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    Angry Fired and Banned From the Store for Something Other Employees Have Done

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: South Carolina

    I got fired from my job today over something I couldn't control. For example: I was at the register helping a line of customers and someone who always hangs out at the store went into the cooler and started stocking the cooler without my knowledge. When I finally finished getting the line of customers out the door I looked around the store and noticed that the door to the cooler was opened. I asked the people who hang in the store about who was in the cooler and one of them admitted to being in there. I told them that they couldn't go in there and they didn't go back in there.

    Then apparently cartons of cigarettes came up missing and the first person they blame is me. Trying to say that I took them. I don't smoke first of all so why would I need to take cartons of cigarettes. Then apparently the district manager heard from custimers that there was someone in the back room while I was standing at the register. I don't let anyone behind the counter unless they were getting condoms or rolaids or something else that we keep behind the counter. The other employees do it so why can't I? Now as far as that goes if someone was behind the counter I didn't know about it and I was probably elsewhere in the store. But I got fired for all of this. Now I'm banned off the property and they won't tell me why.

    Can they legally tell me that I'm not allowed on the property anymore without giving me a reason why I'm not allowed there anymore?

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    Yes they can. Being it is private property they don't need a reason to ban you.

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    Quote Quoting Rebecca Delph
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    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: South Carolina

    I got fired from my job today over something I couldn't control. For example: I was at the register helping a line of customers and someone who always hangs out at the store went into the cooler and started stocking the cooler without my knowledge. When I finally finished getting the line of customers out the door I looked around the store and noticed that the door to the cooler was opened. I asked the people who hang in the store about who was in the cooler and one of them admitted to being in there. I told them that they couldn't go in there and they didn't go back in there.

    Then apparently cartons of cigarettes came up missing and the first person they blame is me. Trying to say that I took them. I don't smoke first of all so why would I need to take cartons of cigarettes. Then apparently the district manager heard from custimers that there was someone in the back room while I was standing at the register. I don't let anyone behind the counter unless they were getting condoms or rolaids or something else that we keep behind the counter. The other employees do it so why can't I? Now as far as that goes if someone was behind the counter I didn't know about it and I was probably elsewhere in the store. But I got fired for all of this. Now I'm banned off the property and they won't tell me why.

    Can they legally tell me that I'm not allowed on the property anymore without giving me a reason why I'm not allowed there anymore?

    You don't have to be a smoker to benefit from selling expensive cartons of cigarettes on the side.

    You may not have taken them, but your inattention to your job made it easy for someone else to do so.

    Look for another job.

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    Can they legally tell me that I'm not allowed on the property anymore without giving me a reason why I'm not allowed there anymore? Yes. It's a shame you lost your job but the employer has done nothing illegal.

    File for unemployment and look for new work.

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    Quote Quoting Rebecca Delph
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    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: South Carolina

    I got fired from my job today over something I couldn't control. For example: I was at the register helping a line of customers and someone who always hangs out at the store went into the cooler and started stocking the cooler without my knowledge. When I finally finished getting the line of customers out the door I looked around the store and noticed that the door to the cooler was opened. I asked the people who hang in the store about who was in the cooler and one of them admitted to being in there. I told them that they couldn't go in there and they didn't go back in there.

    Then apparently cartons of cigarettes came up missing and the first person they blame is me. Trying to say that I took them. I don't smoke first of all so why would I need to take cartons of cigarettes. Then apparently the district manager heard from custimers that there was someone in the back room while I was standing at the register. I don't let anyone behind the counter unless they were getting condoms or rolaids or something else that we keep behind the counter. The other employees do it so why can't I? Now as far as that goes if someone was behind the counter I didn't know about it and I was probably elsewhere in the store. But I got fired for all of this. Now I'm banned off the property and they won't tell me why.

    Can they legally tell me that I'm not allowed on the property anymore without giving me a reason why I'm not allowed there anymore?
    I hate to be so cynical, but this sounds like someone is "trying out" a story to see what might happen if they file for unemployment and the employer disputes the version of events ..

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    I haven't done anything wrong. When you're by yourself with a store full of customers you can't watch everyone at the same time. On top of that it is owned by Gpm investments and i dont think its privately owned. But they never gave me a reason for being banned. All they did was fire me. But the thing is if the district manager really watches the cameras like he said he does then he would have caught the other employees doing the same thing. Except they allow the customers in the back room and they allow customers in the cooler. Also the overnight shift person lets customers go in the bathroom and smoke crack or shoot up heroin and he goes and smokes crack in the bathroom too but they supposedly only see what "happened" on my shift. I count the cjgarettes when i start my shift and after i finish my shift and the difference always equals up to the amount of cartons i have sold for that day so the cartons weren't missing on my shift. And the overnight person drinks on the job. So how am i in the wrong when i followed company policy and did everythinh exactly how i was trained to do it?

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    No one said what happened was fair. But it was not illegal.

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    Is there anything i can do about them calling me a thief and not showing me the video proof where they supposedly have me taking the cartons of cigarettes.

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    Default Re: I Got Fired and Banned

    No. They are not required to show you the video. As long as they don't tell anyone else you're a thief, they can call you anything they want to your face.

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