[image-1]Today, former Clevelander Andrew Kaczynski of CNN reports on former Cleveland Andrew Puzder, who’s looking like the presumed Labor Secretary of the U.S. and who has delivered some alarming speeches over the past few years (uncovered by the aforementioned Kaczynski).
Speaking to a students of Westmont College in February 2011, Puzder discussed the changes he made at CKE when he initially took over as its chief executive.
“Our turnover was about 300% a year. Which means everybody quit. There were some people that stayed that were lifers at Hardee’s,” Puzder can be heard saying in an audio recording of the speech archived on iTunes and reviewed by CNN’s KFile. “But most people were coming and working three months and then going somewhere else. It’s not like if you run a fast food company you’re hiring graduates of MIT or people that were gonna go work for Microsoft, you know.
“In the employment pool, you’re hiring the best of the worst. You know, it’s kind of the bottom of the pool. And at Hardee’s it was so bad, we were hiring the worst of the worst and hoping they would stay.”
This tracks with his known disdain for the American workforce.
According to CNN, Puzder has reiterated that “bottom of the pool” rhetoric in other speeches since then.
In the event Puzder is approved for his position in the Cabinet, this sort of rhetoric would almost assuredly come to define American labor policy. What the American public does with that notion remains to be seen.
Puzder’s confirmation hearing is set to begin Feb. 2
This article appears in Jan 18-24, 2017.
Wow. What a jerk. You mean he thinks that graduates of MIT are somehow better than high-school drop outs in terms of labor value and employability? Disturbing. And to say that somehow a machine might do a better job at customer service than your typical fast-food employee on W117? Blasphemy!!! This man clearly needs to get a lesson in Marxism or he wont go anywhere in life.
Running a country, and dealing with America’s workforce, is not the same as running a fast-food joint. And he will soon find that out. Very soon. Days. Weeks. Months at the most.
Orangy Boy’s handlers are in deep shit, even more over their heads than Orangy Boy Himself is.
Hope you like train wrecks, pal, because the wheels are already starting to come off.
Chuckles the Clown
Haha! Those opinions come from your extensive experience as an employer? Or perhaps your stint as Labor Secretary? Do you even know what the Department of Labor does? Do you even know who the previous Labor Secretary even was, or what his prior experience was? I know you don’t. And you will know that too when you have to google him.
Ill take businesspeople over bureaucrats each and every day.
And your extensive experience as an employer is…..what? When? Where? Why? How?
How about your extensive experience as a caring human being? And no, merely being an asshole doesn’t count.
Chuckles the Clown
So, you are basically calling him out for speaking the truth? Have you ever managed minimum wage employees? I managed, not minimum wage, but $10/hour employees and it is a challenge to say the least. Not showing up for work, not bothering to call off and just generally not caring. They just bounce from job to job and the hard part for the employer is you take the time to train this person, and then they up and quit 3 months down the road. Then you have to hire and train another employee.