Topic: heres something interesting
Krimsa's photo
Tue 11/25/08 09:53 AM



If memory serves, the OP said (in a different thread) that he worked in a bakery, or some such. I highly doubt there's a lot of fear of intimate competitive details there, certainly nothing which would stipulate or prevent an employee from dating a customer.


I was not speaking to the OP but to you because you were asking for clarification in what I perceived to be general terms. huh


And my response was not directed at you, either, but to the thread posters at large.


I am noticing you have some sort of irritation with me and it needs to stop. I have been nothing but friendly and helpful to you. grumble

TxsGal3333's photo
Tue 11/25/08 09:56 AM


Well I still say it does not have anything to do with whom he was dating but the fact that he had turned in his 2 week notice prior. bigsmile

The company had no reason to keep someone that was quiting anyway and most likely had replaced him.


But why suspend him without pay, just because he was dating a customer? That makes no sense. I'm relatively sure it had nothing to do with letting out Bubba Gump's Secret To Catching Shrimp.

I mean, even if he HAD given notice of his departure, and they either replaced his position immediately or decided they just didn't need him anymore anyway, they could've just terminated him and be done with it. Why let him ride out his two weeks without work or pay?



It is a chicken chit way of doing so but this way they company did not actually fire him. He had turned in his notice to quit and so since they suspended him from work not firing him it does not give him a leg to stand on as far as un-employemnt. At least this is what I think.

Ruth34611's photo
Tue 11/25/08 09:56 AM


It is a chicken chit way of doing so but this way they company did not actually fire him. He had turned in his notice to quit and so since they suspended him from work not firing him it does not give him a leg to stand on as far as un-employemnt. At least this is what I think.


I think you're right.

Krimsa's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:01 AM



Well I still say it does not have anything to do with whom he was dating but the fact that he had turned in his 2 week notice prior. bigsmile

The company had no reason to keep someone that was quiting anyway and most likely had replaced him.


But why suspend him without pay, just because he was dating a customer? That makes no sense. I'm relatively sure it had nothing to do with letting out Bubba Gump's Secret To Catching Shrimp.

I mean, even if he HAD given notice of his departure, and they either replaced his position immediately or decided they just didn't need him anymore anyway, they could've just terminated him and be done with it. Why let him ride out his two weeks without work or pay?



It is a chicken chit way of doing so but this way they company did not actually fire him. He had turned in his notice to quit and so since they suspended him from work not firing him it does not give him a leg to stand on as far as un-employemnt. At least this is what I think.


Exactly. It works both ways. You also retain the right to walk out at any point. They figured he broke a rule so legally they could do that and he was leaving anyway.

lilith401's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:02 AM
Perhaps this was simply another way to boast about the shrimp on the barbie?

Krimsa's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:03 AM
Oh Lilith, that never happens on these threads. You are mad. laugh :wink:

lilith401's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:05 AM
Oh yes, certifiable! Eeee gads! happy

Ruth34611's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:06 AM

Perhaps this was simply another way to boast about the shrimp on the barbie?


noway

lilith401's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:08 AM


Perhaps this was simply another way to boast about the shrimp on the barbie?


noway


Ohhh, you like Outback too, Ruth? :tongue:

Mr_Music's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:09 AM

Perhaps this was simply another way to boast about the shrimp on the barbie?


*groan!*

lilith401's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:11 AM


Perhaps this was simply another way to boast about the shrimp on the barbie?


*groan!*


It was NOT that bad!grumble

Mr_Music's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:12 AM
Yes it was! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

no photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:13 AM
depending on the business, dating a customer could be a potential conflict of interest. But I would assume that you would know that before.

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders arent allowed to date Dallas Cowboys. I don't think that is fair

lilith401's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:15 AM
Sigh, you just reminisced about Debbie Does Dallas.. admit it, admit it....laugh noway

KennyLingus's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:16 AM
Who said life was fair? In this country it's less than fair and even further from honesty. In fact the bigger phony you are the further you will get in this country. If you can't see that then you really aren't paying attention.

KennyLingus's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:17 AM
And I was just reminded, arogance will get you a long way too.

Mr_Music's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:17 AM
It was April the 41st, being a quadruple leap year
I was driving in downtown Atlantis
My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray, and it was
overheating
So I pulled into a Shell station
They said I'd blown a seal
I said, "Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay
pal?"

While they were doing that I walked over to a place called the oyster
bar -- a real dive
But I knew the owner, he used to play for the Dolphins
I said, "Hi, Gil!!!"
You hafta yell, he's hard of herring

Gil was also down on his luck
Fact is, he was barely keeping his head below water
I gullied up to the sandbar
He poured the usual
Rusty snail, hold the grunion, shaken, not stirred
With a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side -- heavy on the
mako
I slipped him a fin -- on porpoise
I was feeling good
I even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's Squids -- for the
halibut

Well, the place was crowded
We were packed in like sardines
They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal --
what sole
Tommy was rockin' the place with a very popular tuna -- "Salmon Chanted
Evening"
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers
Probably there to see the bass player

One of them was this cute little yellowtail
And she's giving ME the eye
So I figure, this is my chance for a little fun
You know -- a piece of Pisces

But she said things I just couldn't fathom
She was too deep, and seemed to be under a lot of pressure
Boy, could she drink
She drank like a... she drank A LOT...
I said, "What's your sign?"
She said, "Aquarium"
I said, "GREAT!!! Let's get tanked!"

I invited her up to my place for a little midnight bait
I said, "C'mon baby, it'll only take a few minnows"
She threw me that same old line
"Not tonight -- I got a haddock"

And she wasn't kiddin' either, 'cuz in came the biggest, meanest looking
haddock I'd ever seen come down the pike
He was covered with mussels
He came over to me, he said, "Listen shrimp -- don't you come trolling
around here"
What a crab
This guy was steamed -- I could see the anchor in his eyes

I turned to him, I said, "Abalone -- You're just being shellfish"
Well, I knew it was going to be trouble, and so did Gil, 'cuz he was
already on the phone to the cods
The haddock hits me with a sucker punch
I catch him with a left hook
He eels over
It was a fluke, but there he was, lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel
Kelpless

I said, "Forget the cods, Gil, this guy's gonna need a sturgeon"
Well, the yellowtail was impressed with the way I landed her boyfriend
She came over to me, she said, "Hey big boy, you're really a game fish"
"What's your name?"
I said, "Marlin"

Well from then on, we had a whale of a time
I took her to dinner
I took her to dance
I bought her a bouquet of flounders
And then I went home with her
And what did I get for my trouble?
A case of the clams

lilith401's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:20 AM
And you had the nerve to tease my joke?

no photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:20 AM
Jerry's Squids?

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Krimsa's photo
Tue 11/25/08 10:22 AM

depending on the business, dating a customer could be a potential conflict of interest. But I would assume that you would know that before.

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders arent allowed to date Dallas Cowboys. I don't think that is fair


You are right sir. Also you have the right not to accept the position. Its all about what you are allowed to do and what the company is allowed to do. If you do find their policy something you can not live with, then no one has a gun to your head forcing you to take that position