How do we know that employee is not being dishonest? To ruin someone’s reputation and career over such an allegation is ignominious.
Paula Deen is a self-made entrepreneur and a success. Martha Stewart was another self-made woman and a huge success. Despite these allegations, Deen supported President Obama both terms, and there was an episode where she and her husband distributed gifts dressed as Santa Claus in an orphanage for young African American boys for kretchmas.