BP story from local pet store

[reptidude1]

as far as the point of bps being cheaper then rtbs that is wrong the prices of the bp morphs WAYYY exceed the prices of rtb morphs

[justinsane82]

Alright guys...you are in for something here. The lawyer for the woman who was fired somehow got my number and called me to ask me questions. As soon as I had heard who it was I said that I didn't have the time to discuss this with them and that I had to go. Thinking that would be the end of it, after I had hung up, I received a call again saying that if I didn't "cooperate with answering questions, his client will have no choice but to include me in her lawsuit" CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. I hung up and tomorrow I'm going to find out how I can take action against that threat. It will be a he said she said thing but I will not be talked to that way. I can't for the life of me believe it's ballooned out this far. What a joke.

[AcePythons]

Alright guys...you are in for something here. The lawyer for the woman who was fired somehow got my number and called me to ask me questions. As soon as I had heard who it was I said that I didn't have the time to discuss this with them and that I had to go. Thinking that would be the end of it, after I had hung up, I received a call again saying that if I didn't "cooperate with answering questions, his client will have no choice but to include me in her lawsuit" CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. I hung up and tomorrow I'm going to find out how I can take action against that threat. It will be a he said she said thing but I will not be talked to that way. I can't for the life of me believe it's ballooned out this far. What a joke.

You have got to be kidding me. How rude is that??! Not only on the lawyer's part to speak to you like that, but of her to even start all of this. I wish you the best with everything and this is awful you have to go through this. However, reading everything, you were definitely in the right to do what you did. So even though it has blown up, don't regret saying something!! Good luck!

[Patricia]

I received a call again saying that if I didn't "cooperate with answering questions, his client will have no choice but to include me in her lawsuit" CAN YOU BELIEVE IT.

Lawyers usually do business during business hours. The caller can identify him/herself any way he she wants, but you still wouldn't know if it's really the lawyer you were talking to, so it would've been completely foolish to have discussed a single word about the incident.

So sorry this is happening to you.

[Chocolate Muffin's]

Something seems very fishy about this whole story....everything just doesn't add up to me. Not making any implications of falsehood, just sharing an opinion.

Seems odd that an employee would behave so poorly and put herself and her employer in legal jeopardy.

Seems very odd, no matter what the size of the business, that an employer would fire an employee in front of a potential customer.

Seems very fishy that they would have no regard for acquiring any facts prior to terminating her, nor did the shield her from public discipline.

Seems even more strange that either litigant would have counsel contact you so soon after this whole thing just happened.

What am I missing here?

[justinsane82]

Something seems very fishy about this whole story....everything just doesn't add up to me. Not making any implications of falsehood, just sharing an opinion.

Seems odd that an employee would behave so poorly and put herself and her employer in legal jeopardy.

*Can't really answer much on this one. This is something in which only she could answer at this point. My guess would have to be that because she saw me in there so much that she thought that I wouldn't mind something like that going down.*

Seems very odd, no matter what the size of the business, that an employer would fire an employee in front of a potential customer.

*I'm in no way a potential customer. I've done business there for some time and like I said, I'm rather close with the owner's. If I was someone who came and went a few times a year, I would figure things may have happened different.*

Seems very fishy that they would have no regard for acquiring any facts prior to terminating her, nor did the shield her from public discipline.

*I'm not sure what you mean by this. They called me in for a meeting with her while documenting facts before making the call. This was in no way a first time deal with her. It's my understanding that she past the "3 strikes and your out" deal a long time ago*

Seems even more strange that either litigant would have counsel contact you so soon after this whole thing just happened.

*That's not strange at all for civil matters up here in Canada. As brought up in a post shortly before yours, I don't have any proof that the person calling me recently was counsel for the woman at all. This will all be brought up tomorrow when I submit the phone number to the pet shops lawyer.

As for what you're missing...only you can really answer that. I can assure you though that I'm far to busy to make stuff up like this, and to be honest, even if I wasn't, I don't have the imagination needed to draw this up.

[BPelizabeth]

Make sure you contact the owners to let them know that the employees "counsel" contacted you. It is not absurd that this is going on...bad employees twist things all the time and attorney's work all kinds of hours to get a hold of ppl. But again it is important that the owners attorney knows. He can also send the other attorney information so that he is NOT allowed to contact you out of the blue. As far as including you...do not worry he is just trying to scare you. That attorney can question you when you are on the stand if it goes that far. Typically here in the US it will be a phone conversation with an investigator first. Not the other persons attorney.

[AcePythons]

Seems odd that an employee would behave so poorly and put herself and her employer in legal jeopardy.

I actually don't agree with this. I run across people darn near every day who would act like this girl did. Like the OP said, if she has seen him in there many times she probably assumed that he was comfortable enough that she could kind of get away with a bit more than a first time or infrequent customer. Then again I've seen people do similar things to first time customers in every type of retail store.

Some people (especially younger ones like teenagers) don't really think before they do.

[CoolioTiffany]

She most likely had said those words because she was trying to sell the snake since you mentioned that she said she needed the space. I would've gotten pretty pissed too, and would have corrected her. I'm not rich and own a red tail, and not every rich person owns a red tail (most likely a rich person would rather by something for the satisfaction of themselves than care for something that also has needs).

[Chocolate Muffin's]

My problem is that I have been taught to draw logical conclusions based on a set of reasonable conditions. Because, several portions of the story don’t appear logical or plausible (to me), it’s difficult for me to derive at the conclusion that the whole story is factual – again, my observation. I am not implying in any way that you are being untruthful in your recollection or account of the situation. I am simply stating that “I” am having a difficult time making sense out of it.

I am going to do a little more research on Canadian Law, specifically employment law. I'm really interested in learning more about how cases like this are handled in your neck of the woods. Thank you for sharing this.

But to the point others have made, you are clearly not responsible for another person’s behavior and hopefully this situation will resolve itself in a manner that is agreeable to all parties.