Fucking #Wendys... They're just straight up stealing customers' change now. Between #surgePricing and passive-aggressive workers who apparently believe they're entitled to your "extra money", I just can't justify going there anymore. Fortunately, there's plenty of fast food establishments that aren't a sack of dickbags. I'm still getting my burger.
#Wendys is so upset that people are criticizing their plan to introduce "#surgePricing" like #Uber and #Lyft. They insist that their plan to dynamically readjust pricing is totally not surge pricing! Tho they haven't been able to articulate how, exactly, their plan is different. You just have to take their word for it! It's different, dammit.
"the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it" (#JKGabraith)
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All told, wage theft and wage cuts by Uber transferred $1b/quarter from labor to Uber's shareholders. Historically, Uber linked fares to driver pay - think of #SurgePricing, where Uber charged riders more for peak times and passed some of that premium onto drivers. But now Uber trumpets a custom pricing algorithm that is the inverse of its driver payment system, calculating riders' willingness to pay and repricing every ride based on how desperate they think you are.