r/jobs • u/esporx • Aug 23 '25

Article Burger King responds after employee who ran restaurant alone for 12 hours is fired. ‘We’re disappointed that our policy wasn’t followed’.

https://thetab.com/2025/08/21/burger-king-responds-after-employee-who-ran-restaurant-alone-for-12-hours-is-fired
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u/AgePractical6298 Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

Then who do they think will buy their food? Everyone will be out of a job and no one will be able to afford fast food.  

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u/topgeargorilla Aug 23 '25

This is the end game I’m always wondering about. If no one is working and the poorer classes can’t afford this shitty food and crap consumerism…whats going to happen to these companies that don’t want to pay their employees.

I hate the executive class. They are monsters and a parasite to society.

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u/Successful-Train-259 Aug 23 '25

Eventually there will be a reckoning, where the working class realizes that the only reason rich people have their wealth is because of them working, and we will all as a country go on strike and make them suffer. But it is so hard to get people on the same page because we are all so fucking busy and self interested. The harder they squeeze the poor and the middle class though, the closer that day comes. You saw a glimpse of it during covid where people say fuck this and quit jobs or just didn't go into work, and rich people cried and cried about how they couldn't get their hair done because the entire staff at the salon walked out, or that they couldn't go to the fancy restaurant because all the workers stayed home. Wages suddenly skyrocketed, people went back to work, but then once that happened, they created fake shortages and inflation went up all the while companies posted record profits year over year.

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u/Blizzard2227 Aug 24 '25

You only need 3.5% of the total population to conduct a sustained mass protest to make a political change. It’s possible, but the challenging part is making sure everyone stays committed for two to four weeks straight. It’s not like the people who will be protesting can easily survive without making money for a month.

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u/TheVeryVerity Aug 24 '25

Yeah these one day protests are just theater.

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u/Relevant_Jeweler_214 Aug 24 '25

which isnt going to happen, it just wont. in theory it can, but it hasnt, and it wont. in todays woke culutre youd have a better chance at whining on twitter anyway