Longtime Big Lots Manager in New York Fired After Reporting Assault on Employee by Shoplifter to Police

EXCERPT:

GUIDER: "What I saw was he took a swing, like a punch at her."
REPORTER (voice-over): "That's what Pat Guider says he saw inside the Big Lots store that he used to manage it ironically. And that's why he followed the shoplifter out of the store."
GIDER: "I let people who shoplift leave the store every day. Every day. We just put it in the system that they ask us to do. This is an assault. This wasn't shoplifting. This was an assault."
REPORTER: "Despite 20 years with the company and a positive review in March, the company did not see it the way Guider did and two weeks after the incident Guider says he was called to his district manager's office and fired."