My blood is boiling

[Vypyrz]

TO OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE RESPONDED,
Please be careful when responding to this or any other thread where you advocate violence. This goes directly against the rules of the forum and could possibly result in you receiving infraction points.

Jim Smith

I agree Jim.

SITE RULES (the short version)

3. No Hate Speak. No racial, religious, gender-related, or sexual slurs. No threats of violence or personal attacks whether public posts or private messages.

8. No posts may be made that encourage or endorse criminal activity, either explicit or implied.

[j_h_smith]

1) Report the incident to the authorities.
2) ASAP after step 1: Notify the store manager as well as Petsmart corporate, along with the police report. Make it evident that you will cause an uproar. Petsmart will want to protect their reputation, and he will be fired in short order.
3) Follow up with the authorities to make sure they do their job. Repeat step 3 as much as necessary.

Be a pest and watch who gets fired. They won't fire her for that, but they will be watching her closely and find a reason to terminate her.

Be Careful,
Jim Smith

[j_h_smith]

They CAN'T fire her for reporting him. That is discrimination and warrants court proceedings. Trust me, that is NOT somewhere they want to go, especially over a couple of snakes. So report that idiot, if they talk about terminating your wife, assure them that your lawyer has other ideas. People take discrimination in the workplace VERY seriously.

Gale

It is not discrimination. Can you tell me how she would be discriminated against?

Where wouldn't they want to go? This is a personal matter. It has nothing to do with the company nor the store itself. A person that is employed by the store had 2 snakes die while in his care. Sure, it was neglect, but he did not commit anything against company policies while on company time. It's a personal matter. Nothing more. Reporting this person to a company hotline usually wouldn't be an issue, but since she's the ONLY person that knows of this incident, who do you think will be blamed for wasting the company's time with repoting a NON-Business related incident? This hotline is meant to report issues within the stores, not because some idiot killed 2 of his own snakes, in his own house, on his own time.

However, once this report gets out to the store's manager, he's going to talk to the idiot and he's going to say that the only person that knew anything about the situation is the OP's wife. Now the whole store will know that she's the one that dropped the dime on the idiot. If the idiot has any friends as co-workers, they will make it tough on the wife. If the manager happens to be a friend of the idiot, life will be dreadful for the wife. If they are really close, they could be looking for a reason to fire the wife. So they will be able to fire her in a round about way. As stated in another post, Vengence is best served cold. Don't act while your emotions have the best of you. I'm not saying she will get fired, but I would think in the workplace a snitch is often thought of in a worse light, than someone who happen to have a few snakes die while in their care.

I wish you would explain the descrimination alligation. There is absolutely no case for a descrimation law suit. Stop giving bad advice.

Jim Smith

[Trey Yeoman]

I feel your disgust and sorrow

[llovelace]

That guy should come and take a scenic ride on the lake with me.

[angllady2]

I wish you would explain the descrimination alligation. There is absolutely no case for a descrimation law suit. Stop giving bad advice.

Jim Smith

My apologies. I went back and reread what the OP had posted and realized I misunderstood. For some reason I had it in my head these animals were store property.

So, you are absolutely correct. It sucks, but there isn't a thing that the store can do about it, except to maybe not let him sell reptiles ?

Gale

[Generationshell]

I would suggest reporting animal neglect
But unfortunately from experience they may do nothing.
Apparently negligence of animals only constitutes for Dogs and Cats... not reptiles...
Try to report but Don't be surprised when they tell you they cant do ish about it.
Something is seriously wrong when reptiles don't have any rights.
And for the most part that seems to be the case.