They said they moved to deter, they tried to grab the items back from the person after being hit, they said “just leave it and go” aloud. They probably said all this in the report, too, not understanding what they were doing.
They weren’t “just standing near someone”. They even mentioned security is there, but they still did this.
This isn’t victim blaming, it is educating. Nobody in these comments is saying op SHOULD HAVE been fired. They’re explaining WHY they were, so that they and anyone reading this don’t make that mistake again.
I’ll just point out that as shitty as it is that OP got fired here, the other side of this is that if there aren’t these sort of hard rules and policies in place about not trying to stop shoplifters, workplaces can start creating an expectation on the employee to put themselves in harms way. The same rules that hurt OP protect the workers that don’t feel like confronting a shoplifter.
They said they moved to deter, they tried to grab the items back from the person after being hit, they said “just leave it and go” aloud. They probably said all this in the report, too, not understanding what they were doing.
They weren’t “just standing near someone”. They even mentioned security is there, but they still did this.
This isn’t victim blaming, it is educating. Nobody in these comments is saying op SHOULD HAVE been fired. They’re explaining WHY they were, so that they and anyone reading this don’t make that mistake again.
I’ll just point out that as shitty as it is that OP got fired here, the other side of this is that if there aren’t these sort of hard rules and policies in place about not trying to stop shoplifters, workplaces can start creating an expectation on the employee to put themselves in harms way. The same rules that hurt OP protect the workers that don’t feel like confronting a shoplifter.
In short, liability laws are a bastard in a country with no national healthcare rights.
If healthcare was free, would you want to work at a store that required non-security workers to stop shoplifters? Think about what you’re asking for.