re: add IHOP to the "deserves our business & support" group

I am 70 percent on the side of the businesses but 30 percent on the side of the employees from second had stories I have heard.

There is a call center near me where the boss is known to be a big time a-hole. Major Napoleon complex. Screams at the slightest thing. If he's in a good mood things are actually okay, if he is hung over (every other day) he will go off about a wastepaper container not being exactly two inches from a wall or something. But the pay is good so people just "took it" for the money. No more "I don't have to put up with this crap" and they all left. Now FINALLY the boss got canned (he was being kept on because he was brother-in-law to some mid manager) and guess what, almost everyone is back. They were willing to work just not for that clown.

There are a lot of lazy people out there (do you really want them working for you now that you know their true nature) but this is also culling the herd of absurd bosses with attitude or a chip on their shoulder.