July 31, 2001
Joke leads to anger.
"Joke leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suing." -BBC Congratulations! You are the winner of a new Toyota! Or is that a toy-Yoda? A Hooters waitress in Panama City, FL was tricked into a beer selling contest with the promise of a "new Toyota" as the prize. Turns out, she actually won a "toy Yoda" - the Star Wars toy. Now, I love Yoda just as much as the next guy, but Jodee, the waitress, isn't laughing and I tend to think it was very poor judgement on the part of Hooters' management. It sends a message that it's acceptable to mislead people in order to get higher productivity out of them. What if Publisher's Clearinghouse started giving a million sand dollars (yes, the mollusk) to the winners of its sweepstakes? Would we stand for that too? Jodee did the work, won the contest, now give her the car.