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Sandwich Shop Cans Workers Days Before Christmas
NBC Chicago ^ | 12/24/13 | staff

Posted on 12/24/2013 9:08:25 AM PST by Baynative

A River North sandwich shop fired its 20 employees Sunday night via email.

The firings were effective immediately for the workers at Snarf’s Sub Shop at 600 W Chicago


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 15; sandwich
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To: Jack Hydrazine

No...


81 posted on 12/24/2013 11:25:25 AM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
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To: Beagle8U

I didn’t know that. Somebody needs to get this info to MicroSoft, because Outlook flags three dots as a grammatical error. I see she refers to a “four-dot rule” as well. OTOH, it may be flagging it because it’s End of Paragraph.

I use the “Rule 2” she mentions frequently, but that’s because I bend, break, fold, spindle and mutilate the paragraph rules on a fairly regular basis. Like right now....

:^)


82 posted on 12/24/2013 11:29:46 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Beagle8U

True dat, one dot.


83 posted on 12/24/2013 11:31:51 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: SkyDancer
grammar nazi's

Death to all misplaced apostrophes!!

84 posted on 12/24/2013 11:40:53 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rockrr
When I first heard this I thought “Sea-Tac”.

I think a state wide - or at least King County - initiative for the $15 min wage is in the works. Seeing as King County (AKA Moscow West) has a majority of votes in WA, it has me concerned.

85 posted on 12/24/2013 12:17:09 PM PST by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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To: cuban leaf; SamAdams76
Well they got their wish...Snarf’s is shut down.

What I find interesting is that a local shop shuts and they are happy but a mega franchise / big box store is now their altrnative. Seems counter logic to the liberal want of village economies. (and I know the mega stores/franchises are on their radar).

86 posted on 12/24/2013 12:23:11 PM PST by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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To: llevrok

FWIW the outfit that shut down is a franchise also.
http://eatsnarfs.com/locations.htm


87 posted on 12/24/2013 12:25:12 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: llevrok

Don’t kid yourself. The goverment is at war with small business. Big government and big corporations are flip sides of the same coin.

It’s all explained here: http://fredoneverything.net/Liddy.shtml


88 posted on 12/24/2013 12:27:15 PM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Baynative

It warms my heart whenever management decides to shut down instead of caving to union demands!


89 posted on 12/24/2013 12:32:18 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Windflier

Sometimes I like to put in a little something ....:)


90 posted on 12/24/2013 12:38:09 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: VideoPaul

So it’s a big dal they got fired “ days before Christmas”, but they didn’t think it was a big deal to SHUT DOWN THE BUSINESS during the Christmas shopping season when they very busy.


91 posted on 12/24/2013 12:40:28 PM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: SamAdams76
“Well they got their wish...Snarf’s is shut down.”

Yes, they carry signs around the place, their freedom of movement and speech. Sharf’s shuts down and now they don't have a job due to freedom of an owner to shut down his business if he wants.

Now, the strikers/complainers have no job. Maybe they can go hold signs against another business and see if that gets them a job there. Cause and Effect.

92 posted on 12/24/2013 12:41:13 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Cyber Liberty

bump


93 posted on 12/24/2013 1:10:46 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Baynative

“DING! Fries Are Done!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LFyyiv93s&feature=youtube_gdata_player


94 posted on 12/24/2013 1:25:11 PM PST by TurboZamboni ("PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GOOD WILL".)
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To: Kozak

I read a few stories on this, and from what I can glean from them, business is usually slow for them right now. Christmas gift shopping is wrapping up, last-minute shopping isn’t leisurely enough for eating out, people are getting ready for the second feast in a month. Additionally, they decided to retool as a burger joint, which is a top-to-bottom equipment replacement. Put these things together, and they were planning to close for a month or two, protest or not.

I hope they paid attention to who the picketers were, so as not to hire them back.


95 posted on 12/24/2013 1:39:51 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty

The strikers shut the place down the first week in December. That’s prime Christmas shopping territory. Yeah it’s slow now through the new year, and it is a good time to shut down to retool. But the workers struck when it probably hurt a lot.


96 posted on 12/24/2013 1:45:34 PM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: Kozak

You are 100% correct. I was not addressing that shutdown, I was talking about the current one. Unfortunately, I doubt any of the picketers in the story’s pictures work for the restaurant, so it might be tough for Management to figure out who not to rehire.

They may just find it prudent to drop all previous employee’s job applications into a shredder, should they reapply.


97 posted on 12/24/2013 1:49:23 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: GeronL

“The WaWa stores out east have sandwich shops like that in them”

I guess it is “no Americans need apply”. We have a couple of new stores in my area (convenience stores and small supermarkets) that seem to employ many young minorities that are definitely not local. I don’t recall seeing “Help Wanted” signs when they opened.


98 posted on 12/24/2013 1:55:59 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: VideoPaul

“It’s CLOSED. Now no one has ANY job there. How exactly is going from 7 bucks an hour to ZERO bucks an hour a “victory”?”

It’s a victory, because the evil guy who owns it can no longer get “rich” off the workers. There are multiple studies where scenarios are created that rewards or points are obtained for doing specific things, and eventually some people will start to come ahead due to more “work” or whatever. At the point where people perceive some have more than others regardless of how the people with more got it, the people with less will sacrifice their own rewards fairly greatly in order to reduce and bring down the “winners”.


99 posted on 12/24/2013 2:00:37 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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