News Pregnant Popeyes Manager Fired After Refusing To Pay For Armed Robbery

[brassmonkey]

Marissa Holcomb was held at gunpoint late last month in an armed robbery at a Popeyes in Channelview, Texas.

Then, she was fired.

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The shift manager -- who is five months pregnant -- says she was reprimanded because she refused to pay back $400 that the gunman got away with, according to KHOU.

"I told them I'm not paying nothing," Holcomb told the station. "I just had a gun to me. I'm not paying the money."

On March 31, the gun-toting perp walked into the eatery and demanded that employees get on the floor, Raw Story reports. He grabbed Holcomb by her shirt and told her to empty the safe, but she said she could only open the registers.

Security video of the incident (above) shows the gunman leap over the counter to get to the registers.

The restaurant was reportedly unusually busy that day, so the thief made off with a hefty sum. Holcomb claims that her manager demanded that she reimburse the company the $400 that was stolen, or be fired.

A Popeyes spokesperson told KHOU that it's against company policy to have that much money in the register at any given time, so Holcomb was fired. The rep denied hearing that she was given the option to pay the money back.

Holcomb said she's pregnant with her fourth child and that the firing came at the worst time.

"I don't think it's right because now I'm struggling for my family," she told USA Today. "What I had to do (was) keep my life."

Supporters say they tried to set up a GoFundMe page to help her out, but that page has since been taken down. Holcomb told the New York Daily News that she's applying for jobs every day.

Pregnant Popeyes Manager Fired After Refusing To Pay For Armed Robbery

[Horatio Caine]

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[Sly]

It sounds like we are not getting the full picture. We know more about her being pregnant than what she did or didn't do.

[brassmonkey]

well we know what she's doing on her days off enjoying some cream pies i think she knows the robbery suspect if she does this bitch is stupid!

[L-Pink]

There is a reason fast food and convent food stores demand their managers drop all money in excess of $50 into time-lock safes employees can't open. It's to make the stores less of a target to robbers and safer for employees.

Pregnant or not she fucked up and got canned. what's the issue?

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by Sly

It sounds like we are not getting the full picture. We know more about her being pregnant than what she did or didn't do.

She was the manager
The place was robbed
She had no access to the safe
The thief pulled all the cash from the registers
The thief got 400.00
The company wants reimbursement because she broke the rules by allowing that much cash to be in the registers
She said she did do nuffins
The world looked on in complete shock to hear that' And are wondering why being pregnant makes it ok to not do your job

[sandman!]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

There is a reason fast food and convent food stores demand their managers drop all money in excess of $50 into time-lock safes employees can't open. It's to make the stores less of a target to robbers and safer for employees.

Pregnant or not she fucked up and got canned. what's the issue?

[JFK]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

There is a reason fast food and convent food stores demand their managers drop all money in excess of $50 into time-lock safes employees can't open. It's to make the stores less of a target to robbers and safer for employees.

Pregnant or not she fucked up and got canned. what's the issue?

[Manfap]

"I told them I'm not paying nothing"

I'd have sacked her for her use of a double negative.

[Hentaikid]

Don't they have insurance for this kind of thing?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Hentaikid

Don't they have insurance for this kind of thing?

you ever hear of an insurance adjuster?

[suesheboy]

Originally Posted by Manfap

"I told them I'm not paying nothing"

I'd have sacked her for her use of a double negative.

That stood out to me too

[RebelR]

So by the use of the double negative, she has in essence, promised to pay the money back. She was fired for not following company procedure. The pregnancy part of the headline is for sympathy. Headline is misleading and inflammatory.

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by Manfap

"I told them I'm not paying nothing"

I'd have sacked her for her use of a double negative.

Now it makes perfect sense why BM posted this story.

[nico-t]

brassmonkey, you're slipping. Nobody died a gruesome death in this story, nor are they mentioning race...
Are you sick? Here, these best wishes are for you, and i hope you will be posting depressing death stories mentioning race again soon:

[woj]

damn, risking 10 years in jail and/or getting shot for $400? often multiple people are involved, so you then split it 2-3 ways? Would have made more flipping burgers are McDonalds... what's wrong with these fools?

[huey]

Think the point being missed here is the chick was held at gun point while doing her shit minimum wage job.

If that was my restaurant I would say fuck the $400 bucks and thank her for co-operating and not getting herself or anyone else shot.

I would give her a fucking week off with pay too to relax.

Wonder what would have happened if she told the guy there was only $50 bucks in the till.

[huey]

Also hahahah at $400 as a hefty sum?????

[PornDiscounts-V]

When purps think you will only have $100 in the registers they don't want to rob you. If they know your managers suck on the weekends and often leave $400 in them they will rob you more often.

I used to be a manager at a Stater Bros.

[Tom_PM]

As usual a few guys come in act like they know everything.... and now it's my turn!

We don't know their exact cash drop policy, but lets assume she is supposed to drop anything in excess of 100 bucks into the safe. The article says the restaurant was unusually busy, but nobody stops to think how that can legitimately affect that task? How are you counting the cash drawers and depositing money when the cashier area is unusually busy? You're not! You're waiting until there is a lull where you can run and take a piss (and maybe puke from pregnancy sickness?) and then do your deposit and other shit that got behind because it was unusually busy.

Unless or until we know more about the whole thing, it's impossible to speculate. We don't know if she had a bad work history, or if this was a set up to fire her before maternity leave, or a million other things! So why assume she failed at her job after she was robbed at gunpoint and talked to the press? wtf. gfy.

[Socks]

I wonder how much a big broken window costs to replace

[L-Pink]

The policy isn't to save corporations money. It's to make the store safer for employees. The busier the store is the more attractive it is to robbers that know lax management will have too much money on hand. 25% of the time I'm in a convenience store one of the employees is either making a cash drop or removing rolled coins from a timed safe dispenser.

This policy also stops insider robbery schemes. To give someone the benefit of doubt just because they were busy is poor upper management. Safety precautions are most needed when busy. If she wasn't pregnant this would be a non-story. So in effect she want's special treatment, waiver of safety polices, because she's pregnant? Less time on her feet, more bathroom breaks, etc is one type of concession, safety is another.

Fast forward to two weeks from now when a different employee makes the same mistake how do you deal with this person without discriminating?

As far as "knowing everything" I once owned retail stores, some taking in a lot of cash. Damn right we had safety policies and it wasn't because the money wasn't insured. It was because the insurance companies and common sense demanded it.

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[L-Pink]

HOWEVER; telling her to pay back the money or lose her job is a pitiful thing for upper management to do. Firing her is one thing. Offering her a chance to keep her job if she pays back the money shows a total lack of professionalism, grasp of the overall situation and why the policy was in effect in the first place.

[Tom_PM]

Yeah I said some people know everything, then jumped in to take my turn at knowing everything. Kind of a little joke there.

So lets take this to a mythbusters extreme. It never reaches a volume where you have to let the cash drop wait a moment? 100, 100, 100, 100 there, 4 customers just handed you 400 dollars and there are 19 more people in line waving money at you.

Look, I managed retail for a decade before adult so I don't need any refresher courses. We should be talking about common sense here because we know no details! Sly pointed it out in like the third comment. L-Pink you talk about not assuming she was busy, and then seem to be full of confidence as you presume that this is only a "thing" because she's pregnant. OK then, but it's hard to take seriously.

[L-Pink]

Come on man, if she wasn't pregnant not one news outlet would have run the story.

And when you're located in areas where most Popeye's are located you better drop your cash when busy, lol.

[TrashyGirl]

She's been offered her job back at Popeye's. She's been offered 2K in back pay. Popeye's Corporate got involved to "rectify" the situation due to the negative publicity backlash.

KHOU.com story update

[newB]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

And when you're located in areas where most Popeye's are located you better drop your cash when busy, lol.

I was going to say something to that effect. I've been to one, and it was pretty good as I recall. But the rest I have seen are in areas I would prefer not to leave my car unattended.

[Wendy-Etology]

Thats terrible. Her being pregnant and going thru all of that.