A Fable of Unfair Trade Practices

by Sapphire (November 22, 2007)

Once upon a time, there were employers sharing an office building. Everyone knew they offered the best pay in town for their jobs, so everyone went to all three to see what offers they could get.

Sadly, one of the employers - we’ll call them Fooble - owned all the parking lot surrounding the building. There was no other parking for miles around. And Fooble declared that anyone who took a job with the other two employers - Lext Pink Tads and Maffiliate Arketing - could not park in Fooble’s spaces. Of course they had the right to do this - they owned the spaces.

But sadly, they offered far lower income and worse hours to the employees, and yet the employees effectively had no other choice but to work for Fooble.

This is a Choose Your Own Adventure style fable. The possible endings are:

• Lext Pink Tads and Maffiliate Arketing hired smart lawyers who figured out how to explain to juries who didn’t really understand, um, parking lots how this could be viewed as unfair trade practice, or
• Lext Pink Tads and Maffiliate Arketing built a gorgeous parking lot on the roof with car washes and tune-ups provided for a fee while you work, and soon Fooble’s precious lot was mainly a pigeon pooping ground and they had to start competing on actual business stuff like wages and compensation, or
• Sapphire realized she wasn’t a comedian and stopped writing drivel to amuse herself.

You may choose more than one of the above!

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