A Ford employee says he lost his job after being accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, only for the company to later realize he’d actually paid for it.
60-year-old Kurt Kromm had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, but told Shifting Gears he was fired after the company believed security footage showed him taking a cookie from the break room without paying.
Or as someone else here said, he was getting too close to retirement or some other kind of seniority/longevity-based benefit that the company didn’t want to pay out.
this is the reason, plus there are other stories that backup the claim, close to retirement, or seniority, about to get more benefits, bam fired the next day.