During the time he was employed, he violated the company's policies regarding consuming food without paying or giving away free food, on five separate occasions.
Mr. Koblenzer received multiple counselings and written warnings reminding him about the company's policies and the consequences associated with violating them.
Cracker Barrel doesn't deserve any criticism for this. It's nice that the guy wanted to be helpful and generous to people in need, but he shouldn't be doing that on his employer's dime. If he was truly generous then he should have paid for these things out of his own pocket.
Agreed. He did it repeatedly, he did it in spite of repeated warnings not to do it, and he did it on the company’s dime instead of his own.
This seems clear to me.
No, they don't. Restaurants aren't in the business of giving away food for free and it sounds like it's been an ongoing problem with this employee. In fact, it sounds like Cracker Barrel has generously given him many opportunities to correct his behavior.
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.
Agree, he broke the rules. They did the right thing.