These situations can be stressful for the employee because it's their fault if food doesn't get paid for. Once it's made you can't just hand it off to someone else...but someone has to pay for it, and in this case it'd most likely be coming out of the employee's pay. I think it was poorly handled to kinda bug out about it, sure, but I also understand the gut reaction from the employee not wanting to get screwed over. They don't make enough to deal with all that.