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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:15:02 -0400, Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I was doing a search for someone and ran across this rant by a former
>> employee (no, it wasn't me!). Talk about waiter rants...
>>
>> "I am a former employee of Mortimer's, and I would like to take this
>> chance to warn anyone who might think of dining there about the godawful
>> unsanitary conditions there. Some examples:

>
>> That's enough to put me off a place. But I probably wouldn't have read it
>> if I hadn't been looking something else up.
>>
>> Jill

>
> What we don't know is if any of this is true. Disgruntled employees tend to
> "get even" with management, often in childish ways. In industry, they call
> OSHA and complain about safety violations. OSHA must respond and they
> usually know when the complainer is serious and when they are being
> spiteful. The restaurant review host should do some checking too.
>
> The reviewer may have been fired over his drug use. Or he got caught
> banging the owner's wife. Or he was drinking up the profits at the bar. We
> just don't know.


maybe all three at once! lucky dog.

your pal,
blake