Woman confronts Starbucks employee who stole her credit card

[bluestateguy]

http://hellobeautiful.com/2016/01/05/starbucks-juana-martinez-lakewood-ca/

[exboyfil]

1. Any confrontation with a stranger

is dangerous in our country given the number of guns that are readily available. I would never do this, and I would especially never do it with children in the car.

I saw a Facebook post today that got me thinking about this as well. It was a page out of a coloring book placed on a windshield. The statement was that the owner of the car should learn how to stay between the lines by coloring the turtle. Funny but worth a confrontation?

Eyes forward and hands on the wheel. I used to react with gestures and facial expressions to incidents of bad driving until I reacted on the interstate and the car in front of me threw objects at my car. I had my kids in the car - never again. Nothing to escalate a situation.

[rusty quoin]

2. It makes me feel nothing but bad.

My wife's card was ripped off 2 times in Toronto, but it was like in game and liquor stores. That woman looks like she was desperate. I never knew times like this. Pay people decent wages and they do not become desperate.

[marble falls]

3. Theft is not OK. But I have more sympathy for the employee....

who is going to face sanctions stronger than any bankster did for their crimes, than I do for the customer who wasn't looking for justice as much as she looked for getting even.

Justice is what we look for in society, getting even is not justice.

[baldguy]

5. The kid used the money to buy groceries.

Justice should include being paid enough at a job to be able to feed your family.

[marble falls]

6. Pretty much what I feel.

[cwydro]

4. She did that with her kids in the car?

They sounded very young. And her language in front of them

This country, sigh.

What a great example she set for them.

[Captain Stern]

7. The customer chose not to press charges.

She felt that the online shaming was punishment enough.

So, other than being fired, the thief got off easy.