Supermacs

EmmetSpiceland

jimgoose wrote: »

We don't necessarily, no. "Taking back the High Street" is all well and good, but taking it back from a giant American corporation run by evil, soulless lizard people from Andromeda IV and replacing it with a concern run by a much bigger lighten fucker who happens to be from Galway isn't necessarily such a great idea either. :pac:

Apologies, J. Probably should have said Galway people.

silver2020

ciano1 wrote: »

Worked there for a few years during college. I can't think of many employers that pay less than minimum wage but Supermacs is one. I also did a brief stint in McDonalds and they were far more generous.

It is illegal to pay less than minimum wage and any company that does that would have the wrc on its case overnight.

Maybe check the various minimum wage rates before making a wrong comment. (there are different rates depending on your age)

PCeeeee

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Apologies, J. Probably should have said Galway people.

We talk of little else Emmet

Ashleigh1986

Galway country folk love supermacs and pat because he sponsors the gaa teams .
Part of his arrangement with galway GAA is he is allowed have the supermacs trailer in pearse stadium .
A lovely earner pat .... Giving back to the public after he charges them well for crap food .

silver2020

ciano1 wrote: »

When I worked there, minimum wage was still €8.65. It was written into the contract that 50c/hr was to be deducted from your wages for 'Staff food' (Regardless of whether or not it was eaten). We were allowed to take €7.50 worth of food per shift. There was also a mandatory €3 per week charge for the uniform.

Do the maths....

I would guess that was a franchise and that may have been years ago as you cannot make a deduction that would bring you under minimum wage these days

pgj2015

ciano1 wrote: »

When I worked there, minimum wage was still €8.65. It was written into the contract that 50c/hr was to be deducted from your wages for 'Staff food' (Regardless of whether or not it was eaten). We were allowed to take €7.50 worth of food per shift. There was also a mandatory €3 per week charge for the uniform.

Do the maths....

I would have always taken the food and thrown it in the bin if I didn't fancy it that day. nothing worse than a tight miserable boss.

The only thing I would eat in supermacs is the pizza and thats not even made by them, the pizza they had before papa johns was disgusting.

ciano1

silver2020 wrote: »

I would guess that was a franchise and that may have been years ago as you cannot make a deduction that would bring you under minimum wage these days

It was a company run store and not a franchise. I left in 2015. I was also over 20 and 'technically' being paid minimum wage but the deductions made you feel like you were being screwed.

Maybe things have changed since I left, I really don't know.

Ave Sodalis

silver2020 wrote:

I would guess that was a franchise and that may have been years ago as you cannot make a deduction that would bring you under minimum wage these days

I worked for a shop not that long ago that did this. They deducted a few euro every week for uniform rent. There were staff there 10 years or more still paying uniform rent. They're still doing it.

Stovepipe

I worked for two summers in a well-known nationwide supermarket, that pulled deduction stunts like that. Staff compensated for their loss by the usual method of the five-fingered discount. Both sides played off each other, in effect.

Stormington

The €350 payment was a good idea, and definitely avoided what would have surely been some unrest as people were forced to live on beans and toast if they didn't get it, or alternatively, people would have rushed back to work. I think our relatively low death rate is probably one of the (unacknowledged) benefits of the payment as it kept people out of the workplace when it was important to stay away.

It kept people home safe with a roof over their head and food on the table. While I am not sure that the government has inadvertently admitted that the 350 is the average minimum needed to live on nationally, they took the correct approach to keeping the economy ticking over by pumping in helicopter money. Even if that was by accident rather than design.

What I am sure of is that there will be plenty more misers complaining about the Covid payment saying it is too high. Complaints may continue to be made without a hint of irony about relatively low rates of pay.

Two things for Pat McDonagh to answer.

1. How much is the mother earning?
There was no mention of her full-time wages or position when he mentioned the mother and son in his example.

2. How much of the 20+ million paid in tax can be broken down into VAT, PAYE (both), corporate and income tax?
Corporation tax can be siphoned offshore while a half-assed PR team will advise him to include VAT figures in annual tax returns to inflate the number.

Mad_maxx

Galway folk are incredibly greedy

Better Than Christ

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

I worked for a shop not that long ago that did this. They deducted a few euro every week for uniform rent. There were staff there 10 years or more still paying uniform rent. They're still doing it.

I laughed when I applied for my current job and the advert boasted of a 'free uniform'. It never occurred to me that some companies charge their employees for the 'privilege' of wearing one.

Sunny Disposition

Charging staff to wear a uniform, the despicable cnuts. In the town I live in there are plenty of other chippers than Supermacs and it won't be getting my business again.

SEPT 23 1989

Slagging the very people who eat his slop

PR disaster

r93kaey5p2izun

Who knew there was a worse employer than Dunnes!

Ave Sodalis

Better Than Christ wrote:

I laughed when I applied for my current job and the advert boasted of a 'free uniform'. It never occurred to me that some companies charge their employees for the 'privilege' of wearing one.

Yup, it's pretty common!

Sunny Disposition

McDonagh has some neck to be portraying himself as the little guy facing the might of McDonald's and lecturing the State on where i's going wrong, while at the same time charging his own employees for food they don't want.

jimgoose

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

Yup, it's pretty common!

I'd have considered that pretty unbelievable too, before I found out that it is indeed quite common in that sort of work. Incredible degree of chutzpah from a multi-millionaire, in all fairness.

CageWager

About 12 years ago I worked as a grad for a large Irish bank and they made all the unimportant clerical staff pay 50 cent for a cup of tea in the canteen. They said it went towards the staff wages (even though the bank made hundreds of millions in profits during the celtic tiger). Naturally the managers (who all earned close to or more than six figures) didn’t have to pay for their tea.

Better Than Christ

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

McDonagh has some neck to be portraying himself as the little guy facing the might of McDonald's and lecturing the State on where i's going wrong, while at the same time charging his own employees for food they don't want.

He's a massive hypocrite too - back in the '90s, someone opened a fast food restaurant in Bray and called it SuperJack's (it would have been around the time of the 1994 World Cup and had a crudely drawn image of Jack Charlton in the window). Anyway, McDonagh objected and they had to change the name to FastJacks.

Woke Hogan

Better Than Christ wrote: »

He's a massive hypocrite too - back in the '90s, someone opened a fast food restaurant in Bray and called it SuperJack's (it would have been around the time of the 1994 World Cup and had a crudely drawn image of Jack Charlton in the window). Anyway, McDonagh objected and they had to change the name to FastJacks.

I’d need a superjacks after eating the boiled ****e Pat McDonagh serves.

jimgoose

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I’d need a superjacks after eating the boiled ****e Pat McDonagh serves.

The brother swears by the breast-in-a-bun there - I'm surprised at that man of all people, I don't get it.

The One Doctor

I've boycotted Supermacs for a while now. McDonagh even encouraged the spread of covid19 by staying open as long as possible. Bastard.

RollieFingers

Supermacs is rotten, septic food - avoid.

Church on Tuesday

Barely do these days anyways but won't be going into a Supermacs ever again after reading that ****.

PmMeUrDogs

1.60 a day? They charged 4 euro a day when I worked for them years ago, along with a couple of hundred euro a year for uniform "rental" (two shirts, one hat, one apron). Brought wages to a chunk below minimum wage. I and many others didn't eat the food, but were charged regardless.

On top of that, they treat their staff like absolute dirt. No respect for anything that comes out of that chap's mouth.

EmmetSpiceland

RollieFingers wrote: »

Supermacs is rotten, septic food - avoid.

Ah here, say whatever you like about Mr. McDonagh, but “Supermacs” have some decent burgers.

Breakfast isn’t bad either.

jimgoose

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Ah here, say whatever you like about Mr. McDonagh, but “Supermacs” have some decent burgers.

Breakfast isn’t bad either.

Utter bollocks. McDonagh wouldn't know a decent beef burger if he fell over it, and that'd be the only way he'd encounter one at this rate a' knots.

whisky_galore

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Country folk love that, W.

You’ll always hear them “banging on” about good ol’ Pat was standing behind the checkout on a busy Saturday night.

Judging by the pic, he looks like he's chowing down too much of his outlets' "food".

Blaze420

RollieFingers wrote: »

Supermacs is rotten, septic food - avoid.

Spoken like a true jackeen who wouldn’t know taste if it kicked him in his diamond bejazzled ballsack :rolleyes: