After an employee put the safety of a child before his job and was subsequently let go, Home Depot says it would reverse their decision to fire Dillion Reagan.
Reagan, however, said thanks but no thanks.
Regan, of Portland, Ore., said he heard his coworker yell for help while he was finishing up his shift at the store’s tool rental center. Apparently, there was a loud and reportedly violent domestic dispute taking place in the parking lot, KGW.com reports.
“At the time, the only thing I was thinking about was the child’s safety,” said Regan who worked at the Home Depot for four years. “I stepped outside and sure enough, there’s this lady whose frantic and crying, ‘Somebody help me, please! He’s stealing my kid, he’s kidnapping my child!”
Dillon Reagan says he was fired from Home Depot for doing the right thing. “Because you assisted the police in preventing a kidnapping.” pic.twitter.com/GwEfFMs6yK
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Reagan and his co-worker left their posts to go call the police. That’s when the dispatcher told Regan to follow the man on foot until police arrived, which was about three blocks.
“There was any number of twists or turns that he could have taken once he got off the premises that the police wouldn’t have known where to look for him. I think I did the right thing,” Reagan told ABC 6. “I broke the safety violation of leaving the store premises while on duty.”
Police arrived within 10 minutes and Reagan went back to his post.
Reagan says that his manager yelled at him and said he did the wrong thing and should have stayed at his post. Since he had argued with an employee a few weeks prior, Reagan was fired.
“It was still the right thing to do,” Reagan said. “I was kind of in a catch-22 situation, I’m damned if I do, damned if I don’t.”
It was only after news outlets reached out to Home Depot that they started to reassess their decision.
“This is a very complex situation, so we’re taking another look at the decision,” they told KGW.com. “We always want to be certain that we’re treating any associate fairly.”
Eventually, they issued the following statement.
“We took a second look at this and have let Mr. Reagan know that we’ve decided to reverse our decision, based on the circumstances. We always do our dilligence to make sure associates are treated fairly, which we’ve done in this case.”
Reagan says Home Dept can keep the job and that he isn’t interested in working for a company that values store policy over human lives.
“We should be doing the right thing regardless of what company policy is, regardless of what the consequence is,” Regan told KGW.com. “What’s good and what’s right supersedes what’s policy and what’s orders. Hands down.”
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source: KGW
