Posted on 06/28/2014 9:20:47 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
Edited on 06/28/2014 9:28:34 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
VENICE, FL (CNN) " A 73-year-old veteran says he was fired from a Cracker Barrel restaurant for giving a needy man a few condiment packets and a corn muffin.
He admits it was against the restaurants rules, but says he thinks it was the right thing to do.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox17.com ...
I agree. Of course, that might be construed as a nasty remark.
It was not his to give away, and he'd been warned about it several times. < /Ebeneezer >
It’s easy to be generous with someone else’s money.
Yep, stick 'em under the table leg to eliminate the wobble!
It was a goodun’, too!
And I think it is utterly lunatic to compare giving away a bloody corn muffin to communistic redistribution of wealth! It is a completely over-the-top reaction to what this man did. And it makes conservatives look like fools and creatures out of Charles Dickens. (I’m not saying that you are either a fool or a Scrooge, btw.) And, if you google, you will see that this has turned into a pr disaster for this company.
But no need for mousetraps!
Multiple violations of employment policies and warnings/counseling to cease.
Decides to violate policies again and then tries to use his veteran status as a “get out of jail free” card?
This is one I’m starting to sour on...just because one is a veteran, doesn’t mean one has sound values and morals...
Sorry, I’m on CB’s side here and agree with all those who said that if he is so “generous”, he should have paid for the items and then given them.
Some here might not understand that rules for restaurants are different from place to place-maybe they think those muffins can be put out to serve for several days.
I’m not familiar with the rules other city health departments use regarding cooked food left over at closing time-last time I had a friend who owned a restaurant in the city near here-SA-anything left over that had been cooked there and had already been put out-like bread items-had to be tossed at closing time-she and her kids took home some leftovers, but the rest had to be 86’d or she’d get fined.
If the rule at that Cracker Barrel is the same, isn’t giving it away more sensible-not to mention more charitable-than wasting perfectly good food?
Giving away other peoples stuff without permission is not right, is he a Democrat?
In NYC, I think all leftovers have to be tossed or you would be fined. I was raised not to waste food - I was taught it was a sin. We weren’t allowed to make Easter eggs because it wasted food that could have gone to hungry people. So it has always infuriated me to see the waste due to these crazy health regulations.
The social media mob, however, is easily organized er worked into a feeding frenzy, crying "Crucify them, crucify them."
A complete picture - the whole truth in its proper context - is irrelevant to the righteously indignant masses. It has become clear in these days why bearing false witness was an offense in Torah punishable by meting out to the perpetrator what would have befallen the falsely accused.
Nothing about "they just meant well" going on here, let these people have *their* reputations and businesses destroyed via Facebook. False accusers deserve their bad reputations anyway, so how fitting is that.
And if this employee had been generous out of his *own* pocket, at least the problems he would have brought on for the business [e.g. attracting beggars while repelling paying customers] would have been self-limiting. After all, he would have only been able to afford so many muffins.
When he handed out freebies courtesy of Cracker Barrel, the potential for damage was open-ended. He refused correction, so only solution left for the company was to rid itself of the "compassionate" thief. And for that Cracker Barrel is demonized.
I do believe what this worker did was wrong and Cracker Barrel is right to not tolerate the practice. Otherwise, they would have homeless people camped outside their doors all day long - probably stinking up those overpriced rocking chairs out on the front porch.
It wasn’t his to give plain and simple.
If he paid for it...fine.
Instead, he stole it.
Actually, the principle is exactly the same: I will be generous and compassionate with YOUR money. The fact that people have been able to smear the company for firing a thief does nothing to alter the underlying principle.
In every job I have ever held, it is a firing offense to take so much as a paper clip. This guy is a apparently an habitual thief. I disagree from you, I believe the company has the right to and in fact a duty to fire thieves.
Whose money is it ?
Oy! Firing people over a paper clip? This is not my conservatism. Too hardline for me.
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