Business types get flexible with the truth on secure scheduling

Faced with overwhelming support for secure scheduling from workers, voters, elected officials, and even executives, big business lobbyist types are getting a little desperate.

There's just no honest way to convince someone that their hours ought to vary wildly from one week to the next, or that flexibility should always work to the benefit of companies, but never in the opposite direction. So the business lobby has no choice but to show off the ultimate flexibility: they're getting flexible with the truth.

Business lobbyists get flexible with the truth
What do you mean "we," CEO dude?
What do you mean "we," CEO dude?

We got our hands on a letter the CEO of the multi-million-dollar Consolidated Restaurants chain sent to his employees trying to convince them to oppose secure scheduling. 

The big business lobby is even getting flexible with their metaphors
The big business lobby is even getting flexible with their metaphors

How does the business lobby fight secure scheduling when even CEOs support the policies? They get a little flexible with their metaphors.

“It doesn't seem like it's an emergency situation.”
“It doesn't seem like it's an emergency situation.”

A restaurant industry attorney goes from flexibility into denial by trying to pretend scheduling is not an emergency — while himself demanding more advance notice from the city before considering the issue.

From one side of their mouth they tell elected officials they’re pretending to speak on behalf of their employees (shock message: everything’s perfect and everyone’s in a million-way-tie for Boss of the Year). Then they try to convince those employees that involuntary part-time hours and totally unpredictable unstable schedules are actually good for them because... well because because. There’s no reason whatsoever.

So they just make things up.

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