Home Depot employee in her 70s fired for failing to stop $5K in fraudulent transactions: lawsuit

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Published 2024-08-08
A 72-year-old former Bay Area Home Depot employee is suing the retailer for age discrimination and wrongful termination after she was fired for failing to stop $5,000 worth of fraudulent transactions. Carleen Acevedo was fired from Home Depot last July for "creating a security or loss prevention risk" according to her termination letter. She says she felt scared and intimidated by the person at her register, who was paying with a suspicious card. abc7ne.ws/46CmJJx

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All Comments (21)
  • @sixsixsix.
    No matter how much you love your company...they don't love you back!
  • Retail Stores: You're fired if you stop a shoplifter. We'll also fire you if you don't stop fraudulent transactions.
  • She did the right thing in calling the manager. She was being targeted…
  • @d_all_in
    The manager not answering is the one who should be fired
  • @lmcc0072
    It looks like cashiers at Home Depot (and all other cashiers) need to have a “panic button” installed at their work stations.
  • @joegug4751
    72 and still working and worried about paying rent is the real tragedy here.
  • @masonite1973
    Why is there zero information about the actual criminal that committed this credit card fraud?
  • @kentpass
    Never ever try to stop a criminal for a corporation. Let ‘em do whatever. Who cares. You’re going to put your life on the line for a corporation? Are you kidding me?
  • How can they leave an older female outdoors with nobody nearby or answering her calls??? Thats dangerous and negligent. I hope she wins.
  • There is a lot of favoritism at Home Depot when it comes to management
  • Catch-22. They would have fired her if she tried to stop the guy for breaking policy.
  • Home Depot appears to refuse to staff their locations with adequate personnel to deter theft and protect their employees.
  • @protow5041
    As someone over 50 who's been taking care of family in hospice, I'm TERRIFIED to go back to the normal work force in a year or so
  • I don't know what's worse, a 70 y/o having to work, or the crime
  • @iorn9814
    Worse story is when a employee dies over something as small as 5,000
  • @nodak81
    Her biggest mistake was not closing her register after the first transaction. Just walk away when you have the chance. Then go rip the manager a new one for not answering the phone and leaving her alone with weird customers.
  • I worked at this company for 16 years & the 1 thing I know is that no cashier should be left alone in the garden center which is far away from help especially given the death of that young man at the other store. Management should be held responsible.
  • @PinkTigger33
    You don't process a credit card as cash, bottom line. The cardholder can not tell you how to process the card.