On its website, the Dutch tourist board helpfully provides a list of Holland’s most treasured cultural icons: clogs, windmills, van Gogh, tulips, and cheese.
Apparently the company fired a waitress working at an outlet in the northern Dutch town of Lemmer, Friesland province, for failing to charge a colleague after she added a slice of cheese to her hamburger. The restaurant manager said the cheese upgrade turned the hamburger (1.75 euro/$2.47) into a cheeseburger (1.95 euro/$2.75).
The district court in Leeuwarden didn’t find this argument persuasive, however. According to AFP news agency the judge ruled the “dismissal was too severe a measure.” A written warning would have been more appropriate. After all “it’s just a slice of cheese,” said the judge. And not a very good cheese at that…
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