Goodwill Employees Baffled After Worker Says She Was Fired for Buying Garfield Plushie

A Goodwill employee says she was fired for buying an outsized Garfield plushie from the shop, which is complicated different employees of the shop.

A Goodwill employee says that they have been fired for purchasing a big Garfield plushie they'd their eye on at the store, which is confusing TikTokers who stated that they, too, were Goodwill employees who have had zero issues buying pieces whilst being employed by way of the store.

TikToker Esme Adore (@adore.esme.now) uploaded a viral video about her unfortunate Goodwill experience that ended in shedding her process. If she was torn up about getting canned, then again, it is difficult to inform from the clip she uploaded as she hugs the Garfield plushie that her father purchased for her, all smiles as he exits the shop.

"goodwill just fired me for violating their no shopping policy," Esme writes in a textual content overlay of her video that presentations her protecting a large crammed Garfield toy that is placed side-by-side with some other video of a person buying the similar gigantic stuffed Garfield plushie.

She explains in every other overlay that the person in the second clip is in truth her father who she requested to move inside the Goodwill retailer she works at with the intention to skirt a particular rule that doesn't permit employees to shop on the retailer.

"making ur dad go into the goodwill to buy giant garfield bcs ur not allowed to shop there," she writes in white textual content over the adjacent video clip juxtaposed with her filled Garfield appreciation recording.

The particular rule that Esme must be regarding is most definitely this stipulation on Goodwill's website that signifies while employees are "encouraged" to shop at Goodwill retail outlets, they don't seem to be allowed to shop for pieces from locations that they paintings at the place they have got visited the backroom.

The reason why in the back of this is easy: as a means of stopping "dishonesty," if employees are surroundings costs for positive goods, they could mark down items that they're desirous about purchasing at an overly low price.

Goodwill of the Finger Lakes web site reads: "We encourage our employees to shop at Goodwill! However, to prevent any dishonesty, employees cannot shop at stores when they have been in the back room where items are placed before they are priced to go on the floor."

One commenter who noticed the put up remarked that they gained a caution prior to getting the activity that speaks to the revel in Esme had whilst working there: "the goodwill here said if I'm hired neither I nor my family are allowed to shop there bc they don't want employees stashing items for family to buy"

Someone else discussed that they concept the place of work rule was beautiful whack and stated upon hearing it it influenced them not to store at the second hand retailer any more: "adding this to my list of reasons not to shop at goodwill"

It appears that different shops have different rulings, alternatively, since one one that appeared to be a Goodwill worker themselves wrote: "Wild I work at goodwill and our rule is it has to be on the floor for at least 2 days before we can buy it,, I can assume you don’t get an employee 30 ?? Help. Half the stuff I want is gone by two days. Which ig is the point but like if you buy earlier and they find out you’ll get written up"

Another one who stated that they work for the chain wrote: "So wild bc I work at a goodwill in MN and some ppl I work with shop almost daily. Like what."

While any person else wrote: "I used to work at goodwill and our only rule was you could only buy on your lunch or after shift. just not during. but that was 2017"

Another TikToker simply could not perceive why the chain was making use of such stringent buying groceries rulings to pieces that they received for free of charge: "they got it for free, literally everytime I hear about goodwill the less it makes sense how they are still in business"

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