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Is this one of those places that pays workers less than minimum wage?
If so, he deserves to be shot in the face
It's a national corporation, so that would depend on the state and city, but since 2/3 of the US states adhere to the federal minimum wage as their standard, chances are pretty good that Five Guys (along with every national corporation) are robbing people of their labor and expecting the welfare system to make up the difference.
In the conversation with Fortune, Murrell added that he gave a $1.5m bonus to employees of Five Guys’ 1,500 US stores to try to make up for the chaos unleashed by the promotion at various locations.
Globally … FiveGuys has 30,000 employees.
So let me get this straight. This fucking moron dreamed up a dumbass promotion that made 30,000 employees lives miserable as angry customers demanded free burgers and most likely hurled vitriol and hate at them.
His big brain protection was to give every store $1000. $1.5M spread out amongst 30k employees is $50 per employee.
You think one of these employees could be mad enough to shoot you and then go “hmm… $50 ought to do it”
I sorta hope someone spend their $50 on ammo
Edit: fiveguys made $3.5B in revenue last year or about $10M per day and this guy wants a slap on the back for handing out 1/10th of 1 days revenue to the people that actually make that money for the self serving reason of not getting shot.
Edit: for those that would prefer I rerun these numbers for just the US employees
From the fiveguys website
We average roughly 25 employees per Five Guys location. Add it all up and we currently have more than 30,000 people working for Five Guys worldwide!
At our corporate office, we have around 250 employees.
So let’s take the $1000 per location (which I calculated with the number of locations in the US) and divide that by 25 employees per location and we arrive at… $40.
For those upset that I used revenue instead of profits, five guys doesn’t publish annual profit figures so I’d have to guess and I can’t imagine that would make you any happier. At a 10% profit margin it’s 1 days worth of profits.
your numbers are a tad skewed.
Globally … FiveGuys has 30,000 employees 1.5m bonus to employees of Five Guys’ 1,500 US stores
only the us stores got the money, not globally. still a pittance though
Solid comment. Thank you for adding more context.
Revenue is not a particularly useful number for this comparison. Net income would be much more useful a number. Plus, your math obviously assumes that every one of the 30,000 employees got an equal bonus, which is not at all necessarily true.
Edited to add, even in the quotes you chose, the bonus was given to US stores, and the 30,000 employees is global. So your analysis is not accurate.
I updated my comment to rerun the numbers for just us employees and it comes out to $40 per employee. So good catch, they screwed them over even worse than I originally thought
We need to be encouraging this fear in the 1%
They also need to encourage or bully each other for the good of their own class' continued existence and privilege. Much needed peer (class) pressure
Hey, $1.5 million to not shoots you sounds like a fair deal. Just keep the money coming, Jerry.
Thanks Luigi (allegedly)
May Player 2 warp his way to extra lives.
Oh, I think we know the same guy. Last time I saw him was when he spent all day/night at my place on December 4th, 2024 playing video games and talking shit about some douchebag named Brian.
Wasn't it Kevin?
I feel like he is saying that he absolutely deserves to get shot in the street.
That bonus isn’t shit and he’s just trying to get publicity in a weird way. Hope it works out for the worst for him.
“She [his wife] still looks at me like I’m stupid, but I thought it was worth it,” Murrell was quoted as saying by Fortune. “They worked so hard. They were so overwhelmed.”
Is she looking at him because she's a greedy monster that wanted the money for himself, or because it's not enough to compensate them for their labor?
Could actually be the 2nd. There are just over 1500 locations in the US. So that's about, $1,000 per location. Divide that by maybe an average of 10 employees per location, that's a grand total of like $100.
Edit, someone else found employee count, so it was actually like $50 per employee.
She's probably angry that she can't see that number in their bank account, because that's all the 1% care about at the end of the day.
Doesn't even matter that they won't live to spend it all. The number is essential to their core being.
Greedy
I say, good.
The tremendous and insatiable greed of American business leaders has necessitated making them afraid for their own asses, and that's especially true in the health care sphere, but no less true elsewhere. It sounds like this motherfucker made a decision that severely negatively impacted franchisees and employees, and it shouldn't take fear of a bullet to get him to adequately pay his workers for making their lives hell during the company's 40-year promotion.
Also, Five Guys is a billion-dollar company. $1.5 million is nothing, and it should be an afterthought if that amount will make a material difference in their workers' lives. (But of course, we know that these bastards will fight over literal pennies if it means getting more undeserved value for a person's labor.)
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Okay so shoot him more?
If all he's giving back to his workers is $1.5M split among 30,000 people, he's not nearly afraid enough.
Good. They should fear for their lives. That’s the only way the rich ever gave anything for the workers
They promote the “violence is never the answer” mentality as though violence isn’t the reason we have weekends
Violence is always an answer, and it's sometimes the answer.