Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
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Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#2> Wayne Pankratz, executive director of operations for Applebee’s franchisee Apple Central LLC.
> “The advantage this has for us is that it will increase application flow and has the potential to lower our average wage. How you ask?
> “Most of our employee base and potential employee base live paycheck to paycheck. Any increase in gas price cuts into their disposable income. As inflation continues to climb and gas prices continue to go up, that means more hours employees will need to work to maintain their current level of living.”
Just wow, what a soulless scumbag.
Not that I ever went to Applebee regularly, but seeing as how this is the kind of person the organization promotes, I will never return. I'd even rather starve. Utterly disgusting.
Thank goodness for HN today, because with this broadcast I know that by tomorrow or the next day the news feeds will be awash with this story.
Is it just one worm, or is this Apple is rotten to the core?
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#3I wonder what the USA would look like if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic.
The static (both in the nominal and inflation adjusted sense) for minimum wage doesn't make sense imo. Minimum wage should be tied to some level of living (not necessarily a great living, but something)
This guy smh
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#4Pics of email: https://twitter.com/vote4robgill/status/1506666976344784900
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#5Hopefully this is the moment we realize that capitalism is really not serving us in any meaningful way. As long as we have enough people brave enough to quit and take to the streets the working class might have a fighting chance at ending their exploitation.
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#6> Wayne Pankratz, executive director of operations for Applebee’s franchisee Apple Central LLC. > “The advantage this has for us is that it will increase application flow and has the potential to lower our average wage. How you ask? > “Most of our employee base and potential employee base live paycheck to paycheck. Any increase in gas price cuts into their disposable income. As inflation continues to climb and gas pr…
Offtopic: These people are everywhere, which is why policy guardrails to defend against sociopaths is so important.
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#7Hopefully this is the moment we realize that capitalism is really not serving us in any meaningful way. As long as we have enough people brave enough to quit and take to the streets the working class might have a fighting chance at ending their exploitation.
Unfortunately only some of us have realized this, and there is no clear path forward yet. We still have a long, long way to go to achieve meaningful improvements.
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#8> Wayne Pankratz, executive director of operations for Applebee’s franchisee Apple Central LLC. > “The advantage this has for us is that it will increase application flow and has the potential to lower our average wage. How you ask? > “Most of our employee base and potential employee base live paycheck to paycheck. Any increase in gas price cuts into their disposable income. As inflation continues to climb and gas pr…
Offtopic: These people are everywhere, which is why policy guardrails to defend against sociopaths is so important.
Not off-topic. Strictly on-topic.
Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
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Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
#10This is the reason why communities like r/antiwork are so massive. The sad fact is that working class people who don't possess rarer skills are frequently mistreated this severely. In other words it's much easier for a sociopath to exploit unskilled labor than skilled labor. This in my opinion is part of the responsibility of the government which they've been largely failing at lately, it's supposed to balance businesses so they don't just throw humans into the furnace to keep the wheels turning.