Well, they did prove her guilty, of stealing said Timbit. They took Al Capone down for taxes not his other activities.
No matter how you swing it, she did steal. If she wanted to give the timbit as a gift, she could have taken the 12c from her pocket.
And she admitted to it.
As for Video, its probably digital and of not high enough quality to be used as anything but reinforcement to a hunch.
They didn't fire her from the video, they fired her after she admitted to stealing, which is what leads me to that conclusion. Most camera's aren't of high enough quality these days to be useful.
All her being rehired says is that Tim Hortons doesn't like bad PR. As you said, this happens alot, and usually they aren't rehired.
I find it strange you can so easily envision the manager as a dick, but cannot comprehend the possibility that this woman may be just as bad as you envision the manager.
Having worked my share of minimum wage jobs, I am quite familiar with how often firings like this occur, and how many times the irritating coworker (the one with such a bad attitude they drive off all the competent staff to find somewhere else to work) is the one that gets canned.
That isn't to say it couldn't be the manager is a dick, for all we know the "unprovable reason" might be an "unconscionable reason" like "She keeps passing up extra shifts to take care of her 4 kids".
But one shouldn't take up a heavily biased article at the face value it is trying to project.
