Arby's employee escapes robber, gets fired.

[talisman]

Honestly, I'll side with the employer on this one. There are a lot of safety reasons not to be in a store alone, especially after close, and this is common policy throughout all types of retailers. Kind of insult to injury, but ah well.


Quick! You're being robbed at knifepoint. What's the first thing you do? For most of us, unless we're actually put in that situation or have some prior training in how to escape unharmed, it's hard to know how we would react.
An Arby's employee named Maria Archer is grateful to have escaped last Friday, when a man attempted to rob the restaurant where she worked.

Archer, who was an assistant manager, said she was doing the closing duties at around 1 a.m. when she heard the doorbell ring. She assumed it was her co-worker who had just left and went to answer the door. To her surprise, it was a man with a knife, who tried to push her into a corner. Archer's instincts kicked in, and somehow she was able to push the man away and give herself enough time to escape through the drive-through window. She recalled thinking, "I'm not going to die at Arby's tonight. I'm just not."

Here's where things get interesting. When Archer returned to work, she was fired. Archer told a local TV station, "I just never thought this would happen to me. Especially since my life was at stake." Arby's defended its decision, saying that violations of its safety and security policy mean termination of employment without exception. Archer broke policy because she was alone in the fast-food business when it was robbed.

A vice president of human resources in Arby's corporate office told a WHIO-TV reporter that he felt badly for Archer but that she knowingly violated the company's safety and security policy, and she had been warned before.

This is the third time that this Fairborn, Ohio, Arby's location has been robbed in a six-month period. Archer said that while she was working there, no alarm or security cameras were ever installed to help protect from future intrusions. So far, the suspect has not been apprehended.

Archer said that she does not want her job back, even though January would have marked her 23rd year with the company. She's thankful to have escaped with her life.

[ELVIS]

should have hit him with a bag of liquid meat. then gone and had a nice dinner at mi dia from scratch!

god bless.

[bcoop]

I'd like to know more about the policy. So she was an asst manager, and there alone. What if she's not the one in charge of scheduling, and they fired her anyways? That would be some horseshit.


And, fucking WOW @ a) 23 yrs in an Arby's, and b) only being an asst manager after 23 yrs. I guess some people are perfectly fine with not bettering themselves.

[Geor!]

I dunno about being alone as being a good reason to fire someone, but leaving the front door unlocked after hours certainly is.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I'd like to know more about the policy. So she was an asst manager, and there alone. What if she's not the one in charge of scheduling, and they fired her anyways? That would be some horseshit.


And, fucking WOW @ a) 23 yrs in an Arby's, and b) only being an asst manager after 23 yrs. I guess some people are perfectly fine with not bettering themselves.

When I worked reatal, I would schedule two people at closing, not because of a company policy, because it was quicker, and you can have two people count and sign off on the till and deposit.

[JimD]

And, fucking WOW @ a) 23 yrs in an Arby's, and b) only being an asst manager after 23 yrs. I guess some people are perfectly fine with not bettering themselves.

No shit!

[Binky]

I'd like to know more about the policy. So she was an asst manager, and there alone. What if she's not the one in charge of scheduling, and they fired her anyways? That would be some horseshit.


And, fucking WOW @ a) 23 yrs in an Arby's, and b) only being an asst manager after 23 yrs. I guess some people are perfectly fine with not bettering themselves.

She mentioned a co-worker who had just left.

I bet she told her co-worker "go ahead and go home, i'll close up" and the co-worker left early.

She'd probably done the same thing before and got busted.

[bcoop]

I dunno about being alone as being a good reason to fire someone, but leaving the front door unlocked after hours certainly is.

Who left a door unlocked, much less the front door?

I bet she told her co-worker "go ahead and go home, i'll close up" and the co-worker left early.

Possible, and probable, but I'd like to know the full story.

[Wicked98Snake]

23 years working at Arbys?!? I'm thinking... the robber did her a favor, now she can get Obama bucks and a free phone!

[Geor!]

Who left a door unlocked, much less the front door?




Possible, and probable, but I'd like to know the full story.

Archer, who was an assistant manager, said she was doing the closing duties at around 1 a.m. when she heard the doorbell ring. She assumed it was her co-worker who had just left and went to answer the door.



How'd the feller get in the store if the door wasn't unlocked? The "doorbell" is the sound it makes in the back when the door opens. Like ding-dong get off your ass and shave some of that good roast beef for your next customer who doesn't know that the roast beef is really ground up children (or whatever it was you said it was).

[bcoop]

Archer, who was an assistant manager, said she was doing the closing duties at around 1 a.m. when she heard the doorbell ring. She assumed it was her co-worker who had just left and went to answer the door.

First off, she had to answer the door. So it wasn't unlocked. Second off, the doorbell is always at the back door. And last, what thief rings the fucking doorbell, to a door that's unlocked, if his intention is robbing the place? Your brain, dude. Sometimes it no worky...


EDIT: Maybe my brain is no worky. I read that entirely different than you did. Restaurants always have a doorbell at the back door, so people can ring it for deliveries. That's where my train of thought was.

[shaft]

I'm sure there was a peephole in the back door. But she just opened the door without looking, even though they had been robbed twice in the preceding six months? They shit canned her because she was in on it and the easiest way was to say she didn't adhere to policy. Either that, or she is borderline retarded (which has pretty much been established since she's been working at Arby's for 23 years)!

[ram57ta]

When I worked reatal, I would schedule two people at closing, not because of a company policy, because it was quicker, and you can have two people count and sign off on the till and deposit.

Back in 96' I was as assistant manager at the Radio Shack on Camp Wisdom (across the street from Blackbird mall) and my store manager regularly had me closing the store alone AND taking the money to the bank. When I complained to upper management about the lack of security they told me to mind my own business. I was chased to the bank one night in my Supra by 2 black guys in a Mustang GT and detoured to the Dville Police station. I quit 3 days later.

I'm not getting killed for Radio Shack.

[BradM]

She probably fucked up the robber's big Montana earlier in the day.

[talisman]

She mentioned a co-worker who had just left.

I bet she told her co-worker "go ahead and go home, i'll close up" and the co-worker left early.

She'd probably done the same thing before and got busted.

Yup. Happens all the time. Those policies are also to prevent EMPLOYEE theft, since it is much easier to steal if you're the only person in the store.