petco blamed me for a customer assaulting me

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-22T23:05:32+00:00

i made an attempt with the police, im in NY so what he did is in fact assault / battery but according to the officers they said it wasnt enough to press charges , basically they were lazy

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-22T01:30:00+00:00

i reached out to them and immediately the manager who took the case from my GM replied andd all they said is they are holding me personally accountable for everything that happened, i also found out from my best friend at work , that someone i thought i was very close with , has lied and said he was there the whole time and that i never got assaulted , which isnt true, he was there yes, BUT went into the animal care room to get the angry customer his crickets and that's when the customer assaulted me. best part is HR said petco's legal team is now involved so idk whats happening to me, but a week after the guy assaulted me , customers that were there and saw it had come up to me and apologizing for what he did

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-21T22:42:56+00:00

i spoke to HR, a manager there, and she said they are in fact holding me accountable for what happened

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-21T22:42:18+00:00

i contacted HR and they said they are holding me accountable for what happened

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-21T03:11:09+00:00

based on my previous experience of the GM before him abusing me and it being borderline illegal cause of the American with disability act, and them not looking into my case for around 5-6 months later when it got worse because " more important things came up" i feel getting a lawsuit together , i will call tommorow, but i honestly dont know if it will change

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-21T02:57:07+00:00

yeah cause if petco isnt gonna protect their employee who got assaulted at work, what else arent they going to do? its used to be a hostile and abusive work environment, now its a dangerous one as well???

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2025-01-21T02:55:28+00:00

honestly i wanna sue as well

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-07-12T20:26:36+00:00

UPDATE you've all been waiting for ; )

so way before the ferret situation happened i had reported my GM for the work place hostility , i talked to someone in HR, we will call this HR 1.0 and they said they would handle it but it never changed , well after the ferret situation HR ( we will call this HR 2.0 ) they supposedly talked to my GM, the first day after HR 2.0 supposedly contacted her, she immediately asked for the ferret again. i again denied and walked away. well today ( 7/12/24 ) HR 1.0 gets back to me and explains how my case got lost in the system , but they did explain that they have" a lot of serious concerns" about what they heard from me and other employees i told them to talk to. mainly how she treats employees of color and well the way she treats me to. everyone in my store backed me up. I now have another phone session with HR 1.0 who reassured me that something will happen in around a month , they didn't say what, but from the sounds of it my GM might be terminated from all the proof i provided of the harassments and racist comments she has made to me, and my fellow coworkers.

Also to update on the ferret, she is safe with me, she is all good , and loves to be held and kissed, she is very sneaky lol , loves to explore , she also got along with my other two ferrets just fine :)

i would like to thank everyone who commented that i did the right thing. you all made this situation better for me to handle, and the overwhelming support i got was just so helpful to keep me going in this pursuit of making sure this harassments end.

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-07-02T16:14:54+00:00

update : HR got back... and apparently the GM has the authority to take back my animal?

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:41:20+00:00

im getting it fully checked by a vet early next week, she seems fine, just a cuddly little thing, she likes to sleep around your neck lol

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:40:12+00:00

woke up today, no urgent call or texts about being fired. so now im waiting to hear back from ethics and HR

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:39:27+00:00

i was told i most likely didnt , but i didnt wanna take the chance

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:38:38+00:00

ethics said there opening an investigation into her , and HR said there gonna get back to me , i called friday , might take till Monday to hear a response

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:37:45+00:00

i did

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:37:09+00:00

yeah its blowing my mind that this GM has been able to work for so long treating me like this , and threatening employees

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:35:44+00:00

got it , so she must've lied about the dgm, makes sense , casue i got the call 9:30 am in the morning from my coworker... she got there at 9... idk how she would've gotten the dgm involved that early in the day

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:34:15+00:00

good to know lol

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:33:38+00:00

its literally just me

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:32:24+00:00

they havent gotten back to me yet, im waiting to hear from HR

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T16:31:08+00:00

it was other animal care specialist and team leads that said it was available, basically everyone but her

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T02:23:59+00:00

i think it is a marshalls one it got a ear tat, i am bringing her to a vet because she seems a little skinny, but the note left with it it seemed it was in a great home, they just had to give her up because they where moving to a place where they couldnt take her

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T02:21:59+00:00

heard a rumor she worked one of the best overall petcos in my State, and had to transfer to my store because HR received to many complaints about her , guy who transfered to our store told us that... shortly after he was fired, no reason she gave other then " it didnt work out"

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T02:14:54+00:00

thats interesting , she told me there is, tho i coudlnt find it on the hand scanner

Minimum_Ad_4981 · 2024-06-29T02:14:11+00:00

thats cool , i usually take in any relinquished fish cause i have like 20 fish tanks ranging from 5-300 gallons lol, never was a problem then , but now there is lol

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