{"id":6110,"date":"2025-07-02T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:39:39","slug":"my-mom-got-fired-by-her-manager-for-a-ridiculous-reason-but-karma-took-care-of-him-in-the-end-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6110","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Got Fired by Her Manager for a Ridiculous Reason \u2014 but Karma Took Care of Him in the End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"227\" data-end=\"584\">Kevin\u2019s mom, Cathy, worked at Beller\u2019s Bakery for 18 years, known as the warm-hearted \u201cCookie Lady.\u201d One rainy night, she kindly gave leftover bread and muffins to a homeless veteran \u2014 food that was going to be thrown out anyway. The next day, her new manager Derek fired her for \u201ctheft,\u201d strictly enforcing company policy without compassion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"963\">Ten years later, Kevin, now running a food-tech company focused on rescuing leftover food to feed those in need, interviewed a candidate for operations manager \u2014 and it was Derek. During the interview, Derek bragged about firing an older employee for giving away food. Kevin revealed the \u201colder employee\u201d was his mom and promptly told Derek he wasn\u2019t the right fit for the job.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"1211\">Cathy has since joined Kevin\u2019s company as head of community outreach, continuing her mission to help others, but now on her own terms. The story highlights how compassion outlasts cruelty, and karma sometimes shows up in the most unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1216\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1305\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin\u2019s mom, Cathy, worked at Beller\u2019s Bakery for 18 years, known as the warm-hearted \u201cCookie Lady.\u201d One rainy night, she kindly gave leftover bread and muffins to a homeless veteran \u2014 food that was going to be thrown out anyway. The next day, her new manager Derek fired her for \u201ctheft,\u201d strictly enforcing company policy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}