Jamie:
The term Inventory Shrinkage is an old one -- it is the standard term
used for loss somewhere in the manufacturing, distribution, retailing
processes. ie you lose your inventory.
Sally
Prenkert, Jamie D wrote:
> You can also imagine, though, an organization like McDonald's taking a hard line against any sort of employee misuse/theft of its product/inventory. That sort of loss is a big deal for a number of businesses. Wal-Mart charmingly calls it "shrinkage" when inventory comes up missing and, as I understand it, has a zero tolerance policy toward employees who engage in "shrinkage" (poor George Costanza), as well as evaluates managers on the amount of shrinkage that occurs under their watch.
>
> In other words, this could have been a zero tolerance-type policy in action. Seems clearly "nutso" and inefficient in the individual case, but might be part of a broader campaign to address a systematic problem. (I have no idea if McDonald's actually has such a policy or even has a problem similar to Wal-Mart's shrinkage issue.) Employers sometimes make seemingly (and, probably, actually) silly and inefficient decisions to fire good and productive employees in order to adhere to some dearly held policy. See Darlene Jespersen and Harrah's.
>
> Jamie Darin Prenkert
> Associate Professor of Business Law
> Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Delaurell, Roxane M
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> 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-----
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> 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
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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-----
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> Zupanc, Thomas
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> 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
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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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> ALSBers:
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> The most recent edition of the ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law
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> Thanks to our articles editors, Robert Sprague and Avner Levin, to our
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> Subject: Did I Miss Anything?
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>
> "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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