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WEBVTT >> IT STARTS AND IT GOES BACKAROUND AND THEN IT WALKS OUT.>> BOB TALLINGER EXPLAINS THEMOMENT THIS WILD TURKEY WALKEDRIGHT PASSED HIM AT THE WAUKESHAWALMART.IN HIS EIGHT YEARS AS A GREETERAT THE STORE, HE'D NEVER SEENANYTHING LIKE IT.THEN, HE WAS FIRED.>> I SAYS WHAT FOR?WELL, YOU SHOULD HAVE HELPED GETTHAT TURKEY OUT OF HERE.>> THE 88-YEAR-OLD WAS TOLD HESHOULD HAVE ALERTED A MANAGERABOUT THE TURKEY IN THE STORE.>> HE WAS HIRED TO BE A GREETERAND THAT IS WHAT HE DID.HE NEVER SAW A BOOK OF RULESTHAT SAID IF A WILD TURKEY COMESIN HERE, YOU BETTER RUN AND GETMANAGEMENT.>> WE WALKED INTO WALMART TO GETSOME ANSWERS.>> I AM WITH CHANNEL 12 NEWS.WE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHYBOB TALLINGER WAS FIRED FROM HISPOSITION?>> I'M NOT THE BEST PERSON TOANSWER THAT. >> JANET SAYS HER HUSBAND'STERMINATION IS UNFAIR.>> GRANTED HE'S GOTTEN OLDER ANDGRANTED HE'S LOST A LITTLEMEMORY, BUT NEVERTHELESS THATHASN'T PREVENTED HIM FROM BEINGAN EXCELLENT GREETER.>> JANET SAYS BOB IS THE MOSTPOPULAR PERSON AT THE WAUKESHAWALMART AND LOVED WORKING AS AGREETER.WHAT HE'LL MISS MOST?>> THE PEOPLE.THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE I KNOW.>> WE DID REACH OUT TO CORPORATEHEADQUARTERS ABOUT BOB'STERMINATION.THEY ISSUED US THIS STATEMENTTHAT SAYS "WE APPRECIATE THEPUBLIC'S CONCERN AND TAKE THISSITUATION SERIOUSLY.WHILE WE WILL NOT COMMENT ON HRMATTERS, WE CAN CONFIRM MR.TALLINGER IS NO LONGER WITH THECOMPANY." SEVERAL OF BOB'S CO-WORKERSCALLED US TONIGHT VERY UPSETABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.THEY SAY MANAGEMENT WAS WRONG INTHIS CASE AND HE SHOULD BE BACKHERE AS A GREETER.

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