“The advantage this has for us is that it will increase application flow and has the potential to lower our average wage.”
An executive at the franchisee looked at workers living paycheck to paycheck, saw gas eating their income, and called it an opportunity to pay less. Usually that thinking stays in a meeting room. This time a manager printed the email and handed it to the staff. They quit, and the restaurant closed for most of the day. The workers had the last word.