‘its just a slice of cheese’….

I had to giggle when i read that. You wouldn't want to work in that store. Their disciplinary procedure seems a little harsh…but then again i think maybe the NHS could learn maybe a little lesson from them. They just move people about rather than fire them. Moving the problem or problems from one department to another…'musical unworkable people' Because it takes like a million years and at least a thousand people complaining to actually get thrown out of the NHS…

not that i've tried….

obviously….

But if you read the story about the McDonald's worker she actually sold a friend a hamburger who then said 'hey i fancy a bit of cheese on that' So the worker, being a good friend, got her friend a piece of cheese and McDonald's are saying that given that by putting a bit of cheese on it made it a cheeseburger (more expensive..by like 5p or something), she was 'giving away gifts' to a friend which is against company policy….so they fired her. She took it court the judge justifiably said… 'its just a slice of cheese!' no doubt with an element of eye rolling…..

my thoughts were:

firstly a piece of floppy, processed, neon orange coloured cheese doesn't really fall into the category of 'gifts' in my book. Im thinking if i had a friend who was in the habit of giving me those sort of 'gifts' perhaps they wouldn't be so much of a friend anymore…

Secondly as anyone knows who has worked in McDonald's…they make a huge number of products and have little way of tracking through the tills every single burger etc that goes out. So it is actually very very easy for people to add a little something extra to a friend's bag when they place their order….so i'm thinking tip of the iceberg and maybe they should worry about the people giving away three big mac meals, a milk shake and an apple pie for the price of an orange juice…

Obviously all above suggestions are purely fictitious and bear no resemblance to real life.

*cough cough*