scary red-headed clown attempts to take his revenge...

Now, don't get me wrong, I am a total promoter of policies and procedures.  I follow a lot of them in my current job and my friend who works at the refinery also follows way more policies and procedures then I do.  Of course in her case, she could end up dead if she didn't follow them.  In my current job, I probably won't die but could spend large quantity of time behind bars if I did not follow the policies and procedures book.  Now in the case of a single slice of cheese and being fired,  me thinks that this was "oh, I don't know...overkill!"  The worker was not giving out say extra fries or a free soda...it was a tiny slice of cheese!  Now it is possible in Lemmer, Netherlands the cheese is as valuable gold and I know that in Amsterdam, drugs are legal, maybe it was coated in pot but still even a written warning still seems to be .... overkill!  Oh dear former Lemmer McDonald's employee we love you!

A McDonald's outlet in the Netherlands was wrong to sack an employee for giving a colleague a piece of cheese on a hamburger, a court has ruled.
The worker lost her job at a branch of the fast-food chain in the northern town of Lemmer in March last year.
A written warning would have been more appropriate, the district court in Leeuwarden ruled.
McDonald's was ordered to pay her more than 4,200 euros ($5,900; £3,660) for the last five months of her contract.

The worker was fired after she sold a hamburger to a colleague who then asked for cheese, which she added to the meal.

“ It is just a slice of cheese ”
Leeuwarden district court

The fast-food chain argued that this turned the hamburger into a cheeseburger, and so the employee should have charged more.
McDonald's said she had broken staff rules prohibiting free gifts to family, friends or colleagues.
But the court said in its written judgement: "The dismissal was too severe a measure. It is just a slice of cheese," reports AFP news agency.
The ruling comes days after McDonald's reported an increase in net profits by almost a quarter in the last three months of 2009.