You may have read the story about the employee at Home Depot in Waterford being fired after trying to prevent someone from walking off with a wagon load of chainsaws. It certainly provoked some reaction from our callers on the Wakeup Club. He had helped prevent a shoplifter from getting away with a crime. For his efforts, he was terminated with no warning. Home Depot has a policy of not putting employees in the position of confronting potential shoplifters. The company does not want to be liable for anyone getting hurt. That may be understandable in the lawsuit-driven society we live in these days, but firing some well-meaning employee without so much as a warning strikes me as just a bit extreme. And they wonder why many workers don't feel a commitment to their jobs.
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