[Leica] OT ! a naked exposure

[jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

I think the problem is that, in order to keep rolling back them
prices, they have to buy everything from China and hire people who
cannot get a job that pays more than minimum wage. Any job that pays
minimum wage is likely to have some people who don't exercise good
judgement. ;-)

Jeffery


On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 00:00:31 -0700, GREG LORENZO <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> 
wrote:
> 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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