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2005-06-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve White 2005-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Idiots - it's age discrimination.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-06-22 02:02|| 2005-06-22 02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 "And you won't believe how easy it was!"

ROFL!!!

How many taunts were involved, I wonder, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-06-22 02:26|| 2005-06-22 02:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Obviously these are not Frenchmen, they're fighting. :)

Posted by Snolunter Elmineger5424 2005-06-22 08:24|| 2005-06-22 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't feel 5 million sorry for them, but I think it's wrong if they were fired for being French. Just because the French are rude and self-righteous, we don't have to become like them.

These guys were there for 10 and 14 years. That's just wrong.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-22 08:39|| 2005-06-22 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 created and fostered an environment rife with anti-French sentiment
Is that wrong? (/george costanza)

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-06-22 09:19|| 2005-06-22 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 These guys were there for 10 and 14 years. That's just wrong.

Damn straight. They should never have been hired in the first place.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-06-22 09:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-06-22 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 These guys were there for 10 and 14 years. That's just wrong.

So, would you have prohibited them from quitting? After all, their employer had relied on them for all that time?

Employment should be "at will" on both sides.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-06-22 09:57|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-06-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, perhaps they are unwilling or incapable of changing with the times. It was once fashionable and chic to go to a French restaurant and be ridiculed and abused by the waiters when you failed to match their sneering Parisian accent.

Now, it's not amusing.

Of course, I rather like the point that Jackal made, too - a LOT, in fact, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-06-22 10:02|| 2005-06-22 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 They got upset when they were expected to work more than 35 hours a week. And that's without mandatory 5 week vacations. How Anglo-Saxon!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous2520 2005-06-22 12:25|| 2005-06-22 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 You beat me to it, AA! I was wondering how hard these guys actually "worked." And, I know it's expensive to live/work in NYC, but come on, you're still a waiter at 63 and 68? When are ya gonna retire, and it's so un-French of you not to retire. Maybe that's the lead...they're actually un-French (fakes) and people saw through it and complained.

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-22 14:07|| 2005-06-22 14:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Good waiters in expensive restaurants make very good money. (Quick: calculate a 15% tip on a $500 dinner, assuming that the waiter can handle about four of those a night, six days a week.)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-22 23:35|| 2005-06-22 23:35|| Front Page Top

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