Lidl employee fired for drinking 17p water bottle he didn’t buy because he felt ‘dehydrated’
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Lidl employee fired for drinking 17p water bottle he didn’t buy because he felt ‘dehydrated’
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/lidl-employee-fired-drinking-17p-33425161
Posted by Forward-Answer-4407
18 Comments
Theft is theft. Should have diluted your squash hombre
What kind of jobsworth manager do they have working there, after 10 years of employment at least have a quiet word with the guy first.
Huge mistake. If he would just walk into any shop and do his weekly shopping then walk out without paying that would be acceptable
This is such a negligible value that I have to wonder whether management wanted the employee gone for other reasons but seized the opportunity for a simple termination.
Surely there is a tap in the staff room, they could have used?
Bit clickbaity:
– A customer discarded a multipack bottle that wasn’t paid for because it was missing a label.
– Employee drank this bottle rather than his own sat at the till because he’d made his own bottle (with squash) too strong and couldn’t drink it.
– Kept changing his story on whether he paid for it (said he couldn’t remember) or had it written off.
– Employee admitted he was in the wrong and isn’t sure why he didn’t get the free tap water instead.
Sounds to me like they might’ve been the person who would eat a pack of chocolate muffins because they felt hungry.
At the end of the day if you’re working with stock then you’re trusted to handle it accordingly. You can’t just help yourself. I suppose if you’re really thirsty then go and see your line manager. There should be some facilities provided for staff.
I highly doubt someone would’ve got sacked for solely stealing a 17p bottle of water. This employee will have been a doylem.
At lidl nearly everyone takes the odd thing here and there. They have a policy not to eat written off waste but everyone did.
I think most of us just kept it to small things. Most common one is bakery or energy drinks.
It is a sackable offense but everyone does it so they think its fine. I guess it just takes one boss to not want you around and they can just use that as a reason to get rid of you
When the lowest paid person in the building take a 17p bottle of water its a “gross misconduct”.
When a manger fiddles expenses or sexually harass their underlings its an “honest mistake” and “lessons are learned”.
When a manager manually goes through clocking in/out data of people who stayed over or arrive early to “fix” it, they get a Christmas bonus.
If you’re poor and you take from the rich, fuck you. If you’re rich and take from the poor, you’re a upper management material.
Disgusting. Unrelated story but I usually use Lidl, last night needed a roll of tinfoil. Went to Lidl and the only roll on offer was like 25p shy of £4. I thought I ain’t paying that. Went into a Tesco express of all places and found a roll for £1.75. I always assumed Lidl was a lot cheaper than competitors but honestly the prices have gone up a lot for a lot of stuff. After reading what I just read I’m going to shop around and see if I should start doing my shopping elsewhere. I can’t justify shopping in some dystopian company that’s treating their workers like this. Nice one Lidl now I hate you, you clearly don’t “value is more” your employees.
This feels like the straw that broke the camels back. We’ve all had employees that take the piss and these people don’t generate goodwill.
So when it comes to the minor offence if you have that goodwill, then the management turn a blind eye. If you don’t the management throw the book at you.
Sacked over a 17p bottle of water, I’ve seen people keep their jobs for hell of a lot worse. Crazy.
People should have to write whether they’ve read the article, or just the headline, when they comment….
Yea sounds like the water was just the bottle that broke the camels back.
i worked at Lidl from 2012-2015, the biggest thief was the store manager.
I remember him taking one of those middle aisle special knock-off ipads by writing it off as damaged.
A few extra cheese twists in the oven and then writing them off as unsold at the end of the day was a common hustle for the staff who worked in the bakery.
You learn what you get get away with or not. It would be pretty difficult for that manager to pull you up for a 17p bottle of water after you’d already seen him walk out with an £100 Lenovo tablet.
Some places have a zero tolerance policy to “theft”. Quotes, because the employee probably didn’t think it was stealing, in the same way it’s not really theft if you accidently leave a work provided pen in your pocket when you go home.
Ours does. They sacked half a shift for eating food that was going in the bin, though eating it in a clean production area contributed. I’d like to say that was management/training failure, because it’s unlikely a gang of food stealing criminals would end up working together, but managers aren’t ever, ever wrong, so it couldn’t have been.
I’m not going to tell you who, because I still work there, they get very, very pissy about bad publicity, would hunt me down, and ceremonially tear off my branded Hi-Viz before giving me the boot.
Yet people can fill a bag full of meat and booze and walk out with no penance
Really? What a sad, sad manager. Just buy it for him or charge him for it. It’s 17p ffs. Miserable bugger.