Tesco employee caught getting petrol from closed station - but supermarket says man who filmed him is 'in the wrong'

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People who shop at Tesco have been left furious after a video of a staff member putting petrol in his car went viral. The Tesco employee was filmed putting fuel into his car, despite the Tesco petrol station he was in being closed to the public at the time.

Large queues have built up outside the Tesco branch in Leicestershire over the last week as protests at fuel plants across the UK led to a shortage of petrol. As a result, the Tesco petrol station in question had been forced to turn away customers.

Drivers are being advised to fill up with what they need with the majority of petrol stations in Cambridgeshire, Kent and London closed as eco activists continued to block oil terminals. One motorist was left fuming when he noticed a supermarket worker filling up their car with £53 worth of fuel Tesco said it would not tolerate abusive behaviour towards its staff after footage of the incident emerged.

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Frustration boiled over after he spotted that the station was closed and coned off but that the staff member was allowed in. He then posted a video on TikTok of him confronting a worker at the petrol station and their colleague who was filling up.

In the video, the man said Tesco had "closed the petrol station" but that staff were "getting petrol all day long." The man then swore while walking up to the pump and said the worker had put £53 worth of petrol in his car.

One staff member said that it was a colleague who was filling up and asked him to stop filming but the man refused. He said: "So you guys have got petrol, but you're refusing to give it out? I literally have no petrol. I need to get to work. So what about other