Subway calls cops over drink-sharing by aspie employee.

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The Union organiser Bill Clark speaking for Jackie Lang mentioned it to the press and I assume the press picked the story up from the Union press release. So its been mentioned likely because Ms Lang wants it mentioned. It serves to gain public sympathy.

I have Dugg it , thank you for posting the Link , I am highly suspicious that this lady was fired not because of the drink she shared but possibly because of issues surrounding her apsergers , to fire her for something relating to that would have amounted to disability discrimination , hence they trumped up this charge to get rid of her , i think it has backfired somewhat because now everyone is just thinking what a malicious twit that manager must be to fire someone over something so rediculous , which if what they are saying about the employees manual is true she actually hasnt broken any rules . i hope the business responsable loses thousands in revenue and is forced to make a public apology to the person concerned .

This actually pisses me of more than the firing. It's exploiting her condition for public sympathy.

Anyhow, I believe that people should just stop patronizing fast food businesses altogther anyhow. There's no bargain in it, seeing it's overpriced for the insanely low quality food you get, their stores are blights and eyesores, and how they generally treat their employees like dirt has become an industry standard of how to treat minimum wage personnel. But it's our addiction to convenience and sens eof entitlement that lets them thrive, so if crap like this happens, don't blame the industry, blame all teh fools that are keeping the industry alive and thriving. Seriously, would it kill people to make their own damn sandwiches?

Something does not add up with a person being fired and arrested for this. Aspergers is likely the unknown variable in this.

F***! it was Dugg down aka buried. Maybe because all the votes were coming from wrongplanet referral link.

Copy the link in a new window/tab or turn off referral logging in your web browser if your still going to vote (I'm not sure if it can be unburied).

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Here is another story on it.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Subway ... 29483.html

I know you people are not going to want to try it again but please do. This time put the bottem link in a new tab / window or turn off link referal in your browser and digg this story.

http://www.digg.com/politics/Subway_Sac ... h_A_Friend

Last edited by TheMachine1 on 06 May 2007, 3:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I didn't see any indication of it in the article, in terms of how she acted. It was made to sound as if the firing was over the one mentioned incident. If that is the case, AS had nothing to do with it. The stupidity of the management in how they decided to handle the situation had a great deal to do with it.

Throwing in a diagnosis was unnecessary, at least as far as I can tell at this point. There was no need for "additional" sympathy. I don't believe most people would view how the situation was handled as just. Had something about her behavior been brought into question, past being sympathetic towards another human, and it was definitively something that could be attributed to AS, then it would make more sense to me.

Heh, that's New Zealand for you.

Well I do not need to know any details about her other than the fact she had aspergers to decode that it was likely a factor.

In the second story the Union organizer said:

bah, you post more info on to it that makes your stance make more sense after I post. Not fair.

People do not get fired for sharing a drink.

Shouldn't be, but that's assuming that everywhere maintains fair business and management practices. Like I said, didn't see the second story.

Oh, but it's ok to discriminate against us because we haven't blown open a nation or world wide civil rights movement yet

People are just too f*****g stupid to learn from history. These same people would have likely dropped their teeth if they seen someone discriminating on race, or religion, or nationality, or possibly even sexual orientation (possibly, because there's a trend to support being open minded towards gays and bi's).

...who is arguing this?

Well the second story was buried on Digg to. Looks like the bad guys win

Very sad situation I think this logic is ass backwords! Its this kind of logic that makes me want to scream