It is not an unusal company policy that employees not resist a robbery attempt. Give them the money or whatever. Had the driver carried a machine gun, no doubt he’d be another “stand your ground” case.
Patting this employee on the head for being a hero or something for violating a personnel policy can lead to some tragic consequences.

Brings up some interesting questions. Does a guy working for minimum wage plus tips really have to put his life on the line and follow company policy or face discipline? Is this really much different from being sent in to clean out a pipeline that may have gases built up in it and being overcome by the fumes? What is the company’s responsibility for the employee’s safety?

Mike, the story says the three who have been arrested have been charged with robbery.

Pizza Hut then demoted the man, as well as slashed his pay for the incident. limalimamike

And unreported by the Blaze, Fox, and about 75 other right wings blogs:

“He was not demoted, his wages were not lowered and his hours were not cut,” wrote [Pizza Hut representative] Doug Terfehr. “He remains employed with Pizza Hut and the situation is being handled internally with the utmost concern for his well being.”

Wonder how that happened. I mean, they wouldn’t intentionally report the guy was demoted without asking Pizza Hut, would they? That would be, (gulp) libel! And considering that this story has gone viral without a mention of Pizza Hut’s side of the story in most versions, Pizza Hut might win.

LLM, championing role models since, um, December 30, 2012, now helping to ruin a business.

Dear Mr Personal Responsibility,
I found several sites that updated their story to include the Pizza Hut response. You look them up. Your manifesto seems not to care. Nor do you. Your lectures on personal responsibility have eluded you.

MM, your comment made me go back and re-read the story. In it Fox states they are reporting what the employee told them and they also said that the company had yet to make a statement. Hardly seems libelous or even unfair. The employee no doubt felt it was a demotion since the kitchen help, while earning the same wage, would not earn the tips the drivers do.

OK, lots of good questions. First of all, the story did not originate with The Blaze but with the local Fox TV affiliate. When they reported the story they plainly state that Pizza Hut had not yet responded to their numerous requests for a comment. I suspect that if they had waited for that comment before airing the story it would had been very old news. Comments defending one’s position usually come more readily after the other side of the story is out there.

Secondly, the original Huffpo piece is dated two days after the Fox TV story and at the bottom of the article it notes that the story had been updated to include information from Pizza Hut, information that had been emailed to Huffpo. So, aside from not having Pizza Hut’s version, I don’t know what the original Huffpo piece had in it, and I don’t know whether the email was widely dispersed. So unless you have cards you’re not showing, I don’t see any reason to claim bias or poor reporting ethics against anyone yet.