Lawrence
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 16, 2005, 23:30
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You quoting me?
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 17, 2005, 23:40
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... erm, not intentionally. Subconsciously, perhaps...!
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Sootickle
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 18, 2005, 21:00
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Oh you fly business class, not cattle class do you? You sound just like a jerk acquantance I know - he's a
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PMM
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 18, 2005, 21:02
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Just think of it... War breaks out and nobody turns up... :o)
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Sootickle
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 18, 2005, 21:10
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wHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lord Lucan
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 19, 2005, 12:35
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Nothing at all. It's a great way of keeping pricks like you away from scum like us.
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 19, 2005, 15:08
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Nothing - but there is something wrong with gloating about it. That suggests either a massive inferiority complex, or a childish desire to attain one-upmanship over people with less one than you, or more likely both.
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Sootickle
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Action
Oct 19, 2005, 19:18
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So what'll happen when you're on the receiving end and no one supports you - now go off and vote conservative and save yourself a few pence in taxes at the expense of the less well off.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Ac
Oct 20, 2005, 11:40
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I've just been reading down this thread. And, it seems to me, as somebody who hasn't been involved in this debate since its inception, last friday, that tempers are rising at Hongnam's more fortunate position, more than his dislike for 'the workers'. I don't think he's a tory. He's just been lucky / worked hard and seems successful. I'd imagine he really appreciates his workers - and they him.
I would have to say though, that if a product or service is not to my liking I will not tolerate it again. I think we are all of that opinion, aren't we? If I'm in the unfortunate position of not having a choice - ie being offered poor inflight catering where there isn't an option, I will complain and quietly hope that that particular company disappears, to be replaced by something that offers better value for my money.
Now, I don't think Hongnam's got a downer on the workers. I think he probably accepts that the company, led by its management level are ordering in substandard cheap ingredients and have people with little cullinary imagination designing the menus.
If I'd got a few quid to spare I'd spend it on a better standard of living - and that includes a nicer seat in an aeroplane.
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Vybik Jon
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Re: Gate Gourmet Strikers -Solidarity Ac
Oct 20, 2005, 12:26
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I can't agree, KC.
This was hongnam's opening statement in all of this:
"If the food wasn't so shit, i might have a bit more sympathy for them."
Repeat - what has the quality of the food served got to do with the workers? They prepare/pack what the Gate Gourmet owners tell them to.
When challenged over believeing his initial statement was funny, hongnam said:
"Or, I could go on a flight and eat some utter rubbish on the flight. I'm glad they're gonna be sacked. stuff em."
And just so the point isn't missed: "...I'm glad they're gonna be sacked. stuff em."
That's where the anger stems from and it's these sort of posts from hongnam that generate the responses we see.
He may be the best company owner/boss/employer in the world, but if he's going to post up crass stuff like that, he can expect to shot at.
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