{"id":119281,"date":"2026-07-05T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/after-payment-kiosk-malfunctioned-ford-worker-fired-over-1-95-cookie\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:35:57","slug":"after-payment-kiosk-malfunctioned-ford-worker-fired-over-1-95-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/after-payment-kiosk-malfunctioned-ford-worker-fired-over-1-95-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"After payment kiosk malfunctioned, Ford worker fired over $1.95 cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ford employee, Kurt Kromm, was fired after a self-service kiosk allegedly failed to register a $1.95 cookie purchase.  Despite video evidence showing a failed transaction, Kromm claimed he paid on a second machine.  After providing bank records, Ford reinstated him, though he declined to return.  Kromm highlighted recurring kiosk issues at the plant, with Ford acknowledging potential mishandling of such cases.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ford employee, Kurt Kromm, was fired after a self-service kiosk allegedly failed to register a $1.95 cookie purchase. Despite video evidence showing a failed transaction, Kromm claimed he paid on a second machine. After providing bank records, Ford reinstated him, though he declined to return. Kromm highlighted recurring kiosk issues at the plant, with&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/after-payment-kiosk-malfunctioned-ford-worker-fired-over-1-95-cookie\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After payment kiosk malfunctioned, Ford worker fired over $1.95 cookie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":119282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}