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This is the story http://www.stuff.co.nz/westcoast/4050150a10.html

and here was the filled in online feedback form

Hey guys I heard about you firing that girl with Asperger's Syndrome for sharing a Coke.
I wanted to tell you that I believe it was a fantastic PR move.
I think the crime of sharing Coke ought to be fuly punished to the extent of the law...and beyond.
Why not punish her in a way that not only will alert her to her offense BUT cause her traumatic stress well in excess of what neuro-typical functioning people will feel?
Make her chances of gaining employment  incredibly hard (never mind the fact that is is hard because of her condition).
Drive her self-believe in her attempts to socialise and integrate into the ground.

Hang on you have already done this.....but she deserves it of course!

Or does she? Was it actually picking on a marginalised person in society, who is vulnerable to misreading social conventions.
Might a spelling out of the policies have been a little more appropriate in this circumstance, and ruining a marginalised person a bit too much?

If this is so then surely SUBWAY is a despicable uncompassioante employer and has branded itself by its own actions as a socially irresponsible corporation.

I will help put the story out for you, to see what other people think....Hope you don't mind.


What do ya reckon?
Good heavens, I'd better not go to Subway...I might take more than my fair share of paper napkins and cause an incident!  I'd have to become a fugitive!  It would be all over the news!  Rolleyes
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