‘I was fired over a Twix bar’
We can all relate – you put your money into a vending machine, only to have your snack fail to drop down.
You thump the side, maybe give it a shake, but usually you end up walking away hungry and a couple of dollars poorer. Not Robert McKevitt, 27.
The forklift driver was taking a break when he put $2 into the company vending machine.
Selecting a Twix bar, he watched as the spiral arm became stuck.
After thumping and shaking it, Robert tried putting in another dollar, with no luck.
‘I shook the machine and the candy bar dropped,’ Robert said. ‘But then I was upset that I’d spent two dollars on a 90-cent candy bar.’
The details of what happened next depend on who’s telling the story.
A statement from his work claims that Robert was observed ‘lifting a candy machine about one to two feet off the ground with a forklift and then dropping the machine.’
Robert claims he was simply trying to retrieve the second bar he paid for.
‘The machine stole money from me,’ he insists.
Robert was fired.
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