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all_your_base - Date published:
10:46 am, September 21st, 2007 - 1 comment
Categories: workers' rights -
Tags: workers' rights
Some of you might remember an incident at Subway in Dunedin earlier this year. A young woman who worked there was fired in after management accused her of stealing a free staff drink after she shared it with her friend. They had her arrested and charged with theft. The news traveled widely, there was a protest and even a bloggers’ boycott of Subway. Thankfully, in the end, the police decided not to prosecute.
So no more drink-sharing. But now it looks like humour is off the Subway menu too.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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That’s interesting, when my mate worked for subway they were given instructions on how many olive slices (by number!) were to go on an order. It’s tough being a fastfood giant…