‘Axed for calling the cops’

Lululemon firings

Two Georgia women are blasting Lululemon for sacking them after they called the police while three masked men pillaged the store.

The brazen thieves burst into the Peachtree Corners store in metro Atlanta earlier this month to grab fistfuls of athletic clothing.

“No! No! No! You can march back out!” then-Assistant Manager Jennifer Ferguson (inset) told them.

The looters, who had struck the store nearly a dozen times before, momentarily stood in the store doorway and stared at her and another employee, Rachel Rogers, before jumping back inside to snatch several more pairs of leggings.

“Seriously? Get out!” Ferguson said.

One of the thieves responded, “Chill, b---h! Shut your ass up!”

The two women followed the group outside and watched as they piled into their getaway car, but did not try to physically stop them.

Instead, they reported the robbery to Gwinnett police, who later tracked down suspects and charged them with felony robbery.

That move, however, cost them their jobs, they claim.

“We are not supposed to get in the way. You kind of clear path for whatever they’re going to do,” Ferguson said. “And then, after it’s over, you scan a QR code. And that’s that. We’ve been told not to put it in any notes, because that might scare other people. We’re not supposed to call the police.”

Ferguson and Rogers, who captured the robbery on video, said they were questioned by a regional manager on their decision to call the police.

Ferguson’s husband, Jason, took to Facebook to commend the women and slam Lululemon for punishing their bravery.

“I am more than proud to announce that my wife went into ‘fight’ mode. She protected herself and the other employees and the store by yelling at them to get out. She defended . . . her people,” he wrote on Facebook.

Both women said they weren’t given “specific reasoning” for their terminations other than that Lululemon has a “no-tolerance policy.” According to Jason, the women were told it would “look bad for Lululemon to be the company calling the police.”

A corporation spokesperson told The Post that the Lululemon handbook has a zero-tolerance policy for employees on chasing or physically engaging with a thief.

“This also includes leaving the store to pursue a guest or gather additional information about the suspected or observed theft,” the book states.

Employees are required, however, to “Call 911 immediately after the suspects have left the store,” something the two women claim they did.