Brandon Horn » Articles http://mrhorn.com/wp Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:57:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Interesting articles http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/interesting-articles/ http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/interesting-articles/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 14:59:11 +0000 Brandon Horn http://mrhorn.com/wp/?p=2017 June 2010 – Suggest an article

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May 2010

Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, [...]]]> http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/interesting-articles/feed/ 0 Expensive homes http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/expensive-homes/ http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/expensive-homes/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:16:14 +0000 Brandon Horn http://mrhorn.com/wp/?p=867 The New York Times occasionally runs articles that compare 3 homes that are being offered for similar prices. Note that the prices are not directly comparable, since the articles were written over a period of time.

What You Get for … $5 Million What You Get for … $6 Million What You Get for [...]]]> http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/expensive-homes/feed/ 0 Was Whole Foods justified? http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/was-whole-foods-justified/ http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/was-whole-foods-justified/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:37:55 +0000 Brandon Horn http://mrhorn.com/wp/?p=986 According to the article linked to below, a manager at a Whole Foods Market store fired an employee for allegedly having physical contact with someone the employee believed to be a shoplifter.

Grocery worker fired for stopping shoplifter

Assuming that the facts in the article are accurate, was the manager’s decision was appropriate? Is [...]]]> http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/was-whole-foods-justified/feed/ 1 Followup to Was Whole Foods justified? http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/was-whole-foods-justified-followup/ http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/was-whole-foods-justified-followup/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:14:57 +0000 Brandon Horn http://mrhorn.com/wp/?p=1129 In my original post about Whole Foods firing an employee for stopping a suspected shoplifter, I asked if a policy that explicitly prohibits employees from physically stopping shoplifters is appropriate. In my opinion, such a policy is both legally and ethically appropriate.

Legal considerations

Many large retailers have policies that prohibit employees outside of [...]]]> http://mrhorn.com/wp/posts/was-whole-foods-justified-followup/feed/ 0