The worker, fired even after the student paid the next day, said she was following orders from her employer.
By Orion Donovan-Smith Orion Donovan-Smith Email Bio Follow May 16 at 4:54 PM A cafeteria worker in Canaan, N.H., was fired after a supervisor caught her violating her employer’s policy. Her offense? Giving food worth $8 to a student with no money in his account.
Kimball saw that a student’s account was empty and let him keep his food, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. She also asked him to have his mother add money to the account. The next day, he paid his lunch bill. But later that day, Kimball was called in by a manager who had witnessed her act of leniency and fired her, she told the paper.
Kimball said that she was following specific orders from her employer, Manchester, N.H.-based Cafe Services. In February, she told the Union Leader, her direct supervisor had instructed her to let students take food, even if they couldn’t pay, and “discreetly tell them” to refill their accounts. The chair of the Mascoma Valley Regional School Board, Cookie Hebert, told the Union Leader that “it was her understanding” that students who can’t pay should be given the lunch of the day and not a la carte items, which Kimball gave the boy March 28.
In a letter to the editor of the Valley News, Donlon Wade, a student counselor for the school district, hailed Kimball and her fellow “kitchen ladies” as “quiet heroes [who] have performed the daily ritual of cheerfully preparing and serving good meals to children in a poor district of great need.”In a written statement, Cafe Services told The Post that “the information as reported is untrue,” but did not specify what previous reports had gotten wrong.
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