Why does Subway bother?
29 05 2008They apologize, and people STILL complain.
Screw the homeschoolers, the whiners don’t deserve to be in the contest. The contest was designed to provide a brick and mortor school (not your local community center, not your local playground, not your local church co-op, not your local homeschool association) with fitness equipment. It wasn’t designed for homeschoolers. Just deal with it already.
The contest started in JANUARY people. JANUARY. It ends in 4 weeks. It’s been running for 5 months already. Why are you whining and complaining now? You look like ridiculous, foolish, petty little cry babies. You weren’t discriminated against. The contest wasn’t designed for YOU. In fact, none of you would have even KNOWN about it if it weren’t for the grapevine of stupidity otherwise known as conservatives with computers and no common sense.
Discrimination is tied to civil rights. Entering a contest isn’t one of your civil rights. You haven’t been violated, and you make a mockery of true discrimination,
You throw tantrums and demand retribution. You’re not going to get it, so shut the fuck up already. The company doesn’t owe you an apology, and even when it comes, you whine and complain about it.
Whiner complains about apology.
Dear whiner,
Subway doesn’t owe you squat. Shut up.
They can’t legally change the rules in the middle of the contest, so they’re not going to. Even if they did, does every homeschooler have an appropriate local site to donate it to? I don’t. The rules were designed to benefit those who would definitely have the appropriate situation to use the prizes. They were designed to benefit a certain segment of students. Not you.
They didn’t discriminate against you, therefore they don’t need to “admit” it. The contest was designed for traditional schoolers. If you want that, put your kids in school. As a matter of fact, since you lack even a scrap of reason, I’d suggest you do that anyway.
You didn’t teach Subway anything, except that some homeschoolers are loudmouth bullies.
Your silly petition and plan to boycott didn’t cost the corporation a cent. It probably hurt a lot of little independent franchise owners though - people who don’t have a say in a corporate contest.
You make ALL homeschoolers look stupid.
You owe ME an apology.
Love, Doc
Subway, damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
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Well said.
Actually, I’m pretty sure this is good PR for subway. 99% of the universe are not homeschoolers. Those people saw the news report, they saw the apology, they think Subway rocks. Go Subway.
When people have knee jerk reactions, they don’t see the big picture. All this publicity probably helped Subway get the word out about the contest, and helped them in the big picture.
But now, Subway is so yesterday. Now there’s a story going around about the boy who was voted out of class. I haven’t read the story yet, but I’m sure that a group of homeschoolers being pissed off together isn’t going to do much except make people feel good. What it all boils down to is feeling good. And being pissed off and indignant together makes some people feel really, really good, no matter how effective it is.
Do you think all of the colloidal silver they must have consumed to turn turn their skin blue like that affected their reasoning abilities?
I’ve stayed away from the story about the little boy for one reason - hearsay. The only people in the room were 5, except for the teacher. Any reporting of the incident is probably hugely exaggerated.
I agree with you completely. I’m lucky enough to live in a state where the law doesn’t permit the local school systems to bully homeschoolers. All the local email lists I’m on are abuzz with people crying “discrimination” while they take for granted how lucky they are to live in a state where the government has no legal right to oversight. I’m thinking about starting a furor over my son not being allowed to join Girl Scouts. I mean, really!
Can’t agree completely. Discrimination is not tied to civil rights. I discriminate all the time without violating anyones civil rights. Subway did discriminate when they excluded homeschoolers from their contest but it is and should be perfectly legal. I thank God that we are allowed discrimination in this country. Our homeschool group has a GIRLs and BOYs basketball team and I think that is a good thing. I believe the GIRL SCOUTS and BOY SCOUTS should be able to exclude members of the opposite sex. If you don’t like it you are free to create a new organization that does the same thing with both sexes included. That’s what being free is all about. I digress! Back to Subway. They do have the freedom to discriminate, (they could have made the contest only for parochial schools if they wanted), but those discriminated against are also free to protest or whine as you categorize it. I recently wrote to Subway on the subject because I recently found out about this, (duh). I did not whine but simply attempted to educate them about the homeschooling world so that they may be more inclusive in the future. I think their omission was primarily out of ignorance. On another note, I would enjoy reading your blog more if you would use more discrimination in your choice of words.
So don’t read it. If you take a close look, I don’t use any more or less “bad words” than most people. For some reason, readers just seem to enjoy “taking me to task” for using the occasional “fucktard”. Fuck that. Fuck is a great word. And most people are flaming idiots. I just write what everyone else is thinking.
When I said “discrimination is tied to civil rights” you understood what I meant, so I don’t quite understand why you’re saying the same thing - it’s a legal definition (that could force Subway to accept homeschool entries) as opposed to an organization setting rules for participation (which Subway has a perfect right to do). You’re right, any organization can set their own rules. Girls can join Explorer Scouts and boys are NOT specifically excluded in the Girl Scout Charter, they just choose not to join (although I don’t know for a fact that no boys belong to girl scouts). On the other hand, many people don’t like it when a faith based organization is allowed to accept money from a charitable organization like United Way, whom has a clear policy against discrimination based on sexual or religious identity. The Boy Scouts get around this by not claiming to be a faith based organization. Being gay, I absolutely understand the legal concept of discrimination - and Subway ain’t it.