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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 02:38 PM
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'After 30 years, Taco Bell didn't even offer her any hot sauce'
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Nine years ago, Winnie Shilson stopped a bullet for Taco Bell. Last Friday, the company that owns Minnesota's Taco Bell restaurants emptied the other barrel.

It fired her.

Shilson will be 64 next month, and her story may illustrate how a fast-food society treats workers, especially its most experienced ones. After 30 years working for Taco Bell and the chains that preceded it, Shilson was fired Friday as manager of the Edina Taco Bell, dismissed without severance pay or medical benefits.

"Not even a taco," says her husband, Doug. "They didn't give her a thing."

http://www.startribune.com/357/story/1538641.html

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  -'After 30 years, Taco Bell didn't even offer her any hot sauce' Oeditpus Rex  Nov-09-07 02:38 PM   #0 
  - It's El Fenix for me from now on...  derby378   Nov-09-07 02:41 PM   #1 
  - Damn, this country is fucked up.  EOO   Nov-09-07 02:41 PM   #2 
  - Tortilla The Hun  Parche   Nov-09-07 02:43 PM   #3 
  - This is so sad.  redwitch   Nov-09-07 02:44 PM   #4 
  - Taco John's for me  krispos42   Nov-09-07 02:45 PM   #5 
  - JESUS H. CHRIST!!!!  temeah   Nov-09-07 02:49 PM   #6 
  - You should go in and tell them what fucking assholes they are.  driver8   Nov-09-07 03:01 PM   #11 
     - You're GD right I will!  temeah   Nov-09-07 03:03 PM   #13 
        - No  Oeditpus Rex   Nov-09-07 03:17 PM   #18 
  - She's right - it's so easy for employers to manufacture reasons to get rid of employees  dpbrown   Nov-09-07 02:50 PM   #7 
  - I hope she sues their fucking company into banruptcy. That's unconscionable.  Rabrrrrrr   Nov-09-07 02:52 PM   #8 
  - Fuckers  lost-in-nj   Nov-09-07 02:53 PM   #9 
  - I have eaten my last encherito. I will belch 5 minutes later and re-taste encherito no more.  Bucky   Nov-09-07 02:54 PM   #10 
  - I guess she'll just have to wait for Jacoby Ellsbury to steal another base  KamaAina   Nov-09-07 03:03 PM   #12 
  - She needs to pull herself up by the bootstraps and quit her bitching.  racaulk   Nov-09-07 03:08 PM   #14 
  - That is really mean and horrible.  ThomCat   Nov-09-07 03:10 PM   #15 
  - You're right.  racaulk   Nov-09-07 03:12 PM   #16 
  - No doubt  Oeditpus Rex   Nov-09-07 03:22 PM   #20 
     - But how do you prove that it's age discrimination?  ThomCat   Nov-09-07 03:24 PM   #21 
        - First, all seven of us being over 40 was a bit of a stretch  Oeditpus Rex   Nov-09-07 03:41 PM   #24 
           - But...  ThomCat   Nov-09-07 03:42 PM   #25 
              - We did  Oeditpus Rex   Nov-09-07 03:50 PM   #28 
                 - I'm sorry.  ThomCat   Nov-09-07 03:51 PM   #29 
                    - We would've done better  Oeditpus Rex   Nov-09-07 03:53 PM   #31 
  - she was making more than me  DS1   Nov-09-07 03:14 PM   #17 
  - I have an idea! Maybe service-industry workers should get together...  SteppingRazor   Nov-09-07 03:20 PM   #19 
  - You're some sort of visionary, obviously.  dicksteele   Nov-09-07 03:39 PM   #23 
  - I've talked with others where i work about this (which... according to the company handbook...  ThinkBlue1966   Nov-09-07 03:42 PM   #26 
     - The IWW has been trying to get a Starbucks Union going.  SteppingRazor   Nov-09-07 03:46 PM   #27 
  - That is so sad.  BarenakedLady   Nov-09-07 03:25 PM   #22 
  - back in the 90's I was out in LA and worked on the "run for the border"  Javaman   Nov-09-07 03:51 PM   #30 
  - My comment to Border Foods:  Oeditpus Rex   Nov-09-07 03:56 PM   #32 
 

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