The article "Ryan's Grill, Buffet, and Bakery Fires Manager over a Lingerie Catalog" is about ethics, it was written by James Newton.
I know, it's the 21st century and yet a lingerie caatlog was considered reason to fire a manager of a restaurant. It's true, a manager that was just about to be promoted, did not have any otehr discrepancy reported, was known as a good performer, and yet a lingerie catalog cost him his job.
Not only that, Ryan's also deined him the ability to collect his unemployment check.
Here is how it happened; The company auditors came in to review the books and procedures of an Augusta Goergia store. While they were in the office, they started nosing around all the paepr work and clutter, (hey, this is their job), under a bunch of stuff, on a shelf, they find the lingerie catalog. They approach the manager about it, not thinking that this was a monumental deal, the manager told them it belonged to him.
A day and half later, they terminated him due to “inappropriate behavoir becoming a manager”.
No one had complained abuot the catalog. The ctaalog was not in plane view. But, because an auditor felt that it was too risque, that a team memebr might see it and file a law suite against the company. During their investigation, they did, in fact, discover a couple of of the team members had seen some lingerie catalogs. Not one of them tohught anything about it. Not one complained, not one thought the catalogs were inappropriate.
Now I grant you, in today's world, law suites run wild, and they are to be fearufl of. They can cost a company huge amounts of money, diminish the profits, and can even cause companies to go unedr. But, there wasn't any complaints, this manager was known as a good performer, why terminate him at this stage?
He removed the catalogs as soon as they brought it to his attetnion.
I thnik a warning might have been a good idea. At most a suspension, a write-up, sometihng other than termination.
Has corporate paranoia gotten to the point where they are willing to sacrifice good managers over the smallest infractions? Zero tolerance policies are taking there toll on ameircan society. Restaurant mangers are hard to find, they have to work a very demnading job. Personal sacrifices, long hours, in a challenging position.
Surely, it is a bad idea to toss them aside.
Ryan's has let other manaegrs go for the silliest of infractions, one male manager was reported as being terminated due to giving a female team member a ride home. Zero tolerance.
They area supervisor even stated that this particular manager was the hottest he had at working the dining room.
I see that Ryan's has started adveritsing for managers in the Augusta area. Three months have gone bye and they have been unable to replace this manager they elected to fire over a lingerie catalog buried under a bunch of stuff sutck up on a shelf.
Maybe zero tolerance is not such a good idea, maybe, one day, corporate aemrica will grow a back bone and start seeing the benefit in standing up and saying enough is enough. We live in a world where a disgruntled employee can have a manager's career ruined just by making a claim of sexual harassment or racial discrimination, no real proof is even needed. Makes managing a very unattractive carrier choice.
I think it is time to start suing over zero tloerance policies.
We need to take these policies to court in order for corporate america to wake up and see the cost of following such ridiculous policies. If unjust termination was a law suite infraction, then we could put a stop to this ridiculous practice.
Zero tolerance policies have worked tehir way into our schools, or jobs, our government, and our lives.
Good students, and good workers a being sacirficed in paranoia. We need to take a satnd. The Government, who also has zero tolerance policies, needs to start the movement against these kinds of policies.
And then maybe, an honest manager that says “Yeah, tahts my catalog, I thought I had taken that home.” won't pay the cost of paranoia.
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