A Swedish chef said he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good, reports The Associated Press. The ABE engineering company in Oernskoeldsvik, central Sweden, will not renew Richard Norberg's contract because he attracts too many people to the company's cafeteria. "The number of [visitors] has increased by many hundred per cent," said staff manager Curt Lundqvist. "We simply do not have enough room."
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From today's Globe & Mail: snipurl.com498zOpen ↗ A Swedish chef said he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good, reports The Associated Press. The ABE engineering company in Oernskoeldsvik, central Sweden, will not renew Richard Norberg's contract because he attracts too many people to the company's cafeteria. "The number of [visitors] has increased by many hundred per cent," said staff manager Curt Lundqvist. "We simply do not have enough room."
I heard this on the radio. Something seems wrong here. They said that so many outside people ate at the employee cafeteria that the employees had to wait too long in line and had no place to sit. SOLUTION: limit the employee cafeteria to employees; let employees form a priority line and wait on them first; limit the number of outsiders you serve and turn others away. I'm sure there are other solutions. Why fire someone because you can't manager the business they attract? I think there must be other issues.
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I heard this on the radio. Something seems wrong here. They said that so many outside people ate at the employee cafeteria that the employees had to wait too long in line and had no place to sit. SOLUTION: limit the employee cafeteria to employees; let employees form a priority line and wait on them first; limit the number of outsiders you serve and turn others away. I'm sure there are other solutions. Why fire someone because you can't manager the business they attract? I think there must be other issues.
Hmm, I had assumed the outsiders were guests of employees. I hadn't thought about the cafeteria being open to the public. I
How about make money at it by significantly raise prices and giving employees a discount.
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I heard this on the radio. Something seems wrong here. They said that so many outside people ate at the employee cafeteria that the employees had
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wait too long in line and had no place to sit. SOLUTION: limit the employee cafeteria to employees; let employees form a priority line and
wait
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on them first; limit the number of outsiders you serve and turn others
away.
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I'm sure there are other solutions. Why fire someone because you can't manager the business they attract? I think there must be other issues.
Hmm, I had assumed the outsiders were guests of employees. I hadn't thought about the cafeteria being open to the public. I
How about make money at it by significantly raise prices and giving employees a discount.
Yes, that seems logical. Make the cafeteria profitable. Even if the employees were bringing in guest, it doesn't seem right to fire the chef. The problem was with the people who brought the guests.
A Swedish chef said he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good, reports The Associated Press. The ABE engineering company in Oernskoeldsvik, central Sweden, will not renew Richard Norberg's contract because he attracts too many people to the company's cafeteria. "The number of [visitors] has increased by many hundred per cent," said staff manager Curt Lundqvist. "We simply do not have enough room."
A Swedish chef said he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good, reports The Associated Press.
Leaving aside the probably distortion of the item by the wire service, which has a history of iterating urban legends, Swedish employment law would not have permitted this outcome. The employer would have retrained the chef to turn out blander food, rather than fired him.
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A Swedish chef said he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good, reports The Associated Press.
Leaving aside the probably distortion of the item by the wire service,
which
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has a history of iterating urban legends, Swedish employment law would not
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permitted this outcome. The employer would have retrained the chef to
turn out
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blander food, rather than fired him.
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The wire service distortion is rather that he wasn't employed, he had a lease contract for the restaurant, which won't be renewed. A more accurate version of the story for those of you not reading Swedish newspapers can be found here cbsnews.commain596851.shtmlOpen ↗
The chef has had plenty of job offers since, however... And it turns out the engineering company is about to merge with another company and downsize.
