Ever ask a zee how they feel about holidays? Just what goes through the mind of an average person versus the franchisee owner when “holiday” is discussed? Ever wonder how a zor spends their holiday? In the Americas, the word is “vacation”. Every paid worker spends their year planning and imagining the relief those two or three weeks truly bring to the family and one’s own inner balance of family vs work vs quality of life. In Europe, it’s holiday and it’s twice as long as the Americas because most Euro holiday packages are four to six weeks. The European has come to expect holiday and due to the lack of opportunity, in some respects holiday is one’s privilege.
In the thinking of the blue collar or the white collar or the Euro or anyone else who has never truly owned and run a business, let alone a franchised business, there is no reference or association as to what a holiday brings to a zee. Their impression is that a small business owner who owns a high-profile franchise operation must already be rich. They do not know that the life savings and the mountain of debt needed to serve them their 15 second servings of fast food heart attack will never allow me to enjoy another holiday. The reference of outlay at the onset of such purchase of franchises is referred to “sunk costs”. Oh how bloody true is that depiction!
Here are just a few interesting problems of the zee during holiday:
- Workers are off, zee gets to stay and keep the doors open (bills don’t do holidays)
- Workers are off, doors have to stay open, otherwise the revenue of the holiday revelers will be lost
- If it’s a day in which stores are closed due to law, I’ll stay and catch up on books and admin as the workers aren’t in
- If it’s a party day where retail is open, I get to stay and help the skeleton shift (who bitch and moan that they have to work)
- Leading up to the holiday, everyone leaves early, meaning I get to stick around to make sure everything is set because I own this mess
- And finally, the schedules are all mine to own and fix and work with due to the fact that no one owns anything but me (the R word means nothing to the hourly worker)
And last but not least, I can visualize and imagine the wonderful times the zor is having attending special events as grand marshall (the honor and respect he purchased with my life savings and ongoing royalty abuses). After all, his ad fund, his marketing fund, his kickbacks from vendors and his admin, his legal support are all coming from the money I gave, will give him and am generating while working over this glorious holiday!
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Bloody Franchise 