Fine. Maybe they’re all liars. Of course, we could all be liars here at FR.
I just don’t understand the complete venom of so many freepers towards some guy who gave away 5 muffins. It just seems so weirdly over the top to me. It’s a kind of puritanism, not conservatism that is being expressed. I guess I do like a little nuance in my life after all.
You have it backwards. We are reacting to the public venom being shown towards a company who fired a thief.
Be sure to make the company policies more reasonable when you start your restaurant chain.
It’s also not said — were these maybe muffins that some other diner had left untouched, which they can’t serve to somebody else and would go in the trash. However that would risk getting the place in trouble if someone claimed to have caught something awful from the muffin.
It would have been better for him to just buy the muffins. Surely losing his job wasn’t worth $10 for muffins.
And they are pretty nice muffins... I have dined there before. If I’d been the manager I might have first asked him if he wanted to donate to a muffins for strangers fund, maybe I’d even match the donation myself. To somehow get around the stealing issue. And donated muffins would have to be accounted for. Sometimes employers can get locked into rigidity due to lack of imagination, or maybe fear.
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“He admits hes been written up before. Two years ago for getting a fountain drink on the job and a second time for giving a cup of coffee to woman. He claims she actually paid for it. Rules are rules. Its a rule. They legally can do this because I did break the rule, Koblenzer said.”
He admits he’s done it before and the manager is in a stuff spot here because if he knows Koblenzer has taken things in the past, what doesn’t he know about or what is the potential in the future?
Not being nasty about it. But these are not his to give unless he paid for them...why couldn’t he have paid the $1 or so for the soda, the $1 or so for the muffin and likewise the coffee? What else has he “given” away that the manager is unaware of or that he hasn’t admitted to?
This is stealing...I don’t see the “nuance” in that at all.