“I Was Stunned And Disgusted” – Kansas Applebee’s Forced To Close As Workers Revolt Over Wage-Cut Plans

Zubu Brothers ^ | 3-25-2022

[Newbomb Turk]

Applebees food all comes in a bag, pre cooked, reheat and serve. Their food sucks.

[sauropod]

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[VTenigma]

If the chain really wants to cut costs, they need to get rid of the idiots and deadweights at corporate.

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^ This, nailed it.

[Delta 21]

I refer you to post #32 for clarity.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4049810/posts?page=32#32

[rey]

Why do we need to see a picture of Applebees? Are any of them different?

[Nifster]

Blame it all on Joe’s Donuts

[know.your.why]

uncle joe will feed them

The more ppl that use up all the money that the dems stole from me and you and everyone else (what? Like $5T now?) the faster this country will get even more pissed off. I say let the economy go to hell so everyone can smell the shit thats been put in their face.

[CurlyDave]

I have always found Applebees to have average food, at best...

Not only that, every one I have ever been in has had a very long wait for food delivery after ordering. I do not know why.

[chuckb87]

“I’d be disgusted if I came to Applebee’s for lunch at Applebee’s and it was closed because of woke employees. Same with Disney.”

Well, well, well aren’t you a good little pedo commie.

[enduserindy]

It sounds like a regional toilet checker trying to boost the moral of franchise owners in the red.

[chuckb87]

“A. Salaries are not at issue here, wages are ...

B. And no wages were cut ... simply that lower starting wages were discussed for NEW employees, with the higher wages of existing staff being maintained”

I know don’t confuse people who work for a living as receiving a “salary.” Don’t want to insult the real salary earnes (people who sit on ther asses) by saying they are paid a wage.

[BiglyCommentary]

By me (TX), help wanted signs are always up for fast food. An older teenager just told me they got a job at a taco/burrito place and the starting pay was $14 hr.

[Sapwolf]

These people will eventually find out it pays much better to be a...

brigand.

[SteveH]

lol, yah

[joma89]

Cut to zero in the short term. I expect there are plenty of other similar positions with other companies these people can go to.

That is how capitalism works. Regardless of whether you agree with other people’s decisions, the free labor market allows for people to leave one company and move to another for any reason.

[kearnyirish2]

I agree; stupid management to broadcast this scheme while ALL workers are paying the stealth tax of Bidenflation.

Those existing employees can imagine what type of new coworkers they’ll get (if they get any) - and know they’ll be working twice as hard to compensate.

[Farmerbob]

The policy wasn’t to cut salaries for existing employees, just lower the entry level that was probably artificially high from trying to re-staff after lock downs. The new employees can take it or hold out for higher pay somewhere else.

[TermLimits4All]

That guy looks like a douche canoe.

[The Great RJ]

With Biden’s inflation heading toward double digits, workers are having a tough time making ends meet on their current wages. Working a job with reduced wages could well mean no food on the table. How would management expect workers to react to this reduced wage proposal?

[Svartalfiar]

Who needs to be fired for letting employees see a sensitive communication from the Regional Manager, or was it the Regional Manager who addressed the email to the minimum wage employees?


If you read the whole excerpt, you'd know who told all the little people, and whether he was fired or not.


When Jake Holcomb, one of several managers at the Lawrence restaurant, ended up seeing the email on Monday, it upset him enough that he made copies of the email and distributed them to several employees of the restaurant.

When opening time arrived on Tuesday, the manager who was scheduled to open the restaurant at 2520 Iowa St. declined to open the restaurant after reading the emails. She has since quit over the email. Holcomb has too. In total, Holcomb said three of the six managers at the restaurant quit in protest of the email.