Fired from walmart

[Missyuulady]

Hi...I stay in N.C last year 2015 I was fired from Walmart they put me in a room with three LP people and was telling me that they knew I was stealing that I was serving plates for only 1.00..... I was a little lost cause I didn't do anything like that but after a hour of us going back and forth I signed the papers and they said I was fired for stealing $20 of food( another employee was fired for the same thing a week before me the same way I didn't find out how they fired him into after I got fired but yeah....) On my termination papers they put gross misconduct and said that I was a none rehire and that it would only be between Walmart and me I was also told that this would not go on my job record so it's nothing to worry about ....(now 4 weeks before this I had put in my two weeks notice and afterwards worked 2 extra weeks to help train new employees and still help out I don't know if that has anything to do with it) I went to Walmart the other day and found out that my old manger got fired for stealing my question is could he have been stealing the whole time and just putting it off on other employees because me and the other boy are not the only one who got fired for stealing and I know tha the manger picks out who he wants to he was a very mean man.

 

[commentator]

Yes, it is entirely possible that your manager was stealing, and that he told the higher ups that it was you and also the other guy. However, that gives you exactly nothing. You can't change what happened, and they did nothing illegal in their treatment of you. You should never have signed anything saying you were stealing anything if you weren't. What could they do to you, fire you? They could fire you anyway, which they did. It is pretty obvious why your manager would've accused you, as you were already going out the door anyhow. The world is not a fair place, and neither is the work world at Wal-Mart.

Since you were in process of quitting your job anyway, I don't suppose unemployment insurance was an issue. However, there is no such thing as a "permanent nationwide hiring record" or anything that everyone in the world is going to have on you. As they told you, this is pretty much going to be between you and Wal-mart. And hopefully you have put other employment between you and Wal-mart, at which you can get good references for your future. But there's no way of obtaining justice for what happened to you later, just because it is now coming out that you were probably set up by a bad person.

 

[FlyingRon]

Internal loss prevention guys are complete *******s. They aren't concerned with the truth just cutting the stores losses: coercing employees, guilty or not to pay for the shrinkage and to get rid of anybody who might be a risk.

I, however, am less optimistic than commentator. Walmart is likely a submitter to the NRTD, and this may inhibit you getting a job at other subscribing companies (retailers). You can wait a bit and check to see if you do have an entry there here: http://www.geninfo.com/contact/contact-copy.asp.

I'd go ahead and apply for UI (unless you have another job in hand or aren't looking for a new job at this point). Let Walmart prove their case to the UI that you did something that disqualifies you.

 

[commentator]

It has been a while since this incident happened. I was hoping there'd been a new job to go to, and that was the reason the OP gave notice. As I said, something like another job between you and this Wal-mart job is the best sort of buffer you can get in these situations. If it has been a long time, and the person has worked elsewhere, and/or has left the labor force, which it may sound like, a unemployment claim may or may not be an alternative. Even if you have a bad report on the retail sales data bank, which it doesn't really sound like that would've happened, there's no action you could take against Wal-mart. After all, you did admit, by signing the paperwork, that you were guilty.

 

[FlyingRon]

I missed the passage of a year on this. Probably UI is not a concern at this point.

He is almost certainly in the NRTD. That runs for SEVEN years (NRTD follows the FCRA). He can certainly pull his record. Doesn't hurt to do that.
Again, I'm not optomistic that he will get a job with a member company in the interim. A judge once told me he'd rather have a drug user than a thief. It's easier to rehabilitate the druggies.

 

[commentator]

I agree with this judge, the habits of dishonesty and feeling of entitlement, which leads to thieving behavior (as my granny used to say, "I never saw a thief who didn't feel like they were owed" ) are very hard to eradicate from a person's character, and their range of behaviors, while drug use is only a behavior. But it is entirely possible this person was completely falsely accused and made a false confession under duress. It does happen. "Either sign this letter and you can just leave, or we'll call the police and you will go straight to jail!"

Not all places of business use this data, and I hope the OP got a job immediately not at one of those places, and is just wanting to clear his name or protect his reputation. I don't think he'd have much ability to appeal the information or get it removed during the next six years, in spite of the information that has now come out that the manager who accused him may have actually been the guilty party.