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.
Social media works both ways. When the easily flummoxed Cracker Barrel pulled all of their Duck Dynasty merchandise off the shelves because Uncle Phil took a slap at gays, our side went into boycott mode. CB hastily put all the stuff back. Maybe Cracker Barrel needs to get their PR act together. They could also afford to start serving good food, but that’s my opinion.