'I got fired and cost the store approximately $30,000': Retail employee refuses to work two jobs at once, boss doesn't realize they quit

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    Dansk Ribeye 425,- Pr. kg. Clea Meat Ma
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    I got fired, and cost the store approximately $30,000.00
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    I was working a 2nd job at our local small grocery and butcher shop, few nights a week to pay for my kids activities. I was hired as a cashier.
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    The person that did the end of day butcher shop clean- up/sanitizing quit. So instead of hiring someone for clean up, the owners decided that the cashiers could just do it between customers.
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    The owner sat at thier office ( watching tv and around) and when a customer came in ( door bell would ring), they would buzz the phone in the butcher area for the cashier to come check them out. When I came in for my shift at 6pm and was told about the new set up, I told them NO. I was not hired to clean up the butcher area, I was hired to run the register and stock shelves.
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    The owner then said I would clean the butcher shop or I could consider myself fired and they walked away. I said Fine, I grabbed my things and left.
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    Apparently, the owner thought I had gave in and was in doing the cleaning. So they buzzed the butcher area when customers came in for about 2 hours before someone told them no one was coming to check them out. The stores liquior area, cigarettes and scratchers got emptied out.
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    It was 7:30 and I got a screaming phone call from the owner about how he was calling the police and I was going to get arrested. Yeah, right.
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    Owner did call the police, The owner stated he wanted me arrested as an accomplice to the thefts, because I had left. Cops asked me to come to the store, which I did, and I explained that the owner had fired me, so I went home and the CCTV would prove that fact. The tape was reviewed, and plain as day, the owner said I was fired.
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    I estimate they lost about $30.000.00.
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    rtdragon123 Thats some high level managing there. He tried to make you the fall guy for his mess up. Hey bossman pay attention to your workers.
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    Salisbury Witch Maybe he should have got off his and done things. Didn't he watch his own security cameras while the shop got cleaned out?
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    von... If it's any comfort to them, they probably would have got fined for having cashiers with no food handling certification clean up the butcher area in between waiting on customers. That can't be legal. The butcher area would end up far from sanitized with all the interruptions, and every bill
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    the cashiers gave out in change would carry salmonella and e. coli. ETA: some of you folks are scaring me. In Washington. and California, you need a food handler permit to handle food for the public. Not food that's wrapped up, food that you actually touch - and there are exceptions around baked goods, but if I go into that we'll be here all day. --
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    In Washington the cert costs $10, you get it online, it takes maybe half an hour to work through the course that basically says hot means hot, cold means cold, in-between is not OK, wash your hands, wear clean gloves. I think I'm going to bring my own food to other states.
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    baka-tari that's beautiful. You enabled an amazing amount of damage by simply walking away. Well done!
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    Inshpincter_Gadget Sounds like a lack of job security. You lost your job, they lost their security!

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