Featured Cracker Barrel Fires 73-Year-Old Veteran Who Gave Food To 'Needy' Man

Did the employee steal the food .....did he ask permission to give it to the better? Seems you are making a judgement call based off of emotion vs facts. Please advise.

 

CB would be foolish to issue an edict to feed anyone who says they can't afford it. Your kind hearted father-in-law could make decisions on a case by case basis.Cracker Barrel can't do that.

 

To judge this, more would have to be known about this particular instance!!

HOWEVER, Crabby's reaction is typically liberal/progressive/demoncratic ------- specifically being very generous WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!!!!

Nothing new here!:sleep::sleep::sleep:

 

Why do so many posts have to be turned on gig poster?

I disagree with Crab's point, but there is no need to turn it back on him personally.

 

From the article:
Mr. Koblenzer has worked as a host at Cracker Barrel’s Sarasota [County] store since April 2011. During the time he was employed, he violated the Company’s policies regarding consuming food without paying or giving away free food, on five separate occasions. Mr. Koblenzer received multiple counselings and written warnings reminding him about the company’s polices and the consequences associated with violating them. On the fifth occasion, again per Company policy, Mr. Koblenzer was terminated.

His intentions may have been noble, but he gave away that which was not his. It would be no different than stealing an object from your neighbor and donating it to charity.

 

He could have easily bought the goods and given them away

 

Because this is apparently the way now that "conservative Christians" come at anyone who has a different viewpoint.

I applaud CTB for seeming to have a heart that genuinely cares about other people as opposed to the cynical,persoanl nastiness that always seems to come from a lot of those who disagree with him.

 

Very true. But the man was 73 years old and probably grew up in a time where if someone needed help or looked like they did, you just helped instead of going through all the bureacracy or not doing anything.

 

Paying for himself what he is about to give away is not "going through all the bureaucracy". Theft is theft, regardless of the motive.

Do not misunderstand, I am sympathetic if his motives were genuine.

 

I was referring to having to possibly keep asking permission to help someone. He probably thinks it's crazy. But that's the same stuff that a lot of churches do now and then they just end up telling the folks no or we'll be praying for you instead of just helping.

Kudos to the 73 year old. He's one of the reasons why I would visit a place like CB. People need to be able to genuinely care for other folks w/o their jobs being jeopardized.

But I see that CB is perhaps no different than a lot of companies who enjoy the Christian patronage,, but then act in a less than Christ-like manner.

He's 73 and helping folks. Let it slide.

I hear ya.:thumbsup:

 

Multiple counselings and written warnings? So he couldn't act surprised when he got the axe then, right? I wonder if Mr. Koblenzer had PAID for these things, it would have ended up differently?

We don't know, but maybe his actions were "getting around" and the "domicile-challenged" started to flock to the restaurant???

As with any news story, there's a whole lot they're not telling us. Again, the story says that he was warned verbally and in writing and he made the decision to give what he must have considered "stuff that Cracker Barrel won't miss". Sounds like he was warned numerous times... so CLEARLY Caucasian Barrel is the bad guy in all this.

 

He's younger than my parents were, and they were teens during the Depression. No one "gave" away something that was not theirs. There was a tremendous amount of personal humility and responsibility in the American people then. No one took anything. You paid for what you got, or you went without. If you're going to comment on his mindset, know something about the age group beforehand, please.

 

Sounds like he was fired for insubordination and disobedience to me.

 

Simplistic thinking. One guy gets a free meal, he goes back to the river or the camp and says, "I got free food at Cracker Barrel!" Then they have a hundred homeless at the front counter wanting a handout. All their customers leave.

I know C4K said we shouldn't turn in "gig" posts, but why is it the liberals are the ones that never have a clue, simply expecting "big corporations" to throw away their profits and take care of everyone?

They have employees, vendors, suppliers and stockholders to whom they are responsible, but you guys never, ever manage to think of them and their need to keep a paycheck coming in. If companies gave away everything, they wouldn't be in business very long.

Corporations, unlike your idealistic, simplistic, unrealistic view, do not have vaults full of money, nor a license to print it. They have to make a living just like you and I.

 

There is a simple solution - it is not charity when you give away somebody else's stuff - that's theft.

 

I went to Caucasian Barrel's evil, corporate website. I found their take on helping very interesting. They decide quarterly who to help, can't be an individual, and they even help returning veterans which made me chuckle a bit, since Mr. Koblenzer is a veteran. Also, any group they help MUST prove 501c non-profit status in order to be eligible for aid.

Edit: so what's my take on all this? Again, there's a lot we DON'T know. We have been told that he was warned repeatedly to stop. I think that the evil, greedy republican corporate bosses sent an under cover tramp to bust this guy. Cuz nothing makes evil corporations happier than the glowing news reports that happen when firing disobedient old ppl who have the nerve to feed individuals who can't prove their 501c(3) status.