This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Ethics / Poll Monkey Waiters: Stealing Jobs that Should Go to Americans?
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Our economy is faltering and unemployment is rising at an alarming rate. But what's really alarming is this following video which depicts a restaurant in Japan that employs MONKEY WAITERS. Watch.
Now, there are a few ethical quandaries here:
1) Cute though this uniform may be, shouldn't the monkey be allowed to wear what he wants to work?
2) What if American employers think this idea is great, and start outsourcing all service industry jobs to monkeys?
3) Worse still, what if this happens at Hooters?
4) And finally, should monkeys receive the same percentage of tips as humans? And guess what? That's the topic of this Tuesday's BLOGTOWN POLL!
SHOULD MONKEY WAITERS BE TIPPED THE SAME AS HUMAN WAITERS?
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