Discrimination

[chucki233]

Did anybody hear about this? hrbeta.blr.com/news.aspx?id=3102 (http://hrbeta.blr.com/news.aspx?id=3102)

[RAFE CEC Guy]

Wow. Chuck E. Cheese Has Officially Stopped Caring About The People and More About Money.

[Billy Bob Brockali]

Totally Awesome...

"After he was fired by the regional manager, the local manager and employees asked the company president and CEO to intervene and reverse the decision. However, they were met with silence and inaction."

That's the CEC I know and hate!

Let's do my little version of the "Fun Check" for the current CEC

Lack of empathy? Check!
Total disregard of another human life? Check!
Increasing levels of ignorance and stubbornness as you climb the corporate ladder? Check!

But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

[MatHat13]

That's sad, makes me think even more twice as hard about CEC as a company these days...|I

[MMBBfan327]

Yeah, the "E" in Chuck E. Cheese no longer stands for Entertainment. :( :rolleyes

[CEC3066]

talked to Mike Magusiak about this very incident a few years ago. After everything happened the DM in ? was just reassigned to another area . I went through a similar situation dduring my employment w/ CEC. Being disabled it is often hard for me to manipulate things. two adaptions I asked my boss for were a push broom like you see in other restaurants now a days and I also asked to be allowed to bring in a cart for carrying cleaning supplies. Both adaptions he frowned on saying "If the other employees see you with that they'll want it too" little did I know that it was w/in my rights as a disabled employee to ask for those accomodations and his refusing was against the law. Had I known that I would have fought it. but didn't know it tat the time. I stuck around for 2.5 years w/ that same manager and then left had I just waited 6 more months, the Senior Manager at the time was then promoted to GM and HE is da BEST!

[chucki233]

what store did you work at CEC3066? and btw heres another story I just found but its not related at all to this incident. cbs2chicago.com/topstorie...32437.html (http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_327132437.html)

[CEC3066]

Store #3066 Fairfield CA

[pizzacam]

Let's do my little version of the "Fun Check" for the current CEC

Haha!

Fun Check! Fun Check! Fun Check! Yeeeeeeeaaah! I'm Checking To The Right, I'm Checking To The Left, And It's Douche Bags Galore! :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin

[pizzacam]

Being disabled it is often hard for me to manipulate things. two adaptions I asked my boss for were a push broom like you see in other restaurants now a days and I also asked to be allowed to bring in a cart for carrying cleaning supplies. Both adaptions he frowned on saying "If the other employees see you with that they'll want it too" little did I know that it was w/in my rights as a disabled employee to ask for those accomodations and his refusing was against the law.

That's fudged up man, and this is a place I like going to?? sigh... sad man |I |I

I'm disabled now too and that would piss me off! It's always a ***** just getting around in there these days and forget getting an employee to move a chair or step aside...and I know some people are saying "well you're 25 why are you even going" but I see elderly people too every now and then that are in wheelchairs too having problems and it doesn't help when the damn showroom workers "reserve" the whole showroom even though there aren't any parties just so they don't have to clean up... :rolleyes

[CEC3066]

I put up w/ the crap for 2.5 years but found it was so hard to do the job w/o the adaptions that I left. and seeing how this was a franchise I was working forb the HR Hotline # doesn't work for those locations.

[CEC3066]

another thing that the lawsuit article doesn't say but was mentioned in another article about the incident, after HQ refused to budge, the GM. an assistant manager and a couple cast members WALKED OFF THE JOB in support of Mr. Perkle. also and I kid you not when I asked Mike about this he said "they never asked us for help" BULL S#/T!

[pizzacam]

Haha C.Y.A. huh? figures...

[Rapid T Rabbit]

For at least 7 years until the end of the franchise era at Union NJ, our management hired an autistic longtime CEC fan to be in the Chuck E. costume when I wasn't there. Like me, he was a regular guest at the store who eventually joined the cast. Essentially he was hired sort of as an act of charity by the folks that ran U-NJ. He wasn't the best costume character performer in the world and certainly was very learning-challenged. Still they took care of him as best they could, as this was the only job he ever had. I also did my best to coach him on how to be a good store mascot. While he was employed, he had split with his mother and so first lived in the motel next door to our CEC and then in a rooming house in the next city down the road.

After I was let go when CEC corporate took over, he managed to hang on there for a few more months but eventually the new management used the policy against facial hair to fire him...because he didn't know how to shave (or at least without cutting up his face badly). After that he did manage to reconcile with his mother but went on welfare as well as resorting to mooching off others. He mother then retired from her job and the two of them supposedly moved to Texas by now with other family.

If you look at the Jasper/Conon O'Brien clip on the SBZ.com Video Archives, that's him in the Jasper costume. He had also been Jasper with Rapid T. Rabbit & Friends at the Ocean City NJ DooDah Parade these past several years. J and Jenn, this is also the same cast member I told you about who endlessly draws his own comic books of Chuck E and the gang as pro wrestlers in the WWE. Both are obsessions with him.

Still this shows how much more compassion our rather off-beat franchise management had than the corporate people that came in and took over U-NJ late in 2003.

[sungun12]

first off, that was 6 years ago. second, there is always another side to every store. thats only one. and even if it is true, one crappy GM does not make the company. we had an autistic kid in one of my stores, and he was awesome. he loved doing chuck e and got the fact that chuck e wasnt real, but still had to see someone else in chuck e before he would leave. then we had another kid who was very special in another store and he LOVED me because he was just basically my buddy who followed me around for 4 hours on fridays and i taught him how to do all kinds of stuff. when i wasnt there, they would have him clean. like a wall. it would take all 4 hours for him to clean one wall, but i tell you what, that was the cleanest wall in any restaurant ever.

but the facial hair thing i get. rules are rules. period. if you let one person break them, for any reason, it starts a chain reaction. i wouldve made him shave too, but i wouldve bought him one of those fancy electric ones so he could. but thats just me. i wont bend the rules for anyone, but i will help someone if they need help meeting one. but not by just saying they dont have to. theres always a solution

[pizzacam]

Haha, I won't even bother...