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Last year, a Dillard’s Department Store had a 4th of July company picnic offering hot dogs and hamburgers. Afterwards, the dock manager ordered that the leftover hot dogs be saved for Labor Day. One dock worker apparently didn’t hear the announcement, and proceeded to eat two of them.
Surveillance footage showed the dock worker later eating the hotdogs. He was called into the manager’s office where he confessed he ate the hot dogs. After a police officer was called, the employee was given a choice of signing a statement that he had stolen the hotdogs or face a night in jail. He signed the statement and was then fired.
Thankfully, the court realized that this was not a justifiable reason to strip a man of his job, and forced Dillard’s to pay the ex-worker unemployment benefits:
“In its opinion, the court wrote,’The record reveals that employees had been offered hamburgers and hot dogs for consumption; it does not reveal that the rescission of this offer of celebratory food was in fact communicated to Koewler.’”
After the ruling, the ex-employee told the Evansville Courier Press that the ordeal had taught him a lesson. “Just believe in the justice system. It proves that it does work, even for something as little as that.”
(ECP via The Consumerist)
