I signed a non disclosure agreement about that period of time and am not at liberty to discuss it.

Well ZILtoid1991 said you have to tell us with who and we can ask them to use the secret non disclosure disclosure mechanism, who was the NDA with.

The counter party is covered under the terms of the NDA, I can’t disclose who they were either.

Checkmate

These same CEOs will say they work sun up to sun down and then they just consider any moment they are awake “working”

• enjoying a lavished catered lunch on the company dime: work
• having drinks with other executives punctuated by the occasional sentence here or there about buckling down for next quarter: work
• sitting and barely listening to a presentation someone else put together and then making a semi-random decision based off a partial understanding after someone has boiled all the complexity away into two viable solutions that are only cosmetically different: work

And then after a long day of doing nothing of value they go back to their mansion and enjoy their 8 figure salaries and “read a paper” or “think about work” and consider that burning the midnight oil while all the material cares in the world are easily handled for them.

Fuck that noise

Nothing says confidence in the capitalist status quo like outlawing any competing ideas.

I don’t think the popular vote compact would diminish the two parties.

As far as I understand it the compact says all the states in the compact will pledge their electoral college electors to the popular vote winner.

The popular vote winner is still just the candidate with the most votes nationally so all the incentives and structures that lead to two parties are still at play.

Third parties are suppressed in a winner take all system largely due to the spoiler effect, a smaller third party pulls votes from a larger party.

Voters would still be incentivized to vote for one of the two major parties witb the same logic as today, a vote for a third party has little chance of winning and so it largely has the effect of denying a vote to the major party you would most align with.

To be clear, I think the way we’ve arranged democracy in America is quite stupid and mathematically guarantees a duopoly of parties both of which become enmeshed with and captured by the donor class. A popular vote compact is better than the goofy electoral college, I just don’t think it really does anything to break the grip of the two party system.

I updated my comment to rerun the numbers for just us employees and it comes out to $40 per employee. So good catch, they screwed them over even worse than I originally thought

In the conversation with Fortune, Murrell added that he gave a $1.5m bonus to employees of Five Guys’ 1,500 US stores to try to make up for the chaos unleashed by the promotion at various locations.

Globally … FiveGuys has 30,000 employees.

So let me get this straight. This fucking moron dreamed up a dumbass promotion that made 30,000 employees lives miserable as angry customers demanded free burgers and most likely hurled vitriol and hate at them.

His big brain protection was to give every store $1000. $1.5M spread out amongst 30k employees is $50 per employee.

You think one of these employees could be mad enough to shoot you and then go “hmm… $50 ought to do it”

I sorta hope someone spend their $50 on ammo

Edit: fiveguys made $3.5B in revenue last year or about $10M per day and this guy wants a slap on the back for handing out 1/10th of 1 days revenue to the people that actually make that money for the self serving reason of not getting shot.

Edit: for those that would prefer I rerun these numbers for just the US employees

From the fiveguys website

We average roughly 25 employees per Five Guys location. Add it all up and we currently have more than 30,000 people working for Five Guys worldwide!

At our corporate office, we have around 250 employees.

So let’s take the $1000 per location (which I calculated with the number of locations in the US) and divide that by 25 employees per location and we arrive at… $40.

For those upset that I used revenue instead of profits, five guys doesn’t publish annual profit figures so I’d have to guess and I can’t imagine that would make you any happier. At a 10% profit margin it’s 1 days worth of profits.