Reasons you will hate me

Now Ms Fits this can't be so. the nice government had adverts in the newspaers which said if you sign an individual AWA style contract you would earn up to 100% more than under a nasty union organised award. You will have to give up holidays, sick leave, sleeping and generaly sell your soul but they said i would earn 100% more.
These people must just be malcontents (not commited to the company)
how's the seaside?

D'oh. Nuts to that.

Option one: How credible is the source?
To quote local 'authority'(elderly woman from eastern suburbs, likely 3AW listener, at exhibition opening talking about IR) "these employees are lazy/unwashed/hopeless...and the poor employers shouldn't have to be lumbered with them".
Answer: keep eating them.

Option two: these people obviously voted for Timmy, they are principled, brave and courageous.
Answer: Never touch a krispy Kreme deep fried snot ball again, instead ask domestic goddess Flip Shelton for a recipe to make yourself (made from tofu and mong beans).

Obviously the corporate 'fatcat' has been indulging in Krispy Kremes too frequently.

I say eat the doughnuts, but tip the employees when buying them. We were moving into a US-style working environment, weren't we?

I know it's sort of missing the point but I can't get the mental image of a giant vagina gorging on Krispy Kreme donuts out of my head.

I think I might sell 'the pitch'* to James Cameron.

*I am unsure if this is the correct term but felt the need to indulge in Hollywood speak.

It should be "pitch it to James Cameron", Jess. Go for it.

I don't buy Krispy Kreme anyway. Their holes aren't very satisfying.

A true conundrum for all those progressive people (or at least people who think they are progressive); to eat Krispy Kreme given that their staff were bullied into signing individual contracts that left them thousands of dollars a year out of pocket or not to eat them.

On the one hand I am opposed to the government’s IR policy, and as such should boycott eating their donuts because of what they did (leaving aside the fact that anybody who had of actually thought about eating at Krispy Kreme would have realised there that they would likely have had horrid employment practices).

On the other hand, their donuts taste so good, and my boycotting them won’t change anything, so what’s the point? Besides if I tip the staff, this will make things better, even though it’s almost impossible that the tips will add up to what the staff lose under their contracts, assuming that Kripsy Kreme actually allows customers to tip their staff in Australia.

Yes, a real ethical question, right up their with whether freedom of speech should be absolute and whether the death penalty is ever morally right.

Besides everybody knows that the best donuts are prune jam filled panczki. Trust me (yeah, that will happen).

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*yawns*

*eats donuts made by slaves*

Also, all this talk of Krispy Kremes...well, you know what to do...

I interviewed one of these girls last week. She told me that she sat in the manager's office in tears whilst they said to her, "if you do not sign this contract, you will receive no hours." Straight up. Just like that. They didn't even try to euphemise it. She also said that she was once made to work 16.5 hours with no overtime or penalties, that she filed a sexual harassment claim that was ignored and that under the terms of the AWA she was not able to contact the union because the employer had to approve her third party/mediator. Krispy Kreme denied the claims.

I'd say a boycott is probably in order.

MsCynic, how did you get to interview them? Boycotts are good, but pickets are better. I would love to organise a picket outside Krispy Kreme, and I am sure that I could a small crowd to participate through my contacts. Are you in Sydney (or no anyone else who has interviewed the girls) to speak at the picket MsCynic?

If you contact the NSW Branch of the SDA Union, they will put you onto her. She is quite media savvy.

I can't recall the name of the contact now - maybe David Bliss? - just explain yourself to reception and they'll know who you want.

I have a pack of Giant Rabid Donut-Binging Vaginas that I am prepared to bring along, should we decide against peaceful protesting and choose instead to wreak violent havoc on the store itself.

And you know what they say, it ain't a protest until you've got Aleks Anarcho-Syndicalist and a mob of angry Giant Rabid Donut-Binging Vaginas united behind your cause.

(pssst - Aleks! Long time no see! x)

Sweet. The info that is, not the donuts. I will contact them in the next few days (I'm busy with preparations for the Tampa Day Anniversary this Friday at the moment). Thanks MsCynic.

Jess/Kerry love of my life, you know how things are, when you are busy planning to overthrow the state things like commenting on blogs sometimes suffer.

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I'm waving a banner for Donut King anyway.

Soooo much yummier.

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