You're not you when your hungry...............
Posted on 10/03/2017 2:06:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman and her employer reached a settlement on Wednesday in a case over how she was fired without notice from her job of 30 years over eating a colleague's chocolate bar.
The woman, Juliane L., had been employed as a care worker at a facility for disabled children for more than three decades, when she was fired in February without notice over accusations that she ate a colleague’s chocolate bar worth €2.50, and also used a work washing machine for private purposes.
The employer had argued that these were violations of house rules, and that she had repeatedly stolen other items. Aside from the chocolate bar, the employer said she had taken a colleague’s bag without consent and given it to a student as a “secret Santa” gift.
At the age of 64, Juliane L. was up for retirement in just a few years.
A Heidelberg court found that the personal use of a facility washing machine had not been explicitly forbidden, and that the fate of the €10 bag could not be clarified. Therefore the only remaining allegation was regarding the chocolate bar.
But the judge also noted that the chocolate bar had been replaced.
"Infringing on someone's property is still not funny," said judge Daniel Obst.
The two parties agreed to the terms of a settlement suggested by Obst, stipulating that Juliane L. would accept a formal disciplinary warning for consuming the chocolate, and that her employment contract would resume.
"We do not want to hurt the woman," said employer spokesman for SRH-Gruppe Nils Birschmann.
He added that the woman's termination was not so much about the chocolate bar, but about setting an example for the children at the centre.
"With my head held high, I have done nothing wrong," said the 64-year-old. "I do not feel relieved."
A similar case also in Heidelberg was heard in court as well on Thursday. A journalist was fired without notice from her local publication because she was using the office mail system for personal mail. The total cost of the postage she used: €3.70.
Chocolate Bars Matter
Heh. Can’t top that.
You're not you when your hungry...............
Funny way of showing it.
Allow small crimes, enable large crimes.
Broken Window theory.
A person who washes their clothes and eats a chocolate bar will probably embezzle from the company, or use it to create a Ponzi scheme.
"With my head held high, I have done nothing wrong," said the 64-year-old. "I do not feel relieved."
Whether or not she deserved to be fired, she is still a thief.
Fired? Steal my Choclate bar and I’ll have you put in the town square and stoned.
So is the real story companies groping for reasons to fire people just before retirement???
I worked at an office in which food items frequently went missing from the refrigerator. There was one salesman who worked there, who was very successful/well off, and also who worked very long hours. Everyone sort of suspected him of being the food thief, but it seemed so “out of character”.
When he died unexpectedly, we had no more of the missing food problems.
Several other character flaws became evident over time the time that I knew him. Let’s just say that he presented himself publicly in one way, but it was a dishonest depiction of his real thoughts and attitudes.
What were you guys feeding him?
So what did you put in the food?
Really? There is nothing in my employee manual that expressly prohibits me from taking my computer monitor home with me. Does that mean I won't get fired for doing so?
"Nein (snicker, snicker)"
A guy that worked for me years ago had an earlier Job at Douglas Aviation working on DC-10’s.
He took his Lunch to work every day and put it in the Staff Room Refrigerator. After his Lunch mysteriously disappeared a few times, his Wife put a Dog Food Sandwich in his Lunch.
He put in in the Refrigerator at work and the next day it also mysteriously disappeared.
After that his Lunch was never stolen again. #;^)
So, it wasn’t a dog that stole his lunch?
She was 64. How long had she been doing that kind of stuff. I cannot believe it just was the one time, at age 64.
Probably a Cat. You can’t trust them.
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