This is common practice. Pizza Hut manager was skimming from the cash register. The waited several months before having the police come in and charge him for over $1000 in theft.

NAL This makes them (the store) intelligible to try and recoup costs in civil court due to the responsibility of the plaintiff to minimize damages.

I understand the option to prosecute the guy but what isn't talked about is if Meijer tried to work with him and gave him second/third/etc chance by saying "hey, we saw. Let's figure out what's happening"

I literally worked with a manager in grocery who did this with people and got mixed results but he still tried. 3 people turned around out of a dozen or so who eventually quit. There was one guy, I'll call him Ryan, who would eat yogurt and huff whip cream gas whenever he got the chance. After 6 months of hell he was finally hauled off after being found passed out in the dairy case. Probably from the whipped cream.

I was a bagger and so was Ryan. I had to work twice as much for those 6 months because he was so bad as an employee.

Lemmy doesn't see the second chances. They only get the end result. And folks sure are excited to shit on someone when they are swayed by clearly biased writing. I don't like corporations as much as y'all but the company didn't make the guy steal. It wasn't entrapment. They solved a problem. What steps did they take before the police? No idea. But the article also manipulated folks into thinking he was special needs when it was just a guess by the author. It's fucking lunacy that someone can ask a question about any missing details not provided by the article and have so many down votes based on believing the propaganda.

Yeah. I guess I am an idiot. I thought the store manager or one of the key holders was delaying any punishment because they were trying to give the guy a second chance or some kind of opportunity to avoid repeat offending. Second chances look a lot like this.

But yeah, I'm an idiot for being hopeful someone should act immediately and just fire him.

He shouldn’t have gotten in trouble, he should have been spoken to and supported.

The kid was hungry not stealing millions.

The article author self diagnosed the guy as special needs - it was an unsupported guess about the guy without evidence. Just looking at him and expecting a stereotype. I'm not here to assume and am taking the article details as provided.

Profiling based on appearance is wrong. All the details from the article are that the guy was stealing and then corporations are bad for not letting him go.

Yeah, I'm a shill. Just like all the other shills who come in seeking clarification. Nice way to dog pile. Hope you get the comfort from the group that you clearly need.

Or the second, or the third.

I mean it'd be a pattern after a week. No indication the kid was stopping.

Nah, any person who wasn't specifically seeking an arrest would've intervened, firing him, writing him up, literally anything, before resorting to calling the police.

They're shit people.

I worked in grocery and had a manager who actually hired at-risk and untrustworthy people because he believed in second chances. I saw 3 people get caught red handed and then coached back to being reliable and professional this way. Actual humanity means taking time with people - which I thought might be happening here. But nope, fuck me for asking questions.

I was hopeful that folks were kind. I didn't even need to read the article to see how unkind people are to others. These comments are enough to kill hope.