(secret billionaire meeting)
WALGREENS CEO: ok so the vote passes, whenever we fuck up we blame shoplifters and minimum wage increases, right?
LOWES CEO: yep
TARGET CEO: got it
RED LOBSTER CEO (in the corner shoveling shrimp into mouth): mmhmm
literally the 20th anniversary of when they did this but with crab
is this what it sounds like? I hadn't heard this news story
How do you underestimate how much shrimp people can eat
I can eat so much shrimp
I'm vegetarian but I'd eat shrimp for the chance to take down a franchise
Back when Sizzler existed I literally got kicked out at closing once during one of their “steak and all-you-can-eat shrimp” promos. Shrimp is tasty!
I've def eaten over a pound of shrimp in my own home. With no motivation besides I bought two pounds and my husband didn't eat much of it.
They probably been banking on people like me.
I just can't eat shrimp. If you dared me to eat 10 shrimp and you'll pay my rent, I'd end up homeless.
They feel so weird in your mouth and the taste is just non-fish enough to be gross.
Narrator: the shrimp, did in fact, have an end.
Unsurprisingly, Simpsons Did It First
That scene is still amazing
“ it was a moon less night Dark as pitch when out of the mist came a beast more stomach than man! “ youtu.be/E2dmfnSarDI?...
Does this sound like a man who had ALL he could eat???
How did you get the secret minutes from the secret billionaire meeting, Rebecca?
Probably online!
Back in like 2006, we found a mortgage co legal outsourcer posted minutes of quarterly meetings with local lawyers for several years...including the one directing the locals to do things that might violate ethics rules. They were there for a long time... Who'd notice, amiright?
Did they not do some, like, basic math before offering the promotion?
Have... Have you ever met a CEO?
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It's not about the shrimp, says JoAnn's in the other corner, furiously knitting a sock. It is, in all these cases, about private equity buying in, making a quick buck , and saddling the company with the debt of the merger. Keep up.
“Look at these profits endless steakhouses are raking in! We gotta get some of that. Endless Tapas even more. So we need an even smaller dish to offer endlessly!”
Did the ocean call and say they were running out of shrimp?
It's a click-bait title when it's about 0.5% of their $2.6B revenue.
It could also have been beneficial for the company. You lose $1 on an endless shrimp for one diner who brought their family where each of them was a $2 profit.
Also, the primary business of the company that owns Red Lobster currently is seafood, they probably figured if they were self-supplying they could at least break even.
Boeing, their soon to depart CEO is going to get a $45 million bonus/golden parachute for driving the company to produce a product 2x as fatal as the Ford Pinto
America, what a country where inept white men fail upwards and receive massive bonuses for their absurdly huge failures
I went to HS with the son of the then CEO of boeing's commercial side. I suspect that if he hadn't been pushed out in 2006 that we wouldn't be seeing these issues. I don't know much about him, but he took pride in the company. That and he was an engineer who took safety seriously.
It was clearly the McDonnell executives that ruined Boeing.
Yup. I hope the folks doing the investigations into Boeing's QA issues have him come talk aboot Boeing and his departure. Would be very interesting, I suspect.
Let me introduce you to Adam Neuman who failed so hard at WeWorks, he became a billionaire...taking Softbank for every penny of Saudi money they could pump in there.
Even endless shrimp comes to an end. I think Socrates said that.
Is 'shrimp' the new hip slang for venture capitalism now
This is how I learned red lobster had endless shrimp. I feel like I’ve wasted my life.
Kudos to Red Lobster for coming up w/a promo that's a Loss Leader, a Loss Follower, a Loss Lone Wolf, & a Loss "I'm Going The Same Way, So We May As Well Travel Together" all at once
I gave this some thought.
bsky.app/profile/algr...
Target’s problems are not from theft. They nerfed their best clothing suppliers, added horrible Muzak, the stores are dirty, and shelves half empty because not enough staff to stock them. They stopped carrying anchovies. I loved Target, but it’s a sad mess and I never go there now.
whoosh
Remake Red Lobster as Vegan, and you get to KEEP the lobster or shrimp in question. Alive. Because Vegan.
That’s a whole lotta shrimp.🦐
Hey Red Lobster--the ocean called, they're running out of shrimp!
Must be the DEI, right?
Definitely
Eating
Interminably
They’ve been advertising LobsterFest lately.
Dooooo it. Dooooo it.
Endless lobster. Dooooo it.
Max shelved shows, laid off staff, and raised prices because they’re “struggling”. Then the CEO gets a 50 million dollar pay raise.
Me with an infinite supply of shrimp shaped belly: how could this happen?
Look, when they go under, just remember that "cheddar bay biscuits" are simple cheddar biscuits with a bit of garlic and parsley. You can make something just as tasty at home:
thetrencherman.com/2017/02/10/c...
No you can because your home doesn’t contain the levels of bacteria and grease needed to add the authentic flavor experience
gonna hire a local 16-year old to come mix it up and throw it in the oven for that authentic taste
Dead Lobster
Economist Thomas Sowell quit the department of labor when he found out that 1/3 of their operating revenue was the administration of the minimum wage.
Is this documented in actual budget numbers? It looks here like all wage and hours enforcement is less than 2 percent of the budget.
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/general/budget/2025/CBJ-2025-V1-02.pdf
You have to ask Thomas Sowell where he got his figures. I seriously doubt that he is the type of person who would purger himself during an interview on C-SPAN.
really? bc idk who that is but his wikipedia page makes him sound like an asshole
You are not wrong. Sowell's actual (unsupported) claim, BTW, is that when he was an intern at Labor Dept (summer 1960) "About one-third of their budget at that time came from administering the wages and hours laws." This is all the laws concerning wages and hours, overtime, etc. not just min wage.
I assume he meant 1/3 of the budget was directed to administrating rather than what he said. At any rate, it was an completely unsupported statement and also not just conerning minimum wage.
incredible that randos today see that someone was key to Reagan’s financial policies and not realize they’re a sociopath or a moron.
but that guy also thought that someone could “purrjur” themselves on a talk show so
Even for that claim, over the last 8 years, the budget for the wages & hours division has been around $250 million, which is less than 2% of the $13 billion DOL budget. Today isn't 1960, but what Sowell said is at best irrelevant to today's DOL, and may well be simply false.
Here's the 1960 budget. The wage and hour division got $11 million out of $570 million total funding for DOL, so less than 2%. Sowell was lying.
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/budget-united-states-government-54/fiscal-year-ending-june-30-1960-19013
It astonishes me that people make false claims about the federal budget and don't realize these are public records that anyone can look up.
well, it was already a guy dropping a complete non sequiter on the assumption that everyone would see the name "thomas sowell" and think "ah yes, whatever this guy is saying is very correct." We aren't dealing with a rhetorical genius
I recommend reading Sowell. Back long, long ago, in my teenage years when I was somewhat more open-minded, reading his articles convinced me far better than anything else could that right-wing economics and morality are a con. And somehow right-wing punditry has only gotten worse since then.
But I already know that and I'm not a teenager. Why waste my time?
Well, I don't mean you personally, more of a general "you". Like, for anyone reading this who doesn't understand why so many people are so anti-right-wing economics, or want a refresher.
A more edifying read is Bruce Bartlett's essay about how he discovered that all the economics he pushed as one of the principal architects of Reaganomics was wrong, and Paul Krugman had been right all along.
www.theamericanconservative.com/revenge-of-t...
Unlearning economics did a great new video on him
Wow, you are under oath when you go on C-SPAN?
I mean he wouldn't be perjuring himself since he's not under oath giving such an interview so there's literally zero consequences to him just making shit up.
Especially considering how little fact-checking/confirming things is done.
Most of his modern career has been making unsupported or spurious claims about fiscal policy and causation
Fact check this. Where does our constitution give anyone the AUTHORITY to print money and if not why not.
Are you familiar with the necessary and proper clause?
I mean are you truly so dense to think the drafters were short-sighted enough to think things would never change or need to adapt?
Even when they put in such obvious "need to be flexible" language.
Thomas Sewell is an arrogant, lying, and perpetually wrong asshole who is possibly the least self-aware person on Earth.
Did their CEO swap notes with the PG&E CEO at the Bilderberg meeting or something.
they did a big transphobia and the CEO is posting through it
What did they offer you for the CEO pay package?
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So what kind of compensation did the “CEO for a day” get?
The CNN headline is excellent: "Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI names its third CEO in 3 days"
Microsoft has hired Sam Altman to power up its artificial intelligence research efforts after the co-founder of OpenAI was ousted as CEO in a chaotic boardroom coup on Friday. Meanwhile, the ChatGPT c...
www.cnn.com
The OpenAI CEO Drama
They did not hire an Alt(ernate) Man for the job!
The OpenAI CEO Drama
They did not hire an Alt(ernate) Man for the job!
"they just did it and got it done" no the fuck we did not, that's literally the problem??
So, CEO, how do you feel about shrimp?
In the anti camp we have @britculpsapp.bsky.social @illumi.me and @acab4cutie.top among with others. Some losers are in the pro-shrimp camp.
We need an official statement @juicysteak117.gay
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Did they?
I though the US had secret ballots?
How then did you learn this interesting fact?
How the fuck did both of you get cuter?!
Seriously!
Cough up the secret!
I did get an email from the CEO addressing people's concerns and what they are doing for safety.
*has an early AM meeting*
brain hardware: did we miss the meeting?
brain hardware: did we miss the meeting?
brain hardware: did we miss the meeting?
brain hardware: did we miss the meeting?
brain hardware: did we miss the meeting?
brain hardware: did we miss the meeting?
Canada, how did we end up with something called the "Canadian Top Secret Network"?
