And then there were three...

[Dreamstalker]

We are down to only three hourlies in my department. Soon to be down a manager as my hero J is leaving on Friday...still up in the air who's replacing him. The AM that nobody likes (S) is gonna be interim for awhile which should be fun

The only two people who busted tail as much as I did (A and R) got into it last Friday and both were fired on Monday.

All I saw at the time it happened was that A got loud and started swearing, R left the floor to get a manager and when he returned with S, A then shoved R into the stock cart I was working with a newbie (Y) and almost sending both of us into a shelf full of glass.

Y and myself went to HR later that day and told him what had happened, and that A was the aggressor from what we saw.

I didn't get the details until Sunday from R (he came in as scheduled, clocked in and only then did S tell him that since there was an investigation he could not be at work). It all started when A saw a homeless guy passed out in the men's room, came back and started cracking jokes about it. R took offense at this and A started needling him further and dropping f-bombs, at which time R left and got S. When they returned to the floor, A got belligerent and shoved R into the cart.

Both A and R were fired for a policy violation of no fighting on the floor....which I can see, but I really thought they would take witnesses into account. A could be a jerk (with anger issues), but he was a decent worker. R was an all-around good kid who didn't deserve what he got....especially since four of us including my buddy in security had given statements.

[EricKei]

..especially since four of us including my buddy in security had given statements.

The store wasn't looking for evidence; they were looking to reduce headcount and saw an opportunity to do so with no repercussions v_v

[Dreamstalker]

I think there was something else going on with both of them; R had told me that J had it in for him for declining to work an optional inventory shift (I know that J knew he couldn't require nonmanagers to work that night) but J had referred R, and it was known that S didn't like R because he had legitimately challenged her a few times.

We did hire two more day-shift and two overnight stockers...the dynamics of the day shift has changed quite a bit (almost entirely female). That may prove to be a good thing as none of us are into rap, MMA or whatever R, A, C and TW were wasting their time with.