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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:38 PM
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'After 30 years, Taco Bell didn't even offer her any hot sauce'
Nine years ago, Winnie Shilson stopped a bullet for Taco Bell. Last Friday, the company that owns Minnesota's Taco Bell restaurants emptied the other barrel.

It fired her.

Shilson will be 64 next month, and her story may illustrate how a fast-food society treats workers, especially its most experienced ones. After 30 years working for Taco Bell and the chains that preceded it, Shilson was fired Friday as manager of the Edina Taco Bell, dismissed without severance pay or medical benefits.

"Not even a taco," says her husband, Doug. "They didn't give her a thing."

http://www.startribune.com/357/story/1538641.html
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:41 PM
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1. It's El Fenix for me from now on...
Shame on Taco Hell for doing this to one of their own. Soulless corporate jackass gibletheads.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:41 PM
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2. Damn, this country is fucked up.
If I wasn't boycotting Taco Bell already, this would be the deal-breaker. :argh:
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:43 PM
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3. Tortilla The Hun
That is just not right........:hi:
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:44 PM
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4. This is so sad.
I don't know what else to say, just awful. :cry:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:45 PM
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5. Taco John's for me
Mmmm... potato olés....
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:49 PM
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6. JESUS H. CHRIST!!!!
I KNOW WINNIE-- I've known her for years! I go to that Taco Bell all the friggin time!!!!!!

Those complete fucking bastards! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:01 PM
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11. You should go in and tell them what fucking assholes they are.
Sumbitches...
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:03 PM
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13. You're GD right I will!
Hey, those initials look familiar.....
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:17 PM
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18. No
No one who works there fired her.

Contact Border Foods:

http://www.borderfoods.com/commentsgen.cfm

Or by phone or mail:

http://www.borderfoods.com/contactus.cfm
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dpbrown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:50 PM
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7. She's right - it's so easy for employers to manufacture reasons to get rid of employees

The employers hold all the cards.

Fucking bastards.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:52 PM
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8. I hope she sues their fucking company into banruptcy. That's unconscionable.
Her bad reviews sound entirely madeup for the sole reason of giving them reason to fire her.

Too many chains do this - Walgreens, Menards, WalMart, and others.

Thank Reagan for making it all possible. Long live Republican values-based governance.

:eyes:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:53 PM
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9. Fuckers
cooperate america sucks.....

the customers are most important

bull shit

money is most important

that poor woman



lost
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:54 PM
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10. I have eaten my last encherito. I will belch 5 minutes later and re-taste encherito no more.
What fucks.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:03 PM
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12. I guess she'll just have to wait for Jacoby Ellsbury to steal another base
"Not even a taco," says her husband, Doug. "They didn't give her a thing."

:sarcasm:

What a bunch of ass carrots. :grr:
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racaulk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:08 PM
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14. She needs to pull herself up by the bootstraps and quit her bitching.
:sarcasm:

In all seriousness, this is a perfect example of capitalism in corporate America gone awry. All that matters, above all else, is the bottom line profit. Human capital is expendable and can be replaced in an instant.

This is such a sad tale, and I'm sure many others have experienced the same. :(
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:10 PM
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15. That is really mean and horrible.
:(

I'll bet they did it just to replace her with a young manager who earn half as much.
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racaulk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:12 PM
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16. You're right.
And she probably lost some retirement benefits as well.

Bastards.

:mad:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:22 PM
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20. No doubt
A similar tactic was pulled on me and six co-workers at a newspaper four years ago. We all had the unmitigated gall to be over 40.

They "replaced" us with kids right out of college.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:24 PM
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21. But how do you prove that it's age discrimination?
x(

And is it even illegal?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:41 PM
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24. First, all seven of us being over 40 was a bit of a stretch
to be a coincidence — especially when our "replacements" were all under 25.

Second, some things were said to some employees that indicated age was the reason, such as "Your old ways aren't going to make it here anymore."

Anyway, you don't have to prove discrimination in a lawsuit. You just have to convince a jury that it took place, and a well-selected jury will usually side with workers over management.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:42 PM
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25. But...
It sounds like you guys didn't pursue a lawsuit. :shrug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:50 PM
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28. We did
It didn't turn out as hoped, though. x(
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:51 PM
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29. I'm sorry.
Unfortunately, the deck is stacked in their favor, and there doesn't seem to be anything we can successfully do about it. :(
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:53 PM
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31. We would've done better
had the judge on the case not admitted to attorneys on both sides that he knew nothing about employee law. And, of course, he wouldn't recuse himself.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:14 PM
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17. she was making more than me
:cry:
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:20 PM
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19. I have an idea! Maybe service-industry workers should get together...
and refuse to work if they're treated unfairly! We'll call it ... um ... a union! Boy, where do I get these things?
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:39 PM
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23. You're some sort of visionary, obviously.
But the good hardworking folks of the USA would NEVER
go for such a wild idea. It smacks of communism.

Next you'll be saying everyone should be able to get
health care when they need it. That's crazy talk!

:( :( :( :( :(
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:42 PM
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26. I've talked with others where i work about this (which... according to the company handbook...
could get me fired on the spot)

I'm working on it anyway...

Anyone know for sure which union is best for handling food-service operations?
I'm in WV, so hopefully one with chapters already established in the region.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:46 PM
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27. The IWW has been trying to get a Starbucks Union going.
So you might want to start there.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:25 PM
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22. That is so sad.
:(
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:51 PM
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30. back in the 90's I was out in LA and worked on the "run for the border"
taco bell commercials. I saw what that stuff was made of, I never ate it again.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 04:56 PM
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32. My comment to Border Foods:
I trust the negative publicity you'll receive from Nick Coleman's column in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune will be worth the capital gain from giving Winnie Shilson's job to a kid who'll work for minimum wage — and quit after six months.

Here's hoping that by the next World Series, you won't even be able to give away your imitation Mexican food products.

Tell me — what's it like to be utterly heartless?


Post yours here: http://www.borderfoods.com/commentsgen.cfm
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