Mother, Daughter Fired for Jerry Springer-Type Fight in CVS Pharmacy

Don't worry, you will find another job where you can beat your co-worker

​A San Francisco mother and her daughter lost another brawl this week when a judge rejected their claim that they were only engaging in self defense when they got into a fight with a coworker at CVS Pharmacy.

The hair-pulling, bitch-slapping, profanity-laced brawl started after Franchesca Johnson told her boss that she felt threatened by her coworker, Bre'Anna Brame. The tension between the two girls started after Brame sent Johnson a "vulgar" text message, accusing Johnson of gossiping about Brame's sexual relationship with the store manager, Kevin Hope.

Among other things, Brame told Johnson "'I'll find someone for your ass," according to court documents filed this week in San Francisco. That scared Johnson, who took it to mean she would find someone to beat her up.

And here's where they got all Jerry Springer on each other.
A few days later as Johnson walked into the break room to clock out from work, two  women approached her and said:  "Bitch, was it you fucking with my little cousin?"

According to court documents, Johnson responded: "No, and what if I was?" The female fired back:  "Bitch, I'll Mace you."

The woman followed through with her threat, pulled out a can of Mace and began spraying the back of Johnson's shirt. Johnson's mother, Wanda Drouillard, who also worked at the pharmacy, intervened, and the punching started.

Brame and the other women supposedly attacked Johnson, pulling her shirt over her head so she couldn't see. Johnson punched one of the other females, who had grabbed her by her waist. Drouillard saw Brame running toward her daughter so she stepped in, only to get punched and her hair yanked. Hope, the man behind the drama, came into the room and tried to break up the fight, but he got punched, too.

Police arrived and broke up the brawl and everyone -- except for Hope --  was fired, according to the claim. 

Drouillard and Johnson sued CVS for wrongful termination, claiming they were only fighting to protect themselves. However, CVS rejected that claim, and a court backed the pharmacy on this one. "While self-defense is important, it is not unique to the workplace, and it would be all too easy to engage in workplace violence and then invoke self defense, including phony invocations of self-defense," U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote.

Alsup also rejected Drouillard and Johnson's claims that CVS was responsible for their injuries.

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