Minnesota Taco Bell fires 30-year veteran..

TheMightyFavog

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Sat Nov-10-07 07:01 AM
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Minnesota Taco Bell fires 30-year veteran..

http://www.startribune.com/357/story/1538641.html

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.

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.

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Shilson believes she was the oldest Taco Bell store manager employed by Border Foods Inc., a Golden Valley-based firm that owns 175 Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and other eateries. Her firing followed a highly praised 30-year career that crashed and burned after two recent failed performance reviews.

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Shilson thinks her dismissal was engineered in order to get rid of a veteran worker whose base salary was $45,000.

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MagickMuffin

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Sat Nov-10-07 07:43 AM
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1. I think you Winnie Shilson should seek legal advice/counsel

She should be entitled to some sort of severance package. 30 years of her life she devoted to her job. Robbed at gunpoint and taking a bullet to the knee. I mean, COME ON

Also it appears there is a big age discrimination thing going on here as well. Firing her right before she turns 64 next month.

Borders Food are cruel and heartless.

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Gman

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Sat Nov-10-07 07:48 AM
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2. This will be a hard one to defend

Of course the case may end up in front of a W appointed judge and she's still phucked.

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SpiralHawk

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Sat Nov-10-07 07:50 AM
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3. "Tough nuts, lady. Smirk." - Your Republicon Homelander Overlords

"Shut up and sit down. We got better things to do than worry about you noisy proles. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Your much beloved Republicon Homelander Overlords

* Proles = formerly known as citizens of the United States of America

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