The Seahawks did the same thing when they hired Pete Carroll. Leslie Frazier was given a BS interview to satisfy the Rooney Rule even though Carroll had already been hired. The rule is a fucking joke.

The notion that fast-food chains mostly empty teenagers has long been debunked.

"Fast-food workers more often adults than teens, analysis shows"
https://www.cleveland.com/business/2013/08/fast-food_workers_more_often_a.html

"Five huge myths about working in fast-food"
"1. Fast-food workers are mostly teenagers working for pocket money.
Fast food was indeed an adolescent gig in the 1950s and 1960s, when the paper hat symbolized the classic short-term, entry-level job. But today, despite arguments that these low-wage jobs are largely filled by "suburban teenagers," as the Heritage Foundation put it, labor data shows that about 70 percent of the fast-food workforce is at least 20 years old. The typical burger-flipper is an independent adult of about 29, with a high school diploma. Nearly a third have some college experience, and many are single parents raising families on $9 an hour. In contrast to McDonald's rather optimistic model budget — which assumes that an employee lives in a two-income household and doesn't need child care or gas or groceries — a large portion of fast-food workers are forced to borrow from friends to cover basic household expenses, or sometimes fall into homelessness.

According to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, about half of the families of front-line fast-food workers depend on public programs, compared with 25 percent of the American workforce. About 87 percent of fast-food workers lack employer health benefits, compared with 40 percent of the general workforce. And roughly one-fifth of workers' families are below the poverty line. That adds up to some $7 billion in welfare payouts each year — essentially enabling fast-food mega-chains to subsidize ultra-low wages with public benefits."

https://www.businessinsider.com/five-huge-myths-about-working-in-fast-food-2015-4

@2:

Perhaps that was the case when you were a teenager and dinosaurs still walked the earth, but not so much today, where nearly 60% of workers in the fast food industry are aged 20 and older and nearly 20% are age 30 or older (6% are age 40 or older).

https://www.zippia.com/fast-food-worker-jobs/demographics/

I find it a stretch that Chase, Jas, Charles, Rich, Hannah, et. al. -- don't have Amazon Prime at least to watch Prime Video and Oscar nominated movies. Even Sawant shops Amazon. You're not so pure.

“… set a great example this week on Twitter by doing what literally all of us can do: Share with our colleagues how much we get paid.”

so, how Much, Conor?
[I’m only making
5 bucks/line]

“Would you like to look at your-
self in the mirror without cringing?

do we gotta check
our Conscience at the Door?

Cuz Coporate America
don’t* Work like that.

*typically
but it Could.

“… set a great example this week on Twitter by doing what literally all of us can do: Share with our colleagues how much we get paid.”

so, how Much, Conor?

[I’m only making
5 bucks/line]

“Would you like to look at your-
self in the mirror without cringing?

do we gotta check
our Conscience at the Door?

Cuz Coporate America
don’t* Work like that.

*typically
but it Could.

oh cool

double Postings!

[looks like I'm having
Lobster again!]

@1
Here's what I'd like to see:
2022 season -Flores Seahawks defensive coach.
2023 season- Flores head Seahawks coach
2024 season - Seahawks back in the playoffs!

@6 That's a very strange way of saying:
"I'm sorry but my original claim that fast food workers were teenagers was baseless and incorrect. I will update my knowledge of the subject. IE; 'Fast Food workers being mostly made up of adult workers' in the future. I apologize."

well they're Slippery
when wet, Rodger.

It would be nice if cheap food paired well with cheap wages, but that's not the reality. As cheap food serves its purpose, hence so do cheap wages.

paired will with *expensive wages, but...

I really want this Flores case to take down the man...I'm afraid some of his allegations lack sufficient evidence. The BB tweets (receipts?) really hold no legal value. He doesn't work for NYG and his comments were made before the coach they hired had even interviewed. Sad. I wanna see those suits knocked out like the workers they "own".

Nothing more condescending than bloviating about workers without understating how the first order of business is to stay in business.

The way minorities are treated by professional sporting organizations is a travesty and hopefully this timely Flores lawsuit is a wake-up call for pro sports management, who tend to patronize minorities and treat them like mental prisoners of a kinky white aristocracy, like the British monarchy, who are wealthy and powerful, but should learn to respect the rights of people of color and allow them to join the professional sports management country club, should they so desire.

The entire BLM movement makes perfect sense from macro-social perspective, when you consider how devoid of color the upper echelons of corporations are.

Consider the meteor headed for earth that is the woebegone mis-managed Nordstrom enterprise, a cabal of kooky white boys who are screwing grandpa’s successful retail franchise in the shoes and shorts.

Employers fail to abide by the law of supply and demand with disastrous collateral damage in the firm of rampant unionization, which serves them right for trying to cover their profit margin by underpaying workers, regardless of age.

With the wages some of these stingy establishments pay, the worker is fortunate to break even after bus fare and lunch.

Employees are not for your amusement, to harken back to the NFL example, or slave labor that you can push out onto the street or into dumpsters, which explains the resurgence of unionism for an entire new generation of workers, who can learn from the moving and somber poetry of Woody Guthrie.

How any employer can pay cheap screw wages and complain about the labor supply is beyond rational comprehension.

One culprit may steep medical insurance costs, which the employer wishes to pass onto the workers.

Nice to see Rep. Jayapal going to bat for the interests of musical artists, who are so often exploited by corporate interests, not unlike the aforementioned athletes and foodservice employees.

It was also nice to see Joni Mitchell and Neil Young take Joe Rogain® to task for his mindless adherence to medieval medical practices and unfettered support for Trump, the green-hairy monkey-bitch, who is the God of Rogain® and both of them should take turns peeing in each other’s mouths before being sent to prison to be repetitiously cornholed for tax evasion and polluting the public discourse with rightist opinions and totalitarian notions from the stone age.

Union Yes!

fast-food franchises are bullshit. I worked for a pizza franchise here and the owners had like 200 stores up and down the west coast, yet they still get to claim they are "small business".
here's how all these fast-food and coffee joints work: incentivize the store manager (via bonuses, trips, etc) to cut costs by running a skeleton crew all the time, cut corners in preparing food to save money, layers of middle-management (district, regional, etc) all incentivized by the same cost-cutting measures.
all that matters is did they beat the sales that week compared to the previous year.
and no, it isn't just students. I worked at this pizza place in my late 20s, in-between "career" jobs, so as to not have a lengthy time of unemployment on my record.
when I quit, because fuck that place, they realized they were accidentally paying me like 10 cents an hour more than they "should" have been and had the AUDACITY to try and get me to repay their mistake. I said absolutely fucking not, your fuck-up, deal with it.

Apropos of nothing here's
where all our PPP dollars
went to Zipcodewise

perhaos within there's
an Employer you're
Familiar with. it's
pretty eye-
opening

from Pro-Publica
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/

I'm sure if one of the historically most poor nations on earth suddenly went to a full pure all market economy with no regulations everything would just turn around over night! Right?

Zimbabwe, Argentina, South Sudan, etc etc — all market economies with much higher rates of inflation than Cuba.

Conversely nations with negative rates of inflation like Bahrain, UAE, Qatar are not that great to live in either despite them being market paradises.

Switzerland has a negative inflation rate (-.73%) and yet is one of the most expensive places on earth as governed by it's market economy (Though I would live there in a heartbeat).

Anyway. So what was the point of this nonsensical whatboutism again?