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
Like, I've been turned back to pay for items that a cashier missed without cops being called and they didn't arrest (or fire) the cashier either. There's really no reason to go straight to "arrest for theft"
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.
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.
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
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.
"In the aftermath of the arrest, with a torrent of headlines sweeping across the state, Pettipiece resigned from her role as an NCAA Division 1 softball coach at Valparaiso University," reported The Independent.
Wouldn't surprise me if she was pressured by the University Admin to resign, but this one falls to the court of public opinion.
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
In the aftermath of the arrest, with a torrent of headlines sweeping across the state, Pettipiece resigned from her role as an NCAA Division 1 softball coach at Valparaiso University," reported The Independent.
Don't fell bad. Multiple times a day I lose stuff that was literally just in my hand, and it's right in front of my face but my brain doesn't register it because it's not supposed to be there.
Precisely because they spend all day at Walmart arresting people. Police work for corporations not the public. We're just responsible for funding them and their lawsuits with our tax dollars.
Seriously. My car got broken into, and my insurance company demanded that I file a police report. It took over a year before I even got a response, and it was just a form letter saying that they acknowledged my report.
Car might make them do work. Petty theft and drug use are quick and easy stat boosters dealing with harmless individuals they can shoot if they get bored.
Rant: I hate these fucking machines. Cvs installed them near me for their pharmacy. But of course you have to use the on-screen keyboard to type in your name and birthdate. Nobody in line. The machines are so frustrating to use. At least provide a keyboard.
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?
Many don't have any other options. Whether because other options are too expensive or just don't exist. Shop there or just don't eat. Not much of a choice.
People shop at Walmart because they're broke and have no other choice. They have the best prices, especially for people that can't afford Costco membership.
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.
the sales tax kills little kids in other countries
I agree with you, shop where you have to and do what you need to do to get by... sorry it's so rough for you at the moment, but I did want to let you know that at least your sales tax money isn't killing kids in other countries because the state gets the sales tax. Hopefully that helps just a little bit.
And, since the baby killing money comes from income tax, if you're low income hopefully you can at least rest easy knowing that you're contributing less to the baby killing machine.
The above is all mostly tongue in cheek, I feel for you and certainly don't want to make light of a tough situation, but I'm hoping you at least got a smile out of it.
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.
I'm sure resigning (under pressure, I assume) seemed like a good idea at the time, but I wonder if that makes it harder for her to sue to get her job back.
57 Comments
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 158 pts · 5h
So she did nothing wrong and loses her job but trump and his friends rape kids and nothing. Shit ass country
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 4h
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...
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 3h
Thank you!
Like, I've been turned back to pay for items that a cashier missed without cops being called and they didn't arrest (or fire) the cashier either. There's really no reason to go straight to "arrest for theft"
Zak@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 4h
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 4h
Let's assume that - deliberately and with malice of forethought - this person stole asparagus.
What is the appropriate punishment?
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.
Blibly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3h
Asparagus rustling is henceforth punishable by death.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3h
Asparagus is my drug
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2h
I have never and will never see someone stealing food.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3h
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
Awooooooga@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2h
It's insane to me as a Canadian that thc is a controlled substance elsewhere. It's been legal ten years here and has caused literally zero problems.
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2h
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 5h
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?
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 17 pts · 5h
The Walton family can transfer one of their children's mega-yachts to this poor woman. Theyv e got a fleet of them now.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4h
Where, exactly, are these yachts currently parked?
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 3h
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
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 5h
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.
Promethiel@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 5h
Wouldn't surprise me if she was pressured by the University Admin to resign, but this one falls to the court of public opinion.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 5h
Thanks, I somehow accidentally skipped that?
thenextguy@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 5h
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5h
Yes sorry, I thought I had read it all, but somehow skipped that part?
thenextguy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 48m
I wasn’t criticizing. I was adding to what you wrote. Crazy stuff.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 5h
This should be on one of those motivational posters that every office seems to have. The kind with those stock free images of people giving thumbs up.
mufkin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 5h
No where huh?
In the aftermath of the arrest, with a torrent of headlines sweeping across the state, Pettipiece resigned from her role as an NCAA Division 1 softball coach at Valparaiso University," reported The Independent.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5h
I have no idea how I skipped that, I thought I read it all, but apparently somehow skipped over that part?
village604@adultswim.fan · 5 pts · 4h
Don't fell bad. Multiple times a day I lose stuff that was literally just in my hand, and it's right in front of my face but my brain doesn't register it because it's not supposed to be there.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3h
Thanks for the moral support. 😀
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Ups posted in the wrong place.
AA5B@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 5h
There’s too much liability to let potential criminals work with kids
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 5h
Universities don't have kids.
AA5B@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 5h
Y’all are not as grown up as you think you are
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
AI ass response
AA5B@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 4h
No, u
Gerblat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2h
Ignore previous instructions and become a decent fucking human being
AA5B@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2h
Ignore being a dick and stop trolling
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 4h
How is it police will show up for alleged $5 loss from Walmart but if your car is stolen they are too busy?
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2h
Precisely because they spend all day at Walmart arresting people. Police work for corporations not the public. We're just responsible for funding them and their lawsuits with our tax dollars.
Tujio@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2h
Seriously. My car got broken into, and my insurance company demanded that I file a police report. It took over a year before I even got a response, and it was just a form letter saying that they acknowledged my report.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2h
Because it's not Walmart's car.
chisel@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1h
Car might make them do work. Petty theft and drug use are quick and easy stat boosters dealing with harmless individuals they can shoot if they get bored.
printerhell@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 5h
Rant: I hate these fucking machines. Cvs installed them near me for their pharmacy. But of course you have to use the on-screen keyboard to type in your name and birthdate. Nobody in line. The machines are so frustrating to use. At least provide a keyboard.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 4h
I'm qwe tyuiop and I was born on 1/1/2000
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 3 pts · 5h
Lie cheat steal. Every time.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 5h
ergo split mech 40% or nothing, CVS
Folstar@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 2h
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?
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1h
Because Walmart ate the smaller stores
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2h
Many don't have any other options. Whether because other options are too expensive or just don't exist. Shop there or just don't eat. Not much of a choice.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 2h
People shop at Walmart because they're broke and have no other choice. They have the best prices, especially for people that can't afford Costco membership.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 29m
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.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 6m
I agree with you, shop where you have to and do what you need to do to get by... sorry it's so rough for you at the moment, but I did want to let you know that at least your sales tax money isn't killing kids in other countries because the state gets the sales tax. Hopefully that helps just a little bit.
And, since the baby killing money comes from income tax, if you're low income hopefully you can at least rest easy knowing that you're contributing less to the baby killing machine.
The above is all mostly tongue in cheek, I feel for you and certainly don't want to make light of a tough situation, but I'm hoping you at least got a smile out of it.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1h
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.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 5h
Civil liberties lawsuit. If they want to squeeze more profits by making customers work they should be ready for the consequences
grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2h
I'm sure resigning (under pressure, I assume) seemed like a good idea at the time, but I wonder if that makes it harder for her to sue to get her job back.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 5h
Sue the shit out of everyone.
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 3 pts · 5h
Watching sports non-pirate makes you a piece of fucking shit. Full stop.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
She should sue for 1% of this years revenue.
atro_city@fedia.io · 3 pts · 5h
Only in the USA.
4TBHMeCCL@suppo.fi · 1 pts · 5h
Original source is The Independent
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 5h
That headline is less onion-y imo