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Ford employee fired after 11 years for stealing cookie he’d actually paid for (www.dexerto.com)

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A Ford employee says he lost his job after being accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, only for the company to later realize he’d actually paid for it.

60-year-old Kurt Kromm had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, but told Shifting Gears he was fired after the company believed security footage showed him taking a cookie from the break room without paying.

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[-] lol_idk@piefed.social 39 points 3 days ago

Union didn’t help him at all

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 37 points 3 days ago

Uhhh.... It didn't help him as much as it should have, but my understanding from watching a video about this yesterday is that he already got paid back for the time after he was fired because of the union. So, it did help him some.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

union usually dont help when a person gets fired for stealing wether thats true or not.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

What would they help him with though? He had proven he has paid and they reversed course on the firing.

[-] lol_idk@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

They didn’t stop him from getting fired for a stupid reason to begin with

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