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Ex-Chipotle manager, accused of stealing $626, gets $8 million for wrongful termination
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:24 am
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:24 am
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For years, Jeanette Ortiz was a loyal, hardworking general manager for Chipotle Mexican Grill on Shaw Avenue across from the Fresno State campus.
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But in January 2015, Ortiz was fired, accused of stealing $626 in cash from the restaurant's safe, said a lawyer for Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. There was even video evidence to prove Ortiz's theft, the lawyer said.
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But when Ortiz denied stealing the money and asked to see the video evidence, her bosses at Chipotle declined. Instead, the company destroyed the video evidence, said Fresno attorneys Warren Paboojian and Jason Bell, who represent Ortiz in a wrongful termination case she brought against the fast-food giant.
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On Thursday, Fresno County Superior Court jurors ordered Chipotle to pay Ortiz nearly $8 million in damages, ruling that she was not a thief, but was a victim of a scheme to fire and defame her for filing a worker's compensation claim for a job-related injury to her wrist caused by carpal tunnel syndrome.
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But the trial isn't over. Both sides return to Hamilton's court on Monday to determine how much Chipotle must pay in punitive damages to Ortiz. Courts assess punitive damages to deter reprehensible acts, like what the jury determined Chipotle did to Ortiz, from happening again.
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Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:26 am to DemonKA3268
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to see the video evidence, her bosses at Chipotle declined. Instead, the company destroyed the video evidence,
So they fired her without being able to prove the cause.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:28 am to DemonKA3268
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$8 million in damages
If she made 50,000 a year for being the manager of that chipotle, and she became manager at 35, and the average life span of a human is 79 years and you retire at 65, then she just won 5 and a half lifetimes worth of salary.
That's insane. Why wouldn't the maximum penalty be capped at 1.5 million: 50,000 for 30 years?
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:28 am to DemonKA3268
Spoliation land is not somewhere a giant company wants to end up. But hey, they pay white shoe law firms big bucks to give mediocre to slightly below average advice.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:28 am to DemonKA3268
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:28 am to DemonKA3268
One person is stupid.
But a group of people...
But a group of people...
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:29 am to DemonKA3268
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the company destroyed the video evidence
So it's essentially $8 million for stupidity damages.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:32 am to DemonKA3268
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Fresno County Superior Court jurors ordered Chipotle to pay Ortiz nearly $8 million in damages
Jurors are morons. Even if they schemed to defame her it wouldn't be worth 8 mil...hopefully this amount is reduced to no more than a year or 2 salary
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:32 am to DemonKA3268
For all you making fun of this until youve seen firsthand the misery of carpal tunnel disease you shouldn’t say anything. It really is a terrible disease
Posted on 5/14/18 at 9:35 am to DemonKA3268
That is one plump burrito she is enjoying and another one to follow.
All over a workers comp claim. I am betting the one with the bright idea to frame her is no longer available for comment.
All over a workers comp claim. I am betting the one with the bright idea to frame her is no longer available for comment.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 10:01 am to DemonKA3268
As soon as I saw the headline I knew it was California
Posted on 5/14/18 at 10:07 am to DemonKA3268
I'm going to eat Chipotle for lunch.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 10:10 am to DemonKA3268
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her bosses at Chipotle declined. Instead, the company destroyed the video evidence
Play stupid games...
Posted on 5/14/18 at 10:13 am to DemonKA3268
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Hinckley also said Chipotle upper management had no malice toward Ortiz, but felt betrayed because the corporation had supported her through four pregnancies and four worker's compensation claims, and was thinking of promoting her. "She was well-liked. She was a valued employee," Hinckley told the jury. "But she violated that trust by taking the money." In his argument, Hinckley said he didn't know why Ortiz took the funds, but told the jury that Ortiz, who is married with nine children, had fallen on hard times in the fall of 2014. She had to get a loan from a relative to pay an electric bill of $1,700 and had to move from her house to a small apartment. She also told a colleague that she had to get a second job because she needed the money.
seems kind of fishy. and she sounds guilty as frick
This post was edited on 5/14/18 at 10:15 am
Posted on 5/14/18 at 10:23 am to DemonKA3268
Damn she netted $8,000,626?
Not too shabby
Not too shabby
Posted on 5/14/18 at 11:10 am to DemonKA3268
Lawsuits in this country are so screwed up.
$8M for getting fired at a fast food chain? Yeah, people need to have their asses beat for getting us here.
$8M for getting fired at a fast food chain? Yeah, people need to have their asses beat for getting us here.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 12:09 pm to DemonKA3268
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But when Ortiz denied stealing the money and asked to see the video evidence, her bosses at Chipotle declined. Instead, the company destroyed the video evidence, said Fresno attorneys Warren Paboojian and Jason Bell, who represent Ortiz in a wrongful termination case she brought against the fast-food giant.
If Chipotle was that stupid, I have zero sympathy.
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