By Anonymous - 28/04/2009 04:38 - United States

Today, while working at Wendy's my boss approached me and told me the District Manager wanted to talk to me. I had been given a substantial raise the day before so I thought he was going to promote me to manager. Wrong, he told me I was being fired for eating a 99 cent cheeseburger. FML
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pokandy 0

Clear some things up. I had been working there for 4 1/2 years. Everyone at the store eats on the job and I was the only one to get fired. Never had any disiplinary problems before. The Store owners 14 year old son saw me eat the burger while working and told his dad who in turn told the DM. My regular manager didnt even know about it and was as blindsided as me. I offered to pay for the burger even double or triple for it but my DM could not see it any other way and canned my ass. O well. FML

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survivalism 0

You mean you can get fired for stealing from your job? THIS IS NEWS!

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GameRater01 0

Seems a gray area to me. It's bullshit to be fired for such a trivial thing, though since you got your raise, wouldn't you have been able to afford to purchase the cheeseburger?

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tacoma77 0

that sucks...i work the grill and i see people take soda frostys and other stuff, tho i wouldnt mind being fired, i hate my job at wendys

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WinonaSmile 0

I worked at Subway, we got one free sandwich a day and those things are like $3. If I worked til Closing I got free soup and chips if they were gonna expire soon. lol You got f***ed. I guess you should have offered to pay so it doesn't look bad, but I'm thinking they couldn't afford to pay your raise. Same thing happened to my friend. They gave him a raise, but drastically cut his hours to like 8hrs every 2 weeks. =/

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Claeric 0

So is your logic that a good worker shouldn't be fired even if they break the rules?

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tdawgheath 0

If you work til closing, they'll let you eat all you want, because they just throw it out anyway. At least at a lot of places like that they do...

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mrsbickhart 0

umm. most fast food places let you have most of their food for free while your working...

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24788 6

I got caught eating a cookie at work once. My buddy mike told me I had to eat it because he was eating one and cookies sell in packs of two. My manager caught me and I go just my luck " I bet I'm in trouble ". My manager " in trouble for what exactly? ". Me: "eating this cookie?". My manager " who the **** cares just ask me if it's something big ".

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Saruh 0

Hope it was delicious, so you can dwell on it's goodness while you're flipping through the job section of your local newspaper. YDI.

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lpaul49 0

Okay, everyone bitching about how eating a 99 cent cheeseburger is stealing needs to chill the **** out. Honestly, I can guarantee that everyone commenting has done something similar. Also, I'm calling BS on this because there is no way that they would have the ******* district manager come and fire you. Besides, it's only 99 ******* cents. Anyway, whatever, it's BS.

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wichitagirl87 0

******* wow i'm so sick of how companies with too much money already can't even let their employees who don't get many benefits anyway have a free freakin meal. people are way too damn greedy!!

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