How’s this for poetic justice?
The parent company of Carl’s Jr. burger chains agreed to pay $255,000 to settle claims that a shift manager at an Elk Grove restaurant used racial epithets, told co-workers he had “white pride” and flashed white power signs while on the job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday.
What led to this huge payout by the company to their former employee?
Two weeks after submitting the petition, Galloway was fired, allegedly for eating food without paying for it, Ehrlich said. She also received a death threat on her answering machine and, without a job, was left homeless, according to her attorney, Michael Nkosi.
I just love the sequence of events in this case, that results in Carl’s Jr. settling for $100,000 with the woman and another $155,000 with other employees. Was that alleged stolen six dollar burger worth it, Carl Jr.?
The Sac Rag 
Worth it?! Heck yeah! It sends a message to all employees: Don’t eat that food you spend all day slaving over. Say one “six dollar” burger per employee, 25 employees per store, 250 stores (all guestimates)… Thats almost $40,000 a day in lost product! If they cut that kind of loss in half by threatening employees with white power, that’s a savings of half a million dollars a month. More than enough to pay for settlements.
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Sure, if they only have one settlement per month. I dunno, getting a job at Carl’s Jr. is starting to look pretty good to me right now.
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I guess if you get caught with stolen food you can always just say, “Don’t bother me. I’m eating.”
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Ooh! Two points for HeyMeg! Still- at least Carls’ isn’t delivering drugs through the drive thu window. Not that I can find anyway.
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