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    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
    "First time I ever seen a chainsaw go down anybody's britches,"

  • #2
    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.
    "In the end I was the mean girl/or somebody's in between girl"~Neko Case

    “You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.” ~William Stafford

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    • #3
      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.

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      • #4
        It seems pretty harsh....fired over taking cookies as payment for a $5 charge.
        Last edited by tropicsgoddess; 03-06-2008, 03:00 PM.
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        • #5
          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

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          • #6
            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.

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            • #7
              Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
              <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.
              "I'm not a crazed gunman, dad, I'm an assassin... Well, the difference being one is a job and the other's mental sickness!" -The Sniper

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              • #8
                Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
                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.

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                • #9
                  Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
                  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.
                  If today is an indication of the rest of the week, I'm going to need to start drinking. - Mongo Skruddgemire

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                  • #10
                    Quoth MMATM View Post
                    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.

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