A former Home Depot cashier is suing the retail giant, saying she was the victim of age discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and emotional distress after a customer bullied her into completing a suspicious transaction.
Filed July 31 in Contra Costa County Superior Court, the suit alleges Carleen Acevedo, now 72, was fired at age 70 and was discarded 'like trash' after she came face-to-face with a thief, her lawyers said Monday in a statement. The suit accuses Home Depot of using the incident as a pretext to fire her, 'demonstrating a disregard for employee safety at a time when smash-and-grab robberies were rampant.
Her lawyers from Oakland-based Benton Employment Law said when she processed the transaction under duress, Acevedo was petrified of the man. She was aware of company policy that employees weren't supposed to stop customers from stealing. She knew a security guard at a nearby Home Depot in Pleasanton had been shot to death by a shoplifter in April 2023.
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