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neilinkorea said:People make a big stink about these types of stories because it is only 16 cents worth of dough to a big company and a poor single mother can't feed her kids. But it is about a culture of not giving out goods for free that a franchisee is trying to create at their outlet. If every employee was doing this, the cost would soon be in the hundreds of dollars a day. So that worker stole 16 cents from the company. The same as if she opened the cash register and handed it out in coins. I can see the value in having a policy of free timbits for kids to build goodwill, but this store wasn't doing that and it isn't up to employees to decide policy. She was very smart to go public with it, as it probably saved her job.
This story reminds of the Jack Nicholson quote from As Good As It Gets: "When I picture a woman, I think of a man and take away any sense of responsibility and accountability". I think people would be quicker to say "Break the rules, pay the price", if it were a man in question.
I am suprised with your response. With all the usual left winged do gooder polices which you seem to support, I would have thought you would have a much more supportive view than I even did.
Comparing dough to dollars, the handing out of a timbit, comparing a man to a woman, and then bringing up the hands in the till thing is just BS Neil.
Think twice before you post, eh.
A new high in low as far as I am concerned.