Posted on 12/23/2015 10:02:30 AM PST by Zakeet
When a middle school student came to Dalene Bowden and said she was hungry but didn't have the $1.70 to pay for her meal, the food service worker didn't think twice.
She gave her the meal for free.
Bowden's supervisor at Irving Middle School saw the cafeteria worker's deed and reported her. Last week Bowden received a certified letter from the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District in Pocatello, Idaho, that informed her of she was terminated from her job due to theft and "inaccurate transactions when ordering, receiving and servicing food."
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
The rules are made to be obeyed ... without exception!
It’s only charity if it’s someone else’s account.
This is bogus.
Distorted nonsense.
How much was the silverware worth that Hillary stole leaving the White House?
Rules are meant for the little people.
The government hates competition. I’m sure they have a program for that and it will only take six weeks to get the appropriate vouchers. Unless, you are of the chosen people...
I thought they all got free lunches...or most of them.
Wrong to not just put the $1.70 in the till. Firing however is a grossly unfair way to treat her...........IMHO. Merry Christmas, Idaho! ( remember? )
I don’t go to the blaze any more. Even with ghostery and adblock the site is a nightmare.
If she’d put $1.70 into the till, I’d have been outraged had she been fired. But giving away someone else’s property in the name of “charity” is not charity, it’s theft.
Since kids go to lunch because they are hungry, shouldn’t...nevermind.
Typical MBA management.
The idea that there isn’t a charity account that school cafeteria workers can charge it to is crap. Give the kid the food, charge to acct #9999, or whatever. There is no shrink budget for a cafeteria? Yeah, right.
I saw her crying to the news this morning.
If she was so heartbroken that the child couldn’t afford lunch, why didn’t she pay for it herself?
Not one comnent on the whistleblower puttin her own money in the til
If one iz guilty,then both are
If I lived next to you,I’d move
There's the letter of the law, and then there's the spirit of it. Which is better, God only knows.
1) Technically this is stealing as the meal was not hers to give.
2) That is of little consequence since the optics are SO bad, the assembled media and a substantial chunk of the public are going to come down on this school district like a ton of bricks. I bet she gets rehired with a large cash settlement. 50-50 whether the guy who fired her keeps his job.
Sadly we live in an age where feeling and optics trump morality, reason and facts.
If I read the story correctly, each kid is allowed to go ‘in the hole’ eleven dollars. So this kid went through the line and got a tray, and when it was time to pay, it became apparent that the account was already maxed out.
So the procedure is to give the kid free milk and a peanut butter sandwich...and throw away the food that’s already on the tray.
So she stole food that was moments away from being thrown in the trash.
No it wasn’t charity, but I don’t think she was attempting to be charitable...more trying to avoid needlessly wasting food.
If I went and collected unused laptops at my work and gave them to a local elementary school without my employer’s permission, I would expect to be fired. Why should this be any different?
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