Applebee’s Tone-Deaf Executive Giddily Says He Can Pay Lower Wages Because Of Inflation And Higher Gas Prices…When there is a crisis, there will always be people who look to benefit from someone else’s misery. In this case, it's Wayne Pankratz, an executive director of operations for American Franchise Capital, which owns 50 Applebee's in the Midwest. Applebee’s has both company and franchised-owned restaurants… The food chain’s executive sent out an email to colleagues gleefully saying that the combination of skyrocketing gas prices, inflation, the ending of enhanced unemployment benefits and lush stimulus checks from the government, will give the company the upper hand in dealing with workers. This would include paying staff lower wages. (Forbes)
In a day and age, when there is so much more to be PISSED OFF ABOUT… one more douchebag pops his head out of his own ass, still sniffing his own perfume of stench and poop, and admiring his CAPTILAISTIC BADGE OF HONOR, pronounces the misery and woes of the WORKING CLASS, as a means to keep his BOTTOM LINE AFLOAT, and to make certain PROFIT triumphs over PEOPLE! (To be fair, Wayne Pankratz is not the only CEO to make his DISDAIN for the hourly worker known, BUT, Mr. Douchebag Pankratz, in the glory of his own ARROGANCE, made his HATRED for his HOURLY EMPLOYEES a public bit of knowledge and acknowledged his SELFISH, SELF-CENTERED, PUTRID INTENTIONS as to make an already AWFUL situation even WORSE!
As a reminder, APPLEBEE’S has a really sad and insidious history of EMPLOYEE ABUSES, so this round of pure GREED is not a new kind of revelation. EEOC Sues Applebee’s Franchisee for Sexual Orientation and Race Discrimination, Retaliation and Constructive Discharge. Employer Permitted Racist and Homophobic Slurs, and Cut Hours of Employee Who Complained, Federal Agency Charges. (US EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION). But lo and behold, Mr. DOUCHIE, McDOUCHSTEIN felt comfortable enough to let the WORLD know, that once that ECONOMIC pain and misery prevail, so will CORPORATION GLUTTONY. Of course, the Board at APPLEBEE’S has not come to the rescue of its EMPLOYEES, as their official statement so far is that maybe Pankratz was not feeling so well when he wrote his text…
And in closing, Pankratz contended that with the higher costs, people will need two jobs to survive, and the company needs to make sure new workers are brought in on lower wages. "Everyone has heard that gas prices continue to rise. The advantage this has for us is that it will increase application flow and has the potential to lower our average wage." So, basically, it’s, “This high inflation is good because all the little peasants will be forced back to work at lower wages than they should really be getting, but it doesn’t matter because they’ll be desperate for the money.”
Keep making the proletariat more and more desperate. I’d like to see what we come up with when really pushed. (Forbes)
