My boss, the only decent one I've ever had, had to fire somebody a couple of weeks ago for saying
” Man, “LGBTQ+” is just a fancy way of saying I fuck kiddies in their tiny little holes” In response to me answering a customers question, when they asked why I was wearing a pride pin. All I said was “I'm Bi.”, and he said.. That.
Well, my (ex)boss found out about this after I passed it up the ladder, and tried to have a conversation with him about it. He refused to go to the back room, when asked several times, so my boss fired him on the spot, in front of the majority of the staff and a packed store. The fired person knocked over some displays, grabbed his stuff, then left. before calling the DM (who it turns out, is a Friend of his fathers), who then put (ex)boss on suspension for the investigation. Said (Ex)boss was a very loud advocate for improving our working conditions and working with our schedules, and tended to help us out in odd ways when badly needed (exboss would pick up staff sometimes if they had car issues but wanted to come in for example, or expense out uber rides through the companies expenses portal.) The staff of our store, myself included, said that if (ex)boss was fired, we walk. a few days go by without any information, then a week…
Then the bigot comes back into clock in and work. he chuckles and says that (ex)boss was fired, and he got a promotion to ASM while the company is hunting down now 3 SMs for these 3 stores.
45 people walked out once I told everybody what went down, between 3 locations. we've all dropped bad reviews on the company, and all passed complaints up to HR. we aren't returning till this bigot is fired, we get a raise, and (ex)boss is back in position. some forced through their vacation time rather than just walk out, but yeah.
A few notes I found out about this prick to include: He has had 7 harassment complaints, 8ish write ups, he's gotten 13 customer complaints (a lot are for sexist comments, or being rude to women that come in asking for things. its a male dominant field, so he thinks women know nothing) he has been PIP'd 5 times, his father is a friend of the DM and has some influence in the company, He punched another employee once some years ago…
What is some advice for ways to act against some of the poor choices of the DM, and what else can we do to try and put pressure on them? is there anything we should have done here besides this?