hyperbolic wrote:
The female employee with Asperger's did not share from the same cup she was drinking from but instead poured a drink for her friend from the drink machine. This was unethical, although she may not have realized it. In my experience working in fast food, I did not have a zero tolerance manager such as the one it sounds like this female employee had. But maybe a manager would strictly enforce each and every rule as it applies to a certain employee if that employee gave them reason to. Also, filing criminal charges and firing an employee sounds like it would involve a lot of paperwork, and I can't imagine most managers wanting to do all that paperwork just over a cup of Coke. Maybe this girl was fired just to be gotten rid of, although the article does not show evidence that was such. Subway's directors pressing charges was over the top, but what bothers me the most about that is how Australia's government can allow someone to be jailed for two days over this.
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Security video footage of the incident shows Lang sharing the drink with her friend, then refilling the cup and leaving it on the table when she returned to work.
That suggest only one cup was used. And the Subway manual permits unlimited drinks for employees for their on use. I was never suggesting that she should be permited to break the company rules. I think the proper thing would have been to require her to pay
for one drink. But all I'm asking Subway to do is contact this Franchisee and pressure them to drop all charges on this girl.
And for as ethics go I'm willing to bet my last dollar there are some unethical things going on by the manger or owner of that store. In a high cash bussiness like that and in
a highly taxed country like NZ I expect cash is not being reported to the government.
Oh my dad knew a man who owned several fast food resturants and how he would steal from the government and the Franchise fees was to reuse the disposable drink cups. Yes employeess would get them out of the trash (I guess wash them a little
) and then buy any extra soda supplies with cash.