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Meijer arrests special needs employee for eating $110 of food
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Their reasoning might be not stupid: the problem might be not an "apple per day" the kid was eating, but the "special needs" kid himself. They might be forced (by some company policy or something) to hire him, but were lacking any means to fire him. And the kid might have been a bad worker. So they just waited until they had some "case" to legally dismiss the problematic worker.
Details are not present in the article, which is clearly written in a "poor kid, cruel corporation" mood.
you start from the assumption that the company had a legitimate reason to want to fire him from day one because of his disability.
why is special needs in scarequotes?
are people with disabilities not allowed an income? if we're going to force people to work, then companies should be forced to hire. people gotta eat.
from your other comment:
claiming a person who took a nibble/day from the deli over the course of 3 months 'stole $110 of food' is some mental gymnastics. a corporation sicced violent goons on him and gave him a criminal record for what is probably pocket change from the perspective of their accounts after management deliberately avoided interventions in an effort to get him fired.
is there a point you're trying to make? because your aloud-pondering comes off as ableist and almost ageist.
I start with the assumption that the company wants to fire him so badly that they are ready to pay "over $21,000" (have you read the article?) to do that. You can't explain it just by "they are evil!!!"
Because it is a citation from the article. Stop talking about terminology, talk about the theme.
They are as long as they are working. But it looks like it wasn't the case if the company is ready to go through all this hassle to get rid of the employee.
I'm not American, your insults don't work on me. But still, insults are bad, mkay? So stop that behaviour.
you mean this line?:
besides the misquote: corporations are quite infamous for the lengths they're willing to go to to avoid social responsibility. in this case, they quite literally outsourced 'this hassle' to the police.
neither am i, and from this comment i get the impression you're a European chauvinist.
it's not an 'insult'; you need to look in a mirror.
Heh, yes, that is my fault. Wasn't attentive enough.
Still, they hired him. Have any logical explanation for the situation from your standpoint? My assumptions are quite simple and logical: "They hired him, he wasn't good enough, so they wanted to fire him, and it wasn't easy because of some laws, so they started some craziness just to have rid of the employee"
It is. You accuse me of being ableist and schauvinist only because I use brain before heart. That's an insult.
Hearing that your words are coming across as ableist might feel like you're being attacked when you're actually just feeling defensive. That feeling ought to be a cue to self-reflect rather than retaliate. They didn't even call you ableist; it sounds like they were actually giving you the benefit of the doubt. Some of what you've said sounds a lot like the things that badguys say, and that seems worth reflecting on and reconsidering.
Okay but they didnt just fire him or even have the cops escort him away when they fired him - They had him arrested.
Yes, I suppose they couldn't just fire him for the hundred dollars. But they could fire him by letting the police arrest him for a hundred dollars. They just waited for the sum to be big enough for the police to act.