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Teen arrested for helping struggling Goodwill shoppers

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Frostbyrn
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http://www.nbc-2.com/story/23541973/paying-it-forward-lands-naples-teen-in-trouble%23.UkV6EhYQu0s#.Ukn3ZoZ6ZQ5


A Florida teen is facing a felony conviction because he tried to help some struggling families at the Goodwill where he worked. Andrew Anderson, 19, was heartbroken by some of the people who came in to the store "wearing all of the clothes they had," so he would give the neediest shoppers discounts of up to 50 percent on the necessities they bought. But when store officials learned what Anderson was doing, their small hearts didn't exactly grow three sizes: They fired him and reported him to sheriff's deputies, who arrested him for grand theft. 

Guest


Guest

Wow....

Kaitlynn

Kaitlynn

All about the all-mighty $.

Ridiculous. Especially for a company thats suppose to be helping people.

Ante

Ante

i can't wait to see how they respond to this PR disaster.

Grey

Grey

So we are feeling pity on the one who went against the company and stole "money" from them? You do not, as a lower level employee, dictate the price of merchandise that isn't yours. You help pay it for them. You people would not feel pity if he was doing it for someone with money, nor a friend of his that could pay for the stuff easily.

Kaitlynn

Kaitlynn

...who peed in your cheerios this morning?

Kaitlynn

Kaitlynn

Ante wrote:i can't wait to see how they respond to this PR disaster.
They did.


http://www.nbc-2.com/story/23551555/goodwill-wont-pursue-charges-against-former-clerk#.UkoJ8YYjJmM

Frostbyrn

Frostbyrn

MissSym wrote:...who peed in your cheerios this morning?

I did, And they were Fruit Loops

He knows what he did

Guest


Guest

Frank West wrote:So we are feeling pity on the one who went against the company and stole "money" from them? You do not, as a lower level employee, dictate the price of merchandise that isn't yours. You help pay it for them. You people would not feel pity if he was doing it for someone with money, nor a friend of his that could pay for the stuff easily.
While you may have a point.....its still BS.

chunckylover53



He's playing with house money that isn't his...


I mean as a human being yeah that's terrible, and i can't say i've ever been in a good will store but its main purpose is to get clothing to the less fortunate so i don't know where they'd go with this.

Guest


Guest

Fire the guy sure....but dont call the cops on his ass for grand theft

Frostbyrn

Frostbyrn

He probably would have been shot to death later in the day for farting in the desert anyway

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Kaitlynn

Kaitlynn

Yeah, thats true.

But then, he also wasn't benefitting from it either. Also, a place that is suppose to be giving people a hand up (not a hand out) has certainly raised their prices lately. That only makes it harder on those who are really deserving of a service like this to make use of it.

There isn't any real reason a nonprofit organization should raise its prices; especially with more and more people turning to them to get basic items instead of buying new.

Metalzoic

Metalzoic

Like Grey said this is pretty cut and dry.

He was stealing. What he chose to do with the money he was taking from the company makes no difference at all. And if he stole enough for it to be considered felony embezzlement then it must have been quite a lot and he deserves to have charges pressed against him.

This is why we have jury trials. If a jury decides that his altruism outweighs the crime so be it.

Guest


Guest

Isnt Goodwill non profit like my wife said?

Charging the kid for grand theft is petty bullshit.

I dunno , I totally see it from a business perspective, but to go that far is quite the douchey move.

Metalzoic

Metalzoic

I don't know if they're non-profit.
If they are though isn't that actually worse?

"Kid steals from a charitable non-profit organization"


Guest


Guest

Its not like he was cutting into profits

I think he should be fired, never said I didnt.

Just dont think he should have all the legal bs.

Metalzoic

Metalzoic

That's because you're a good guy.
I would have strapped him into the electric chair already.

Grey

Grey

MissSym wrote:...who peed in your cheerios this morning?

It's simple economics. You can't have a business with people cutting on the side. And you may think that they don't need money, but you forget the cost of running the facilities. Some of the profit has to go to the running of the places.

Kaitlynn

Kaitlynn

I understand that.

I'm just saying it was a well meant gesture he was doing.

ETA: I agree he shouldn't have done it and firing was rightly so. But, trying to charge him with grand theft is a bit much.

Besides...there are days where they do give items at 50% off. And aside from a different color sticker, I don't see how they would really know how much he 'stole'. They don't scan barcodes.

sheep

sheep

This is why I donate to Salvation Army or local programs and not Goodwill. They do a shit job helping people.  I can find better prices at Ross.

menacinglemon

menacinglemon

MissSym wrote:I understand that.

I'm just saying it was a well meant gesture he was doing.

ETA: I agree he shouldn't have done it and firing was rightly so. But, trying to charge him with grand theft is a bit much.

Besides...there are days where they do give items at 50% off. And aside from a different color sticker, I don't see how they would really know how much he 'stole'. They don't scan barcodes.
Again as stated earlier its the whole jury of your peers thing. But yeah he should be fired for stealing...and charged with theft...not grand theft ...whatever that hell that is... We got theft under $5000 and Theft over $5000 here...so yeah

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