Ford worker fired for allegedly stealing $8 worth of Doritos, crackers just wants old job back
A Ford assembly worker who says he was fired after being wrongfully accused of stealing less than $8 worth of Doritos and Ritz crackers is calling on his former employer to “do what’s right” and hire him back.Nick Nabozny — one of the latest workers to claim Ford and its food-services vendor Aramark wrongly branded him a snack thief — told The Post his firing has drained his savings, but he’s willing to let bygones be bygones.“I have no hatred towards Ford Motor Company or the [United Auto Workers],” he said Wednesday.“I just want them to do what’s right.”Nabozny, 38, remains unemployed nearly months after his firing and said he cashed out his 401(k), receiving about $78,000 after taxes and penalties, to support his wife and two young sons while he waits for Ford and the UAW to act.After putting in nearly nine years with a spotless attendance record, he wishes his union bargaining representative had prevented the firing in the first place, Nabozny said.“My union rep should have stood up and did their job,” he said.
“They should have never let me go.”Nabozny, who counted at least four others from his division who have been fired over alleged theft of snacks, said the firing came in April, after he stopped at the self-service marketplace following an overtime shift.“[Surveillance footage] showed me talking to someone and then when I was done speaking, it shows me grabbing a Milky Way off the shelf, looking at the ingredients, and putting it back,” he told The Post.“I grabbed two different snacks, Doritos and Ritz Crackers with cheese.Then it shows me going to the kiosk and scanning those two items.
It shows me pulling my debit card out of my pocket, tapping it and waiting for it to register.”More than two weeks later, after returning from a family trip to Honduras, Nabozny said he was ordered to report to Ford’s labor office.His union rep delivered the news.“He said, ‘This is not good.The company wants to terminate you,'�...