The Marriage: The Separation
Shame & Humiliate into silence
- Blame the franchisee
- Character assassination
- Death threats
- Dehumanization
- Dissent
- Franchisees accused of lying
- Harassment
- Humiliation
- Identity
- Industry third party attacks
- Intimidation through lawyers
- Kill the messenger
- Libel chill
- McLibel
- Media is sued
- Money swears
- Ombudsman, franchisee must sign gag order 1st
- Punished for talking to police
- Punished for talking to press
- Retaliation
- Ridicule
- Right to associate and right to harass
- Scapegoating
- Scum
- Slander
- Strategic lawsuit against public participation, SLAPP
Cheating works if the rules are never enforced
- 44 charges of professional misconduct
- Bailff throws equipment and supplies in street
- Breach of trust
- Code of ethics, almost never enforced
- Conflict of interest, trustee/consultant
- Deceit
- Feeble enforcement and prosecution
- Franchises sold hard directly to those who have just lost their job
- Franchisor withholds rent
- Local suppliers with no shelf space
- Officials fail to freeze assets
- Police can’t/won't investigate losses less than $250,000
- Robber baron
- Short-term profits to franchisor much higher with cannon fodder investors
- Watchdog fails to bark
Crime and no punishment
- Convicted fraud artist
- Blackmail
- Bribery
- Check kiting
- Child labour
- Convicted of spousal assault
- Corruption
- Counterfeiting
- Criminal charges
- Criminal interest rates
- Embezzlement
- Forgery
- Fraud
- Fraud on the public purse
- Gangland-style execution
- Grand larceny
- Hostage taking
- Income tax evasion
- Jumps bail
- Living off the avails of prostitution
- Loan sharking
- Loan-broker fraud
- Mail fraud
- Money laundering
- Mortgage fraud
- Murder
- Obstruction of justice
- Perjury
- Possession for the purpose of trafficking
- Prime bank fraud
- Proceeds of crime
- Professional hit
- Racketeering
- Restraining order
- Securities fraud
- Smuggling
- Stock manipulation alleged
- Tax fraud
- Theft
- Toronto: international telemarketing fraud capital
- Trafficking a controlled substance
- Trespass orders
- Wire fraud
- Wiretaps
- Witness tampering
Franchisor associations
- Academic scorn
- Agree with proposed law or you get nothing
- Apologists
- Asking the fox if the henhouse is safe
- British Franchise Association, BFA
- Call for state to investigate their undue influence
- Call to investigate refusal to enforce their code of ethics
- Canadian Franchise Association, CFA
- Chief Counsel, IFA
- Complaint letter to franchisors trade association
- Endorsed mediation program, in 5 years used zero times
- Franchisor association not trusted by professional journalists
- Franchisor association still maintains fiction of representing franchisees
- Franchisors want the minimum regulation they can get away with
- General counsel
- Have needed more statistics for +30 years
- Horror stories are merely anecdotal
- Industry “Better Business Bureau”
- International Franchise Association, IFA
- McDonald’s not so lily white
- McStumble
- Media informs trade association their member is a convicted fraud artist
- Minimum wage increase opponents
- National association claims it represents franchisees but retreats when questioned
- No numbers to back up dire predictions
- Ombudsman, funded by franchisors & suppliers
- Only interested in good news stories
- Overt influence of trade association
- Perception is that it’s a franchisor program
- Refuses to accept complaint
- Refuses to investigate complaints
- Reserves a veto over any legislation
- Shocked, I tell you: just shocked
- Spokesperson uncharacteristically unavailable for comment
- System under scrutiny withdraws membership from franchisor association
- Tobacco industry-type defence
- Trade association fronts and defends best and worst franchisors
- Trade association membership a bogus "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval"
- Trade association propaganda
- Trade association tells elected officials how to do their job
- When fraud is alleged, politician turns to group that represents perpetrators
