Im no geezer but thats def not ok for an employee to be wearing.

maybe a little over the top reaction but still very inappropriate.

I think you are an asshole, and were thus offended by the t-shirt.

Stop being sensitive about profanity and being all ghey.

 

Originally Posted by bfactor

I think you are an asshole, and were thus offended by the t-shirt.

Stop being sensitive about profanity and being all ghey.

This maybe true, and I have been called worse. But I have never worn a teeshirt like that to my workplace which happens to be a family restaurant. ;)

 

Originally Posted by curiousgeorge

maybe a little over the top reaction but still very inappropriate.

Yea ... probably out of line to wear that at work
Most deff kind of bitchy to get offended and storm out

I mean ..... You think when he got up and put that shit on he was thinking of you? Just pacing back and forth all day waiting for you to come in?
"God , I can't wait til that fuck comes in....he's such an asshole."

I don't think OP was wrong at all. He was at a family restaurant with his children and didn't appreciate an employee wearing an obviously inappropriate shirt. The situation would be different if they were just walking down the street and saw someone wearing the shirt or a customer was wearing the shirt. I actually would have talked to to manager before leaving if that was me though.

^^ bfactor and...

Reaction was a bit much imo, shirt inappropriate for work, but if your daughter saw shirt then she prob asked what proctologist was, thus she learned something today. Maybe she'll be inspired by this day to be a proctologist make a shit ton of money and pay for you when your in the nursing home. And you thought this shirt was an outrage.

Ok update number 1.

So I go home and write an email complaining about the incident. About an hour later, I get a phone call from the owner. She was the person wearing the teeshirt. LOLOLOL

And while she was sorry I didnt approve of the teeshirt,

#1 she bought it at a nice retailer in Sedona, AZ ( a resort place in AZ mountains)
#2 she believes in free speech and not censorship.

I say "I also believe in free speech and free markets, and that I will be using them to never give another dollar to your establishment and/or any other Quiznos and I will use my free speech to tell everyone I know about the incident and your stupid moronic excuses and hopefully they do the same and not go to Quiznos."

The "somewhat" apology lasted about 2 seconds and the other excuses lasted a good 2 minutes.

There is even more to the story again I will tell after more comments about this.

Wow, you actually wrote an e-mail? and then you made that speech about never eating at another quiznos? You are an old geezer indeed. loooooooooooooool @ this whole thread

Edit: I might come of a little harsher than I intended. You are obv entitled to do whatever you want, but your reaction is way overboard imo.

hahaha thats so shit. Obviously the owner is ultra loaded and doesn't care about running a respectable business or they'll be out on their arse within a few months. Totally not on to wear that kinda stuff at work.

Bfactor haha out of interest what do you do for work then?

Lol @ being worried about an 11 year old experiencing the word "asshole". I'm pretty sure at least half of my classmates already knew/used the f word by age 7, and this was at a faaaaaaaaar pruder than avg elementary school. Anyone who shelters their kid to the point of them not having experienced any foul language by age 11 is setting their kid up to get RAWKED to shit in middle school imho.

 

Originally Posted by scgolfer

Ok update number 1.

So I go home and write an email complaining about the incident. About an hour later, I get a phone call from the owner. She was the person wearing the teeshirt. LOLOLOL

And while she was sorry I didnt approve of the teeshirt,

#1 she bought it at a nice retailer in Sedona, AZ ( a resort place in AZ mountains)
#2 she believes in free speech and not censorship.

I say "I also believe in free speech and free markets, and that I will be using them to never give another dollar to your establishment and/or any other Quiznos and I will use my free speech to tell everyone I know about the incident and your stupid moronic excuses and hopefully they do the same and not go to Quiznos."

The "somewhat" apology lasted about 2 seconds and the other excuses lasted a good 2 minutes.

There is even more to the story again I will tell after more comments about this.

lol@this. I mean whatever its her store, but i guarantee you Quiznos franchise would not approve of this. Free speech is all well and good, but im sure your not the only one who would not want their kids seeing that, and if it fucks with the bottom line, franchise fees etc, quiznos will take your complaint seriously.

I'm pretty sure I want to teach Scha's avatar some bad words and eat bone marrow out of her vagina like this:

 

Originally Posted by bfactor

Lol @ being worried about an 11 year old experiencing the word "asshole".

yeah I would be worried about the kid if she didn't know curse words at 11.

She probably doesn't give a fuck.

People that bought Quizno's franchises got fucked because they over saturated the market and put them everywhere. She's probably hoping this is a way for her to get out of her franchise without having to sell it (which would be a bitch right now).

There was a story about a guy in California that bought a franchise and then Quizno's allowed another one to be built super close to his. His business plummeted and he was stuck with this horrible investment. He ended up going inside the bathroom of the other competing Quizno's and blew his brains out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/bu...24quiznos.html

 

On Nov. 27, Bhupinder Baber walked into a Quiznos restaurant on the outskirts of Los Angeles. He spoke briefly with the manager before stepping into the restroom and shooting himself three times in the chest.

Darren Hauck for The New York Times
Dawn Schodron and her husband, John, want to sell their Quiznos in Slinger, Wis., because rising costs are making it difficult to break even.

Mr. Baber died that evening. In a note he left behind, Mr. Baber, who had owned two Quiznos franchises in Long Beach before he became embroiled in a legal dispute with the corporation, blamed the sandwich chain for destroying his life.
�Someone must do something about what Quiznos is doing to the trapped franchisees,� he wrote. �I deeply regret getting into Quiznos. I wish I had never heard of them.�
While extreme, the story of Mr. Baber and his death has been cited by a number of other owners of Quiznos franchises. They say it illustrates their growing sense of desperation and frustration toward the corporation.
A spokesman for Quiznos, based in Denver, says it is �deeply saddened� by Mr. Baber�s death and that it would be inappropriate to comment further.
Selling sandwiches piled high with meat, dripping with cheese on toasted sandwich rolls, Quiznos has become one of the fastest-growing food chains. It has grown to 5,000 stores from just 100 a decade ago.
But lawsuits filed by some of the chain�s mom-and-pop franchisees in the last year accuse the company of pocketing the $25,000 licensing fees and never finding store locations within an allotted one-year timeframe. Other lawsuits contend that the licensing agreement forces them to buy everything � the meat and cheese for the sandwiches, the soap in the bathrooms, the music played in the stores, and even the payroll and accounting systems � through designated suppliers and distributors owned by Quiznos that charge the franchisees higher prices while paying tens of millions of dollars to the corporation, according to interviews with franchisees and court filings.
The company said last night that it believes there is no merit to any of the cases and that it will deal with each as it deems appropriate.
As costs rise, some Quiznos operators say they are struggling to survive. One lawsuit cites a memorandum drafted by a Quiznos lawyer in 2003 that stated �40 percent of Quiznos units are not breaking even� � a fact that prospective franchisees say they were never told.
A Quiznos spokesman says it does not know what the exact failure rate was in 2003, but that it was �far less� than that.
The internecine war at Quiznos shows the two sides of the franchising coin: the promise and the risk. Lured by glossy brochures, peppy seminars that promise big bucks or the success stories of early McDonald�s franchisees, millions of Americans who dream of being their own bosses turn to franchising to do so. More than 2,500 companies, including U.P.S., Choice Hotels and H& R Block, offer franchising opportunities. Sales from franchised companies now total more than $1 trillion a year, according to some estimates.
The dark side of the industry is that many venture into franchising with their eyes shut. For instance, most corporations do not provide accurate franchisee failure rates. And franchisees are usually forced to sign contracts that allow the company to make changes to the agreement even if it harms the franchisee, warns Susan P. Kezios, president of the American Franchisee Association.
�In many cases, you sign a contract in which you agree that you will always be in compliance with their policies and their procedures, but in effect, you are signing a moving target,� she said. �When they control how much you are going to pay them in royalties, and advertising and then force you to buy all of your supplies from them, it�s not free enterprise anymore. It�s indentured servitude.�
There have been many legal skirmishes in franchising over the years. These days, however, Quiznos is facing more lawsuits from franchisees than bigger chains like McDonald�s, Burger King, Wendy�s and even its sandwich rivals Subway and Blimpie, according to an analysis by the legal research firm Thomson West. Yesterday, Quiznos franchisees filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status in Michigan.
To mend fences with its angry franchisees and, some say, to lay the groundwork to take the private company public in the next few years, Quiznos brought in a new chief executive last month, the turnaround specialist Gregory D. Brenneman.
A former consultant at Bain & Company, Mr. Brenneman, 45, is widely credited with fixing Continental Airlines and then improving relations with Burger King�s franchisees before the company went public last spring.
Energetic and self-effacing (he blithely declares he works off a one-page turnaround plan and that �none of this is rocket science,�) Mr. Brenneman says he became enamored with franchise-based organizations after Burger King and began looking for similar companies to become involved with last summer. He took a stake in Quiznos through his private equity firm and says he is a fan of the chain�s prime rib sandwich.
First up at Quiznos, he says, is improving the profitability of all of the company�s franchisees.
�When I looked at Quiznos, it was clear that food costs, as a percent of revenue were, quite honestly, out of line,� he said in an interview. �That�s going to come in line very quickly.�