I was recently fired from a local grocery store chain, where I worked as a butcher. I was fired for eating a small piece of hamburger, which was at the end of a seasoned batch, it was too small to make a burger out of it so me and a co-worker who was also fired cooked a few small pieces from various batches, which would otherwise be thrown away. However the company knows this is an ongoing issue in the company and upper management wanted to make an "example" out of us. I have witness my immediate manager eat product without paying for it, and the store manager that fired me admitted to me when I was being fired that he too has done this. Is this fair?