Woman Gets Job Back after being Fired from Donut Chain for Giving Baby a Free Timbit

An “overzealous” (read: idiot) Tim Hortons manager in London, Ontario fired Nicole Lilliman on Wednesday, for giving the 11-month-old child of a regular customer one free Timbit—or “a blob of dough”—as Jennifer O’Brien of cnews, so aptly put it.

But the single mother of four, who’s been employed by the donut chain for three years, was reinstated today, after Tim Hortons’ head office intervened. However, she’ll now be working at a different location.

“I have been fired for giving a baby a Timbit,” she said. “It was just out of my heart—she was pointing and going ‘ah, ah. . .’ I should have gone to my purse and got the change, but it was busy.”

Apparently, “Timbits [sometimes called donut holes in the US] are often doled out to dogs and children,” and Ms. Lilliman had completely forgotten about the incident, until she was called into the manager’s office two days later.

Unbelievably, she was ambushed by THREE managers who said she’d been caught on video, giving free food to a child. (According to some reports, Timbits sell for about 16 cents each.)

Then they fired her for THEFT!

Anyway… glad to see she got her job back.

[story sources: theglobeandmail.com and cnews]

[photo source: timhortons.com]