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5. Not buying the company's story

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2013, 09:01 AM

Apr 2013

I'll bet this denial of food if you don't have the cash is part of the tacit company culture. In this case, because it was exposed, they fired the lowest status workers. But I'll bet the employees were afraid to feed kids that hadn't paid--afraid they'd be fired for that. This is a private for-profit company---does anyone believe they have a "policy" of feeding kids who can't pay? No way.

It's the top boss that needs t be looked at---how do they train employees, what do they teach them? I have doubts that the 4 took it on themselves to suddenly not feed kids they had seen every day.

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