Zellers fires poor dad for taking chocolate from trash for his kids.

By The Canadian Press, various newspapers across Canada, The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotti, December 21, 2005.

ST-HYACINTHE, Quebec A single father of three fired for taking chocolate bars from a garbage bin at a Sellers store will get some Christmas cheer from a charitable organization.

Guy Massey, 47, had planned to give the discarded chocolate to his children, ages six, nine and 15, for Christmas.

Massey, who was on welfare and had been working at the store only for a couple of months, was first suspended and then fired.

"I think its inhuman," Massey told CJAD radio station in Montreal of his dismissal.

Sellers, which is part of Toronto-based retailer Hudson's Bay Co., has said Massey should have notified his supervisor that he was taking the chocolate out of the garbage at the St-Hyacinthe store, about 50 kilometres east of Montreal.

"Its a very unfortunate situation. We would never have willingly let an associate go at this time of year without just cause," said HBC spokes woman Hillary South in an interview from Toronto.

"Unfortunately this associate breached the trust of his supervisors by removing merchandise from the store, and as a result, he was let go from his position."

Established in 1670, Hudson's Bay is Canadas largest department store chain and oldest company with more than 500 outlets, led by the Bay and Sellers chains.

Added South: "We have over 70,000 across Canada. They work so hard especially at this time of year. Its very upsetting that one bad employee tarnished the reputation of everybody else."

Montreal's Sun Youth Organization said Tuesday that Masses family will be provided for this Christmas.

"Its important to Sun Youth now that this family will have a Christmas that they deserve, food on the table and gifts for the kids," Sun Youths Tommy Kulcyzk told CJAD.



MY OPINION

I THINK THAT WHAT THIS GUY DO WAS VERE RESPECTFUL BECAUSE CHILDREN'S RECEIVE THE PRESENTS WITH OUT EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROMAND THEY'RE HAPPY BUT THIS TIME THIS MAN GIVE THEM CHOCOLATES FOR CHRISTMAS, BUT THE THING THAT THE CHILDREN DONTNOW IS THAT HE TOKED FROMTHE TRASH BUT THE CHILDRESN WERE HAPPY BECASE THEY GET SOMETHIG FOR CRISTMAS FOR THEM THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGHT MONEY TO GET SOMTHIG FOR CRISTMAS SO THE MEN WORK FOR A VER GOOD COMPAY THEN HE GET FIRE CAUSE THE COMPANY DON'T THRUST HIM ANY MORE, SO I THIK THE GOVERNMENT OR THE COMPANY SAID THE THE CHILDRENS AND THEIR FAMILY ARE GOING TO HAVE A VERY AN NICE CHRISTMAS AND FOOD.