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Paula Deen shuts down restaurant without telling employees
FreakoutNation ^ | April 4, 2014 | Anomaly

Posted on 04/04/2014 2:11:42 PM PDT by kingattax

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To: andyk

SCETV padlocked their Beaufort useless station with no notice. I think it got a paragraph in the worthless state news rag.


61 posted on 04/04/2014 3:42:36 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: grania
. I despise the most the hypocrites who wave the flag while doing so.

Guess you've never had to keep costs below revenue.

62 posted on 04/04/2014 3:55:47 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: kingattax

Freakout Nation is right. Restaurants close everyday.


63 posted on 04/04/2014 3:56:54 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Restaurants probably have the highest failure rate of any business.


64 posted on 04/04/2014 3:57:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kingattax

What goes around comes around...good for her.


65 posted on 04/04/2014 4:12:01 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BfloGuy
guess you've never had to keep costs below revenue

That argument isn't valid. These companies aren't lowering costs because their merchandise is being produced by slave labor. We're paying just as much as we would if it were made in the US, and the branding celebrity is bringing home big bucks just for putting their name on the merchandise. So, that despicable person (not just Deen) rakes in millions while the third world work slave gets horrible wages and work conditions. And what else is this subsidizing?....the sloth of US citizens collecting government benefits instead of having work opportunities.

I'd much rather buy something made in the US without someone's name attached to it then make a rich person richer. The problem is that corporate America doesn't make that easy, although made in the USA choices are becoming more common in some categories.

66 posted on 04/04/2014 4:12:22 PM PDT by grania
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To: kingattax

I once worked for a retail store. On the day after New Years, the boss handed out checks to employees leaving at the end of the day. To about half of them, he said, “Here’s your check, thanks for your service, and don’t come back.” Cold and efficient.


67 posted on 04/04/2014 4:29:28 PM PDT by aimhigh (John 14:21)
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To: driftdiver

Severance checks from a restaurant going out of business? I am impressed.


68 posted on 04/04/2014 4:30:59 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: cornfedcowboy

I can see both sides of it. A previous employee has cost her a lot. She could go into a severance meeting trying to be nice and end up getting sued. It happens every day.


69 posted on 04/04/2014 4:36:09 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GraceG

I hope the ones who broght the charge of racism are Happy—They used their power to close this place of business. She helped many people over the years but race husslers knocked her out with one punch. Even Mrs. Obama—whom she had on her show, didn’t defend her—just tossed her under the bus. I wonder if this could be linked to Obama’s view of Black Americans as perpetual Victims—who deserve to be given everything they want on a sliver plater. It will take decades to re-build the good will between the races.


70 posted on 04/04/2014 4:37:18 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: aimhigh

I visited vendor in the DEEtroit area to look at stuff they were making for me. The sales manager “Walt” took my visit as usual. I asked about “Don” the president who usually met me on arrival.

Walt was in shock. The company had been sold. Don went that morning to pick up the reps of the new owners at the airport.

They fired him on the spot, took the company car keys and demanded the three company credit cards, told him his desk stuff would be boxed up by tomorrow and left him with no car at the airport.

I opted not to meet the new guys


71 posted on 04/04/2014 4:40:25 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: aimhigh

I laid off a guy in early december. He threw a fit, throwing stuff, cussing, the works. He called begging for his job back and apologizing. Tried playing the “its right before Christmas”.

Then I found out he had made a few “extra” changes to our website. He was begging for his job back because he figured out I would prosecute.

My give a damn meter has been pegged.


72 posted on 04/04/2014 4:40:48 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

That’s why you remove the access before telling them.


73 posted on 04/04/2014 4:42:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

We thought we did, but he was fairly well practiced at getting fired so I guess he knew the signs.

You can interview all you want but still end up hiring a bozo.


74 posted on 04/04/2014 4:45:07 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: lacrew
"and as he walks to the office, an IT guy remotely disables his password.and as he walks to the office, an IT guy remotely disables his password."

I couldn't tell you how many times I saw that happen, ME being the IT guy they call. All too often a manager or higher up would call and request immediate access termination of an employee. I'd never outright remove them, only 'disabling' accounts. Deleting accounts can be VERY problematic.

75 posted on 04/04/2014 4:55:33 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: driftdiver

There’s so many places where an IT guy can leave backdoors into companies, it can be frightening. This is especially true with a web developer and an ‘outward facing’ web site/server. Periodic security audits by an outside party, and following ‘best practices’ are a MUST.... and that can STILL not be enough. Hiring honest/professional people and treating them well is actually the best thing a company can do. Easier said than done, of course.


76 posted on 04/04/2014 5:16:17 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: latina4dubya
"i cannot stand her... but she is Southern and very popular with many Freepers, regardless of her being liberal... but let someone out of Hollywood behave the same way, hold the same beliefs, make donations to Obama—we will not stand for it!"

Same here. I'm Southern and I have no use for her. I can't take the sound of her deliberately overdone accent....and that CACKLE.

She groveled herself into the ground over the remark she made, running around to the media, crying, begging, genuflecting...."I is what I is." Spare me.

77 posted on 04/04/2014 5:16:43 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: KoRn

Yeah that was the problem. He wasn’t following security rules which is why we fired him. The damage was minor but scared the crud outta me.

We thought he very good and was honest. We had it 50% right.


78 posted on 04/04/2014 5:19:14 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kingattax

No I think they did tell the employees unless they are still working there.


79 posted on 04/04/2014 5:19:23 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: kingattax

Over the years I was the personnel manager at two mines that closed. You can do one hell of a lot better than she did. Employees are the key to a smooth, safe and efficient operation. They will give loyalty given the chance and encouragement. They will understand a closure unless it is being done expressly to screw them (that does happen). I’ve had a good number of people I laid off come to hit me up at my new mine in large part because of how they were treated in the old job.

Your employees make you or break you. That’s true for anything from a janitorial service to a multimillion dollar diversified corporation. A union can hurt but the situation can be brought into a cooperative venture with a lot of work and jaw boning.


80 posted on 04/04/2014 5:35:28 PM PDT by JimSEA
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