A woman found her job, well, essentially non-existent after she tried helping her daughter sell her Girl Scout cookies.

Tracy Lewis, from Washington, D.C., was fired on Feb 18 working in the food services at the American University because she was reportedly selling the cookies while on the job.

Lewis, a campus employee for 28 years, said she had been selling the cookies for the past three years.

"I had the cookies on a cart, and I would never ask anyone to buy them, " Lewis said, according to UPI.com. "But, if they wanted to buy some, I would sell them."

In a letter from the Bon Appetit Management Co., her manager accused her of "gross misconduct by soliciting" and "operating a cash business selling Girl Scout cookies over the counter, which violates company policy," Myfoxdc.com reported Friday.

"They didn't give me any warning," Lewis said. "It's crazy because I can't profit for selling the cookies."

Colleen Cibula, chief operating officer of the Girl Scouts Council of the Nation's Capitol, released a statement saying parents should think again about selling cookies at their work place.

"Girl Scout cookie sales are a girl-led, entrepreneurial program. We want the girls to be taking the lead," she said.

This incident followed a recent scandal where a group of girls were pranked into selling $24,000 worth of girl scout cookies, via a false order.