The link isn't working for me...can someone post the test here? It
sounds like an interesting case!
Delaurell, Roxane M wrote:
> I agree there must be more to it than cheese.
>
> In my limited experience managers usually fire people they don't like,
> they just look for any defensible reason to do so.
> I wonder if manager looked the other way for other employees scarfing
> cheese??
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Virginia G Maurer
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:41 AM
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> Subject: Re: ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law Vol. 11 No. 2
>
> It is hard for me to imagine that an US McD outlet would fire someone
> over the 10 cent or whatever difference between a hamburger and a
> cheeseburger to another employee. Even under employment at will. Or am I
> wrong?
>
> Was this manager not nutso?
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of
> Delaurell, Roxane M
> Sent: Thu 1/28/2010 6:35 AM
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> Subject: Re: ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law Vol. 11 No. 2
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>
> Cheese-heads rule!
>
> The students have really enjoyed this case and the 'raincoat' made of
> 'floor tile' added an even more interesting layer...thanks for that. Its
> a keeper.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of
> Zupanc, Thomas
> Sent: Wed 1/27/2010 6:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law Vol. 11 No. 2
>
> Thank you for that great employment law example to riff on in class.
> However, since I am originally from Wisconsin, there is no such thing as
> "just" a piece of cheese!
> That said, my cheesemaker friends tell me they refer to the "cheese" on
> fast food as "floor tile" or "raincoats"...So a proper fast food order
> is "Give me a burger in a raincoat" or "A burger with floor tile
> please."
>
> Tom Zupanc
>
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Delaurell, Roxane M
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:46 PM
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>
> speaking of employment law, can McDonald's fire you over a piece of
> cheese? apparently yes, but Dutch courts say no....
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> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/eur
> ope/8481827.stm?ad=1
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> ________________________________
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Denise Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:57 PM
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> Subject: ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law Vol. 11 No. 2
> ALSBers:
>
> The most recent edition of the ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law
> is now available at www.eiu.edu/~alsb . We have also added an archives
> link to this site. If you have earlier volumes that are not shown on
> the web page, please send them to me and I will ask our technical
> advisor to add them.
>
> Thanks to our articles editors, Robert Sprague and Avner Levin, to our
> long list a reviewers, and to all authors who submitted their articles
> for review!
>
> Denise Smith, JD, MBA
> Editor-in-Chief, ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law
> Assistant Professor
> School of Business
> Eastern Illinois University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marsha Hass
> Sent: Jan 27, 2010 8:12 AM
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> Subject: Did I Miss Anything?
>
>
> "Did I Miss Anything?"<http://feministlawprofessors.com/?p=14701>
> January 26th, 2010
> Did I Miss Anything?
>
> by Tom Wayman
> From: The Astonishing Weight of the Dead. Vancouver: Polestar, 1994.
>
> Question frequently asked by
> students after missing a class
>
> Nothing. When we realized you weren't here
> we sat with our hands folded on our desks
> in silence, for the full two hours
>
> Everything. I gave an exam worth
> 40 per cent of the grade for this term
> and assigned some reading due today
> on which I'm about to hand out a quiz
> worth 50 per cent
>
> Nothing. None of the content of this course
> has value or meaning
> Take as many days off as you like:
> any activities we undertake as a class
> I assure you will not matter either to you or me
> and are without purpose
>
> Everything. A few minutes after we began last time
> a shaft of light descended and an angel
> or other heavenly being appeared
> and revealed to us what each woman or man must do
> to attain divine wisdom in this life and
> the hereafter
> This is the last time the class will meet
> before we disperse to bring this good news to all people
> on earth
>
> Nothing. When you are not present
> how could something significant occur?
>
> Everything. Contained in this classroom
> is a microcosm of human existence
> assembled for you to query and examine and ponder
> This is not the only place such an opportunity has been
> gathered
>
> but it was one place
>
> And you weren't here
>
> ___________________________
> See also: "Did I Miss Anything?"
> FAQs<http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/wayman/pub2.htm>, where
> you learn stuff like this:
>
> Why do you think the poem has been so widely reprinted?
>
> Because of the anger and hate in the poem's sarcasm, the poem-to my
> surprise-has become a favorite with teachers at all levels, and is the
> most widely reproduced of everything I've written and published during
> the past 35 years. The poem has been in countless teachers' newsletters,
> and on innumerable course outlines, and posted on office doors, office
> walls, and teachers' staffrooms. One college teacher friend of mine who
> used it on a course outline had a student come up to the front after the
> class in which the outline was handed out. The student complained that
> the poem couldn't have been written by anybody called "Tom Wayman",
> because his math teacher in high school had handed out the poem, and the
> teacher said the poem was written by Anonymous. One bootleg version of
> the poem circulates on the Internet formatted as centered (like a
> wedding invitation) and another version has the poem written out as a
> block of prose (no line breaks or stanza breaks).
>
> Via Canadian Poetry
> Online<http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/wayman/poem5.htm>
>
> (Thanks to the awesome Susan Franck for the pointer.)
>
> -Ann Bartow
>
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