Hot dog! Fired Dublin worker wins $25K over snack

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hot-dog-Fired-Dublin-worker-wins-25K-over-snack-5827361.php

An Irish cinema may have just bought the world's most expensive hot dog for an unfairly fired worker.

Ireland's employment appeals court on Thursday ordered Dublin's Cineworld to pay Carl Meade 20,000 euros ($25,640) for canning him over his illicit discount on a workplace snack.

Cineworld said it used surveillance footage to show Meade buying an extra-large hot dog, but paying only for a regular, and taking a slightly pricier brand of candy than what appeared on his signed receipt.

The total difference in cost between what he bought, and what he consumed? One euro ($1.28).

Compare and contrast to California, where a guy went to jail for stealing $10 worth of cheese (it was his "third strike&quot .

I wonder if Irish hot dogs are anything like English ones. Mom says English hot dogs are all mushy inside and suck.

[Jenoch]

1. I would think employee theft is grounds for termination.

[KamaAina]

2. They never proved it was theft

A three-judge panel found that the employer should have considered Meade's contention that he'd made an innocent mistake.