Posted on 06/29/2014 7:14:21 PM PDT by lbryce
Edited on 06/29/2014 7:35:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A 73-year-old Vietnam veteran
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Suppose he’s never been informed of the rule? I’ll tell you, I worked retail last Christmas and I wasn’t trained in any of the “rules” until I broke them.
So, he doesn’t know the rules and he put some extra soy sauce in my bag. Should he be fired? (This question is general and not meant to be demanding!)
If he wanted to give away muffins then maybe he should have saved up his money and bought his own muffin shop. Cracker barrel doesn’t owe anyone ANY free muffins.
Why is this even questioned?
Does he live on Drury Lane?
You support theft?
I think you’re assuming he’s been told by management but I don’t know that and neither do you. And it’s very similar - ya know, restaurant, employees, packets of soy and mayo. And how many of us have taken more sugar from a Dunkin Donuts than we absolutely needed? That’s theft as well.
Never been a fan of any Pope, so I guess his opinion only matters in that it effects the thinking of so many other people, whose opinions of me do not matter to me.
It’s not his stuff to give away. He didn’t pay for it and the company did pay for it.
Kinda’ reminds me of ‘well they are only crossing our borders because they are poor and hungry and seeking to better their lives’. Where does it all end?
Suppose I couldn’t care less what the pope thinks.
You guys are all so ludicrously over-the-top. The niggling, hysterical horror at some guy giving out a couple of muffins is tantamount to our border being overrun, the end of Western Civilization as We Know It and the slave trade. Geez Louise, it’s ridiculous.
“They had problems with him for years, and what does being a vet have to do with it?”
Yeah; just read what he did. They should have just shot him!
“Koblenzer admitted he had two other infractions. He said he once had a sip of Coke, which is against the rules. Another time, a woman requested a cup of coffee to-go after her table had already been cleared, and Koblenzer didn’t charge her for it.”
I agree.
Very contrived mm, and NOT similar. Watch and see the soy sauce packets given freely to patrons right in front of the manager.
And yes, extra packets of sugar taken from the doughnut shop are theft as well, and one should never do it. If the manager insists that you go ahead and take some, that is yet another story.
Go to Sam’s Club and see how many boxes of sugar packets you can get for free. Someone’s got to pay for them.
If you're dishonest with a little then you're probably dishonest with a lot too. Even little dishonesty's and thefts over and over eventually amount to a lot.
Nobody should ever feel they are being charitable when they are giving away other people's stuff. It's embezzlement. it's theft.
It’s not contrived at all, you just don’t want to deal with the fact that employees give out free stuff all the time in restaurants and no one thinks anything about it until someone finally gets fired for it.
And we know that no one, absolutely no one who dislikes the CB employee has ever taken an extra packet of sugar! I’m relieved and going now to dip into my stolen packet of tartar sauce.
I swear this is starting to sound like the famous Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch in which a bunch of rich guys compare their childhoods with ever amounting horrors to a ludicrous pitch.
Now he’s a bank robber!
It wasn't heinous enough to mention he was once an Altar Boy?
“It’s not contrived at all, you just don’t want to deal with the fact that employees give out free stuff all the time in restaurants and no one thinks anything about it until someone finally gets fired for it.” (you don’t mention that it is to paying customers, this guy gave food away to a non-customer)
I don’t want to deal with facts???
IF I owned a restaurant, employees would give out “free stuff” to CUSTOMERS under the conditions that my established protocol prescribed. My established protocol, and evidently Cracker Barrel’s established protocol, would not include arbitrarily giving free food to “needy” persons.
I’ve never taken extra packets of sugar from the doughnut shop. I don’t know the (ex)CB employee. I probably have you all wrong because I cannot even understand your statements.
Was the tartar sauce given to you upon request with an order of fish you bought at a restaurant? And was it sauce you believed you needed to eat with that order of fish? If so, even if it turned out you didn’t need it after all, it was not stolen. If you requested the sauce knowing you already had enough with your order and just wanted to take more home to enjoy with another meal, yes, you stole it, and that is wrong.
If something is not yours, and you take it without the owner’s consent, what is that action called?
It does not matter what you intend to do with property that belongs to someone else when you take it without their consent. There is no gray area here, even if “everybody does it”.
Why this is confusing is beyond me.
Baloney. I worked at McD's while I was putting myself through college. There were NOT like that about the food at all.
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