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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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?
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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.
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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
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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....
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/eur
ope/8481827.stm?ad=1
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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
Charleston, IL 61920
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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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