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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

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Post by profile53 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6
metadat wrote: post #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 pr…

Offtopic: These people are everywhere, which is why policy guardrails to defend against sociopaths is so important.

Agreed. One of the things that surprised me the most working in healthcare was how many people have a flagrant disregard for anything but self interest — even human life. Sadly the policy mechanisms have failed to keep these people out.

Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

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Post by Schroedingersat »

nvahalik wrote: post #36
metadat wrote: post #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 pr…

I think one of the overlooked pieces of the email is on the second page. I read it yesterday so my memory isn't super fresh. But he essentially says that: * they've been hiring people at $18-20/hr * the government pandemic aid/unemployment is dropping off and therefore they are no longer "competing with the government" I think a lot of the "progress" with increasing wages was artificially inflated by government overs…

Seller's market is a funny way of saying they're not being held hostage for their lives.

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Post by daenz »

metadat wrote: post #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 pr…

Aside from the fact that this person is a soulless scumbag, how do you ever even get to the position of executive director without realizing what a toxic and abusive attitude that is and should never ever be expressed by anyone in his position? Did he think that what he said was smart business sense? Is he that disconnected from the average employee? I just don't understand how it made it past all of the ethical filters that someone in a leadership position should have, and how that failing never manifested itself sooner.

Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

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Post by oh_sigh »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #21
oh_sigh wrote: post #14

The title should be "An email urging lower wages for new employees due to higher gas prices sparks walkout at Lawrence Applebee’s", per HN guidelines. The user-created title is also incorrect, because it was not an Applebee's exec, it was the director of operations for a company that franchises Applebees who wrote the email. I also find it interesting that the author of the email doesn't even get a smidgen of credit…

Your suggested title is too long for submission. Sometimes you need to use your best judgement in applying the HN guidelines.

That's fine, but the title should at least be factually accurate if the user is going to write their own.

Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

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Post by boredumb »

endisneigh wrote: post #3

I 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

Would probably look like everyone working for the same dozen companies.

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Post by wahnfrieden »

metadat wrote: post #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 pr…

This is the economic model they operate within. It’s dangerous to paint systemic issues as bad individual actors because it gives false relief when individuals happen to appear dealt with or reformed but the structural issues and powers remain. See for example the false relief of On the Waterfront’s ending (an incredibly and subversively anti-worker film for this reason)

Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

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Post by WestCoastJustin »

oh_sigh wrote: post #45
WestCoastJustin wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your suggested title is too long for submission. Sometimes you need to use your best judgement in applying the HN guidelines.

That's fine, but the title should at least be factually accurate if the user is going to write their own.

Yeah, makes sense. I agree with you.

Re: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

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Post by sour-taste »

darth_avocado wrote: post #20

Rising gas prices mean we can lower wages to keep employees? Outside of the moral implication, this doesn't even logically make sense. People are already facing higher costs, if you pay them lower, they will not work for you, because you know, commuting to work at your place will eat into the budget.

Many people will have no choice, they're force to work wherever they can at whatever wage they can get.
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