Late Stage Capitalism

I love this, the REAL Free Market at work. This douchebag must have been getting some serious threatening messages for him to panic like this. It almost sounds like he's paying a ransom.

When a Health Care CEO's policies got so abusive to his customers, it spawned a customer so angry, they literally gunned him down in the street. As a result, his company loosened their policies, and people started getting care that had been previously refused. Even better, OTHER health care companies did the same thing.

That is a perfect example of the unfettered Free Market at work, the industry goes to far, and the market reacts with a harsh correction, and the Five Guys CEO understands this. At least he is self-aware enough to know that he might be pushing the boundaries of his own personal safety, and he's trying to do something about it the only way a Sociopathic Oligarch can conceive - throwing money at it.

Eh, it's a start.

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.

We need to be encouraging this fear in the 1%

Thanks Luigi (allegedly)

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.

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.)

“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?

Is this one of those places that pays workers less than minimum wage?

If so, he deserves to be shot in the face

I feel like he is saying that he absolutely deserves to get shot in the street.

If all he's giving back to his workers is $1.5M split among 30,000 people, he's not nearly afraid enough.

Hey, $1.5 million to not shoots you sounds like a fair deal. Just keep the money coming, Jerry.

Good. They should fear for their lives. That’s the only way the rich ever gave anything for the workers

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Okay so shoot him more?