Watch the president lose his wristwatch to pickpockets while pressing the flesh in Albania.
This Dutch tv footage has the clearest video of the president's wrist - before and after.
The pickpocketing franchise seems like it is a truly worldwide franchise. And hiring good secret service agents to keep an eye on the president is as tough as hiring good help in a franchise. Wonder if an agent will get fired over this? (How's that for keeping this both on the franchise topic and on this forum topic - stories of being fired.)
Here's a guy that tells a tale of going through three fast-food jobs in just a few weeks -- justifiably so. I wonder if after the third job it occured to the young man to change his attitude and behavior?
Frankman
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When I was 18 I got fired from all 3 of the local fast food chains all during the same summer.
Fast Food Store 1
Worked thier for a couple of weeks, one day they told me to get some fresh cheese and do something with the old cheese. Having the "Munchies" (yes I smoked and inhaled) I got some fresh chesse and ate the old cheese. My boss asked me where I put the old cheese because she couldn't find it in the fridge and I told her what I did with it. She cussed me out then fired me.
Fast Food Store 2
Worked there about 6 days, they had me working the front (ie taking order, ringing up the bill etc.. etc..). Anyways each of the days this one person would come in order the excat same thing and complain about his meal in one form or another (ie fries where too cold, didn't ask for pickles, too much ice in the drink, did take his order fast enought etc.. etc..). So I got fed up with it (now you have to remenber this was back when the ketcup was in stainless steel bowls and not hoses like today). He started going off about not enough ketcup on his burger so I yelled "&*^# you, son of a hairless goat, here is your *&$*##(&*# ketcup" And proceed to scoop a big handful out of the bowl and toss it at him. Needless to say I was fired, the guy never pressed charges against me. However a co-worker/friend told me he never came in again.
Fast Food Store 3
Worked there a few days, one day I come in a little more out of it than usual (read as no sleep and been partying and drinking hard the night before). It was a hot day and I was working as a cook. Well I came in a little before my shift which was just before the noontime rush and promptly fell asleep beside the nice cool freeze that stored the ice cream cakes.. My boss woke me up a couple of hours later and fired me.
Here's a girl that tells a tale of being fired at a fast-food restaurant for sticking her head where it shouldn't be.
Frankman
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It was 1978, my first job at age 16. I was hired at the local fast food fish shop to serve customers and clean up at shift end. About 2 weeks into the job I was asked to become the cole slaw maker for the shift. This required me to put on plastic gloves that went up to my arm pits and literally become a hand mixer of the slaw in a 50 gallon drum. One night I was mixing the slaw and when pulling it up from the botttom of the drum with my arms, I lost my balance and went head first into the drum. They fired me as they thought I purposefully put myself head first into 50 gallons of creamy slaw and contaminated it all. I ask you, what 16 year old girl would go diving head first into mayo based slaw? I have never had their slaw again.
Remember this modern American tale told on Blue MauMau and ABC News of a practical jokester, a young employee, the assistant manager at McDonald's trained to obey authority, and how wrong things can get?
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A prankster called the local McDonald’s with a story that an employee had been accused of stealing a customer’s purse. The Assistant Manager was told to strip down the subject to her nothings to see if she had the purse, covered only by a dirty apron.
So she did the deed, and the young employee, Miss Ogborn, complied. When it was discovered that she didn’t have the purse, the "policeman" on the line told the assistant manager to keep her in her birthday suit and watch her until the authorities arrived. Since it was such a busy night at the restaurant with the assistant manager having other duties, the pretend-officer told the assistant manager Ms. Summers to phone her fiancé to come and watch Ms. Ogborn until the police would arrive.
Showing that it takes one to know one, her fiancé, Mr. Nix arrived and was told to order Miss Ogborn to drop her apron, bend over and stand on a chair. As Mr. Nix was instructed, he ordered Miss Ogborn to do such calisthenics in the buff. Ms. Ogborn complied. Mr. Nix then told her to do jumping jacks to shake loose the purse she might be hiding in the crevices of her body. She did.
Here is an example of what not to do as a boss with a young female employee. Here's a case that made it from a fast-food restaurant to the EEOC court ruling today.
Don't tell her that she's a dirty whore or you might end up in court.
When she ticks you off, don't make her clean floorboards with a toothbrush
When she wants to take a break and you want her to work, DO NOT call her "Whore, whore! Skank, skank!" That's bad management practice.
When an employee cuts themselves, make sure that the first-aid kit contains more than aspirin. Running the wound under water is not good enough.
It gets worse. Check this AP story out. Although the details are sometimes gross, here they are.
Well Bob, I read your report. I watched the video....and called my sources with the Secret Service....you know the conservative ones who protect franchisors....and they've confirmed that our Republican President is smarter than Albania's Pickpockets.
It seems that President Bush removed his own $50 Timex, and placed it into his pocket. Isn't information off the Internet so very reliable.
Okay ... the truth is Brian Williams reported the internet hoax on the NBC evening news.
Believe & Succeed, Dale FranSynergy, Inc. Synergizing Franchising! www.fransynergy.com
Did news anchorman Brian Williams say if the video was a hoax? If so, I guess you cannot always trust what you see.
I watched the video again and didn't see the President removing his own watch. One hand was no where near the other hand in the before and after moments. There's a bunch of hands grasping his wrist one moment, and then it's gone the next moment.
The video was legit, only the story was false. Someone on YouTube or somewhere saw that the watch was there one minute and gone the next, and started the 'rumor'. The rumor then spread, mostly on the internet, but some local television stations picked up on it and reported it as truth.
In the video tape aired on NBC it CLEARLY shows President Bush, remove the watch and place it in his pocket.
As I write this, FOX News is now reporting the story, but "Leaving it for you to decide".
Believe & Succeed, Dale FranSynergy, Inc. Synergizing Franchising! www.fransynergy.com
Albania's High Quality Pickpocket Franchise
Watch the president lose his wristwatch to pickpockets while pressing the flesh in Albania.
The pickpocketing franchise seems like it is a truly worldwide franchise. And hiring good secret service agents to keep an eye on the president is as tough as hiring good help in a franchise. Wonder if an agent will get fired over this? (How's that for keeping this both on the franchise topic and on this forum topic - stories of being fired.)
Frankman
Fired Fast
Here's a guy that tells a tale of going through three fast-food jobs in just a few weeks -- justifiably so. I wonder if after the third job it occured to the young man to change his attitude and behavior?
Frankman
--
When I was 18 I got fired from all 3 of the local fast food chains all during the same summer.
Fast Food Store 1
Worked thier for a couple of weeks, one day they told me to get some fresh cheese and do something with the old cheese. Having the "Munchies" (yes I smoked and inhaled) I got some fresh chesse and ate the old cheese. My boss asked me where I put the old cheese because she couldn't find it in the fridge and I told her what I did with it. She cussed me out then fired me.
Fast Food Store 2
Worked there about 6 days, they had me working the front (ie taking order, ringing up the bill etc.. etc..). Anyways each of the days this one person would come in order the excat same thing and complain about his meal in one form or another (ie fries where too cold, didn't ask for pickles, too much ice in the drink, did take his order fast enought etc.. etc..). So I got fed up with it (now you have to remenber this was back when the ketcup was in stainless steel bowls and not hoses like today). He started going off about not enough ketcup on his burger so I yelled "&*^# you, son of a hairless goat, here is your *&$*##(&*# ketcup" And proceed to scoop a big handful out of the bowl and toss it at him. Needless to say I was fired, the guy never pressed charges against me. However a co-worker/friend told me he never came in again.
Fast Food Store 3
Worked there a few days, one day I come in a little more out of it than usual (read as no sleep and been partying and drinking hard the night before). It was a hot day and I was working as a cook. Well I came in a little before my shift which was just before the noontime rush and promptly fell asleep beside the nice cool freeze that stored the ice cream cakes.. My boss woke me up a couple of hours later and fired me.
Don't Stick Your Head Into Coleslaw
Here's a girl that tells a tale of being fired at a fast-food restaurant for sticking her head where it shouldn't be.
Frankman
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It was 1978, my first job at age 16. I was hired at the local fast food fish shop to serve customers and clean up at shift end. About 2 weeks into the job I was asked to become the cole slaw maker for the shift. This required me to put on plastic gloves that went up to my arm pits and literally become a hand mixer of the slaw in a 50 gallon drum. One night I was mixing the slaw and when pulling it up from the botttom of the drum with my arms, I lost my balance and went head first into the drum. They fired me as they thought I purposefully put myself head first into 50 gallons of creamy slaw and contaminated it all. I ask you, what 16 year old girl would go diving head first into mayo based slaw? I have never had their slaw again.Would You Strip To Keep Your Job?
Remember this modern American tale told on Blue MauMau and ABC News of a practical jokester, a young employee, the assistant manager at McDonald's trained to obey authority, and how wrong things can get?
--A prankster called the local McDonald’s with a story that an employee had been accused of stealing a customer’s purse. The Assistant Manager was told to strip down the subject to her nothings to see if she had the purse, covered only by a dirty apron.
So she did the deed, and the young employee, Miss Ogborn, complied. When it was discovered that she didn’t have the purse, the "policeman" on the line told the assistant manager to keep her in her birthday suit and watch her until the authorities arrived. Since it was such a busy night at the restaurant with the assistant manager having other duties, the pretend-officer told the assistant manager Ms. Summers to phone her fiancé to come and watch Ms. Ogborn until the police would arrive.
Showing that it takes one to know one, her fiancé, Mr. Nix arrived and was told to order Miss Ogborn to drop her apron, bend over and stand on a chair. As Mr. Nix was instructed, he ordered Miss Ogborn to do such calisthenics in the buff. Ms. Ogborn complied. Mr. Nix then told her to do jumping jacks to shake loose the purse she might be hiding in the crevices of her body. She did.
And so it continued for another two hours.
Oh the things we will do when told to do it.
Frankman
Boss Do Nots
Here is an example of what not to do as a boss with a young female employee. Here's a case that made it from a fast-food restaurant to the EEOC court ruling today.
Bob...Secret Service Sources Say....
Well Bob, I read your report. I watched the video....and called my sources with the Secret Service....you know the conservative ones who protect franchisors....and they've confirmed that our Republican President is smarter than Albania's Pickpockets.
It seems that President Bush removed his own $50 Timex, and placed it into his pocket. Isn't information off the Internet so very reliable.
Okay ... the truth is Brian Williams reported the internet hoax on the NBC evening news.
Believe & Succeed,
Dale
FranSynergy, Inc.
Synergizing Franchising!
www.fransynergy.com
Truth Better Than Fiction
Man, oh man! Now here is a case in which the truth is stranger than fiction. Wow!!
Watch Hoax
Did news anchorman Brian Williams say if the video was a hoax? If so, I guess you cannot always trust what you see.
I watched the video again and didn't see the President removing his own watch. One hand was no where near the other hand in the before and after moments. There's a bunch of hands grasping his wrist one moment, and then it's gone the next moment.
Frankman
The Watch!
The video was legit, only the story was false. Someone on YouTube or somewhere saw that the watch was there one minute and gone the next, and started the 'rumor'. The rumor then spread, mostly on the internet, but some local television stations picked up on it and reported it as truth.
In the video tape aired on NBC it CLEARLY shows President Bush, remove the watch and place it in his pocket.
As I write this, FOX News is now reporting the story, but "Leaving it for you to decide".
Believe & Succeed,
Dale
FranSynergy, Inc.
Synergizing Franchising!
www.fransynergy.com
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