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poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



sorry everyone but we don't have enough employees to run the shop without anyone going over 25 hours, and if we do that we have to give you health insurance. It's all the fault of those pesky socialists and their unemployment pay.

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DicktheCat
Feb 15, 2011

poverty goat posted:

sorry everyone but we don't have enough employees to run the shop without anyone going over 25 hours, and if we do that we have to give you health insurance. It's all the fault of those pesky socialists and their unemployment pay.

Haha, as if that's how that works- if you're below a certain amount of workers at your location, you don't have to abide by the rule, at least in GA.

And you can treat several franchise locations as several different businesses! So you can have hold 7 franchises of the same company, and still not give anyone benefits! That's what my old boss did!

Astoundingly Ugly Baby
Mar 22, 2006

"...crying bitch cave bitch boy."
- Anonymous Facebook user
has a small business, but makes sure to plaster some crosses on or near my business's logo, so you know I'm honest and definitely wouldn't rip you off. Also, I did some tours in Iraq

Randy Travesty
Oct 27, 2014

PHANTOM QUEEN


I'm gonna need you to work at least 18 hours a day, six days a week, but also be available at all hours of the night via email for our customers, but I will micromanage every word you say or type, down to telling you exactly what to say via email, because I think you are stupid despite the fact that you have grown the business 450% in the year and a half you've been here. Also you make sub-$20 an hour, you only get paid for 6 hours of work a day, and you can't have any benefits.

You see, we're a family here.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




I'm going to spend six-figures buying into a tutoring franchise called Tutor Doctor.

I'm going to demand that our clients pay for 48 hours worth of tutoring up front when they sign on.

I'm going to charge $60/hour from the client, but only pay my employees $18/hour.

Then I'm going to loving run out of money and tell my tutors I can only pay them in Amazon gift cards.

Then I'm going to go out of loving business and run away with all that money, without the clients getting the hours of tutoring I made them pre-pay for.

:guillotine: "Where do you people get off being mad at me I'm a business owner! Get your hands off me! You're going to kill me over this? HOW DARE YOU I DEMAND TO SPEAK WI-" *chop*

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Mormon Nailer posted:

, because I think you are stupid despite the fact that you have grown the business 450% in the year and a half you've been here. Also you make sub-$20 an hour, you only get paid for 6 hours of work a day, and you can't have any benefits.


Yeah but a smart person wouldn't work so hard and so loyally for so little pay:colbert:

Sherry Bahm
Jul 30, 2003

filled with dolphins
1 year ago: "Business has been struggling and we need some fresh blood to turn things around. These people are family to me and I'll be damned if I see this place go under!"

6 months ago: "I know you've done a lot to turn this business around, and we're in the best shape we've ever been, but we can't keep paying you the rates we have. You're taking a pay cut. It's just business."

5 months ago: "You're leaving us for our competitor? No, we won't match that offer. You don't deserve it! You don't do this to family!"

2 weeks ago: "Hey, I know we've had some disagreements in the past, but you know we've always thought of you as family..."

Pekinduck
May 10, 2008

Goth Odell Beckham posted:

In honor of summer let us celebrate Small Business Tyrant: Beach Town Edition*

-Mediocre restaurant that's insanely overpriced but there's always a 1+ hour wait to get in because its "a tradition" to get dinner there every year for tons of people. The marketing suggests that the owner is a fun, happy-go-lucky guy but you never actually see him. Please don't read too much into why all the waitresses are under 21 years old and all have the same general physical features!

-Said restaurant place has $30+ t-shirts with some dumb/borderline offensive slogan. The shirt will never be worn and is doomed to show up in a Goodwill five years later

-The ice cream shop (I'm sorry, "scoop shop") with the flavors written out by hand on a white board. There's always a line out the door and it's staffed by two 16-year-old girls have clearly been tearing up all day from being yelled at by dickhead families

-The t-shirt shop! The 70-year-old Portuguese woman who owns the place is eyeing you down the whole time thinking you are going to steal something. Her middle-aged son is a doughy weasel of a man whose inner self-hatred is expressed through his love of Trump

A fun way to know the socioeconomic class of the tourists: If the t-shirts have pop culture figures wearing Supreme or MAGA hats while doing offensive things, you're partying with working-class stiffs who want to feel like a Somebody for a long weekend every year (or the full week, if you're part of a blue-collar dynasty of roofing or landscape company owners).

But if the store is full of $60 pastel crewneck sweatshirts with the town's name on them? You're in well-to-do white-collar rear end in a top hat world, baby. It's pretty much the same as the working-class towns but the restaurants have craft beer and a wine list.

*These are based on the East Coast shore cultures of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, and the New Jersey Shore. I'm sure beaches in other parts of the country have their own things and I would love to hear them

lol this is pretty accurate. I have one to add: the single allowed concession stand on a huge Cape Cod beach. Some are run by a nonprofit that maintains the beach, fair enough. Others are run by a private individual who presumably knows what dune the mayor buried his ex-wife. Bring your own food unless you like paying $12 for a lukewarm hotdog.

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

Yes, my wife does the same job as you. No, you can't know how much money she makes, that's a HIPAA violation. No, she's not getting more vacation days than you, you're just imagining that. Now if you'll excuse us, we're going on a 3 week long vacation.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
*lifting up cushions and looking under the couch in a panic

God dammit! Son of a bitch! Hun, have you seen the shop? Yeah I looked there. The same place I put it every night. Well if I knew that then I wouldn't be looking for it would it? I'm.. I'm not yelling. Nevermind, I found it. Yeah.. Yeah, cat batted it under the couch again. Alright well I've got to open up, I'll see you tonight. Have a good day. I'm sorry I yelled at you. Love you. Bye!

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
God drat lazy kids! All they want is a hand out! I've never taken a hand out! I've worked hard to build up my business!!! *was given money by their rich parents to start the business and every time he needs money he goes to them to get more money, uses tax loopholes and government grants with creative accounting*

You want vacation? Okay but don't think you have a job when you get home! I cannot believe you want to get paid to not be here. You took that day off last year, why do you need vacation? You had the flu? So what, you were probably just faking it, even if you were, a little cough isn't going to kill you, and customers won't mind. You know *insert random famous rich person* never stopped working. After the workers went home they'd go down to the factory floor and keep operating the machines, he didn't need weekends or meals or sleep, just work. Why can you be like *person who was nothing like that or didn't exist*.

I'm sorry, i know you've worked here for 5 years and are the only one who knows how to receive and add things to inventory but i cannot afford to give you more that minimum wage. Now, I'll see you all in 2 months, i rented a yacht in Nice for my wifes 40th birthday, I'll see you when i get back!

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A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

Governor's gonna shut us down again, I can FEEL IT. We're doing everything we *hack hack hack* everything we can to keep these people *cough cough cough* safe. Not my fault if *hack hack hack* somebody gets the China Flu.

*hangs up a sign that says "NO MASKS - WE WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE"*

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