Unsolicited advice: Are you part of a union? All grocery stores (sans Walmart/Target and their ilk) where I live - Colorado - have unionized employees. They're unionized in IL too. If you have a union, go talk to your union rep NOW.
Insist that your manager find any/all security camera footage of the interaction.
Be prepared to go to the labor board.
If your state has one, get in contact with legal aid in case you require any legal protection and/or find out that the company's treatment of you violates your state's work laws.
Yeah, that's a good point that I did not think of myself! That's brilliant, thank you so much! I've just seen this one and sent a message to my uncle. He says this is good enough to link them, and with any footage we get from in the store it'll be good enough! Really thank you!
Yeah, the problem is is that I work in a right to work state so I don't have the protection or at least the security of a union. In fact, unionizing is illegal in my state. I have an uncle who is a lawyer and he's going to help me through this. Today, after having very little sleep because of yesterday he and I met and we drafted letters to the store and it's board for all footage et al. I've already drafted my official statement. We are going to, at all turns, refuse to accept blame for this, we will not be paying any money back. We're also looking for the parents. The good news is is that the security cameras in the store are top notch, we upgraded only three months ago. However, we haven't upgraded the parking lot cameras since Moses was in short pants. So if we can't see them or the car or anything then chances of finding them are slim to none, since, like I said, small city, huge, busy parking lot. We're right on a major freeway/interstate too, so they could literally be from and going anywhere. I'll try and keep updated.
I'm glad your uncle is going to help out. I saw that you told your uncle about the EBT idea from the other poster. I really wish you all the luck in the world. Please keep us posted. This is complete bullshit.
Unsolicited advice:
Are you part of a union? All grocery stores (sans Walmart/Target and their ilk) where I live - Colorado - have unionized employees. They're unionized in IL too. If you have a union, go talk to your union rep NOW.
Insist that your manager find any/all security camera footage of the interaction.
Be prepared to go to the labor board.
If your state has one, get in contact with legal aid in case you require any legal protection and/or find out that the company's treatment of you violates your state's work laws.
Good luck. That's so shitty.
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Also, try to get your own copies of the security footage. I would not trust the store to keep it if they try to throw you under the bus.
And when you talk to the cops, make sure they know they used an EBT. That might be something they can trace.
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