{"id":16,"date":"2012-10-10T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-11-18T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:34:31","slug":"woman-fired-for-giving-tot-a-free-timbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/2012\/10\/10\/woman-fired-for-giving-tot-a-free-timbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Fired For Giving Tot A Free Timbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/files\/2012\/11\/tim-hortons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21\" title=\"tim-hortons\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/files\/2012\/11\/tim-hortons-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/files\/2012\/11\/tim-hortons-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/files\/2012\/11\/tim-hortons.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year old woman was fired by the popular franchise Tim Hortons, after giving away a free timbit which cost about 16 cents at that point of time to a 11-month year old. The reason that was given to her for her being fired was that &#8220;it was against the policy to give away free items to customers&#8221;. The lost job cost her and her family money for their daily bread. Though she was re-hired later on, how ethically right is it to fire an employee for making their customers happy? Given what is taught and understood, a business earns its profits through customers. And customers only buy a business&#8217; product if the customer is happy with the service provided. Such actions by one franchise creates a havoc and a reputation loss amongst customers. She was re-hired later in the same year by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citytv.com\/toronto\/citynews\/news\/local\/article\/1560\">another franchise of Tim Hortons<\/a>. Which is more important? Following rules? or being ethical? What does a business do when following rules makes it unethical?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A 27-year old woman was fired by the popular franchise Tim Hortons, after giving away a free timbit which cost about 16 cents at that point of time to a 11-month year old. The reason that was given to her for her being fired was that &#8220;it was against the policy to give away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}