Posted on 05/17/2019 8:18:27 PM PDT by EdnaMode
When a student at a New Hampshire high school put items on his tray that he didn't have the money for, lunchroom employee Bonnie Kimball didn't think it was a big deal.
She told the student to make sure to pay the next day. She wasn't worried as she had known the boy's parents since they were children, and had no doubt that the $8 lunch tab would soon be taken care of. And the next morning, she told CNN, that's exactly what happened.
About a week later though, she was fired by the district manager of Café Services, the food services company that employed her.
"'Do you understand what you did was wrong? That was theft,'" Kimball says she was told.
A photo of her termination letter provided to CNN shows that the company accused her of violating its procedures as well as federal and school policies. The letter was dated April 9 and said Kimball was fired on April 4.
"On March 28, a District Manager was on-site and witnessed a student coming through the line with multiple food items that you did not charge him for. This in strict violation of our Cash Handling Procedures, the Schools Charge Policy and Federal Regulation governing free meals," the letter reads. "Your final has been processed and disbursed to you."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
It is terrible to fire her for that.
The parents did pay it the next day, so the school was not cheated.
I agree. It was theft. Not hers to give away.
80% of it ends in the trash anyhow.
That’s way too harsh.
If she wanted to be generous she should have given him the $8 and he could have paid her back the next day.
She should have paid the $8 herself and let the parents pay HER back.
Yeah exactly.
this is great. We should live in a low trust cultural milieu where every interaction is reduced to it’s economic base as quickly as possible. After all, culture is entirely based on asserting one’s economic rights at all times. It’s theft to do otherwise, and theft was a capital crime at common law. Whatever makes us more atomized and fearful is good. Anything that involves relying on anything other than economic transactions is bad. Just stay at home, consume product, wait for next product, and don’t interact like people who live in a society, ever. Let’s take an interesting way to analyze interactions (economics) and turn it into a fetish! What could go wrong? Yes, sarcasm.
She should have paid the $8 herself and let the parents pay HER back.
Words to live by!
Yes $8.00 is very high. I can live for a day, including a steak dinner, on less than that. Of course, I buy on sale and cook at home.
Just to put a fine point on it. Taking the CNN story at face value (risky), the people that fired her should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. Those of you supporting the firing deserve about the same. Your ideology is clouding your common sense. Allowing the parents to just pay it the next day was the right thing to do. It’s 8 freaking dollars. That’s not going to cause a butterfly effect whereby we end up at Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome next week. I used to think that Whittaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged was horribly off. Now, I’m not so sure.
Theft? I’d call it kindness if we’re talking about a 1-time thing.
It was paid for, thus it was a 1 day loan, not a theft. Besides that she knew that the parents would settle up the next day which they did, because she had known the parents for years.. So no one was cheated out of anything.
lol
Good post, agree completely.
This is what happens when via multiculturalism you destroy the bonds of trust that pull people together.
Consult the written rules, then execute —automatically.
I’m sure there are people who are OK with her firing who consider themselves fine Christians.
There's more to this story. According to this other article, the lunch lady said:
"So, I have a district manager here. My boss has told me, 'Don't cause any scenes with the contract,' and I quietly said, 'Tell [your] mom you need money.'"
So, this lunch lady was following orders by not "causing a scene."
I wonder How the Kid feels about this.
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