Meijer supermarket faces public outrage after having a special needs teen employee arrested for eating $110 worth of food over three months.
    • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      72·
      3 months ago

      you start from the assumption that the company had a legitimate reason to want to fire him from day one because of his disability.

      the problem might be not an “apple per day” the kid was eating, but the “special needs” kid himself.

      why is special needs in scarequotes?

      They might be forced (by some company policy or something) to hire him

      are people with disabilities not allowed an income? if we’re going to force people to work, then companies should be forced to hire. people gotta eat.

      from your other comment:

      They just waited for the sum to be big enough for the police to act.

      claiming a person who took a nibble/day from the deli over the course of 3 months ‘stole $110 of food’ is some mental gymnastics. a corporation sicced violent goons on him and gave him a criminal record for what is probably pocket change from the perspective of their accounts after management deliberately avoided interventions in an effort to get him fired.

      is there a point you’re trying to make? because your aloud-pondering comes off as ableist and almost ageist.

        • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          82·
          3 months ago

          I start with the assumption that the company wants to fire him so badly that they are ready to pay “over $21,000” (have you read the article?) to do that.

          you mean this line?:

          A Florida nurse named Kerry Campbell launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover James’s legal fees and basic needs. It’s raised over $21,000 so far […]

          besides the misquote: corporations are quite infamous for the lengths they’re willing to go to to avoid social responsibility. in this case, they quite literally outsourced ‘this hassle’ to the police.

          I’m not American, your insults don’t work on me.

          neither am i, and from this comment i get the impression you’re a European chauvinist.

          it’s not an ‘insult’; you need to look in a mirror.

            • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              6·
              3 months ago

              Hearing that your words are coming across as ableist might feel like you’re being attacked when you’re actually just feeling defensive. That feeling ought to be a cue to self-reflect rather than retaliate. They didn’t even call you ableist; it sounds like they were actually giving you the benefit of the doubt. Some of what you’ve said sounds a lot like the things that badguys say, and that seems worth reflecting on and reconsidering.