Nice marketing campaign by Pizza Hut during the holiday season:
Nice marketing campaign by Pizza Hut during the holiday season:
pizza day wrote:
Nice marketing campaign by Pizza Hut during the holiday season:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/27/pizza-hut-manager-fired-after-refusing-to-open-chain-on-thanksgiving/
The guy deserved to be fired. When you disobey orders from those above you in a corporate environment you need to face the consequences. Sounds like this dude was just lazy.
Um, how many pizzahut executives are working on Thanksgiving? Not that they really ever do any real work.
Peter principle fully exemplified.
Before anyone starts, by the way: Thanksgiving is *not* officially a religious holiday.
Dennis Reynolds II wrote:
pizza day wrote:Nice marketing campaign by Pizza Hut during the holiday season:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/27/pizza-hut-manager-fired-after-refusing-to-open-chain-on-thanksgiving/The guy deserved to be fired. When you disobey orders from those above you in a corporate environment you need to face the consequences. Sounds like this dude was just lazy.
+1 for trolling
There was a Reddit thread on this, has some actual information on what happened instead of a fake opinion (AKA why letsrun forums could use upvotes/downvotes) and links to the original story.
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1rixub/pizza_hut_manager_fired_for_refusing_to_open_on/Basically, Pizza Hut doesn't own that particular Pizza Hut, but it's owned by a franchisee. Many Pizza Huts close on Thanksgiving, and many others did things such as hosting a banquet for exchange students who weren't familiar with Thanksgiving, or allowing workers and their families to eat at Pizza Hut for free if they chose (it was their choice) to work. However, it sounds like this one particular franchisee was an ass, and certainly did not act in a way Pizza Hut would have ever wanted a franchisee to (because this is obviously terrible press for Pizza Hut).
So, moral of the story - you can take this as a reason that franchising as a business model tends to incentivize taking advantage of workers, you can take it as a reason to boycott that specific Pizza Hut and other businesses owned by the franchisee (though good chance that would hurt the workers more than the owner) - but you SHOULD definitely get out of it that a manager tried to do the right thing, and the business owner was an ass.
1)-This employee refused to do his job saying he knew doing so would result in him losing the job.
2)-He loses his job.
3)- Social media sites think this chain of events is comment worthy
4)-I comment:
I see no reason to say anything except this is an unremarkable event.
Dennis Reynolds II wrote:
pizza day wrote:Nice marketing campaign by Pizza Hut during the holiday season:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/27/pizza-hut-manager-fired-after-refusing-to-open-chain-on-thanksgiving/The guy deserved to be fired. When you disobey orders from those above you in a corporate environment you need to face the consequences. Sounds like this dude was just lazy.
Agreed. It's not like his employer wasn't asking him to hide a dead body or cook the books or anything like that lol.
Were they serving Turkey Pizza?
He received orders from his corporation(not pizza hut but some corporate owner) and chose not to follow them. It sounds like he then quit. Obviously there are a lot of details involved (i.e. if he couldn't staff the place with vounteers is one thing, not even trying is another) that get left off.
fixit wrote:
Dennis Reynolds II wrote:The guy deserved to be fired. When you disobey orders from those above you in a corporate environment you need to face the consequences. Sounds like this dude was just lazy.
+1 for trolling
There was a Reddit thread on this, has some actual information on what happened instead of a fake opinion (AKA why letsrun forums could use upvotes/downvotes) and links to the original story.
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1rixub/pizza_hut_manager_fired_for_refusing_to_open_on/Basically, Pizza Hut doesn't own that particular Pizza Hut, but it's owned by a franchisee. Many Pizza Huts close on Thanksgiving, and many others did things such as hosting a banquet for exchange students who weren't familiar with Thanksgiving, or allowing workers and their families to eat at Pizza Hut for free if they chose (it was their choice) to work. However, it sounds like this one particular franchisee was an ass, and certainly did not act in a way Pizza Hut would have ever wanted a franchisee to (because this is obviously terrible press for Pizza Hut).
So, moral of the story - you can take this as a reason that franchising as a business model tends to incentivize taking advantage of workers, you can take it as a reason to boycott that specific Pizza Hut and other businesses owned by the franchisee (though good chance that would hurt the workers more than the owner) - but you SHOULD definitely get out of it that a manager tried to do the right thing, and the business owner was an ass.
Oh boo hoo, my company is open on thanksgiving (I'm actually working that day too) and so are many others!!! For those of us who don't have college degrees this is a reality we have to accept.
This is an outrage! The manager wasn't allowed to pick and choose his holidays??? I thought this was a standard practice? You don't want to come to work on Columbus Day, your fellow employees and you shut down the office. And you of course would be entitled to holiday pay, too.
I hope the liberals take up this cause and put this store out of business for good. That'll show this uncaring greedy business owner that owning a business has nothing to do with making money and creating jobs. Who needs them?
Yeah how could that Pizza Hut possibly stay in business if it opened on Thanksgiving, a noted pizza-buying day?
average dude wrote:
Oh boo hoo, my company is open on thanksgiving (I'm actually working that day too) and so are many others!!! For those of us who don't have college degrees this is a reality we have to accept.
Lol what does working on Thanksgiving have to do with having a college degree?
Soppy behind ears wrote:
. That'll show this uncaring greedy business owner that owning a business has nothing to do with making money and creating jobs. Who needs them?
This idiot owner isn't "creating" any jobs. He just ran a couple other pizza shops out of business and the net job gain/loss was 0 for that area. If he shuts down, there will be another pizza shop open in no time to take its place.
the job creation fallacy wrote:
This idiot owner isn't "creating" any jobs. He just ran a couple other pizza shops out of business and the net job gain/loss was 0 for that area. If he shuts down, there will be another pizza shop open in no time to take its place.
Opening businesses doesn't create jobs? Is this an Obamaism? The only way to create wealth is through hand-outs and entitlements?
Make something go viral and your employers will go from firing your a*s to making you VP.
If you open a Walmart and hire 100 people, cause 10 local business employeeing 20 people each to fold, did you create 100 jobs or did you cause 100 jobs to be lost?
W0W wrote:
the job creation fallacy wrote:This idiot owner isn't "creating" any jobs. He just ran a couple other pizza shops out of business and the net job gain/loss was 0 for that area. If he shuts down, there will be another pizza shop open in no time to take its place.
Opening businesses doesn't create jobs? Is this an Obamaism? The only way to create wealth is through hand-outs and entitlements?
Dennis Reynolds II wrote:
pizza day wrote:Nice marketing campaign by Pizza Hut during the holiday season:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/27/pizza-hut-manager-fired-after-refusing-to-open-chain-on-thanksgiving/The guy deserved to be fired. When you disobey orders from those above you in a corporate environment you need to face the consequences. Sounds like this dude was just lazy.
They should have shot him really
asss wrote:
If you open a Walmart and hire 100 people, cause 10 local business employeeing 20 people each to fold, did you create 100 jobs or did you cause 100 jobs to be lost?
W0W wrote:Opening businesses doesn't create jobs? Is this an Obamaism? The only way to create wealth is through hand-outs and entitlements?
You're trolling surely? Everyone knows that the super wealthy, mystical "wealth creators" are Gods who we are hardly even fit to worship.
Even when there is very little evidence that high inequality causes, or eve correlates, to a thriving economy.