Ford looks to hire back worker it wrongly accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie but he refuses: Never thought it would end this way

Ford has asked a veteran electrician it wrongly accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie to come back to work — but the worker has refused to return, claiming he never got an apology after the fiasco.The bizarre saga began at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky.in the wee hours of May 9, when Kurt Kromm approached an Aramark self-checkout kiosk to buy two Grandma’s Chocolate Chip Cookies for $1.95.Kromm — who spent 11 years repairing robots and automated equipment at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky.

— told The Post he swiped his debit card, but the payment screen flashed red, indicating the transaction had failed.Kromm — a 60-year-old diabetic whose blood sugar had dropped to 60 during his overnight shift — swiped again.This time, the machine never displayed the usual green approval checkmark, but it didn’t reject the payment either.Believing the purchase had gone through, Kromm returned to work.“I figured, well, it probably went through,” Kromm said.

“And I might have went over to the other kiosk and paid.This was so inconsequential to me — $1.95.

I figured I paid.”A week later, on May 16, two supervisors summoned him to the labor office, where he was shown surveillance video and fired for allegedly stealing the cookie.“The bargainer says, ‘This is bad,’” Kromm recalled.“I said, ‘For what?’ They said, ‘They want to terminate you for taking a cookie.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’”Kromm told The Post that company officials showed him surveillance footage from an Aramark self-checkout kiosk that appeared to show a failed transaction after he swiped his debit card.Ford immediately escorted him from the plant, refusing to let him retrieve his belongings, he said.“They just terminated me, walked me out of the building,” Kromm recounted.“I had to get the union steward to even go get my personal laptop because they wouldn’t let me go get anything — ‘you are terminated, get ou...