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Ford employee fired after 11 years for stealing cookie he’d actually paid for (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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A Ford employee says he lost his job after being accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, only for the company to later realize he’d actually paid for it.

60-year-old Kurt Kromm had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, but told Shifting Gears he was fired after the company believed security footage showed him taking a cookie from the break room without paying.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

But the executives can get away with making decisions that kill innocent people to save a few bucks.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Making short-sighted decisions that fails, lays off 8,000 employees, gets a govt bail out, flies home on the corporate jets, uses the bailout money to give a huge bonus and buy a new corporate jet

[–] tangeli@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

But the executives can get away with stealing an employee's pension that he actually earned.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

They get away with both, and plenty more