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The original was posted on /r/walmart by /u/Charming-Switch-6113 on 2025-11-08 01:53:57+00:00.

I work at a walmart supercenter, my father works at a Neighborhood Market. At my father’s store, there had been a fire in the Deli. He had been in the milk cooler, where he couldn’t hear anything. He did NOT have headphones in. He was in there for an hour, and once he walks out someone says “What are you doing in here?” And explain that the store had been evacuated for the past hour due to a fire in the deli. The manager on Duty was laughing about it, saying “I didn’t even know you were here! Thank God, we were talking about closing the store down. You could’ve got locked in too.”

According to other employees, the manager had done a headcount and said they were only one person short, who was a girl that had already went home. Asset protection had walked through and glanced in the cooler doors from the outside through where the milk was but did not walk through the actual cooler.

No one even knew my father was there supposedly even though you can look and see that he’s clocked in, and other employees had pointed out that my father wasn’t there, but the manager said that he wasn’t there today.

I am fuming. My dad is going to talk to the store manager tomorrow, but I want to know what our options are because my father could have lost his life! Can we sue? Can I call OSHA? Can I call the fire department? Who do I call and what do I do to get justice?

That manager is also currently trying to transfer to my store, so I’m debating on going to my people lead and explaining what happened under her supervision.

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.