His number 4 sure didn’t come across as happy about paying the 15 cents. Coupled with the others, it just seems petulant.
I’d be willing to pit it down to me just being a glass half empty guy whereas you may be a half full dude though.
Okay, I see how you could read it that way. Wesley, are you saying you’d be upset if PJ’s did pass the cost along in the price of its pizza?
Am I understanding this correctly: he is raising his prices to compensate for the health care law. In addition, he is cutting his workforce’s hours to put them under the threshold where he has to pay for their insurance. Why the fuck is he raising his prices then if his costs are not going up because he is sidestepping the law?
Because he can. It’s a three-fer: he can publicly show his ass, screw his workforce and extort more money from his customers all at the same time.
So the new headline should be “CEOs use Obamacare as cover to further increase profit margins without providing any additional benefits to employees or consumers”. What an asshole.
He can’t side-step the law by moving employees to part-time. Obamacare only lets you have so many part-time employees before you have to offer health insurance to them. I’m not sure what the actual number is, but given the size of Papa Johns, they presumably exceed it.
His #1 is literally “I would gladly pay a dime and a nickel extra for people to get health insurance” Are we really trying to parse that into his not being happy to pay fifteen cents?
Not sure how much more clear he could be.
As always, you’re missing the point. Maybe the one percent worries about becoming poor someday. But if you’re someone who’s delivering pizza for a living, being broke isn’t some theoretical possibility you hear rumors about. A lot of people are already living with unavoidable austerity measures. And they get a little annoyed when they hear some millionaire wailing about how terrible his life would be if he ever had to live under the conditions they’re living under.
In theory, even if he cuts the hours of drivers and cooks and so on he could still wind up paying more to cover managers and executives and the like.
You are missing it - I believe Papa John’s is basically a bunch of franchise operations. So each franchise owner is probably below the Obamacare threshold. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I don’t know that you can lump all the franchise owner’s employees into a total count for purposes of this law. Not an attorney, so technically don’t know for sure.
Papa John’s directly owns 600 of its locations. That’s only like 25% of the total, but certainly large enough to put them over any employee limit mentioned in the ACA.
Wait, that guy needs to be tipped too? Goddammit, I can’t keep up with who needs to be tipped unless there’s a Tip line on the credit slip. I want to tip and I never tip the pizza guy less than $5, but knowing who and when eludes the fuck outta me.
But that’s a topic for a general tip rant thread and has the potential to completely hijack this one.
By the way, just wanted to say these are some fantastic posts. They really need to get written up as an article somewhere.
No, I think he point was he would actually have to PAY for the tires and work period.
His point was no tips, favors, free beers or lap dances don’t pay the bills. And he has to pay for shit he gets so people should in general tip in situations where tipping is the norm (and IMO even if they hate the concept).
Oh right, makes sense. Agreed on all that then.
Thank you for that. I didn’t put that together. I thought maybe they had collaborated on something.
Screw Papa John Pizza Man, when they made Papa John Creach, they broke the mold.
Norway.
I’ve posted this here before, but my friend’s dad owned pubs and his mother owns a small chain of beauty parlours. He gets £200 a week from them. We went out to celebrate his father buying a production company in India where said friend was going to become an actor. Several friends drinking and eating heartily. Waitress comes over to inform us that it’s been over half an hour since the restaurant closed and her shift ended. Bill comes to over £10 a person. I automatically put in £20. Waitress returns to say that we actually came short on the bill. One of the party says “eh, she’s being paid overtime”. I can guarantee (my sister worked as a waitress over the holidays) that wait staff are not paid in excess of their shifts. Not to mention, given the time it takes to clean up after a shift, we probably made her miss the last tube.
Also, great posts pizza guy.
Over The Rainbow by the REAL Papa John. Papa John Creach.
Can all future references to this pretend papa john, this unfeeling capitalist pig, please be separated from the Real Man who’s legacy was apparently stolen to
promote shitty “pizza”
nice posts, Pizza Guy.
also, I really think this is true
I think if you look at the bigger picture and figure as a society it’s better to fund healthcare for everyone, some way, than live in cities where people are walking around with untreated TB.
you didn’t read this thread, did you?
In general, no. Those people are generally paid in excess of minimum wage, and as such, tipping is not required.
However, has there ever been a situation where someone went above and beyond for you?
Example: I needed my tires changed, badly. One was flat, and the other three had metal showing. I went to a place that was closing up in five minutes.
I needed 4 tires dismounted, mounted, balanced, and put on my vehicle. That does not take five minutes.
The guy doing the job was the only one there. He could have told me he was locking up.
Instead, he did the job for me, did it well, and took my payment.
I handed the man an extra ten dollars.
I earn less than that per hour.
Sometimes people who do a good job should be recognized for it. Particularly if they’re working above and beyond the call of duty.
People, stop feeding the admitted troll.