Yes it is.
Back to the OP's point.
Naaaaaaah. If a person got dismissed for that then the company was looking for an excuse to get rid of them. First offence would be, "Gas money please bro", from any reasonable employer. It's what I'd do. Followed up by, 'Don't do it again or you'll lose the privilege." Then and only then would a reasonable employer start getting the bigger stick out. Unless of course that borrowing the company car for personal use was outlined contractually as a firing offence.
We're talking about around $500 that she paid back. Most of you reading this have nicked more than that from your boss in pens, paper, 3/4 hour toilet breaks, 10 minutes every hour smoke breaks, and subtly arriving later and leaving earlier when needed.
Chris Carter certainly "stole" 10s, maybe 100s of thousands of dollars over his long career and he wouldn't have gone if he hadn't been such a monumental dick about the whole issue. If he'd said sorry he'd still be an MP. Probably wouldn't win his seat next election though and would have been demoted down the list.
Muldoon did abuse his position. It sounds nuts now but that Sierra he drove was a special import at a time when us "normal" folk simply weren't allowed to do that and it looked like a space ship compared to anything else on the road. It's why people drove 25 year old Ford Prefects in 1981.
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