jumpinjoe
Hellcat
Well, I guess "bad decisions" are a lot like beauty, they're in the eye of the beholder.
Either these folks were old enough to work, or they were not. There is no maybe or grey area here. And even though I've been at high administrative levels within an organization of several thousand employees total and approximately 285 under my direct supervision, I'm not familiar with any law that prevents those "old enough to work" to not be allowed to "work in traffic", at least not in those terms and not in the 'traffic' ( a drive through) we're talking about here.
And I never argued that any of this was 'legal', what I said was that it just might have been someone trying to do some good in this stinking world today for some folks who were down and out. That in itself is reason to not involve HR, payroll, taxes, or gov't, and it certainly did not demean any person who simply might have been down and out.
I can remember a time when vagrants would come to our door and ask for a sandwich and a glass of water. I never knew my mom to turn anyone down, and imagine this ...... she didn't even have a restaurant license or a health card. Often when very young, I'd sometimes sit on the back steps with them while they ate their sandwich and listen to their stories, swearing if ever I was in a position to help out some like them I'd do whatever it took to do so. If I had been that Chick-Fil-A franchisee with a similar situation to deal with, I'd like to think I'd do exactly what I surmised he might have done.
Again, I don't know ... it might just be me!
Either these folks were old enough to work, or they were not. There is no maybe or grey area here. And even though I've been at high administrative levels within an organization of several thousand employees total and approximately 285 under my direct supervision, I'm not familiar with any law that prevents those "old enough to work" to not be allowed to "work in traffic", at least not in those terms and not in the 'traffic' ( a drive through) we're talking about here.
And I never argued that any of this was 'legal', what I said was that it just might have been someone trying to do some good in this stinking world today for some folks who were down and out. That in itself is reason to not involve HR, payroll, taxes, or gov't, and it certainly did not demean any person who simply might have been down and out.
I can remember a time when vagrants would come to our door and ask for a sandwich and a glass of water. I never knew my mom to turn anyone down, and imagine this ...... she didn't even have a restaurant license or a health card. Often when very young, I'd sometimes sit on the back steps with them while they ate their sandwich and listen to their stories, swearing if ever I was in a position to help out some like them I'd do whatever it took to do so. If I had been that Chick-Fil-A franchisee with a similar situation to deal with, I'd like to think I'd do exactly what I surmised he might have done.
Again, I don't know ... it might just be me!
