Cap Hill Staffers Out To “Save Doris”
July 24, 2008
This email is going around like wild fire on Capitol Hill. If it’s true - it’s a damn bit ridiculous. We’ll continue to check snopes.com and keep you posted.
TUESDAY LONGWORTH CAFETERIA BOYCOTT
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Many of you likely know “little” Doris, who has been a cashier in the Longworth Cafeteria for decades. Wednesday morning Doris was suspended without pay (or fired by some accounts) for being $9 short at her register. This has outraged many of us who have seen her virtually every day for years. She is certainly one of the most beloved cafeteria workers and her dedication to customer service is exceptional. On Tuesday, we hope to join in a show of support for Doris by boycotting the cafeterias. Since all the cafeterias are owned by the Restaurant Associates we ask that you avoid all of them that day, but we realize that’s difficult during a day we’re in session. Please, if nothing else avoid Longworth.
If we can’t get our gas prices reduced, we might as well take up arms for Doris, right?
UPDATE: Roll Call is now reporting on Longworth Cafeteria’s newest celebrity.
UPDATE: Damn those kids on Capitol Hill work fast. They already have a petition up to save Doris.
Not all the cafeterias are owned by Restuarants Associates (not just yet anyhow). The Ford building is still safe from their grubby hands
Green Beard Strikes Again!
Save Doris!
Boycotting that place won’t be hard - their food sucks ass anyway.
$9 short? Lucky she escaped arrest. I’ve manned a register like that before – well known that no one comes up that short unintentionally.
Doris is great, they tried to fire her before because she is a Christian and says nice things to people.
There are two people named Doris in Longworth. I repeat, there are two people named Doris in Longworth.
Sources say the Doris in question in Doris Cherry - not Doris Byas. Doris Byas is the bomb.com and she didn’t get in trouble.
The other Doris has not been fired - contrary to popular, uninformed, belief.
Schedulers know all.
Even if it was “the other Doris” and even if she wasn’t fired, the punishment for suspension without pay for being short for nine dollars (if this is the first time she’s ever been short) is excessive. It would be one thing if she was a dishonest worker, or had a short drawer for several days in a row (that’s a sign she’s stealing) but if not then this could be an honest mistake. She might have given a customer a 10 dollar bill instead of a 1 in change by accident. In which case it would have made more sense to take nine dollars out of her pay rather than depriving her of a day(s?) wage. If this is an accurate reflection of how resturant associates treats their hard working employees then they deserve to loose profits via boycott.