[Marxism] Capitalist Pig of the month nominee

["Pance Stojkovski" <pance@rogers.com>]

My nominee for the Capitalist Pig of the month nominee: owner of the Tim
Hortons donut store in London, Ontario.

"Tim Hortons" is a chain of donut/coffee shops in Canada and a "TimBit" is a
small round donut (without the usual hole in the middle).

The worker that was fired - Nicole Lilliman - was eventually re-hired
because of the PR fiasco for Tim Hortons.

Pance
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Single mom of 4 fired by doughnut giant for giving regular customer's baby a
16 cents Timbit

You can take candy from a baby, but you can't give one a Timbit -- not for
free, anyway. 

A London single mother of four is out of her Tim Hortons job, fired for
giving away one of the 16 cents blobs of fried dough to a tot who came in
with a regular customer. 

"I have been fired for giving a baby a Timbit," Nicole Lilliman, 27, said
yesterday. 

"It was just out of my heart -- she was pointing and going 'ah, ah ...' I
should have gone to my purse and got the change, but it was busy." 

Lilliman, who has worked at the store for three years, said she thought
little of the incident because employees often dole out Timbits to dogs and
children. She said she gave the baby the treat to quiet her, since her mom
-- a Tims' regular -- had been "having a bad day." 


"I could see (the dismissal) if it was a sandwich or something," she said,
still in her uniform after being fired yesterday. "But it was a Timbit." 

She'd forgotten about the Monday-morning incident when she was called into
the office yesterday. Three managers greeted her, saying she had been caught
on video, giving free food to a child. 

"They said, 'Remember, Monday you gave out a free Timbit?'" she said. "I had
to think, then I was like, 'Oh yeah,' and I smiled because I thought I'd get
a warning." 

Instead, she was fired for theft and told to sign the accusation before
leaving. 

"I was crying. 'I'm a single mom with four kids and you are going to put
this on my record?' You should bring all the staff in here and fire them all
-- and yourselves, too. People give out Timbits to dogs in the drive-thru
all the time." 

Giving food away is against the rules, said Tim Hortons district manager
Nicole Mitchell. 

"Employees aren't allowed to give out free products and that's the bottom
line," she said. "She gave out free product and it doesn't matter if it is a
Timbit or a coffee or a doughnut or 10 sandwiches or what." 

The Timbits given to pets, Mitchell added, are usually "day-old and
recycled." (Lilliman) admitted it. She signed the accusation and completely
admitted it and everything has been documented," said Mitchell. She said
there have been other problems with her, but Lilliman said nothing has been
brought to her attention. 

"I need this job," she said. 

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/05/08/5504461-sun.html

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Eventually she was hired back:

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/05/09/5516716-sun.html





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