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.
If I had to guess, I’d say we’re way past the “testing” stage and doing this at industrial scale. This just happened to be the kind of egregious implementation of policy that trickles into the news cycle.
For every Kurt Kromm, I’ll bet there’s a dozen employees fired due parking tickets or misentered vacation or failure to meet some impossible milestone in they’re performance plans. More traditional and acceptable routes for firings.
This was just a particularly lazy, sloppy execution