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.
It is cruel to leave a chocolate bar in the open, unattended, and to expect it to be there later. Workplace cruelty!
Well, he was in Sales. Salespeople are personality chameleons. Showing whatever persona they need to, in order to maximize their desired outcome.
Bingo!
True. NEVER get between a female choc-o-holic and a candy bar loaded with chocolate.
He died of a blood clot/aneurysm or along that line. He traveled/flew a great deal, and seemed to be at some risk of clots. I think he was being treated for that.
But he was also dishonest, manipulative, and borderline mean.... So it might have been a karma thing.
That’s one way to avoid paying pension
See #26.
Didn’t poison him. (Didn’t even think about doing that, but now, years later......)
I’ll bet she was a “trouble-maker” from way back and the candy bar incident was used to get rid of her, well, sort of.
I agree. Sounds like this woman was in the habit of breaking the rules.
Stupid reporter thinks it should be based on the monetary value involved.
I agree. Sounds like this woman was in the habit of breaking the rules.
Stupid reporter thinks it should be based on the monetary value involved.
I agree. Sounds like this woman was in the habit of breaking the rules.
Stupid reporter thinks it should be based on the monetary value involved.
What an arrogant self centered person
I worked at the GEICO phone center one summer, they decided to give everyone a lunch box, the next day the fridge was half full of the same lunch boxes, only about 3 people had the sense to put their name on the box. That was 25 years ago, I have a Cannon camera and lens in that box today, still using it.
I would have fired her too
THEY WERE ALL TWIX!!!
Easy: Next time make sure the chocolate contains copious amounts of laxative.
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