A Wichita woman says she just wants her job back after Lowe's fired her.

She says it happened after she called police on a shoplifting incident. It all goes back to a man trying to steal a chainsaw at the Lowe's home improvement store in west Wichita over the weekend.

Norma Haden says she didn't think; she just reacted. She admits she shouldn't have, but doesn't think her action was a fireable offense.

"It was like two seconds in my mind when he hit the corner and started to take off," Haden says of the man trying to steal a chainsaw from the store.

She says she bolted for the door and tried to grab the chainsaw. As customers began to react, too, Haden decided to call police.

"I called the police, not for the shoplifter. I called police for the other people that were involved," she says. "I was worried it was going to be a chase, or who knows what, you know?"

Haden says it wasn't until after the incident a member of human resources at Lowe's told her she was supposed to have a manager make the call to police.

Tuesday, Lowe's fired Haden over the incident.

"I just was in shock," she says. "I just sat there. I was like, 'what?'"

Haden's husband, Marc, says he's still trying to find the justice in the situation.

"There's just something wrong in this world where a criminal can walk into a store, commit a crime, and a woman who spent 18 years working for that company walks out unemployed," he says.

Marc Haden was angry enough, he decided to post about the incident on Facebook. In the first 24 hours, it's been shared more than 3,600 times and gotten more than 700 comments.

"I figured I'd get a little bit of a response," he says.

Marc and Norma Haden say all they want is to get Norma's job of 18 years back, with maybe a write-up for what happened.

"We've never had any problems, and then all of a sudden, I'm a liability. I'm an issue because I did one thing that was a mistake, yes," Haden says.

A Lowe's spokesperson says the company's policy for handling shoplifters emphasizes keeping employees and customers safe, but did not provide details on the policy.

When asked specifically if Lowe's fired Norma Haden for calling police, the spokesperson said, "I can't comment on specifics surrounding the incident, but can tell you that we are continuing to investigate."

Norma Haden says most of her training on handling shoplifters was being told to call a manager. It's something she says she didn't have time to do when the shoplifter bolted for the door Saturday.