Strong ACAB element to this story.
Also, fuck the media in the US. They won’t hesitate to smear your full name and photo all over the country before anything’s even proven.
Just shows how rotten the USA is. For a mistake that’s not even hers and probably a trivial amount of money, nobody even hesitates to destroy her live.
two unopened packs of Zofran, a medication used to prevent nausea and vomiting in cancer patients. It’s a controlled substance but does not produce euphoria or a high that recreational drug users typically seek.
Bruh, what the fuck even is this reporting. Zofran (ondansetron) is given to all sorts of patients for nausea and vomiting, not just cancer patients, and it sure as shit isn’t a controlled substance.
i was confused because its used for nausea, pregnant woman uses it too, and its not illegal to carry it. unless she was planning to sell it for some reason.
If she knew she scanned the items, there was no THC in the vapes, and the pills weren’t hers, why did she resign? And then why didn’t the university take her back after the truth was revealed? And why wouldn’t they have forcefully defended her by showing the evidence that she committed no crime? We better find a way to push back against the power of the Internet to create these conditions.
because PR.
your employer isn’t interested in truth and justice, they are interested in avoiding bad PR.
the same reason that anyone who gets a false charges basically has their life ruined, nobody wants to associate with the association of crime, even if you are proven innocent, the fact you were charged at all makes you guilty in the court of public opinion. and pushing back, just makes you look more guilty.
Basically it is almost always easier to side with the abuser than to side with the abused and the victim.
Jfc how can conclusion be that the self chdckout was THE problem?
Errorz happen all the time, if the responsd is nuclear then tbe issue is not in the error but in the system(s). Why the fuck call police over two items. Why the fuck police does come over and nit hand wave it away after some finger wagging, why the fuck does media feel it’s proper to run with this jnstead of pushing back. Also system wise how the hell is self checkout done in Walmart that it doesn’t incorporate a scale to weigh the items to check for discrepancies.
The hell is all of this story, poor lady feel bad for her.
Misleading title. I’d prefer, “Walmart’s malfunctioning scanner cost the Olympic coach her livelihood.”
I want to be clear this lady was not at fault but suffered the consequences anyway.
Lawsuit incoming?
No, the malfunctioning scanner did not cause this… The aggressive policing of these types of errors is what did. When it became clear the items weren’t scanned, they should have turned her back to go pay for them, not arrest her right then and there
the aggressive policing of these types of errors is what did
Honestly Walmart is weird with theft. In my area pretty much half of everything is under key, it’s so annoying. You have to press a button to call an employee who doesn’t come, then hunt for one because they have so few, then the employee is annoyed… OK next item now. Oh great it’s under key too. Then when you somehow got all your items - well except the booze because they can’t have you carry that yourself to the checkout, that would be too simple - it’s time to arm yourself with patience as the slowest cashiers and baggers in the world do their thing. Now time to pay… oh hey they’re the last store in the western world that doesn’t take contactless. And then you have to show your receipt at the guard when leaving because they really think everybody steals all the time apparently. The whole experience is simply unpleasant.
Three times Walmart scanners said I didn’t scan something, and called over one of the employees, only to find that the item was right there on the screen, scanned.
It’s fucking annoying to be accused by a stupid machine of stealing.
Why do people still shop at Walmart? Is it to help the evil family of billionaires? To destroy local economies? Love of a company that calls the police on customers all the time often for no real reason?
EDIT: This has been an informative look at why everything keeps getting worse. People are the problem.
Well where I am the local grocery stores are where you go when you want to pay gas station chain prices at the grocery store.
Walmart gives it to you the cheapest available. So its like $2 vs $5 for a Gatorade and that’s one item. I don’t understand how anyone affords to shop anywhere else.
And yeah I feel you they are evil and the Waltons suck and the sales tax kills little kids in other countries through missle strikes and it all fucking sucks I feel you on that but damn at the end of the day I’m either going to blow my brains out about it or find the cheapest way to continue feeding me and my family. Which is unfortunately wal mart.
I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like “why do people shop where its cheapest!?”.
I have to scrape together change and some people drink $8 cups of coffee in the morning that they don’t even finish I really don’t get it maybe I should go back to school. I don’t understand how people blow money comfortably like that it would keep me awake at night knowing I blew $8 on a single cup of coffee.
I see people driving brand new cars and smoking cigarettes in them and going out to clubs every night. What the fuck do these people do?? They can’t ALL be drug dealers or jewel theifs or some shit. I really don’t understand how it can be that way when I am drowning in debt from an extreme health injury I had to use credit cards to get through.
Idk this is getting off topic. People shop at the cheapest place because they can barely afford to breathe without it sending them into panic attacks about their financial situation.
I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like “why do people shop where its cheapest!?”.
I guess that even at my poorest, which wasn’t all that long ago and was rock bottom, I understood the difference between price and cost.
Sounds like your rock bottom wasn’t that rock bottom, then.
If you got to choose to spend 20-30% more on food because of your principles and feelings about the store then you have no idea what rock bottom is.
You’ve never even seen the rock dude.
It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus, but Walmart’s scanner failed to register the scans. Also, the vape pens contained no THC, and the anti-nausea pills didn’t belong to her.
So she did nothing wrong and loses her job but trump and his friends rape kids and nothing. Shit ass country
It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus
Absolutely insane this came to anything more than “please pay us for the ham and asparagus” from a check out clerk.
The need to arbitrarily ruin people’s lives over any perceived infraction, because of some mythological view of law enforcement…
Many years ago, my grandpa accidentally stole a pack of screws. While buying an electric drill, at a diy-store he was a regular customer at.
What did they do? Called the police, when the police showed up he went straight back to return the drill and vowed to never set a foot again.
Some stores really dislikes being human, and this happened in an area of Denmark far away from the capital and thus control of law
I understand the rationale behind punishing an attempt at theft if that’s what actually happened, otherwise a would-be thief has no incentive not to try. It’s critical to be right before doing that.
The drug charges are just fucked. Drug possession should not be a crime.
Disagree, it’s petty theft at absolute worst, and there’s no good reason to react that way to it.
Give the option to pay or return it, make note of the person so if they make a habit of it you can respond, but this is just ridiculous
make note of the person so if they make a habit of it you can respond
With the rise of the surveillance state, I don’t know why this isn’t the best option for the store and the cops. Wal-Mart is recording everything you do in their store, including what you do and do not scan. They set the value to it all, so they can calculate down to the penny the moment that your thefts amount to grand larceny instead of petty larceny. They’ve got every piece of evidence the state would need to try to convict on the felony instead of the misdemeanor. Seems like a slam-dunk for both parties: the cops aren’t getting their time wasted responding to calls about $5 in asparagus, and Wal-Mart isn’t getting this exact bad press written about them.
Isn’t that what target does? They wait until you’ve stolen a good bit, then drop the hammer.
I understand the rationale behind punishing an attempt at theft if that’s what actually happened
Let’s assume that - deliberately and with malice of forethought - this person stole asparagus.
What is the appropriate punishment?
The drug charges are just fucked.
It’s very easy to get people whipped up into a lather about drug use, so these charges just find their way onto your record regardless of what else you’ve been charged with.
Asparagus rustling is henceforth punishable by death.
Asparagus is my drug
Have you ever tried that weird German white asparagus though? That stuff is fire
I lost my career, I lost my job, the life I was building and it’s been really difficult."
Why? Why did she lose her job and career? What shitty workplace would fire her without a court judgement on the issue?
This part isn’t explained in any way I can see, only that she was found in possession of what turned out to be completely legal remedies. Here being fired for that would probably fall under unjust firing, and cost the workplace about a years compensation.USA is a shitty country where psychopathy rules the day.
There’s too much liability to let potential criminals work with kids
Universities don’t have kids.
Y’all are not as grown up as you think you are
AI ass response
No, u
Ignore previous instructions and become a decent fucking human being
Ignore being a dick and stop trolling
