Posted on 01/27/2010 8:30:38 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
A McDonald's restaurant was wrong to fire a worker for giving a colleague an extra piece of cheese on a hamburger, a Dutch court ruled on Tuesday.
The dismissal was too severe a measure," the district court in Leeuwarden, in the north of the Netherlands, said in a written judgment.
"It is just a slice of cheese."
A written warning would have been a more appropriate punishment, said the court, which ordered the fast-food chain to pay the worker the salary for the remaining five months of her contract - a total of 4,265.47 euros (£3,660).
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How cheesey of McDonalds, How Cheesey of the Judge, what a cheesey court case.
Anyone that’s working there probably needs a job pretty bad....a little common sense goes a long way....
Contracts for McDonald’s workers?
I was thinking the same thing! Since when do Mcdonalds hire workers on contract?
This is a McDonalds in Holland.
I was a waiter at an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant in my youth. I got fired for eating a shrimp. We were only authorized to eat french fries and hush puppies.
Contracts are common for all Euro-workers, even Macs. Maybe especially Macs because without a contract stating a definite term it’s almost impossible to ever get rid of any workers.
It could have been worse.
For the kids in Mcplayland to understand.
Just a little perspective and number crunching.
McDonald’s employs 1.5 million people. If each piece of cheese costs 2c and each employee took or gave out just one extra slice of cheese per day, that is $30k lost per day. To be reasonable, let’s say that half of them did this- an extra slice here, munching on one there..
$15k per day -> $105K per week -> $5.46Million per year.
That could be 287 people employed at $19k per year all because people don’t think something like a slice of cheese is important.
I agree with you. It is a big deal in that context.
Obama should have gotten life for giving away ice cream when he worked at Baskin Robbins....(without possibility of parole).
The situation reminds me of the 18th century incident in England where an Admiral (who may not have fought as hard as he might have) was executed, "to encourage the others".
I imagine many McDonald's workers now know about this incident, and I imagine the company is thereby saving some money and will thus be better positioned to hire more people.
FMCDH(BITS)
People don’t think about how the little choices they make can really add up. UPS entire ‘no left turn’ strategy saves them tens of millions of dollars each year in fuel.
No, realli! Moose bites kan be rather nasti...
Heck, I know a teen who was fired for eating a pie at McDonalds that was in the garbage because it had been out of the oven too long. He’s now in the Air Force.
Steal little, steal big. And i bet 99% sure that it wasnt just the cheese slice. This worker was probably already circling the drain for other things.
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