In today’s world of rules and legislations even doing the ‘right thing’ can land you in trouble.

At least that was apparently the case for a New Hampshire school cafeteria worker who was fired for giving a student food even though he couldn’t pay for it.

The New Hampshire Union Leader claim that Bonnie Kimball, who worked in the Mascoma Valley Regional High School lunchroom, let the boy take $8 worth of food on March 28, telling him to inform his mom he needed money to pay it back.

Kimball told the Valley News: “I quietly said, ‘Tell (your) mom you need money’”.

Despite the boy paying the tab the next day (March 29), Kimball was fired. The food vendor explained in a letter that the district manager witnessed Kimball violating their company’s “cash handling procedures, the school’s charge policy and federal regulation governing free meals.”

Students and staff are rallying behind a Mascoma Valley Regional High School lunch lady fired for allowing a boy to run up an $8 lunch debt rather than go hungy. Bonnie Kimball thought she was doing the right thing and the parent did eventually pay. https://t.co/y65rc8oGjX pic.twitter.com/eds9teHG2m

— UnionLeader.com (@UnionLeader) May 15, 2019