I Stopped A Kidnapping: Why Home Depot Had To Fire Me

He quickly spotted the abductor, whom he described as “obviously drunk, with a kid in his arms, saying something I couldn’t make out because his words were so slurred.” Dillon’s co-worker called the police. “They told us don’t touch him, don’t engage him, but keep an eye on him so we know where he is when [the police] show up.” And so Dillon followed the strange man, at one point just “five to ten feet away” (so he could get visual confirmation that the kid was uninjured). He kept the man in sight and kept the police informed, until a block and a half later they showed up on scene and rescued the kid.

Here’s where we note that this wasn’t technically a kidnapping in the usual sense: “The drunk man ended up actually being the child’s father, and after they separated and calmed everyone down … the woman never ended up actually pressing charges.” But from Dillon’s perspective, it sure as shit looked like a bad situation. And it sounds like he responded appropriately. He didn’t, like, try to dropkick the baby free of the captor or anything. He just followed the guy and kept the police informed.

So Home Depot, like many businesses, has a perfectly sensible policy: Employees aren’t supposed to step off the premises while on duty. It’s a safety thing. And Dillon had been trained not to chase after shoplifters or anything, “which is totally understandable. My well-being in life is more important than a product in a store.” Dillon’s training specified that in the event of a crime, he call the cops but stay on premises.

Most people would agree that a child actively being abducted by a stranger who seemed more liquor than man is a good reason to break protocol. In 76 percent of missing child homicide cases, the kid is killed within three hours of the abduction. So yeah, an abducted child probably necessitates a somewhat different response than, say, a lawnmower-jacking. But holy nuts, try telling that to Home Depot. Once he got back, Dillon says the manager on duty chastised him. Two weeks later, he met with an HR representative, and two weeks after that, he was fired.

They set things up to get Dillon his final paycheck, had him sign a piece of paper that said he understood his ass was Home-Depot-brand grass, and then it was all over. Dillon was an unemployed vigilante hero, sorta like Batman during that chunk of The Dark Knight Rises when he lives in a hole.

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