Speaking truth to power
My daughter has recently started a vocational health and nutrition course at school. Through a work contact I managed to arrange for the marketing director of a well known restaurant brand (that happens to be HQd in our city) to give a talk to the students about the hospitality sector.
One small problem . . daughter has a visceral dislike of said brand. When I asked her why, she said it was because that restaurant's takeaway packaging was always littering the garden of the care home where she used to live.
Ok . . well perhaps we can collect some evidence that there is a littering problem associated with the company and ask him about his company's environmental policies. Which we duly did 🙂 And then we got hold of a 2022 menu and used it to show how portions have got smaller and prices have risen over the past two years . . because as everyone knows, maths is fun! 😁
On Tuesday I met the director and took him to the school. He gave a presentation, did some practical exercises with the students, and then tried to make a quick exit after distributing bits of merchandise.
But he hadn't reckoned on my daughter who was just getting started on her sustained examination of corporate ethics. If he hadn't previously been aware of a littering problem associated with the H*****y Road branch, he surely is now 😊 And then she went on to the question of portion control, wielding the spreadsheet we had built together like a magic amulet.
The director was by now looking decidedly peaky and clearly regretting his decision to volunteer for community outreach. He vaguely promised to look into matters and "get back to you", but my daughter was having none of it. Made him promise to respond within a week and got him to give her his personal email and phone number before she would let him leave 😅
And this is the girl who when we first met her six years ago was too shy even to speak to an adult she didn't know 🤗
One small problem . . daughter has a visceral dislike of said brand. When I asked her why, she said it was because that restaurant's takeaway packaging was always littering the garden of the care home where she used to live.
Ok . . well perhaps we can collect some evidence that there is a littering problem associated with the company and ask him about his company's environmental policies. Which we duly did 🙂 And then we got hold of a 2022 menu and used it to show how portions have got smaller and prices have risen over the past two years . . because as everyone knows, maths is fun! 😁
On Tuesday I met the director and took him to the school. He gave a presentation, did some practical exercises with the students, and then tried to make a quick exit after distributing bits of merchandise.
But he hadn't reckoned on my daughter who was just getting started on her sustained examination of corporate ethics. If he hadn't previously been aware of a littering problem associated with the H*****y Road branch, he surely is now 😊 And then she went on to the question of portion control, wielding the spreadsheet we had built together like a magic amulet.
The director was by now looking decidedly peaky and clearly regretting his decision to volunteer for community outreach. He vaguely promised to look into matters and "get back to you", but my daughter was having none of it. Made him promise to respond within a week and got him to give her his personal email and phone number before she would let him leave 😅
And this is the girl who when we first met her six years ago was too shy even to speak to an adult she didn't know 🤗
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