Comments on: Ford Fired an 11-Year Employee for Stealing a $1.95 Cookie. The Problem? He Paid https://www.evilhrlady.org/2026/07/ford-fired-an-11-year-employee-for-stealing-a-1-95-cookie-the-problem-he-paid.html Everything to make HR better Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Goober https://www.evilhrlady.org/2026/07/ford-fired-an-11-year-employee-for-stealing-a-1-95-cookie-the-problem-he-paid.html#comment-245978 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:18:41 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=8224#comment-245978 In reply to Braver.

When it’s theft (which isn’t the case here), it’s never just one cookie.

The issue here isn’t the $1.95 cookie. It’s not even that he’s diabetic and needed to eat something – it sounds like whoever made the decision wasn’t are of *that* in the moment, either.

The issue is firing someone with no investigation, and taking weeks to figure it out. Whether it’s a $2 cookie or a multimillion dollar embezzlement, firing someone without an investigation is bad management. Obsessing over the value of the cookie is a distraction from the real mistake.

]]> By: Braver https://www.evilhrlady.org/2026/07/ford-fired-an-11-year-employee-for-stealing-a-1-95-cookie-the-problem-he-paid.html#comment-245976 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:59:32 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=8224#comment-245976 Theft of a $1.95 cookie certainly doesn’t rise to the “walk them out immediately” level. Someone was on a power trip here. Why on earth wouldn’t he have first been placed on a leave and told to submit proof of payment in X number of days after which the assumption would be that it was, indeed theft? I also believe in enforcing the little things…but you also have to…be human. He was diabetic and needed to eat. Was there no wiggle room to say, “we understand you had to address a medical emergency. We’re glad you’re safe. You do need to pay us back though and you have X number of days to do it.” This is so bizarre!

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