A happy ending for Mr. Peek
A happy ending for Mr. Peek
That seems sad
Interesting it came out of the blue
Would like more details
There is a man at my town who’s worked for 30 years at a local supermarket. Actually he worked at 1:00 and after about 10 or 12 years he switched the other one. I would say he’s in the top 10% of all the employees at either of those supermarkets.
I’m glad Wendy’s is stepping up to pay for some of the retirement party.
I wonder if they will be going through couch cushions to find spare change like Burger King did?
Corporate got involved.
Just a dumbass millennial manager.
Man can have his position back.
Indeed. I have two questions: (1) Did the impending retirement of Mr. Peek perhaps mean a pension to be paid by the company owning the franchise (2) what was the age and melanin status of the manager who fired Mr. Peek.
He deserves a lot more, full pay with benefits for his “retirement package” plus his house paid for as a penalty.
I've known several Down's workers.
They were always a joy to be around.
I have never met a person with Down’s Syndrome that wasn’t the coolest person in the world.
I worked with a lovely woman who had Downs (I don’t know if you can say “suffered from Downs” because she seemed so happy). Anyway, Mary was our mail girl/woman. She was a delight; always accurate. She made sure she put your mail directly in your hands. And, for example, if my office mate was out, I’d tell her she could hand me her mail. We’d known each other many years, but she’d STILL give me the hairy eyeball in those cases, like she couldn’t trust me to give my office mate her mail :-)
She’d worked for the company well over 20 years and she was on the company’s bowling team and loved music.
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen you Mary and I wish you all the best!
Could get the manager’s side of it.
Or not.
I worked for an Israeli company in the US. The Director of Production, an Israeli, was in his thirties and obviously felt superior to the Americans working for him, especially blacks and older people. There was one older white man working for him who, so far as I was concerned, did an adequate job. Certainly, he was up to par with anyone else in his position. One day, in fit of his ordinary and daily haranguing of people as only an Israeli can do, he yelled the man was just too old to be working and fired him*. The Director didn’t consult with HR or go through the established procedure. It resulted in a long lawsuit which the employee won.
I think the Israeli didn’t like that the employee was more competent than he. So the normal process of an improvement plan wouldn’t have worked. The point is, if you are going to fire someone there is a right way and a wrong way. But if you just don’t like someone firing them without following some kind of established and legal procedure won’t work. If I really couldn’t stand someone, I’d have found him a different job under someone else. There were several people under me I didn’t like, but they did their job and I just dealt with it. They did good work and I got them raises.
* If you’re going to do something stupid, at least don’t do it in front of witnesses!
We have a local Kroger that has for years employed Downs Syndrome workers’ to help elderly customers take their groceries to their cars. There is usually one or two on each shift. My grandmother simply loved the little helpers. She passed away twenty years ago at the age of 96, but prior to that we would take her to the grocery store and once the “helper” assisted her and her groceries to the car, she would tip them a dollar bill. They were so excited to receive that tip. About ten or so of the Kroger workers at that location came to my grandmother’s funeral, as a group and wearing their Kroger shirts and name-tags. We were surprised and touched by their action. It was the sweetest thing that happened to our family that day.
I can’t believe a Kroger manager would undo so much goodwill in a community by firing someone such as that.
Perhaps Gaston County has tons of highly qualified people seeking employment at Wendy’s.
You never terminate a disabled employee without a well-documented PIP and reviews.
Idiot manager is begging to be sued.
There is a government program which pays employees to employ disabled citizens.
Basically, if the disabled works for minimum wage, the employer pays almost nothing. (One of few useful government programs.)
So even, if he cannot do normal person job, Wendy’s are not paying him normal person wage.
He is probably going to get a new job pretty quickly!
I am sure Chick Fil A would LOVE to hire him!!! 🐔
There is a food co-op in Hanover that specifically hires hard to place individuals, like those on the autism spectrum, for example.
Their purpose is to give them employment and many people shop there specially to support the business.
Their prices are average, but they do lean towards health food and other specialty items, so if you are looking for something out of the ordinary, you can find it there.
You just have to know, however, that if you need help from the employees, you can expect them to be a bit quirky.
Talk about a LAWSUIT!
Some time ago in a Walmart back up where I used to live there was a Downs person who got let go for no good reason after 20 some years at that place.
Well...her family took it to the State Of MI dept of labor and Wally World got busted. They had to pay ALL her back pay and reinstate her and THEN pay the fines as well as the law suit they got hit with.
She didnt have to work after it was over.
The sooner his family can be clear and honest with him about his former job, the better off he will be.
Give him more credit for knowing a job is not usually guaranteed for life.
At my local grocery store was a man, he had some sort of mental ability problem. He was a bagger in the checkout line. He did not work as fast as the other baggers. He was very careful in the manner he bagged and sorted the items. What I remember most about him was he always had a big smile for you and a hello. I did not mind at all the little extra time it took for him to do his job.