{"id":29451,"date":"2024-04-18T10:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/sainsburys-worker-sacked-for-taking-bags-for-life-without-paying\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:07:22","slug":"sainsburys-worker-sacked-for-taking-bags-for-life-without-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/sainsburys-worker-sacked-for-taking-bags-for-life-without-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury&#8217;s worker sacked for taking &#8216;bags for life&#8217; without paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_bbc\/672a\/live\/16e471c0-fd5d-11ee-a5d5-6302d038f080.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sainsbury&#8217;s worker sacked for taking &#8216;bags for life&#8217; without paying\" title=\"Sainsbury&#8217;s worker sacked for taking &#8216;bags for life&#8217; without paying\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of his night shift in August 2022 Mr Doffou bought some food, bedding and pillows in advance of having friends coming to stay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The value of the shopping was \u00a330. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCTV footage shows Mr Doffou making multiple trips to get carrier bags but his receipt shows that these bags were not paid for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was tired and was unaware that he had clicked the &#8220;no bags used&#8221; button on the till, unintentionally not paying for the carrier bags. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Disciplinary action was taken by Sainsbury&#8217;s and Mr Doffou was sacked for the offence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The case later went to an employment tribunal and a judge ruled that Sainsbury&#8217;s were within their right to sack Mr Doffou finding that he had &#8220;acted dishonestly&#8221; and &#8220;committed theft&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC approached Sainsbury&#8217;s for comment, but the supermarket said it had nothing to add to the tribunal ruling. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/articles\/cw07nep0ek4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of his night shift in August 2022 Mr Doffou bought some food, bedding and pillows in advance of having friends coming to stay. The value of the shopping was \u00a330. CCTV footage shows Mr Doffou making multiple trips to get carrier bags but his receipt shows that these bags were not paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_bbc\/672a\/live\/16e471c0-fd5d-11ee-a5d5-6302d038f080.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[7918,76,4477,8474,1981,4995],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29453,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451\/revisions\/29453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}