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Summary

Walmart fired Dani Davis, a 6'4" cisgender woman, after a man who mistook her for transgender verbally threatened her in a women’s restroom at a Florida store.

Davis, visibly shaken, reported the March 14 incident to her immediate supervisor but was fired for not informing salaried management, allegedly creating a “security risk.”

Davis called the firing discriminatory. After viral backlash, Walmart offered to reinstate her with back pay.

Davis, a longtime employee, is uncertain about returning, citing fears of a hostile work environment.

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[-] mad_djinn@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

FIT YOURSELF INTO THE PROPERLY SHAPED HOLE OR DIE

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[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

When you're so committed to "protecting women's spaces" that you go into a women's restroom to harass a woman.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago

in other words, this is a reason for the workers to unionize.

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago

Walmart should have "fired" that customer, ie trespass him. WTF was this goon doing in the women's restroom anyway?

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[-] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 weeks ago

What ever happened to people just minding their own business?

Seriously, just help when you can and but out otherwise. EASY peasy recipe for a better life.

It’s almost like “Ignorance is bliss” got mixed into “intolerance is better” somewhere along the way.

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[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

Zero surprise Walmart did the wrong thing

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If someone absolutely had to be fired over this, it's her supervisor for either not telling her to let a higher up know, or being a god dam supervisor and not reporting it up the chain themselves. WTF

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

So fragile and white...

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 25 points 2 weeks ago

What a fucking chode that guy is.

[-] griff@lemmings.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

omg let’s go after everybody that doesn’t fit some kind of white heteronormative cookie cutter idea of humanity

[-] credo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago
[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

That's pretty much where the magoffs are, emotionally and intellectually.

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[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago
[-] urquell@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

These fucking Conservatives desperately need to have their fucking heads kicked in. They're fucking apes; they don't understand anything else.

[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Walmart appeared to acknowledge the error in a statement released to the media.

“We want our associates to feel safe and supported in their workplace, and we won’t tolerate bullying or threats of violence against our associates or customers,” Walmart spokesperson Joe Pennington said in a statement. “We’ve reviewed the situation and will be addressing it internally. We’ve also made multiple attempts to invite Ms. Davis to return to work, with back pay.”

For once in my life I'd like to see one of companies respond in the same way that got them in the situation in the first place. Like if Walmart just responded, "lol fuck you idc" it would actually make me less angry than this bullshit.

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