I'm in the US and my office specifically lists theft of office supplies as a workplace violation, which can become a fireable offense.

So if you keep a 10-cent pencil from the office without really thinking about it, you deserve to be fired?

That doesn't sound exploitable at all. Totally sane office environment you have there.

Its not about "guaranteeing" employment, its the fact that the issue was so minor in scope and scale that it ends up being comical if action is taken over it. If they could take away your retirement pay over that, I would probably call that a pretense for something else because no sane person would fire a long-time employee over that.

The theft in question is so petty that its laughable. Its so petty that the state didn't bother to press charges. You know what the word "petty" means, right? Its not just a modifying adjective for the word "theft", it has a definition.

You're basically saying he deserves to have his life over for the equivalent of this.

I'm in the US and my office specifically lists theft of office supplies as a workplace violation, which can become a fireable offense.

So if you keep a 10-cent pencil from the office without really thinking about it, you deserve to be fired?

That doesn't sound exploitable at all. Totally sane office environment you have there.

Its not about "guaranteeing" employment, its the fact that the issue was so minor in scope and scale that it ends up being comical if action is taken over it. If they could take away your retirement pay over that, I would probably call that a pretense for something else because no sane person would fire a long-time employee over that.

The theft in question is so petty that its laughable. Its so petty that the state didn't bother to press charges. You know what the word "petty" means, right? Its not just a modifying adjective, it has a definition.

You're basically saying he deserves to have his life over for the equivalent of this.