I was a store floor supervisor at Ross in Texas. I was given a notice on the same day (no prior write ups) after a customer called the police on a shoplifter I had asked to put our merchandise back.
I was brought to the office and given papers saying I quit and the manager said if I didn't sign them they would make me quit in the next few days. She showed me a video of me closing the night before and said I left money unattended but I did not. I was given an option of signing my 2 week notice and she told me to just put down that I was going back to Al. I said fine I am not guilty but do not stay where I am not wanted so I signed and she told me to get up and walked me to the door and took my keys and that was it. No 2 weeks to work or find a job!
I witnessed the shop lifter cutting metal tags for detection off with clippers and after he dropped them I picked them up and told him if he put the merchandise back he could avoid getting in trouble. Ross has a policy of NOT apprehending shop lifters at all but I could not let him do this without saying something. Everyone around saw it, customers were even yelling at him.
He took off and the customer dialed 911 and they caught them with lots of merchandise in their car from our store and lots of others. We got the merchandise back and it was over 500.00 I saved them but everyone told me to expect to loose my job over it. I was muscled into quitting a few days later!
