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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by chris_wot on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:51PM (#16526939)
Yeah, but this could break some restaraunts. OpenTable should be compensating those restaraunts affected, at the very least. And this is different in that it didn’t just affect OpenTable’s rivals, affected the third party business directly.
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by vamsipk on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:08AM (#16526995)
If it was not sanctioned by OpenTable, why should they compensate? If a government employee does this, should the government compensate?
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by eridius on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:16AM (#16527026)
It was not sanctioned by them, but they're still responsible for the actions of their employee.
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by matte_black on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:56AM (#16528510)
What if it was a customer trolling a restaurant they didn’t like?
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by tkxxx7 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:25AM (#16529809)
Do you routinely interview, hire, and give responsibility to your customers?
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by astura on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:16AM (#16529739)
Then the employer doesn't compensate in this case.
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by cozzyd on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:56AM (#16527154)
I mean, Chicago pays something like 100 million dollars a year in police misconduct settlements...
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by scythe on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:18AM (#16527233)
You mean such as in the case of e.g. police brutality or mishandled prosecution? The government is indeed on the hook. It is OpenTable's responsibility to ensure that it hires ethical people and that it encourages them to behave ethically and verifies they are doing so. Anything else would be insanity.
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Re:OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings by astura on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:15AM (#16529732)
Yes, the government pays out settlements due to employee misconduct too.
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