[Leica] OT ! a naked exposure

[gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)]

Hi Nathan,

I believe Wal-Mart is single handedly doing more damage to the US economy 
than almost all other factors combined. In spite of this, Wal-Mart was right 
to fire this fool's ass for insubordination and the state was also 
completely correct in denying him unemployment benefits.

At 65 years of age he should know better.

Regards,

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl>
Date: Friday, January 7, 2005 10:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT ! a naked exposure

> I never thought that I would find myself defending Wal-Mart, but 
> this 
> case is not comparable to the one where a photographer was 
> threatened by 
> the store security ape. Here we have an employee who engages in 
> conduct 
> that elicits complaints from (some) customers, is told to stop 
> that 
> conduct and does not, then gets fired. It seems a pretty 
> straightforward 
> case of disciplinary action (whether it was overly harsh or not is 
> another issue, but the guy had been warned by his supervisor), and 
> does 
> not really relate to the wider issues of freedom of speech etc.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Jeffery Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:04:08 +0100, Ruben <ruben@rhodos.dk> wrote:
> > 
> >>What is the world comming to
> > 
> > 
> > It's coming to this:
> > Wal-Mart Greeter Fired for Saucy Pic 
> > Friday, January 07, 2005
> >  
> > MUSCATINE, Iowa ? A Wal-Mart (search) greeter was sacked for
> > apparently showing too much of his friendly side to customers.
> > 
> > Dean L. Wooten, 65, was accused of greeting customers with a
> > computer-generated photo of himself in which he appeared to be 
> naked ?
> > except for a carefully placed Wal-Mart bag ? and of telling 
> customers> that Wal-Mart was cutting costs and the sack was the 
> company's new
> > uniform.
> > 
> > A supervisor at the Muscatine store where Wooten had worked for 
> seven> years told him to knock it off after customers complained. 
> He was
> > fired five days later, in September, after he displayed the photo
> > again.
> > 
> > Wooten's application for unemployment compensation was rejected 
> by an
> > administrative law judge, who said "a reasonable person would 
> know the
> > act of showing a naked body wearing a Wal-Mart sack would not be 
> good> for the employer's business."
> > 
> > Wooten said he did not see the harm in the photo, which he said was
> > made by a friend who spliced a picture of Wooten's head onto a 
> shot of
> > another man's body.
> > 
> > "When I first seen it, I pretty near died laughing," he said.
> > 
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> 
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