Impressive.

Next time you get fired, let me know. I'll heckle you! I like to think of it as motivation.

I'm not through the trial period yet but sadly it looks like this one will hold for a while.

Good luck to you man.

Not sure how on your side I am... If customers saw what your friend was doing, it would have made news and that walmart would have had it's reputation dragged through the mud. Worst case scenario, the whole store could have been closed. That's how serious what your friend did was. No that's not an exaggeration, you just admitted that you're management. It's not that big of a jump to say "maybe the whole management team is like that."

As far as whether you were involved or not, do you have any evidence that you weren't involved? If not, this could just end up being a he said/she said argument and the courts could just throw out the whole case and you'll be stuck with a lot of legal expenses on top of being jobless.

What crime was committed?

I can't get

"I!
I was fired by my boss tonight!
It must have been something we built!"

out of my head...

Customers reporting this would cause significant harm to Walmart's image, especially once it went viral due to all the racists coming out in fury post Drumpf's win. Anyone part of the event should be fired immediately.

I do not think you are nazi/racist/etc, but you should have called him out and ended it immediately.

I am not trying to belittle you or your job, but it was only retail. I'd take this as a forcing function to move on from retail. Make yourself more valuable by learning a trade, go to school, etc. In my region, call centers are great places to earn decent income with benefits and enough flexibility to go to school. Personally, I did that and then retail while I went to school. Hell, at times I worked 2 or 3 jobs while still going to school... that sucked. I know what its like to struggle and I know what its like to not. Its never too late to earn a degree in something that will bring you more happiness and an easier path in life. Including starting your own company if you know a trade/skill.

You know in all honesty I would say it would be in your best interest to be forward with this and try to put yourself in just the unlucky position of having been the duty manager when a silly prank happened, distance yourself from event of what happened but still don't try to hide why wallmart would have had to make an example of why you were blamed for the event so they would in no way be liable for any wrongdoing when they can pin it on the manager at the time.

Really sorry again for this shit, especially at Christmas, hope you get a decent human in the unemployment centre who helps you get yourself sorted out for the holidays. Sorry Ryan man.

good luck

You don't need to lie though, but for sure you don't need to tell all. You can summarize that an employee under you missconducted and upper management didn't agree with how you disciplinated him. Or that your function was redunctant in the store you were working and since you were the youngest manager you were the one fired.

Drawing the nazi symbol can be interpreted as making racist remarks and framed as hate speech because of all that it entails, and since the store didn't call the police, just fired him it wouldn't even need to be a crime to become ground to termination.