Complaint Review: Wal-mart Store #2705 - Franklin Virginia

Sorry... CSM's have to approve any overrides over $20. So unless you have some dim CSM's around your local store, I don't see that happening.

When you were being called into the office for these overrides, you needed to ask management to see a copy of the Electronic Journal for your operator number that day. Only if they could point out the incriminating $4500 worth in overrides should they have persued you like they did. Trust me, I've had to fall back on the Electronic Journal to free me from a lot of binds. When they promote you to CSM, they only intensify. If you do a supervisor override for one wrong thing, you're boned, but they have to present proof TO YOU before they give you the boot.

the court system doesn't really care much about true justice. it's about winning or losing. if the chances are high that the defendant will lose, then striking a plea agreement is the way to go. one has to weight the options. fighting it will cost alota money and risk a lengthy jail time if unsuccessful or plea for a reduced sentence and no jail time. doesn't matter if one is guilty or not. according to the law, OJ is not a murderer. the rich can afford to win. walmart employees can't afford a legal team... as for me, i would have fought it. first is to check company policy on over-rides. if you met the policy, then there is no theft. when i worked retail (kinko's), i was empowered to over-ride prices. i have even gone as far to give away services just to satisfy the customer. my supervisor tried to fire me for it. but since i knew my job well, i was responsible in converting those walk-in customers into corporate clients. -a|ex

Sorry to tell you this but since you pled guilty and the case is closed you do not get to see the evidence. if you had gone to trial then Wal-Mart would have had to produce their evidence in court. And I find it very strange that you say your PA said everything was bogus but you seemed so willing to take the plea bargain. Yes, jail is not a nice place to sit, however if I was accused of something I did not do, then i would fight it tooth and nail. make them prove beyond a reasonable doubt. because now you don't get to see what evidence they had, but you do get to try to get work with an embezzlement charge on your record for the rest of your life. I wish you well in the future, but your fight on this comes a little to late.

Is that any Wal-mart or only the one where you work? I can't wait to go to Wal-mart to buy the most expensive High Def TV they have and tell the cashier that "Billy Bob TVs and Stuff" has it on sale for $100. Is there a limit as to how many I can purchase?

i work cashiering for wal-mart and if you over ride a price because a competitor has a lower price that's company policy. if you did it because they're your friends you were wrong. customers do not have to have an ad or any other proof that something is a different price somewhere else, they simply inform the cashier and they will change the price

For those who belive that I deseved to be arrested...I have never been into any criminal acts or had trouble with the law... let alone a tickett.. wal mart said that they had proof but never actually showed any to me.. they manipulated me and they had already been previously harrasing me...and the who embezzeled over $19,000 didint even get arrested. and continues to go into the store to this day.. I really didint understand what was going on or what I was signing..at that point I just wanted to just get the heck out of there... and how they came up with that figure...even my lawyer said at my hearing is completly false.. i had to sign the plea agreement because I didint want the chance to even go to jail for any amount of time at all.. and if they persued it.. even since the only proven over rides were $201.00 that they couldent even prove it wasent just for normal customers or friends...the average cashier monthly price over rides for ads or whatever over $300.00 monthly and for the month that they supposedly were watching me ...I price over rode 2 packs of ciggarettes for my friend.. they were like 3.00 and I gave her both of them for the price of one...was it wrong? yes.. neccesarry for me to be arrested..? hell no.

This is so pathetic "Ive had so many problems with that store and how they treated me" I wonder why? "I was accused of emblezzling over $4500, "I had done no such thing","I admitted to changing the price for TWO people, but never IN EXCESS OF EVEN $100". (Is that at a time or per shift?) "They noticed that I had been doing alot of price overrides". (If they noticed, it was a heck of alot more then TWO people and $100.) "Well yes, everyone does". She admits. They had the sheets as proof. she goes to court and takes the plea deal. PLEADS GUILTY. Besides the fact that it's A LITTLE BIT LATE and you've pleaded guilty. This post, in your own words, is a pretty good confession. The sad part is the ONLY THING she wants to know is why she was arrested, placed in hand irons, placed in a police car and made an example of, while the $19,000 thief wasn't. Maybe her public defender can explain it to her, probably not.

You did price overrides, presumably for friends, since that was what you eluded to. Knowing this was illegal, you did it anyway. If you thought you were in the right, you wouldn't have signed the confession, so you knew you ripped them off. So, now I forget, what is your beef?