"We all quit"

[steve-in-kville]

This has me amused...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... kers-quit/

Vote & discuss.

[ken_sylvania]

It wasn't Christ-like behavior, if that's what you're asking.

[steve-in-kville]

It wasn't Christ-like behavior, if that's what you're asking.

On who's part?

[Szdfan]

I love this story.

Workers in the fast food industry are often treated terribly and paid badly. Due to labor shortages, there’s a brief moment when these workers have the upper hand. It’s embarrassing to Burger King, but it doesn’t seem like a bad way to blow some steam and vent frustration about how you’ve been treated.

[steve-in-kville]

I love this story.

Workers in the fast food industry are often treated terribly and paid badly. Due to labor shortages, there’s a brief moment when these workers have the upper hand. It’s embarrassing to Burger King, but it doesn’t seem like a bad way to blow some steam and vent frustration about how you’ve been treated.

I'm leaning this way as well. Its not like they torched the place or vandalized property or hurt anybody.

[Ken]

It wasn't Christ-like behavior, if that's what you're asking.

Yes, if the employer and managers had treated their employees in a more Christian manner I doubt this story would have been in the news.

[RZehr]

I wonder how long their boss/manager was in that position. I'm curious if this is a case of a boss that got by with poor behavior for years, and now if finally boiled over, catching up with him.
Or:
Is this a case of, because of the dearth in employees, a shortage of qualified managers, that this boss/manager was promoted into their position, a position that they in no way should have held in the first place due to not being really qualified and trained. And because of their inability to do the things required, this en masse resignation was the result.

In my opinion, if it is the first scenario, that is indicative (in one aspect) of a good, healthy, job market. If it is the second, it is indicative of a job market that is over heated, that is structurally failing.

[steve-in-kville]

Always blame middle management. Always.

[RZehr]

Always blame middle management. Always.

Well, I didn't say middle management, nor did the article. I don't know if a Burger King locations general manager should be figured as upper or middle. I'd suppose it would be upper management in terms of that store that had the problems. And I suppose had this been a corporately owned store, even the stores general managers' boss would be consider lower than middle management in terms of the corporation.

[temporal1]

(o. several posts to read.) ^^^

Pay wall. Couldn’t read the OP link.

But.
One reason U.S. borders are compromised is because LOADS of folks would GRATEFULLY work for half the pay, or less.

If there were a way, which evidently there is not, for the cultural mentality of GRATITUDE, rather than ungratitude, the world would be so much the better for it. Even if we all had less, and even far less (material wealth).

Recently, i was remembering a story from The Great Depression wherein unemployed husbands+fathers (more common than not) would literally get up and dressed and leave for work everyday - because they did not want their families and neighbors to know they had no work.

This is what the generation before me experienced. And they were grateful.
They were blessed with the spirit of gratitude in daily life. The world seems to move further+further away - as more+more material wealth and comfort increase.

i’m not sure i can describe what an impression was made on me when my father would sit with us at the dinner table, and literally give thanks that he was able to keep food on the table (no fast food then) for all 8 of us. no food stamps, no unemployment insurance, no nothing. gratitude for survival.

presently, a nearby grocer is offering $20/hour for help. the sign has been there for weeks.
what am i to make of this?

i often ask God why it’s necessary for me to witness this? i have no idea what to think of what i see.