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

Post by dvtrn » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

sour-taste wrote: post #39

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…

OK, agree with the sentiment but: > I'd even rather starve A bit dramatic don't you think? Hyperbole and outrage doesn't usually make for productive conversations.

Post by wahnfrieden » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #93

wahnfrieden wrote: post #48

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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)

I mean, yes. But also, these people do have a choice. They could work elsewhere, they could be more ethical. It is more that the system picks and rewards people like this. What is often forgotten are many people who reject positions and situations and systems like this. And work elsewhere, for less money and less power, because they made active choice to not be like this.

Post by gruez » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

wnevets wrote: post #18

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

>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. Slightly smaller yachts for the executives.

Post by babelfish » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

gruez wrote: post #69

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

> 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. More labor being "outsourced" to cheap counties, for one. Rather than a restaurant making meals on site, they'll do most of the prep work 50 miles away where the CoL (and minimum wage) is cheap and truck it in.

Post by HarryHirsch » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

nvahalik wrote: post #76

mym1990 wrote: post #51

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I think thinking through the economics of the situation is one thing, but voicing it to the people you employ is a bit different.

I come at this from probably a different perspective. A close family member has been having problems hiring people recently. People want to make a minimum of $15/hr. For some small businesses this is a hard ask. But it's complicated further by the fact that many of the people they have hired have walked out when they got busy. Basically, they want to be paid to sit around and do the minimum amount of work possible. A…