{"id":84921,"date":"2026-02-14T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84921"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:57:09","slug":"lidl-worker-sacked-for-drinking-17p-bottle-of-water-after-feeling-dehydrated-at-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/14\/lidl-worker-sacked-for-drinking-17p-bottle-of-water-after-feeling-dehydrated-at-checkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidl worker sacked for drinking 17p bottle of water after feeling &#8216;dehydrated at checkout&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VusP2.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Lidl says it has a 'zero-tolerance approach to the consumption of unpaid stock'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A dehydrated Lidl employee was sacked after he drank a bottle of water &#8211; worth a measly 17p &#8211; that he didn&#8217;t pay for, a tribunal has heard.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/lidl-worker-sacked-for-drinking-17p-bottle-of-water-after-feeling-dehydrated-at-checkout\/ar-AA1Wkjz1?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69901b26e863499b829b7dd2a25454e6&amp;ei=42\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A dehydrated Lidl employee was sacked after he drank a bottle of water &#8211; worth a measly 17p &#8211; that he didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lidl.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84922,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84921\/revisions\/84922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}