00a0 The life of an employee (yes, even one that works at Walmart) is worth more than the possible recovery from any shoplifter. \u00a0In my career I&#8217;ve had one guy sent to the hospital after being hit in the head with a bottle of vodka he was trying to recover and another who had a knife pulled on him after chasing a thief several blocks into Leisure World. (You know who you are, George.) \u00a0 I myself almost had my arm broken trying to stop a kid stealing sunglasses. \u00a0 \u00a0Company has a policy, guy knew it, guy broke it. \u00a0 He deserved to get fired.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full story. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2941781\/A-step-line-Walmart-manager-s-rage-fired-stepping-10ft-store-catch-shoplifter.html#ixzz3QzZlPuii\" target=\"_blank\">He got punched in the face too.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry but have to side with Walmart on this one. \u00a0My company has the same policy. \u00a0 The life of an employee (yes, even one that works at Walmart) is worth more than the possible recovery from any shoplifter. \u00a0In my career I&#8217;ve had one guy sent to the hospital after being hit in the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=294\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thieves-and-scammers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}