[Nachtrafe]

Originally posted by Grojlach: And once again you misunderstood my post. Jim, I'm not sure if you're trying to focus your frustration over this case on just my post now, but I was not saying the things you seem to be claiming that I'm saying about the guard. My criticism is focused on the mall and those who would have enforced the same rules if they had owned the mall... Maybe some of the media vilified him as "some sort of fashion nazi", but I most definitely didn't. And I know it was their legal right to enforce those rules, just like it's my legal right to think that they were silly and laughable, even taking the context into account. And if I read the second part of your post correctly, you seem to hold the same opinion. But I never commented in any of my posts on the question whether firing him over this is justified or not, yet strangely enough this seems to be your biggest concern with the "cavalier attitude" (?) in my posts. Look, maybe you're just reading too much in my words. All I did was making a prediction on the guard's future and criticise the mall; if you want to argue my opinions, then focus on those two points, not on the "should he have been fired, yes or no?" matter because I simply didn't comment on it. I'm sorry if you misunderstood my purpose with that prediction in my first post, but I was in no way trying to implicate that the mall was right with their decision, because I don't think they were. It was more a response to the cynic way Cerek seemed to be presenting the news (it looked like a slightly bitter reproach with those who criticised the mall to me) than it was a reply to the news itself. Sorry.

OK...Perhaps I did read too much into what you said Maarten. I'm sorry about that. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm guessing it's just a language issue again. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm done being ruffled, I promise.

Suffice it to say that I think that, on the important points, we agree. The mall's policy was pretty silly and didn't address the true problem. And their firing of the guard was pretty inexcusable. [img]smile.gif[/img]