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I'm friends with one of our store owners. We have some similar experiences, family issues, and stories and I love her store, so I stop-in a lot during my shifts. One day she was mentioning how her back was acting-up (that on top of several health issues she is battling). She explained it was from an accident at a previous job. Boy! I did not know what an understatement that was!
About 10-years ago she worked at a grocery store. There was a hired cleaning company that came in to do the floors and such. She was standing on a stepladder in an isle hanging signs with a coworker. She had her back to the end of the isle, and so didn't see the guy on the ride-on floor machine come barreling down the isle. The guy never stopped, slowed, sounded the horn or called-out that he was coming by. The only warning she got was the look in her coworkers face right before the floor machine hit her ladder and sent her to the floor. Then the idiot on the machine stopped and backed-up when her coworker screamed, thus running over her back. A Manager nearby witnessed the whole thing and questioned the cleaner.
His excuse was that "When I am coming a woman had better get out of the way! I do not stop for anybody!" Apparently, he was also a (known) illegal immigrant and REALLY seemed to hate women in particular.
While she was in the hospital my friend learned that the cleaner was taken off the job for a couple days, and then was right back at work! The next week, he hit ANOTHER female employee with the same machine, breaking her arm. The week after that, he hit a THIRD female employee and broke her collarbone. Since the company refused to fire the guy, the store management told them he was not allowed to clean their store anymore.
When it came time for all of these incidents to go to a criminal trial, the cleaning company had let the employee (who was on parole with bail), go, and the employee had skipped the country; never to be brought to justice for his unprovoked attacks, nor to make restitution. The victims had to go after the cleaning company that employed this man and won a paltry sum for their trouble; certainly not enough for my friend to be able to pay for the medical problems she now suffers as a result of it.
It's one thing to read about stories like this; another to know someone who experienced such from such a horrible, sucky person!
About 10-years ago she worked at a grocery store. There was a hired cleaning company that came in to do the floors and such. She was standing on a stepladder in an isle hanging signs with a coworker. She had her back to the end of the isle, and so didn't see the guy on the ride-on floor machine come barreling down the isle. The guy never stopped, slowed, sounded the horn or called-out that he was coming by. The only warning she got was the look in her coworkers face right before the floor machine hit her ladder and sent her to the floor. Then the idiot on the machine stopped and backed-up when her coworker screamed, thus running over her back. A Manager nearby witnessed the whole thing and questioned the cleaner.
His excuse was that "When I am coming a woman had better get out of the way! I do not stop for anybody!" Apparently, he was also a (known) illegal immigrant and REALLY seemed to hate women in particular.
While she was in the hospital my friend learned that the cleaner was taken off the job for a couple days, and then was right back at work! The next week, he hit ANOTHER female employee with the same machine, breaking her arm. The week after that, he hit a THIRD female employee and broke her collarbone. Since the company refused to fire the guy, the store management told them he was not allowed to clean their store anymore.
When it came time for all of these incidents to go to a criminal trial, the cleaning company had let the employee (who was on parole with bail), go, and the employee had skipped the country; never to be brought to justice for his unprovoked attacks, nor to make restitution. The victims had to go after the cleaning company that employed this man and won a paltry sum for their trouble; certainly not enough for my friend to be able to pay for the medical problems she now suffers as a result of it.
It's one thing to read about stories like this; another to know someone who experienced such from such a horrible, sucky person!
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