Posted on 12/27/2007 3:34:15 PM PST by ShadowDancer
Fishmonger Fired For Tackling Shoplifter
POSTED: 5:35 pm EST December 27, 2007
UPDATED: 5:49 pm EST December 27, 2007
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A Ypsilanti man wants his job back at an Ann Arbor grocery store after he was fired because he tried to stop a shoplifter on Sunday.
SoundOff: Who went too far: Whole Foods or Scholtz?
John Scholtz said he lost his job as a fishmonger at a Whole Foods Market in Ann Arbor after he knocked a suspected shoplifter to the ground and detained him.
Scholtz was fired on Monday.
"Our policy is clear and listed in the employee booklet," said Kate Klotz, a Whole Foods spokeswoman.
"The fact that the employee in question touched the suspect is grounds for termination."
Scholtz said he was acting as a private citizen and not as a Whole Foods employee.
"The fact that I worked at the store at (the time of the robbery) is coincidental," he told The Ann Arbor News.
"If I had went over to the book store on my break and they were being ripped off, I would have helped them."
I think it totally rules that someone still uses the word “fishmonger.”
That’s too bad, I shop at Whole Foods allot.
I guess I’ll have to find another place to do business.
Na Na Na Na Naaaa! Can’t touch me!
Free food for everyone at Whole Foods!!!!
“Fishwife for women practicioners”
The coventional wisdom would be that he should have notified the loss prevention professional who also works at that location. The problem is that there are so few professionals in loss prevention...
Sure, I'd like to see every thief get his a$$ kicked but this ain't Gotham and this guy ain't Batman
By the way, love your tagline...or should I say: I can dig it.
Fishmongers? There are fishmongers??
I guess they would frown upon guns also...
So if I shoplift at The Bunny Ranch, do I get tackled by a whoremonger?
If you shoplift at the White House will you be tackled by a warmonger?
Even the heavily pierced and tattooed staff is less offensive than the effete liberal a-holes shopping there with the "NO 'W'" stickers on their BMWs.
The few times that I venture in there to find something that's not available elsewhere, I feel the need to immediately fly home and take a shower.
I bet his real name is Polonius.
(Obscure trivia.)
ROLF!
Interestingly, there aren’t a lot of words ending in monger.
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=1&Keyword=monger&Language=ENG
“Sure, I’d like to see every thief get his a$$ kicked but this ain’t Gotham and this guy ain’t Batman”
If that happened at a Whole Foods, they’d have to bring in grief counselors and close for a day as the employee witnesses recovered from seeing such a “brutal and inhumane” act.
“So if I shoplift at The Bunny Ranch, do I get tackled by a whoremonger?”
Strangely, “fishmonger” was another term for a pimp back in the Middle Ages — hence, Will Shakespear’s use of the word.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
On the other end of the spectrum, the female workers are kind of scary. I think they are all related to Janet Reno in some way.
I don't usually buy meat at Whole Foods because it is so outrageously expensive. I usually get my meat at the butcher shop anyway. But when I do buy meat at Whole Foods, I make sure I take it down a check-out aisle with a male cashier. Because the female cashiers give you dirty looks as they are all apparently vegetarians. The male cashiers don't seem to mind the meat so much rolling down their aisle. And I notice they usually check me out as well. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying there's not a whole lot of Bush voters in that establishment.
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