Idiots line up to thank Papa John’s for screwing them out of healthcare

[Contrary1]

The day after the election a small business owner in Nevada followed through on his threat and fired 22 employees because Obama won. Even though the 2013 tax code hasn’t been written yet he was sure it will suck, and between that and the looming prospect of Obamacare he started handing out pink slips (being sure to complain about his “Hispanic” workers who voted Obama).

Before the election Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter, a big Romney supporter, was one of the highest profile CEOs threatening layoffs and pizza price hikes (god forbid!) if Obama won. He doubled down after the election, like the Vegas man saying he’d start making layoffs and reducing hours at Papa John’s locations rather than having to provide healthcare for people working more than 30 hours per week.

Forbes ran the numbers on this, and here’s what they found: Last year Papa John’s took in $1.2 billion in revenue. Schattner has said he expects providing healthcare to raise his operating expenses $5-8 million. Based on last year’s operating expenses that’s an increase of 0.4% to 0.7%—a cost that could be met by raising the price of pizza 3.4 to 4.6 cents per pie.
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What does Schattner get for this? He get his very own Papa John’s Appreciation Day. “We just wanted to stand with Papa John’s because it is under attack,” a supporter tells Fox News. It’s like the sequel to Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day, but this time the company is being appreciated for valuing its employees’ health less than a gimmicky promotion. Papa John’s Appreciation Day even has its own Facebook page.

More: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/190955/idiots-line-up-to-thank-papa-johns-for-screwing-them-out-of-healthcare/

[qanda]

1. Well, hopefully that one day of support

Will take up for the lifetime ban that I, and many others, plan for that business. We will never again eat at Papa Johns.

[rurallib]

2. each Papa John's employee will know that each customer that day

will be celebrating Papa John screwing his employees. May not want to buy a pizza from a POed employee that day, folks.

[bongbong]

4. The employees will be speechless that day

Their mouths will be dry from, ahem, spitting so much.

[thelordofhell]

3. That small business owner in Nevada is a bunch of horseshit

It was just some stupid caller into a radio talk show

[FLyellowdog]

5. I've often heard the urban legend of disgruntled food workers

spitting in the customers' food items unbeknownst to the customers. Gosh, I sure hope the workers don't do that because that would be bad. It really would.

I, for one, wouldn't even want to chance it though. I think I'd bypass going there. People can be such poor losers. I'm just sayin'.










(A bit of sarcasm here...did you notice?)

[SpartanDem]

6. No country but the US

has the working class so ready to defend the rich.