Disabled workers who fill many of Walmart’s greeter jobs say they’re being unfairly targeted and will lose their jobs.
John Combs is losing his job as a greeter at a Walmart store in Vancouver, Wash. He loved the work, and it had taken five years to find a job he could do.
Walmart says it is striving to place greeters in other jobs at the company, but workers with disabilities are worried. As word spread, first on social media and then in local and national news outlets, outraged customers began calling Walmart to complain. Tens of thousands of people signed petitions. Facebook groups sprang up with names like “Team Adam” and “Save Lesley.” A second-grade class in California wrote letters to Walmart’s chief executive on behalf of Adam Catlin, a disabled greeter in Pennsylvania whose mother had written an impassioned Facebook post about his plight.
“What am I going to do, just sit here on my butt all day in this house? That’s all I’m going to do?” Combs said to his sister and guardian, Rachel Wasser. “I do my job. I didn’t do anything wrong.”
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