[higgmeister]

Multiple employees of the chain quit after seeing an email from a regional manager urging the restaurant to begin hiring employees at lower wages, under the theory that people are becoming more desperate to take a job as fuel prices increase.

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?

Wherever I worked for forty years nobody was allowed to talk about salaries or pay.   And no, I never did, even when co-workers asked.

[robowombat]

This was SOP thirty years ago. I recall some lib writing an Oped about being a summer hire at the largest employer in his city and accessing the salaried employees pay and benefits information. Like Ellsberg he spent a number evening s copying it and preparing a mass in house hard copy mailing. He truly revelled in the huge uproar that followed with the attendant angry feelings as workers found out the person next to them made a couple thousand dollars more than they did. The perpetrator was fired, which gave him an opportunity to tell the story to the local rag. His father who had gotten him the job got no sympathy for his son who told him that he knew he was a Marxist and hated the Fing bosses. The op-ed was on how everyone could figure out some way to sabotage management if they just looked for opportunities even it was as small a thing as dropping pieces of metal into copy machines. This guy is, of course, an academic today.

[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.