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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApplebee's franchise exec fired after using gas prices to justify lower wages
An executive at an Applebees franchisee has been fired over a leaked email in which he wrote that higher gas prices would allow the company to pay workers less.
Applebees corporate on Monday confirmed that Wayne Pankratz, executive director of operations for Apple Central LLC, has been terminated by the Kansas City, Mo.-based operator.
The situation began last week, when a leaked email sent from Pankratzs address started making the rounds online. The message dated March 9 was sent to multiple colleagues and says that higher gas prices will lead more people to start looking for jobs, meaning Apple Central could offer them lower wages.
Besides hiring employees in at a lower wage to decrease our labor (when able) make sure you have a pulse on the morale of your employees, the email read, in part.
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/applebees-franchise-exec-fired-after-using-gas-prices-justify-lower-wages
underpants
(182,271 posts)Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)tblue37
(64,979 posts)vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)Karma just gave him the Will Smith treatment
tenderfoot
(8,424 posts)what's that? Behaving like an ass in front of the world?
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)Thanks for calling that out.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)So I guess it makes more sense lol
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)When this happened, I posted that this guy would get launched.
There are 2 types of execs.
The first are REALLY good at what they do, know the business they're in very well, create relationships that last, and are leaders/motivators.
The second are the pure politicians. The pure politicians cannot expose their lack of acumen, especially if it embarrasses the company.
The first category are unlikely to embarrass the company because they're smart enough to not do something like this idiot did. So, it's unlikely to even come up.
That latter type is far more likely to make such a boneheaded play and expose themselves as less important to the company than their compensation suggests.
Once the company knows they can get somebody better, that won't embarrass the company, that exec is history.