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Does Chick-fil-A controversy risk turning off young employees?
Washington Post ^ | 8/3/12 | Jena McGregor

Posted on 08/03/2012 2:09:25 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Who knows whether or not Cathy’s remarks will create risks for his sales over the long term—a temporary boost appears to be underway, and customers can have short-term memories. But at a time when young people increasingly support same-sex marriage, what kind of risks do they create for the company’s pool of potential employees?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chickfila; economy; generationgap; generationy; homosexualagenda; millenials; obama; traditionalvalues
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To: DallasBiff
I don't ajust my political or moral beliefs on what”young people increasingly support”! Only an idiot would do that....they have no idea what they want in two weeks let alone the next twenty years.
41 posted on 08/03/2012 3:21:38 PM PDT by ontap
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To: DallasBiff
I don't adjust my political or moral beliefs on what”young people increasingly support”! Only an idiot would do that....they have no idea what they in two weeks let alone the next twenty years.
42 posted on 08/03/2012 3:22:01 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Our man in washington

LOL! That wierdo could never get a job at CFA! Although with a liberal lawyer he could file a lawsuit against CFA for not hiring him if he was a homo.

Actually, some leftist restaurant workers are noted for spitting in their customers food and worse.( Google Jessie Jackson at the Jack Tar Restaurant)

At least at CFA I probably wont have to worry about a food handler who is attracted to another mans anus. That alone is reason to patronize the place!


43 posted on 08/03/2012 3:42:40 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: DallasBiff

Well, Chick-fil-A will be absolutely doubly delighted to see all these liberal, worthless, unaccomplished, perverted, hate-to-work, potentially problematic job applicants self-exclude themselves from the labor pool. CFA can’t then be sued for not hiring them. Expect lots of other employers to learn from this episode.


44 posted on 08/03/2012 3:55:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: DallasBiff
I didn't read the article. I didn't want to lose my lunch.

As a teen, I worked at a gas station, pharmacy, garbage truck, ditch digger, dead animal patrol for the city, & various other jobs that were less than “fulfilling”.

I don't recall EVER considering the political beliefs of a potential employer.

Are today's kids that much more sophisticated than we were back then? I doubt it.

What we have here is a rich, liberal, politically correct author, who does background checks on potential employers for their spoiled children. She thinks everybody does this, or should.

As for their kids, they have caught on to this, working it to their lazy advantage. “Mommy, Mommy, the bad chicken man hates my queer friends. I CAN'T WORK THERE! Guess I'll just party all summer & after school.”

Whada maroon!

45 posted on 08/03/2012 3:56:14 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: rsobin

Most young people think gay people are pretty gay.


46 posted on 08/03/2012 3:56:21 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (HEY UNION MEMBER: INVEST IN YOUR OWN DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CHANGE!)
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To: DallasBiff

I bet most of the “young employees” ... because of their age ... saw the YouTube vid of one of their “own” getting blasted by a lib. That’s got to make an impression on a young mind. How many of them could have taken it as gracefully as did that young lady. You won’t hear anything about it, but that young lady is probably a role model in many of their “not-yet-shaped” minds. I’m betting many of them wished they could be like her ... no pro, not con, just lovely and a great representative of Chic-Fil-A ... I hope Mr. Cathy sends her a nice note of appreciation.


47 posted on 08/03/2012 4:50:16 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag
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To: DallasBiff

The last time I went, I saw as many older employees as young. I am 50 and these employees were older than me and not management.

Plenty of people will take jobs at Chick_Fil-A regardless.


48 posted on 08/03/2012 4:51:01 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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To: DallasBiff
Does Chick-fil-A controversy risk turning off young employees?

Jena McGregor, crawling brain-spider, trying to find a fear angle, crawling, crawling, crawling in the dark, dark, dark... a little vermin cappuchino witchette.

49 posted on 08/03/2012 4:58:28 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: DallasBiff
No, DallasBiff, that probably did not occur to her!

It probably also does not occur to her that many teenagers start thinking they are “smarter and wiser” than their parents at about age 13. By age 16 most of that group are convinced they are.
Right up to the day they get their first paycheck, and demand to know WHY are there multiple lines of paycheck deductions under taxes! (Some are more prepared than others)
By age 18, they are all starting to seriously reconsider their previous beliefs in deciding exactly what is fair and just, since they dimly perceive they are going to be paying out of their own earned wages for “it” for the rest of their lives.

50 posted on 08/03/2012 5:12:24 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: DallasBiff
On occasion, one might wish to go back to what Mr. Cathy actually said that started all of this "controversy".

"Some have opposed the company's support of the traditional family. "Well, guilty as charged," said Cathy when asked about the company's position.

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.

"We operate as a family business ... our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy emphasized.

So, where's the hate? Where's the controversy? It's all second-tier, manufactured by the whining ninnies on the left. You couldn't get two people out of ten to take issue with the words Mr. Cathy actually spoke: "we want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families." Yeah, full of hate this guy.

51 posted on 08/03/2012 5:15:59 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: trailhkr1

Sadly, in my experience, what you say is accurate. (WARNING LONG POST AHEAD).

I’m 34 and was raised in church-going Hispanic Catholic family. In my teens I was very liberal: pro-socialist, pro-”gay”, pro-”choice”, etc. Attending NYU in Manhattan and witnessing how hateful & hypocritical most of the rich, liberal, out-of-state students were, and how racist the affirmative action structure of academia was, changed me from liberal to libertarian. Having a child and actually experiencing life turned me conservative.

My siblings are 33, 30, 27 and 25. We were all raised in the same house and attended the same public schools. My 4 sisters married Catholic men in a Catholic Church and they ADORE gay men and have no problem with sham marriages! The 33-year-old is ultra-religious, so her adoration is even more peculiar (she is a graduate of Columbia University and a child psychologist in Williamsburg, Bklyn) My 25-year-old brother is more concerned with finding a job, but he has no theological issue with homosexual marriage, despite graduating from Notre Dame a “Catholic” college.

Socially, I am very conservative about abortion & the homosexual agenda—and yes, Virginia, there is an agenda, but it’s goes further than just homosexuality: it’s about guiltless, barren, pansexuality with no limits. (I’m no prude, BTW, but believe in 1 man & 1 woman marriage). I am more “libertarian” about drugs, gambling & prostitution (it is wrong, but shouldn’t be a crime; pimping/being a “madame”, on the other hand, should be a Class I felony).

Ironic that it’s only I, the “lapsed” Catholic (who married a pagan in a civil ceremony) who is against homosexual marriage. It’s wrong theologically, ethically, biologically and socially. I won’t argue that fact anymore than I’d argue that gravity doesn’t exist.

But for the most of the younger generation:
1)Everyone knows a “nice” gay person/couple/crowd.
2)Queers on tv are so great at giving fashion/designer advice.
3)That hairstylist Marc is such a sweetie-pie.
4)Not liking gays means you’re a BULLY.
5)Hatred is evil and should be illegal.
6)The Bible says something about not judging, but it also says you can’t eat crabs so who believes that 2,000 year-old Spaghetti Monster crap anyway
7)Marriage isn’t sacred or about family, not when you can have drive-through marriages, and quickie divorces and split up kids from their parents so that parents can “be happy.”
8)Guys think hot lezzies are sexy.
9)EVERYBODY has kinky sex [you know what I mean], so who is any person to judge what goes on in the bedroom or outside of it.
10)TV, movies, comic-books, commercials, websites, romance novels, billboards, bumper stickers, politicians, schools, corporations, human resource departments, etc., are all dedicated to promote “Gay is ok.”

Even my 71-year-old F-I-L says, “You gotta go withthe times.”

It’s all about peace and harmony and “tolerance” and love. Love is love is love. (No apologies to Dorothy Parker).

You’re right, the younger generations (and a lot of the older ones) are mostly all for it. So is there a “solution” for tradionalists? Yes. Be pro-matrimony and pro-healthy environment. Get married; be spiritually faithful & physically monogomous to your spouse; be loving and show it; do not use hormonal birth control; try to have stress-free pregnancy; marriage is not about two people’s happiness, it’s about man, woman & child & their purpose in this world; while pregnant, don’t be a vegan or eat unfermented soy; get rid of phytoestrogen-inducing plastics, insecticides and foods when pregnant; support your children when they do well, love them when they do wrong, but do not support their errors; and above all: believe that we humans were made male and female in the image of God, and it is only through holy matrimony that the male and female unite as one and become closer to God.

If that’s not for you, then don’t get married.


52 posted on 08/03/2012 5:17:16 PM PDT by two134711 (I am Conservative, no longer a Republican.)
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To: two134711
So many typos...quel dommage!
53 posted on 08/03/2012 5:24:58 PM PDT by two134711 (I am Conservative, no longer a Republican.)
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To: DallasBiff
Meet S. Truett Cathy, The 91-Year-Old Billionaire Behind Chick-Fil-A

Some history and historical pictures at the source link of this FR thread.

54 posted on 08/03/2012 5:35:34 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: MrB
The kind of young people that seek jobs at CFA are generally from evangelical, bible believing homes.

I know, and yet our resident homeless poster said he was going to support Chick-Fil-A by going there Wednesday, buying a sandwich, then throwing all his food in the trash.

He thought that CFA has been infiltrated by employees who would sabotage the food, especially Wednesday.

55 posted on 08/03/2012 6:21:44 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: DallasBiff

We all know the fascists own the hearts, minds and souls of all the young people in America, don’t we? Maybe not so much?


56 posted on 08/03/2012 8:23:54 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: DallasBiff

There will never be a shortage of employees for that or any other FF franchise. There is a HUGE pool of retired folks who would jump at a chance to work part time (or full time) if given the opportunity.

There are tremendous benefits to hiring older people among them the strong sense of responsibility the majority have towards the job as far as showing up on time and working hard.

I had a small retail business years ago and my older help (50+) outworked any of my kids and did so with a good attitude.


57 posted on 08/04/2012 2:19:55 AM PDT by beenaround
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To: DallasBiff

There will never be a shortage of employees for that or any other FF franchise. There is a HUGE pool of retired folks who would jump at a chance to work part time (or full time) if given the opportunity.

There are tremendous benefits to hiring older people among them the strong sense of responsibility the majority have towards the job as far as showing up on time and working hard.

I had a small retail business years ago and my older help (50+) outworked any of my kids and did so with a good attitude.


58 posted on 08/04/2012 2:20:22 AM PDT by beenaround
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To: conservativehoosier

Right on; she’s “worried “ about Cick fil a’s image. Will the fact that newspapers are losing money, paring back staff and closing down all over the place have any effect on their potential employee pool?


59 posted on 08/04/2012 11:15:28 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: DallasBiff

Adam Smith is the typical liberal: Angry, violent, crazy, stupid, mean-spirited, hate-filled, did I mention agnry?

CFA no doubt doesn’t want such liberals as employees nor as cuystomers. People, not even liberals, want to go to a liberal slop house full of such people as Adam Smith. Even liberals want good food, good service, and fair prices.


60 posted on 08/06/2012 11:07:12 AM PDT by CodeToad (History says our end is near.)
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