Well yeah, easy PR isn’t it. Almost as easy as not sacking an erstwhile if misguided employee in the first place when a verbal warning and a clear explanation as to why its company policy not to endanger yourself or others etc would have been plenty.
PR is so hard. You know what, maybe they should get on Twitter and start threatening Iceland. It will work wonders.
Smooth-Quantity-7024 on
For a big wig CEO I’ve always gotten the impression the boss of Iceland is pretty sound.
llnec on
Don’t they hire a lot of ex prisoners too? Honestly pretty good company it seems
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Wasn’t Iceland talking about arming their security with truncheons and pepper spray recently? They seem to be taking the safety of their staff much more seriously than Waitrose, whose buerocracy apparently covers “lives being risked” when staff attempt to tackle shoplifters themselves, (if you put them at the frontline instead of security, guess what happens?), but *not* ensuring they employ security each day of the week their shops are open to prevent situations like that happening in the first place.
There’s been a lot of personal chat about the character of man who was fired – how he seems like x negative thing – but that absolutely does not negate the necessity for security, and it’s shady as fuck for Waitrose to attempt to manipulate this story as “he fucked up, he got fired for trying to tackle this shoplifter. Against our policy! *Lives At. Risk!*” – So then what if that shoplifter had rocked up and held him at knife-point, and they had no security around?
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Well yeah, easy PR isn’t it. Almost as easy as not sacking an erstwhile if misguided employee in the first place when a verbal warning and a clear explanation as to why its company policy not to endanger yourself or others etc would have been plenty.
PR is so hard. You know what, maybe they should get on Twitter and start threatening Iceland. It will work wonders.
For a big wig CEO I’ve always gotten the impression the boss of Iceland is pretty sound.
Don’t they hire a lot of ex prisoners too? Honestly pretty good company it seems
Wasn’t Iceland talking about arming their security with truncheons and pepper spray recently? They seem to be taking the safety of their staff much more seriously than Waitrose, whose buerocracy apparently covers “lives being risked” when staff attempt to tackle shoplifters themselves, (if you put them at the frontline instead of security, guess what happens?), but *not* ensuring they employ security each day of the week their shops are open to prevent situations like that happening in the first place.
There’s been a lot of personal chat about the character of man who was fired – how he seems like x negative thing – but that absolutely does not negate the necessity for security, and it’s shady as fuck for Waitrose to attempt to manipulate this story as “he fucked up, he got fired for trying to tackle this shoplifter. Against our policy! *Lives At. Risk!*” – So then what if that shoplifter had rocked up and held him at knife-point, and they had no security around?