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An employee of McDonalds had to spend a night in jail and is now facing criminal charges for putting too much salt on a hamburger.

The hamburger in question was served to a police officer who returned later saying it was so salty it made him sick.

The employee, Kendra Bull, was arrested on Friday and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and was freed on $1,000 bail.

Bull said it was an accident and when she told her supervisor and other workers they attempted to knock the salt off.

While these seems like an overreaction, from a management way of looking at this, it was irresponsible. You don't just drop salt on a hamburger, or set of hamburgers, attempt to knock some of it off, and then serve it to the public. It doesn't make sense.

Assuming the supervisor was communicated with, that person dropped the ball here. All they would have had to do was either grab another hamburger or put another one up on the grill. The supervisor should have never let food out of the building that had been altered in this way.

What this probably had to do with was the police officer believing he had been targeted purposely, because he was a police officer.

A city public information officer said the employee was charged because she served the hamburger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."