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Title: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 03:42:38 pm
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0119/1190689-starbucks-ordered-to-pay-compensation/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0119/1190689-starbucks-ordered-to-pay-compensation/)
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Rat Catcher on January 19, 2021, 03:45:20 pm
€16,000 according to the 13:00 bulletin on RTE 1 television.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Shallowhal on January 19, 2021, 03:48:37 pm
Brazilian racist fuk...coming over here and robbin our jobs!!
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Bob Shillin on January 19, 2021, 04:31:26 pm
Compo culture, PC gone mad, having said that the popularity of Starbucks is a sad reflection on society. I couldn't beleive it when O Brien's franchised making a sandwich.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: watty on January 19, 2021, 05:27:36 pm
It's an odd one.  The 'new girl' fukked up, the supervisor apologised straight away and offered vouchers.  Even at the hearing, the aujudicator said:

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In his findings, Mr Baneham stated that he accepted the bona fides of the employee's evidence.

Mr Baneham stated: "She apologised to the complainant and did not intend to humiliate her or make her feel uncomfortable … I fully accept that this was a mistake on her part and one that she regrets. I accept, therefore, that it was not the employee's intention to harass the complainant."

Yet the company still got stuck with a €12k fine!

They'll be fining shopkeepers next for giving the 'evil eye' to their customers ::fds
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Rat Catcher on January 19, 2021, 05:30:33 pm
Compensation not fine.. and €16,000 according to the 13:00 bulletin on RTE 1 television.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 05:49:11 pm
Compo culture, PC gone mad, having said that the popularity of Starbucks is a sad reflection on society. I couldn't beleive it when O Brien's franchised making a sandwich.
Do ya think RTE put their own slant on it?
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 05:50:31 pm
€16,000 according to the 13:00 bulletin on RTE 1 television.
Probs €4K for Ms Foley, the brief trousering the rest
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 05:52:59 pm
For King Hell:
Thai woman jailed for record 43 years for criticising monarchy
 19 January 2021 Asia
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Image copyrightEPAAnchan
Image captionAnchan posted audio clips from a podcast on social media
A Thai woman has been jailed for 43 years for criticising the royal family, the country's harshest ever sentence for insulting the monarchy.

The former civil servant, known only as Anchan, posted audio clips from a podcast on social media.

The 63-year-old said she had simply shared the audio files and had not commented on the content.

Thailand's lèse-majesté law, which forbids any insult to the monarchy, is among the strictest in the world.

After a three-year break, Thailand revived the controversial law late last year in an attempt to curb months of anti-government protests, with demonstrators demanding changes to the monarchy.

How pro-democracy movement gained momentum
Risking it all to challenge the monarchy
Profile: Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn
Anchan pleaded guilty to 29 separate violations of sharing and posting clips on YouTube and Facebook between 2014 and 2015, her lawyer told the Reuters news agency.

She was initially sentenced to 87 years, but this was cut in half because of her guilty plea.

Anchan is among a group of 14 people charged with lèse-majesté shortly after a military junta seized power in 2014, vowing to stamp out criticism of the monarchy.

The group is accused of uploading podcasts, popular in dissident circles, which questioned official accounts of the monarchy. The author of the podcasts served only two years in jail, and has already been released.

The trial was held behind closed doors and the evidence against the defendant kept secret for reasons of national security.

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Analysis box by Jonathan Head, BBC News
That someone accused only of uploading these clips to social media should be given such a harsh sentence, so long after the original arrests, suggests the authorities want to send a warning to other dissidents to stop talking about the monarchy.

During a wave of student-led protests last year there was open questioning of the wealth, the political role and personal life of King Vajiralongkorn on a scale never seen in Thailand before.

More than 40 mainly young activists have been charged with lèse-majesté over the past few weeks, some multiple times.

Until the end of last year the law, which has been condemned by UN human rights officials as excessively severe, had been suspended for a three-year period, at the king's request.

That leniency has clearly come to an end.

Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Rat Catcher on January 19, 2021, 05:55:44 pm
Not much of a deterrent there... she'll be out before she's 108.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 06:01:33 pm
Brazilian racist fuk...coming over here and robbin our jobs!!
They'll have to ban the winking emoji, citing people who are half Asian will be offended.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 06:03:26 pm
€16,000 according to the 13:00 bulletin on RTE 1 television.
https://images.app.goo.gl/CLT1PzvAJW6NHL2V8

Ms Suchavada with her Husband Mr Foley allegedly.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Shallowhal on January 19, 2021, 06:17:54 pm
€16,000 according to the 13:00 bulletin on RTE 1 television.
https://images.app.goo.gl/CLT1PzvAJW6NHL2V8

Ms Suchavada with her Husband Mr Foley allegedly.

Wow...what a looker....that blue dress doesn't suit the hubby though!
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 06:23:00 pm
€16,000 according to the 13:00 bulletin on RTE 1 television.
https://images.app.goo.gl/CLT1PzvAJW6NHL2V8

Ms Suchavada with her Husband Mr Foley allegedly.

Wow...what a looker....that blue dress doesn't suit the hubby though!
Phuket, I'm sticking in a clayem!
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Bob Shillin on January 19, 2021, 06:47:57 pm
King of Thailand is supposed to be worth at least €30 billion. Have a look at these other listed schysters, and bring on the revolutions. Will Navalny ever see the light of day again? Putin worth €200 billion, no wonder the Russians are worse alcoholics than the Irish!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-richest-world-leaders-today/ss-BBZsyw5 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-richest-world-leaders-today/ss-BBZsyw5)

Cyril Ramphosa €500 million +. Mandela must be turning in his grave.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Rat Catcher on January 19, 2021, 07:28:08 pm
€12,00 on Six Two (Six One + 1). Maybe I misheard the 13:00 report.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Shallowhal on January 19, 2021, 07:32:10 pm
That's the end of Sweetcheeks being writteddd on me Halpuccino in Starfuks now!!
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 19, 2021, 07:34:46 pm
King of Thailand is supposed to be worth at least €30 billion. Have a look at these other listed schysters, and bring on the revolutions. Will Navalny ever see the light of day again? Putin worth €200 billion, no wonder the Russians are worse alcoholics than the Irish!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-richest-world-leaders-today/ss-BBZsyw5 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-richest-world-leaders-today/ss-BBZsyw5)

Cyril Ramphosa €500 million +. Mandela must be turning in his grave.
Ramaphosa,  former union leader and lawyer.
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Shallowhal on January 20, 2021, 01:41:21 pm
Mocking is Ka-ching!!
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 20, 2021, 01:59:31 pm
Mocking is Ka-ching!!
I see what you did there. 8)
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: Shallowhal on January 20, 2021, 02:03:25 pm
Mocking is Ka-ching!!
I see what you did there. 8)

Surprised one of RC's rags didn't come up with headline....although they could be seen as racist if they did.....better of sticking to "young thugs" and "brutal assault" click bait!! lol
Title: Re: 12K for bad coffee.?
Post by: silverbullet on January 20, 2021, 02:05:46 pm
Mocking is Ka-ching!!
I see what you did there. 8)

Surprised one of RC's rags didn't come up with headline....although they could be seen as racist if they did.....better of sticking to "young thugs" and "brutal assault" click bait!! lol
A brutal assault in Dublin is one that's not very good.
Whereas a deadly assault is seen as great craic! 8)