Fired For Cheese

Corporate comeuppance and about time, too!

Bosses at a branch of McDonald's have been rapped for firing a worker who gave a colleague an extra piece of cheese on a burger.

A slice of cheese on a burger got a worker the chop

The employee had served her fellow staff member a cheeseburger instead of a cheaper hamburger, which had been paid for, at the restaurant in the northern Dutch town of Lemmer.

But a court has now ruled that the fast food giant was in the wrong.

"The dismissal was too severe a measure," the district court in Leeuwarden said in a written judgment. "It is just a slice of cheese."

A written warning would have been a more appropriate punishment, the court said.

It ordered McDonald's to pay the worker the salary for the remaining five months of her contract - a total of 4,265 euros (£3,720).

The company was also told to pay court costs.

McDonald's maintained she broke the rules, which prohibit any free gifts to family, friends or colleagues.

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Like we're going to cry for McDonald's and their rules!

If you ever are constipated and need to let a load go but can't - eat at McDonald's and your worries are over ... their 'food' gets you the runs.