The "Cruellest" Doughnut Hole

So the "big" story up here lately has been the firing and subsequent rehiring of a woman now dubbed the "Timbits mom". The story is, this woman, a 27-year old single mom of four was a fairly long-term Tim Horton's employee. One day, a regular customer came in, another mom with a baby, looking really harried. The baby was screaming and I guess everyone was rather miserable, so the employee gave the woman one timbit retailing for $0.16 (though they are $0.17 here in Toronto) to the baby to shut it up. I didn't know babies could eat Timbits. Perhaps she was hoping it would choke. Anyway, she got fired a couple of days later for giving away merchandise. $0.16 worth of merchandise.

Well, the bad press got out, and she was rehired at another Tim Horton's owned by the same person, and her lost pay was replaced. All this flurry over a Timbit. Still, even though the manager was a complete ass, it is nice to know the owner did right.

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