Today's topic on the "Afternoon News with Tom Young" was about a single mom who was fired from her job at Tim Horton's because she gave away a 16 cent Timbit. Huh?
How could she possibly do something that is good for the customer and makes sense? Does she not realize we are living in a corporate world? The kind of world where people sit around big tables and have meetings with no conclusions. The kind of world where we have meetings about which meetings to have. The kind of world where making a quick decision to do something helpful is wrong.
I went through a Tim Horton's drive thru last week-end to get a 20-pack of Timbits for my last Sunday School class. There were 7 of us in the class. We each had 2 Timbits. Based on the math I learned in school (the old math), that is a total of 14 Timbits (7 X 2 - I know that much is still true because my daughter is in grade 3).
From a box of 20, that should leave - let me think about this for a minute - 20 minus 14 equals.....6. There were more than 6 of the round blobs left in the box so I counted. There were 16 remaining. More math...16 + 14 = 30. Did she misunderstand when I ordered a box of 20? Did she have trouble counting? Or was she simply trying to get rid of yesterday's inventory?
More importantly, should I phone Tim Horton's head office and suggest they have a meeting about this?
