Subway calls cops over drink-sharing by aspie employee.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/subway ... 02295.html

Talk about an overreaction!

Criminal charges over a cheap drink that she was allowed to have in the first place?

I honestly think she'll be ruled innocent, then she has more then enough justification for a discrimination lawsuit, or at least a wrongful dismissal lawsuit. And I honestly hope she wins and single handedly forces that particular subway out of business, and the manager will never manage a store again.

This is a ridiculous over the top reaction even if the girls friend was supposed to buy her drink I beleive that her managers would have been better simply explaining to her and warning her not to do it again. If need be writing it down so she doesn't forget in future. Sacking and calling the police is f***ing stupid IMO.

I sent in a feedback message:
"Hey guys I heard about you firing that girl with Asperger's Syndrome for sharing a Coke.
I wanted to tell you that I believe it was a fantastic PR move.
I think the crime of sharing Coke ought to be fuly punished to the extent of the law...and beyond.
Why not punish her in a way that not only will alert her to her offense BUT cause her traumatic stress well in excess of what neuro-typical functioning people will feel?
Make her chances of gaining employment incredibly hard (never mind the fact that is is hard because of her condition).
Drive her self-believe in her attempts to socialise and integrate into the ground.

Hang on you have already done this.....but she deserves it of course!

Or does she? Was it actually picking on a marginalised person in society, who is vulnerable to misreading social conventions.
Might a spelling out of the policies have been a little more appropriate in this circumstance, and ruining a marginalised person a bit too much?

If this is so then surely SUBWAY is a despicable uncompassioante employer and has branded itself by its own actions as a socially irresponsible corporation.

I will help put the story out for you, to see what other people think....Hope you don't mind."

What do ya reckon?

It was really unfair to fire people for such excuses... what makes it more unfair is that this was the lady's first "mistake"! Other people who make mistakes might finally JUST get a demotion.

Either the manager had something against the woman and AS or either he needs psychotherapy and logic teaching classes.

Nothing adds up here. I'll put money on him not liking the girl (because of Asperger's or something else) and just wanting to get rid of her.

Wikinews article on this Click here

I think a "shame on you!" postcard will be making it's way to

Rob Nichol & Business Partner
Subway Sandwiches
360 George Street
Dunedin
New Zealand

another interesting blog about this Click here

TheMachine1, you should read the blog I added, seems like they violated all kinds of employment rules. either way though, it stinks!

I agree with the people on here that probably the Coke was just an excuse to fire someone they wanted out of there anyway, possibly due to Aspie behavior that they found unnerving. I worked at Wendy's one summer, and they were never that anal about policies. We were supposed to pay half-price for the food we ate, but if we were working a long shift with no break and got hungry, we would sometimes pop nuggets or whatever in our mouths to tide us over. Management never had a problem with that. I can't imagine how unpleasant it must have been for her to work there with managers like those.

One of my freind's brother gets free food at wendys and he is allowed to give it over to my freind for tomnmorow's lunch. Yeeeeesh, I thought it was a fast food industry standard to allow peoplke to gicve a couple free otems to friends.

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