In California, stealing is not only unprosecuted by George Soros-backed district attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but store managers who try to thwart the rampant theft you see daily here are also now being punished by their corporate behemoths.
A manager at a Big Lots store said she and her colleague were both canned for going after a shopping cart an alleged shoplifter had taken and filled with 17 jugs of stolen Tide pods.
Here is what Lily Oxford, the fired manager, said to NBC station KGET. “For Christmas, we had just got 40 brand new carts,” said Oxford, who managed the store’s furniture department. “It’s March, we’re down to five carts. So, we are instructed no carts are to leave that store whatsoever. No matter… customers are not allowed to take it.”
Oxford and her cohort went after the shoplifter to get the cart back. The driver of the car apparently felt stupid and embarrassed for the theft, and according to Oxford, said, ‘Here, ma’am, take it all, take it all. I’m thinking, ‘Oh great, I’m getting all my stuff back.’”
The crowd that saw this happen is used to seeing theft regularly, so they cheered when they saw the manager do something about it. Here’s more from Oxford. “I had people, at least three different people out here, applauding me, because it happens so much. So many customers see it happen on a daily basis. At least four to five times a day, this happens, whether they go out the front door or whether they go out the back door.”
So, after all this, Oxford said she and her coworker were fired by Big Lots, even though the store got the cart and the merchandise back.
If you are wondering what sort of alternate universe we live in, here is what a risk management consultant told KGET TV.
“Some of these employees, they know what’s right and what’s wrong, and they feel, ‘Hey, this is wrong.’ And they think it’s almost their duty to step up and not let this kind of crap happen. However, from the employers’ standpoint, flat out they do not want this employee injured, God forbid killed.… The financial aspect of a person, a guard, a cashier, being injured can really, really get into the high dollar.”
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