Cookies are not currency

[Dark Psion]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...OCAL/803050512
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Two County employees fired for accepting fresh baked cookies instead of money for making $5 worth of photocopies.


Personally, I would be sending a cookie to their managers office every day

[myswtghst]

Totally OT, but I find the story strangely apropos, given your sig.

And I don't think that's any reason for firing. Maybe a "get the $$ next time too!" but not firing.

[Rine]

I know; it seems a little harsh to fire two employees over five dollars. Methinks it was just an excuse to get rid of some people? Or the boss is a real jerk.

I think a warning or something similar would have been sufficient, along with a five dollar dock in pay to cover for the missing money?

People are weird these days.

[tropicsgoddess]

It seems pretty harsh....fired over taking cookies as payment for a $5 charge.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yes, they are too, currency. We took the following stuff for Legal Tender at the Kinko's I worked at, with the boss's blessing, for YEARS. When I left, the practice was still going on. I do not know if Fed Ex has put the kibosh on the practice when they started really clamping down on the place.

Cookies
Booze
Brownies
Steak lunches
Pizza
Wings
Ice Cream
Pickles (the ice cream lady also had wonderful pickles. I know, weird.)
Deliveries of lunch from places that didn't normally deliver
Cutting our grass
Misc. Presents such as pillows, caftans, jewelry (one regular made a lot of trips to Jordan, and brought back exotic presents)
Barbeque lunches
Deli sandwitches
Flats of soft drinks
Candy
Misc. Favors

[Emrld]

It sounds like this was a state, federal, or local office.

Ergo really strict rules and regs to follow.

If however they worked at a chain or even Mom and Pop copy shop I don't think they would have been fired . . . maybe charged $2.50 each but, not fired.

[MMATM]

<snip>
Misc. Favors

Mmmhmmm...
On second thought, I'm not going to bother with the brain-in-gutter shtick. It's too easy.

Firing over $5, regardless of how the money went missing, is extremely harsh. Unless the employees were stealing from the company, which from a certain point of view I guess they effectively were, I can't see firing over such a minor offense.

[edible_hat]

Yes, they are too, currency. We took the following stuff for Legal Tender at the Kinko's I worked at, with the boss's blessing, for YEARS. When I left, the practice was still going on. I do not know if Fed Ex has put the kibosh on the practice when they started really clamping down on the place.

Booze

Some years ago there was a store around here that got a visit from the police for that. Something about trading without a liquor license, even though they weren't selling the booze. Also 93 cartons of beer were confiscated.

[Crawley]

Pickles (the ice cream lady also had wonderful pickles. I know, weird.)

Maybe not so weird. She'd have a lock on the pregnant women niche market.

[Hon'ya-chan]

Mmmhmmm...
On second thought, I'm not going to bother with the brain-in-gutter shtick. It's too easy.

Firing over $5, regardless of how the money went missing, is extremely harsh. Unless the employees were stealing from the company, which from a certain point of view I guess they effectively were, I can't see firing over such a minor offense.

Yeah, I mean, fining them, or docking pay would've been a better course of action.....cheaper too.