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a man who mistook her for transgender verbally threatened her in a women’s restroom
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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I'm assuming he threatened her as she was going into or coming out of the restroom.
When you're so committed to "protecting women's spaces" that you go into a women's restroom to harass a woman.
Why did Walmart fire her for being attacked? Isn't that one if the easiest wrongful termination lawsuits ever?
Most people who are wrongfully terminated don't take it to court. It might now be remedied since the press jumped on it but the remedy usually involved rehiring which is probably not ideal at this point.
Walmart made sure they were specific about the reason being reporting to the wrong supervisor and creating a security risk. Can't call it wrong that way.
She created the security risk, not the guy attacking her, riiiiiight?
WTF. For not informing salaried management? GTFO. She has a job to do and your bullshit corporate structure is dumb. Its a management failure for adding complexity where there shouldnt be any. Instead of any 360 introspection, they took what they thought was the easy way out. Salaried employee? Yeah, where was the manager when all this was happening? Great question. Not a brain cell fired, no pause at sanctioning harassment of employees. Walmart can suck it. Cheap disposable shit anyway. Leaches created the environment that requires their teet. Do all you can to shop direct and local.
For a while now I've been paying attention to the way customers are treated, and noticed a kind of symmetry with how the employees of a given business/institution are treated. If you're seeing one kind of abuse/neglect, the other is very likely to also be the case, because it all comes from the same place.
In the case of Walmart: employees under a rather heavy yoke of part-time-no-benefits-never-unions labor, and customers are given a dis-compassionate choice between poorly made and barely viable goods from dubious origins. It's not that management/ownership doesn't care about this or that, it's that they generally don't care about people and are grotesque about it. It's all here.
How the fuck can you reprimand someone for not reporting an incident properly when they report it to their supervisor? The supervisor's responsibility at that point is to either inform the employee of the proper way to report it or report it on their behalf. If the report doesn't come through properly then the supervisor has failed to fulfill their duties, not the other employee.
They know all this. They didn't fire her out of ignorance.
Why retaliate at all though?
In his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan cited one of his objections to Louisiana's public transit segregation law as being that it effectively left the execution of policy to railroad porters. Homer Plessy was a light-skinned Creole man whose family was free before the Civil War. He would have enjoyed roughly equal rights to Whites up until the first generation of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s. Harlan pointed out that the criteria for "White" and "Black" for the purposes of segregation was not solid, just being whoever was in charge of the segregated facilities looking at them and determining what they are.
There is nothing new under the Sun.
history doesn’t repeat but it sure does rhyme, as once said
I would boycott Walmart but I already started boycotting them over a decade ago. I understand some people in tight financial situations need the lower prices they can get from places like Walmart. And therefore they cannot so freely boycott such a place but if you're somebody who can avoid it I would advise steering clear of that shit hole. Their policies are trash and the family that owns it are oligarchical douche bags.
This falls under "suffer on my own terms" for me. I won't go to Walmart, so we're going without extras. There's no cheese in my house right now because none was on sale at my local grocery store. So instead of going to Walmart, or paying $4 for a block of Cabot cheddar at my grocer, the choice is go without cheese for the time being.
Used to shop minimally at Walmart anyway, now I refuse to go. I go to my local co-op 2ce a week now though.
Bulk spices are cheap y'all.
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Walmart should have "fired" that customer, ie trespass him. WTF was this goon doing in the women's restroom anyway?
Is that trespassing? I would think it qualifies as a sex crime since a man followed someone into the woman’s bathroom.
"Trespassing" someone, in a Walmart context, means the person is banned from a store and if they return they will legally be trespassing and may be arrested.
Asking the real question
Zero surprise Walmart did the wrong thing
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Fuck walmart and double fuck Florida.
I hope this poor girl can flee the state. Does she have a gofundme to help with moving expenses?
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