Posted on 05/17/2019 8:18:27 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Since the school provides a lunch for those who can’t pay, and since it doesn’t say what the student put on his tray, I assume he wanted some goodies rather than just to satisfy his hunger....kind of like a place that offers free cheese to folks in need having employees give away candy too....
First you establish a policy on what to do in this case, have it checked by lawyers, then you make sure all cashiers know it.
The cashier then follows the policy or is reprimanded. If you don’t have a policy, then you accept what the cashier does and then you establish a policy because you were too stupid to have done it when you should have.
Obviously the student wasn’t non-White, or the outcome would have been way different.
What compassion.
I guess you have a job with the government, eh?
FWIW, it happens all the time in the school in my district. I know lots of people who work there and know what goes on. It's not that unusual.
The other option is making the kid go hungry, and she'd be criticized for that as well. It's a lose/lose situation either way.
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.
The issue is all must be treated the same. This is very much a reflection of society. If she had loaned the money is would still be wrong as she wouldn’t loan money to every kid.
Now it sounds to emphasize equality but it also takes grace out of the equation which takes relationships out of the equation.
and now we have a full blown institution.
This school district is in Enfield NH, near where my son lives.
It’s as rural as rural can be and people up there trust each other and are actually nice and friendly and honorable. I love visiting that area and that’s one of the reasons.
It’s mainstream, old time America.
What this woman did was nothing I wouldn’t have expected out of ANYONE from that area and some little demagogue with delusions of grandeur had no business FIRING her over one *offense*.
If they felt that strongly about it, they could have simply talked to her. They didn’t need to fire her for one offense.
May have had contacts to go to bat for her.
KUA.
Kimball Union Academy
Meriden, New Hampshire 03770
Once upon a time the lunchroom was just local women working directly for the school not some corporate food contractor getting fat pushing crappy meals.
You are correct.
Theft is often defined as the unauthorized taking of property from another with the intent to permanently deprive them of it.
...
The offense of larceny is:
The unlawful taking and carrying away of.
Someone else’s property.
Without the consent of the owner and with.
The intent to deprive the owner of the property permanently.
You can find this definition anywhere. It is correct.
The fact that he paid the money the next day is sufficient evidence of lack of intent.
So it wasn’t theft.
Now we may hear some idiot with delusions of cleverness chirping up “Oh, he certainly didn’t mean to return the food, so he did intend to permanently deprive”. But in fact the kid had no intent to permanently deprive the cafeteria of the economic value the cafeteria placed on the food that the cafeteria wanted in exchange for the food, and he did NOT permanently deprive the cafeteria of it.
"We can't get into specifics because personnel decisions are confidential to honor privacy, however employees receive and sign their acknowledgment to company policies. When these aren't followed, corrective action is put in place, up to and including termination.
IOW, they could have done the *up to* instead of firing her.
Firing her was not their only option.
The problem with that is that cashiers in the cafeteria are not allowed to have any cash in their pockets while on the line and they can’t leave to go get it for a kid. My friend is a “head cashier” at a local school. I know this because I asked her about this when a similar situation was in the news a few years ago.
Good to hear!
My local family-owned super has real live butchers and they get grassfed beef. $16/lb and very tender. I buy a one-pound sirloin and have them cut it into four pieces, wrap three in freezer wrap.
So that's $4 for meat, and $4 or less for organic veggies and salad stuff. Takes about 10 minutes to grill the meat and make veggies. Cheaper, quicker, and better than restaurant food.
“I agree. It was theft. Not hers to give away.”
How is it theft when he paid for his lunch the next day as promised?
Good!
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