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.
100% this is ‘we want to fire this guy because he made somebody one or two or three levels above him on the totem pole look really foolish’.
Its the same bullshit as ‘oh you don’t get your security deposit back because … we decided you scratched something, somewhere’.
Or as someone else here said, he was getting too close to retirement or some other kind of seniority/longevity-based benefit that the company didn’t want to pay out.
Yeah. If your company is looking that closely into your behavior, they are looking for an excuse instead of a reason.