I have come to realize that I don't always see all the subtle shades of gray in a situation.  There are many situations where I see things as black & white.  I have a situation where an employee has used a company fuel card for about $100 worth of fuel for personal use.  We have a company policy regarding such things and it states that any use of said cards for personal use is considered theft of company policy.  I point this out specifically to our employees when I go over our policies and procedures guide.  They sign off on this training and part of that form talks about the fuel card policy specifically.  So in my mind this is a clear cut situation and the employee needs to be terminated.  In my mind there can be no exceptions to this, if you steel anything at all you are fired.  A couple other members of management and I have been debating this.  One thinks that maybe we should look at circumstances and give the person another chance and that we can teach them better.  I say that this is a basic idea of wrong and right and that their mommy should have taught them that steeling is wrong by the time they are in kindergarten.  So I do wonder, am I being unreasonable?  Should this person be given another chance?  I really don't think so, but I do view this situation in black and white.