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Source: KTVK-TV
Burger King employees in Arizona were happy to hear their boss won the company's national "Franchisee of the Year" award. They never imagined that they, too, would reap some of the benefits.
Thanks to highly rated customer service reviews and corporate inspections, Barnett Management won the award for the company's 24 Burger King locations across the state. The company gave owner Tom Barnett a new Corvette and a Rolex watch.
... Barnett and the other franchise owners sold the car and watch, added more of their own money to the pot, and divided it up among their employees.
More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. In all, they gave out $120,000 to the staff.
Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html
niyad
(113,552 posts)"The award needed to go to the people who got us here. It was the right thing to do," franchise co-owner Shelley Krispin told 3TV. "We're all better when we have people who work for us long term."
Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SJLOYdAm
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)employees, it's <$200/employee.
So not that life-changing.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
Charity Callahan, a 15-year employee, told 3TV. "It was almost an entire month's worth of pay for me.
Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SKxEkiev
FSogol
(45,525 posts)Considering BK just bought a small Canadian company in order to hide their profits from US taxes I would say this is not nearly good enough.
I appreciate the individual owners nice gesture but BK as a whole can bite me.
randys1
(16,286 posts)An owner of 24 successful franchises is a very wealthy person.
Yet, there are people far more wealthy who would NOT reward their employees the way this guy did.
(their employees...my employees...all wrong, let me explain later or elsewhere why that terminology is more about owning people than anything else)
Back on topic.
Rewarding those you like and punishing those you dont, is something rightwing business-owners LIVE to do...in this case it seems he did not discriminate and rewarded equally, which is good.
The amount he is rewarding, if he has 24 successful franchises, is peanuts, but again, many in his position would tell his employees to blow him and they are lucky they have a job making enough money to be homeless.
The reason this is such a great topic is we can learn from ourselves where we fit in this dynamic.
I own the company therefore I will decide everything about everybody. you see I dont like that...myself
and why is this national news? Seems if you were doing it for the purely selfless reasons you would not want all this credit
Notice BK corp didnt even think of rewarding the people who actually did the work!
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Is probably not that life changing either. Its all relative. There is value in nonmonetary rewards as well. Recognition, appreciation, shared achievement.
B2G
(9,766 posts)He doesn't own 24 franchises...he won out of the 24 up for it.
"Barnett Management won the award for the company's 24 Burger King locations across the state"
Barnett Management is the franchisee that won the award.
Barnett Management owns 24 Burger King locations across the state.
I think Burger King, overall, has more than 24 locations in ANY state!
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Grizzles don't eat Whoppers.
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)Barnett Management won the award for the company's 24 Burger King locations... The company gave owner Tom Barnett a new Corvette and a Rolex watch.
Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SKuZqCq7
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)Would you complain if your boss handed you 200 bucks for doing your job? I wouldn't, I'd say, "Thanks, boss!".
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Look down thread, read the other responses to your sniveling about it's not being a life changing event and made up math, and pretend I said that stuff too. Saves me a lot of time.
I forgot this: Sunshine
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)after selling the car and watch.
His boss went a step further. Barnett and the other franchise owners sold the car and watch, added more of their own money to the pot, and divided it up among their employees.
In all, they gave out $120,000 to the staff.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)The next session is on the 24th, same time same bridge #
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)In all, they gave out $120,000 to the staff.
"I just couldn't believe it. I was in shock," Charity Callahan, a 15-year employee, told 3TV. "It was almost an entire month's worth of pay for me. They made us all feel appreciated."
http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SK3G9zBq
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)It says in the OP "More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars."
So thanks for doing unnecessary math with numbers pulled from your ass to not make a valid point.
And no it's not life changing money, it's symbolic.
Their bosses took their bonus and passed it on to their employees. That has meaning.
But if it has to be life changing amounts to be considered nice to you, then you do not know how to place this in proper context.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)What leads you to believe 30 employees/location?
Although I do realize many half-wits like to pretend what's life-changing for other people and what isn't..
NBachers
(17,136 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)give back to the people whose shoulders you were raised up on.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)It's an exceptional manager who thinks *I got this
because I have a lot of good people working for me*
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)That franchisee won the award in the first place.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)like Costco, if you treat them bad then you will end up like Kmart or Walmart.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)Kudos to Barnett Management. We need more like them.