The ever so popular CCTV cameras have become really popular in stores to help catch thieves and prevent crime. Even the great Tim Hortons, known for its coffee and doughnuts uses them.
Apparently their cameras caught on camera a thief. Someone in their store committed a crime. It was one of their employees at that and the manager of the store sought immediate action. The woman was fired.
Nicole Lilliman, a single mother, was dismissed after she gave a toddler a 16 cent Timbit. “It was just out of my heart, she (the toddler) was pointing and going ‘ah, ah…’ I should have gone to my purse and got the change, but it was busy,” Lilliman told the Toronto Star newspaper.
A single Timbit sells for 16 Canadian cents (16 U.S. cents), but most shoppers buy boxes of 10, 20 or 40 of the deep-fried goodies, which come in a variety of flavors.
I worked at a bakery several years ago. I remember small children coming into the store and we use to give them a doughnut once in a while at the end of the day when we knew they weren’t going to be sold. What wasn’t sold was thrown away and I would rather have seen someone eat them than to be thrown into the garbage like that.
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“It was the unfortunate action of one manager who unfortunately made an overzealous decision, and thankfully we were able to rectify the situation,” said company spokeswoman Rachel Douglas.
Of course Tim Hortons is now claiming the firing of Lilliman was a mistake and they have offered her job back, which she has accepted.
Douglas said Tim Hortons had received a number of complaints. “Thankfully we’re able to go back to them and say we were able to fix the situation,” she said.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThe really pathetic ting about this is that Tim Hortons usually has a small dish of timbits by the drive through to ‘give’ to dogs FOR FREE!!!.
I have two dogs that have received free timbits at the drive thru. What is really pathetic is that they throw out the unsold donuts at the end of each day. If they truely had a heart they would have an employee drive the donuts to the nearest food bank in the morning using Tim Hortons vehicles and gas. That makes more sense. Since they are not allowed to dontate and are wasting good food I think maybe I will not longer be buying my coffee at Timmies. There are other places with better hearts.
The part about the story that no one knows, because apparently Tim Horton’s isn’t allowed to tell their side of the story, is that woman was a terrible employee anyway, and they were probably just looking for an excuse to fire her.
My mom is a regular customer at that particular Tim Horton’s, and told me the story of this woman getting fired before I saw it in any newspapers or online and said “Good riddance. She was always rude and had a terrible attitude, they should have fired her a long time ago”.
As good as it is that Tim Hortons made right on this situation it is too bad that the same do the right thing attitude doesn’t exist in regards to them dealing with my wife over her being short changed by a counter person and taking the position that she was wrong – or in the words of the franchise owner for the area – Sorry but there isn’t anything I can do for you. If you are interested you read about the whole thing here http://www.winextra.com/2008/05/28/tim-hortons-make-sure-you-count-your-change/
Manager: (while watching surveillance video, stands up abruptly) My God! She’s giving a timbit away to a baby! I’ll teach this altruistic bitch a lesson. Better call up a couple of my fellow managers and get this bitch fired ASAP.
i just got fired last night over 1 coffee and was said that i could get charged for theft…..customer wanted 1 coffee made 2 by mistake it was 1:00 am so i told the customer to keep the other coffee because it was going to be tossed ……Now am fired after working there 10 months..yet i have seen many other employees give out coffee also ???
Giving the Timbit was probably good PR for the business but it appears the “Manager” lacks the training to see this.
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