AutoZone Fires USAF Veteran for Stopping Robbery

Robert_K

Here are my thoughts on the "rules."
Screw the rules! Rules are out the door when you're staring down the wrong end of a firearm. You point a firearm at me I'm going to find ANYTHING to stop you from using it. I don't care if its me pulling my gun from my hip, or taking a pen and stabbing you anywhere I can. I'm fighting and defending my life by all means possible.

Firing him was too extreme and where I lose all respect for AutoZone. As mentioned there are a thousands other ways to discipline him. But they went to the extreme to put fear into their other employees about taking action to protect themselves. I can only hope that when another AutoZone is robbed, and it will happen again since it is now known that firearms are not allowed, that no one is injured or killed.

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Red__Zed

Don't blame autozone, blame our broken court system.


Any retailer with > 3 sites follows the same set of rules. You can see the "outrage" links I posted with best buy and Walmart.

The US court system holds companies liable for future incincents if they don't take terminating action in cases like this.


At the end of the day, I doubt he's too distraught over losing an autozone job. I'd take the same path he did, knowing the walking papers were coming, but I'd bitch about our broken legal system rather than a company that is just paying its dues to the shareholders.

Quick370z

Did no one else see his last name??? jk




On a serious note like others say, the company could have thanked the worker for his heroics and maybe just disciplined the worker in other ways and then reiterating that message throughout the company (if they were so concerned about policy).

The comment though the Sherriff made: ‘Hey we’re open for business and unarmed. Come on in and take our money,’ is somewhat funny. Although sure he has a valid point regarding security - you'd never see this comment made by Law Enforcement up here. Definitely highlights the differences in Canada vs US with regards to our relationship to bear arms.

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nmjaxx9

the crazy part is most people dont even know how to fire a gun, let alone in a panic like that, to kill another person is not easy neither it may seem cool to talk about but these guys who do arent pullin triggers why you think Dons have people who do their shooting for them