candybar2238
Junior Member
What is the name of your state: California
I was a loss prevention manager for a major retail store. An accident occured where an associate slammed her thumb in the safe. Another hourly associate rushed her out of the store and to the doctor. While they were on the road they called our operations manager and told her what happened. Our operations manager handed me the phone and I told them where to take the injured associate. They ended up going to an urgent care center that was not in our insurance companys network. I then went to the urgent care and found out from the doctors office that she was getting a few stitches and that she would be fine. So with that I went back to the store. A few hours later the injured associate returned and told me the same thing again, that the doctor said she would be fine and had a follow up appointment two days later. So, I informed the manager on duty (the operations manager). The next day i was to start a 6 day vacation. Two days later I received a phone call from one of my associates saying that during the follow up appointment it was determined that the injured associate needed emergency surgery or she could lose her thumb. They rushed a doctor in to perform the surgery. The next day while still on my vacation I was informed by the injured associate that she would be out for two weeks. Us having a return to work program I did not accept this and went into the store and informed the HR lead and Store manager of this. The HR lead told me she would call the doctor and inform him that we wanted her back to work ASAP. Well to sum it up, when i returned to work i was told to write a statment of what happened, then a week later i was fired for not handeling the accident correctly.
Reasons given by store manager during the termination:
Did not find out from doctor's office what happened - I did do that as stated above.
Did not inform the store manager of the accident - no policy states the store manager has to be called at home and told about an accident, in fact the manager on duty was informed. Who by the way was the operations manager who is in charge of the safety program.
Did not get a second opinion from a doctor in our network - Did not have time, also did not seem reasonable. The doctor's office stated that all she needed were stitches and she was ok.
Did not call the accident in right away. - Accident was called into the insurance company the next day under the 24 hours which is stated under policy.
And lastly, I was on vacation and still worked on this accident from home, all with the store manager, operations manager, and HR lead having known about what had happened.
And no, no one else was fired for this. Any help would be appreaciated. Thanks.
I was a loss prevention manager for a major retail store. An accident occured where an associate slammed her thumb in the safe. Another hourly associate rushed her out of the store and to the doctor. While they were on the road they called our operations manager and told her what happened. Our operations manager handed me the phone and I told them where to take the injured associate. They ended up going to an urgent care center that was not in our insurance companys network. I then went to the urgent care and found out from the doctors office that she was getting a few stitches and that she would be fine. So with that I went back to the store. A few hours later the injured associate returned and told me the same thing again, that the doctor said she would be fine and had a follow up appointment two days later. So, I informed the manager on duty (the operations manager). The next day i was to start a 6 day vacation. Two days later I received a phone call from one of my associates saying that during the follow up appointment it was determined that the injured associate needed emergency surgery or she could lose her thumb. They rushed a doctor in to perform the surgery. The next day while still on my vacation I was informed by the injured associate that she would be out for two weeks. Us having a return to work program I did not accept this and went into the store and informed the HR lead and Store manager of this. The HR lead told me she would call the doctor and inform him that we wanted her back to work ASAP. Well to sum it up, when i returned to work i was told to write a statment of what happened, then a week later i was fired for not handeling the accident correctly.
Reasons given by store manager during the termination:
Did not find out from doctor's office what happened - I did do that as stated above.
Did not inform the store manager of the accident - no policy states the store manager has to be called at home and told about an accident, in fact the manager on duty was informed. Who by the way was the operations manager who is in charge of the safety program.
Did not get a second opinion from a doctor in our network - Did not have time, also did not seem reasonable. The doctor's office stated that all she needed were stitches and she was ok.
Did not call the accident in right away. - Accident was called into the insurance company the next day under the 24 hours which is stated under policy.
And lastly, I was on vacation and still worked on this accident from home, all with the store manager, operations manager, and HR lead having known about what had happened.
And no, no one else was fired for this. Any help would be appreaciated. Thanks.