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Tesco cleaner suspended over 20p
BillieTheBot
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Story.
A cleaner at a Tesco store in Manchester has been suspended without pay over Christmas because he picked a 20p coin up off a till when he was cleaning it. The evil mastermind thief then went and put it in a charity box.
Disgraceful. I think he should be jailed :rolleyes:
Seriously, though, the manager who decided to do that should be instantly dismissed for gross stupidity. It's not as if Tesco (annual profit £9bn) are going to miss it.
A cleaner at a Tesco store in Manchester has been suspended without pay over Christmas because he picked a 20p coin up off a till when he was cleaning it. The evil mastermind thief then went and put it in a charity box.
Disgraceful. I think he should be jailed :rolleyes:
Seriously, though, the manager who decided to do that should be instantly dismissed for gross stupidity. It's not as if Tesco (annual profit £9bn) are going to miss it.
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WTF???
maybe the manager had gone mad with power!
Always trying to outdo Tesco... Asda sacked somebody over 2p.
Meanwhile Waitrose sacked someone over six grapes... (The bitch responsible is now a manager at the store I used to work at and worked at over Xmas).
Whilst the major supermarkets are making billions their staff are suffering. And it's no surprise that supermarkets which will happily sack somebody over a few pence generally treat their staff like shit.
And given the uselessness of USDAW, the main union supermarket workers belong to it's hardly surprising that the big supermarkets get away with what they do... Tesco scrapped sick pay for the first three days - with USDAW's support!! Incredible.
Well I know I wouldn't. But I'm not sure if it will happen anyway, USDAW don't have any teeth - although I think the GMB represent some supermarket workers too.
And a lot of supermarket workers are on low incomes and can't really afford to strike... I'd guess Eastern European workers and student part timers are less likely to strike too...
But yeah, people would complain at not being able to get their orange juice, bacon and eggs... but tough luck. Supermarkets are open ridiculous hours almost every day of the year; all in all tbh retail is shit, it's hard work and poor pay... Maybe if shop workers (who hardly ever strike) did follow the example of pilots, train drivers, cabin crew, etc in occasionally standing up for themselves they wouldn't get such a raw deal.
But yeah, that does seem mad.
Honestly, some people....
Oh, I thought he was seen on camera putting the money in the box. Still, he could have just put 20p of his own back into the till, (the cleaner I mean). Sacking somebody over something so trivial is just stupid.
That would be my guess as well...
Well it's not an acceptable excuse, no reasonable person can surely think this is grounds for dismissal. And equally the manager could be just being a twat - it seems pretty unfair to make assumptions about this man's character when the facts aren't known.
And anyway what an absurd logic; if the bloke deserves to lose his job this stunt is hardly a sensible move - it's going to inspire sympathy for him and disgust for management...
It's Tesco's job, so they have every right to hire and fire whomever they want.
Haven't you ever heard of worker's rights?
Would you not be pissed off if this happened to you?
Provided you're old enough to work/have worked.
No, they don't. There is such a thing as Employment Law. Employers don't have an absolute right to hire and fire on a whim.
So me and the missus put this to a manager, who just nodded and said; 'I'm not prepared to comment on store policy'. So we said we weren't prepared to shop there and fucked off. Told a couple of others who did the same thing.
Two weeks later, we heard that the policy had been changed. Dunno if it was us that did it, but I'd encourage anyone to support staff in this way if they feel able.
That's not really fair. He picked up 20p that didn't seem to belong to anybody and put it in the charity box. Its not like he robbed the till takings.
Good plan that man.
Altough we don't need rationing, as the freemarket lets us import cheap foreign meat.
Mmm, meat.