Waitress fired after 13 years over a Reese’s cup, when a lying coworker turned a harmless snack break into a full-blown scandal: ‘I just feel like I was unfairly and unlawfully terminated’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Oct 13, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Imagine dedicating thirteen years of your life to a restaurant, only to get booted over a handful of miniature Reese cups. Not even full-sized ones, just the kind meant for sneaky snacking and mild regret. One minute you're the gold-star employee, the next you're starring in a workplace whodunnit, accused of pill heists and candy conspiracies by the kind of coworker who probably thinks "teamwork" is a personal threat. Forget your spotless record or that you asked permission. A five-second brush with someone's lunch bag is now a capital crime, reconstructed endlessly in break room whispers and security footage with the pixel quality of a VHS tape.

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  • All it takes is one bored manager, a camera with no sound, and a coworker rewriting her own story. Suddenly, you’re the main attraction at Restaurant Court, where the rules shift faster than the lunch rush and due process means “who gossiped loudest.” Any good deed, award or decade of loyalty means nothing the moment drama shows up in a group chat. Here, “investigation” is just another word for passing blame. Your fate gets sealed by a grainy video, a sudden case of amnesia, and a DM convinced you’re a criminal mastermind armed with peanut butter. Just like that, you’re out the door, no appeal, no meeting, no logic, only lesson learned is to keep your hands out of everyone’s bag, even for a Reese cup, and never expect fairness from a place that thinks rumors are a benefit.

  • Ok, here goes. Ive worked as a waitress at a pretty popular restaurant since 11/04/2013.. I was a trainer, I cross trained to work in BOH positions and as a line person.
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  • I loved my job. Saturday, I worked my regular shift with 4 other servers. Everything was going well, as usual.
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  • was helping the server i was working closely with bus her tables because she was behind.
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  • Before I went to help her she was getting something out of her bag and she had Reese cups.
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  • I asked if I could have some, she said yes, and i told her when i got done, id get them then.
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  • So i went about helping her, then when i was done i got the reese cups.
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  • I slid 4 in my apron pocket (they were the little ones). After I got them, I opened my own bag, looking for a lighter.
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  • Nothing weird, or so I thought. When I finished my shift, my husband came in, we ate lunch, with 2 of my coworkers.
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  • I started noticing two of my other coworkers were standing in the door way, whispering. I asked the person who had the Reese cups what was going on and she just kinda rolled her eyes and said she didnt know.
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  • Shortly after that I went home. The next day, sunday, I was off but my 2 close friends had to work.
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  • When they clocked in another server told them to not bring any personal bags in with them because something had happened.
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  • Apparently my name was in everyone's mouth. No idea what the deal was, but I figured id find out on monday.
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  • I worked my full shift on monday, nothing weird was said, everything was normal. I was off Tuesday.
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  • Weds, as im leaving to go to work I get a call from my GM who says that she was calling to terminate me because I was seen, on camera, inside someone's personal belongings.
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  • Honestly I kinda just shut down. I just said ok, and we got off the phone.
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  • I was very, very upset. Couldn't figure out what anyone was even talking about. Then I remembered getting the Reese cup.
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  • So I messaged my GM and explained that yes I was on camera getting the candy, but I had permission.
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  • In the mean time that server had called our DM and was saying I stole from her bag, but it had switched to prescription pain. meds.
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  • Absolutely not! Well I assumed when my GM spoke to her she'd, I guess remember telling me I could have it.
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  • But she apparently has sudden, random, amnesia and is swearing she never spoke to me about candy, in any way, and I was never told I could have one.
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  • Which makes no sense because how would I have known about them if we didnt speak about them.
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  • So my GM calls my DM and says "this is what she said happened, the other server is known for causing issues, i am not, can we just suspend her for a week and let it go".
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  • He says Absolutely not. She is on camera in someone else's property. Which ves. I was.
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  • Im not disputing that. With permission. this is what I was told. Because no one else was around when we talked about it, and because i didnt have written permission, and because shes saying she never said that, and im on camera, im terminated.
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  • That, on camera, its impossible to see what I have in my hand, but that i put my hand in my pants pocket, and then I "take everything out of my own bag".
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  • I never put anything in my front pants pockets because they stay wet. And its not a crime to be in my own bag.
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  • I never emptied my bag. I dont even know if she had a pill bottle, I never saw one, touched one, looked at one.
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  • I couldn't even tell you what else was in this lunch bag. I got the mini Reese cups, zipped her bag back up, end of story.
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  • Yes all on camera. I wasnt doing anything wrong. I was told I could have them.
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  • Theyre saying all kinds of things. Like I looked behind me? The only thing behind me is a wall.
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  • Why would I look behind me. That i shut all the blinds. Never happened. That I emptied my entire bag, which never happened.
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  • Ive been denied to see the footage. Ive been denied everything basically. I asked to have a meeting with her, the GM, the DM and the owner.
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  • I was told no. She knows if she comes back now and says "oh yeah, I remember", she'll be fired.
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  • Which i dont want her fired. I just want my job back. I didnt do anything wrong.
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  • They have taken a "she took a Reese cup from my lunch bag" and turned it into some plot i had to steal pain meds.
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  • Which I have NEVER. All they keep saying is "its on camera". Yeah, it is. I could have taken one step back and not been on camera but I wasnt doing anything wrong.
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  • I had permission to have the candy. Yeah I went into my bag, its mine. If I want to empty it out and set it on fire, its mine.
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  • ive been terminated, and im now known as a theif and a liar. Ive had this same job for almost 13 years.
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  • Ive never taken a vacation, a leave of absence, rarely do I call in. Ive never been wrote up.
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  • Ive never been disciplined. Ive been awarded the highest award they award someone. This job was my main focus for a lot of years.
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  • I was supposed to have major surgery in Feb, and it was canceled. I was given a doctor's note to be out until the surgery was preformed, I stayed.
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  • I never went out, against doctors orders. Ive never stolen anything in my life and I didnt lie about anything.
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  • Yes I absolutely was in her lunch bag, yes im absolutely on camera. I had permission.
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  • I dont understand why shes lying. I mean, except I work day shifts, she wants day shifts.
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  • But she wasnt given my shifts. My DM doesnt want to hear anything I have to say.
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  • I want to call the owner but theyre really big on chain of command. Ive been denied a meeting with her and all of the higher ups.
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  • Which makes no sense to me. Shes changed her "story" 4 different times. I never have.
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  • Because im not telling a story. Its the truth ljust feel like I was unfairly and unlawfully terminated.
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  • They're allowing others to say things that arent true and they're saying things that arent true.
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  • No one seems to care that I was given permission. Because our cameras dont have audio, its her word against mine, and im on camera.
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  • Which again, no kidding. I wasnt doing anything wrong. I had permission. I just dont know what to do.
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  • This just feels so wrong to me. I don't know why no one is listening. Just simply being on camera shouldn't be enough, when I telling them, yeah i am, cause she said i could have them.
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  • Theyre adding things that make no sense, like my bookbag. icant believe I was terminated over a Reese cup, but I feel like this isnt right.
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  • I feel like I should have some kind of rights. At least to be heard. Thank you to anyone who has any advice.
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