Chicago sandwich shop fires 20 employees in an EMAIL just 2 days before Christmas
I don't want to engage in schadenfreude, especially so close to a holiday which is best spent employed.
I hope at least that the striking employees learned a valuable lesson: the minimum wage in the real world is 0.
I hope at least that the striking employees learned a valuable lesson: the minimum wage in the real world is 0.
I... love it I love it I love it I love it I.... LOVE it.
I would have fired them on December 5th and told the world why we were closed.
Most folks don't understand what it takes to be in business, or start a business. A helluva lot of money and determination, just for starters.
Hope the good employees, if any, find jobs right away, the rest will gravitate to their own level.
In this case, this must be hard for all concerned. If the shop were working, they would be firing their staff and rebranding. Behind the quotes are probably people who feel like their world is coming apart. As entrepreneurs we get excited about a business plan. It's so important to be willing to stop the plan if it's not working or just plodding along in the walking dead providing returns like a job + bank interest. Shutting down an entire shop is even harder. If they really do rebrand it and make it profitable, they are very impressive. It's hard to pick yourself up after a plan failed.
It could be that the owners/management were working to keep the employees on even during a downturn. Four days of employee-forced closure in a lean industry/recession equals less revenue which in turn equates to possible lack of funds to pay the employees.
Why fight and dig deep to keep employees on that are ungrateful and willing to turn on you?
Also nice of them to suggest the employees re-apply... of course, that doesn't mean they'll be re-hired... :D
I seem to recall that some decade or two ago, during one of the Recessions, the NY State legislature actually considered a Directive 10-289 - styled bill, making it difficult or illegal for any firm to lay off workers "in order to maintain stability in the State economy."
I laughed myself silly when I heard that one.
Wish I could find a link to it now...
Unions love their members and hate any kind of competition.
Now, there WAS/IS, I believe a handgun manufacturer who IS leaving Connecticut after THEY passed some tight laws... again, I think they're moving to NC, too. We love manufacturing industries who employ skilled labor!
Apparently, CT doesn't mind losing jobs and tax revenue as a matter of "moral principle."
I'm having trouble discerning who your facetious comment is aimed at.
Many sentences make for an awkward flow if you do... the proverbial "ending a sentence with a preposition is something of which I am loathe to do..."
And I love ellipses and splitting infinitives, too, because I feel they give the reader's mind a chance to "take a breath" during the reading of a sentence.
And I hate commenters and bloggers who don't seem to feel the need to separate their word torrent into paragraphs.
And I don't mind at all that I begin sentences (or paragraphs) with "and."
Before I retired, I worked for a well-known company (check my CV), where "managers" very commonly would use constructions like "give that report to Tom or myself," without blinking a mental eye at how atrocious that is.
Yes, that's what the following generations think is "communication," but ending a sentence with a preposition is, to me, not even a minor infraction compared to the grammatical felonies these "youngsters" commit all the time.
Yours in grammar and content, welcome here!
(oh, I also use "dirty words," too... I'm originally from NJ, where they're pretty much used as punctuation marks while speaking.)
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When you're READING?? Might be some kind of neurological problem.... :)))))))
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Welcome to the Gulch.
I sit absolved of guilt.
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Lani is a new gulcher, but her posts don't seem like trolling.
If her point was that, as someone who aims to be a professional writer, I should take more care in my grammar, then she is absolutely correct.
I do fall into the venacular, however, when I post.
What really annoys me is when
people say "off OF' -OF i.e. he fell
off OF the roof...she fell off OF
the bike...' -OFF is totally useless.
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Spotting a senior a few yards away, the freshman walked over to ask for directions. As soon as he was within earshot, the freshman politely posed the question to the senior, saying, "Hey, where's the library at?"
The senior, a bit perturbed at being approached so uncouthly by a freshman, turned up his nose, and looking down at the freshman, sneered, "Here at Princeton, we do not end our sentences in prepositions."
The freshman pondered this statement for a moment, and then quipped, "Okay, where's the library at, dork?"