McDonald's fired worker 'because she was too generous with McFlurry'
It once prided itself on its super-size portions but now McDonald's has been accused of dismissing a member of staff because she sprinkled too much chocolate on a McFlurry.
McFlurrygate: Employee fired (Pic: Philip Ide)
Sarah Finch claimed she was fired for putting ‘excessive amounts’ of chocolate on a workmate’s 99p McFlurry.
Ms Finch was described as an ‘exceptional employee’ before being fired from her £180-a-week job for gross misconduct.
The 19-year-old is taking the fast food restaurant to an employment tribunal after she says bosses unfairly sacked her for ‘stealing’ food.
She called the matter ‘trivial’, adding in a statement: ‘There is no standard for such measures – they are always imprecise and will vary among customers. My colleague had asked me, “Make it a nice one” so the measure I gave erred on the side of more than, rather than less than, the mean.’
The teenager said it was common practice for managers at the McDonald’s in Carmarthen, Wales, to give away food to unhappy customers.
Miss Finch has submitted her claim against franchise company Lonetree. A full hearing is due in Cardiff at a later date, when she will be represented by her mother, Tessa.
Lonetree managing director Ron Mounsey backed his manager’s decision to sack Miss Finch and said warnings were posted in staff rooms and in company documents.
In a letter to her mother, he said: ‘This is classed as gross misconduct as per my employee handbook, the consequence is dismissal.
‘You may feel it is trivial but, with 740 employees in my business, if my management team were just to overlook such incidents then quickly it would become a free-for-all.’
Employees are ‘aware of the risk they take should they decide to do this’, he added.
‘This will continue to be the case,’ he said.
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