Schwans fired for a honest mistake Hartville Ohio

I havn't been fired yet as my LGM was with me the day I tried to set up a group stop at a business. I never got the so called 8 week training that I keep hearing about. I went out with another CSM for about 3 days and was thrown to the sharks on the fourth day. I did exactly the same thing the original person in this report did.. not on purpose.. but because of the lack of training. I have worked many places where I was given an employee number.. so on that assumption.. which may be my downfall... I entered the same employee number for each person in the stop.. Good thing I didnt sign a bunch of group stops up for service or I think I would have been fired myself. I also thank my LGM for catching what I was doing before it happened again and explained what I was doing wrong. I believe the original complaint made an honest mistake Like I made.. Mistakes are human.. we all make them... To lose your job over an honest mistake because of bad training practices should be illegal. Somehow I think the LGM in this situation placed the blame on the new guy to save his own tail from being canned.

LAWSUITE....... SUE.............LAWSUITE.......... SUE................ SUE........... THEY CAUSE A PROBLEM FOR YOU GIVE IT BACK.. IT IS TIME TO FIGHT BACK PEOPLE. WE CAN NOT LET THIS COMPANY DO THIS TO US . START TO FIGHT, IF YOU KEEP PUTTING UP WITH THIS GARBAHE , THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO LOOSE IS ALL OF US .

In order to create the employee discount you have to put the employee number into the HHC (Hand Held Computer). Each employee has a specific 6 digit number assigned to them. In order to give each person the discount you had to have entered an employee number in for each of them. This was not a simple mistake but it appears to be a calculated one.

I worked for schwans for about 2 years. the best thing that I did was to quit and get another job. this is not a family friendly company IMO. 14 to 15 hour days not counting accounting and money justifying time are the rule. they wanted me to do this 6 days a week. I got a life and went to work elsewhere. better money and less hours. no wonder they have to advertise on the back of their trucks for help.

...but you did make it.

The biggest thing against you is that you started to work for them on January 22nd, but signed up these people on March 25th. It is hard to believe that in that about 8 week period you never signed up a customer, were not instructed how to do it, or never learned on your own by watching other employees.

Unauthorized discounts in the eyes of business is at the same level as theft. They probably know it was a mistake. As they only fired you and did not have you arrested(and yes I have seen people arrested for doing this intentionally). So the reasons they gave you are valid grounds for termination, no RipOff here.

If you honestly feel that the hours were "slave hours" for "little pay", and you had to "push unwanted products", perhaps they did you a favor by firing you. The best thing you can do is use this as a learning experience in your future jobs.

That's why it's called an "EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT". It may have been honest, but it WAS a stupid mistake. Giving unauthorized discounts to family and friends is one of the main reasons companies fire people. You've only worked there a month and you've already cost them additional money and embarrassment. They're gonna look real stupid going back to those people and telling them they can't have the discount OR if the deceide to let them keep the discount, it could cost them thousands of dollars in lost revenue. I would have fired you too. With the number of posts from Schwan drivers about how bad it is to work for this company, they probably did you a favor.

People get fired for making mistakes all the time. It's not a ripoff. And how can you allegedly sell 'unwanted products' when apparently 5 or 6 (how can you not know how many if you made the sales?) did want the product? Or, did they only want the product if you gave them a discount which is what got you in trouble?