I work at Timmy Hoe's....

I just got back from one of my many trips to Tim Hortons and was surprised to see all manner of celebratory material being used to decorate the interior of the eattery. When I queried as to the reasons behind the festive decorations the clerk pointed to a sign. "Team Tim Horton's Day". That's right it's a Tim Horton's recruiting drive. Now if balloons and a sign don't make you want to start dropping dough into boiling hot animal fat the get a load of this...they are giving away an ipod to one lucky applicant from each store. Wow. That's gonna drive them in. If low wages and crappy shifts have you thinking twice then the chance to win an ipod will probably make you drop your 9-5 and start pouring double-doubles while listening to stolen music.

I don't get these small business owners, these supposed captains of capitalism. Now I'm no economist (ask Max or Tara) but if you are having a hard time finding workers, then maybe you should try bumping up your wages. I know that sounds radical but I think it might work, prior to common belief people who work at these jobs are actually there to acquire currency, not for a good time or for altruistic reasons. I think what hamstrings these owners is their franchise agreements. While they might be free to pay whatever wages the local economy allows, the central command station (Corporate Headquarters) keeps the prices standardized across the country. Oh yeah on a side note it said that there were 165 aphids, one for each store in Alberta. If there a roughly 3 million people in Alberta that works out to one store for every 18000 people. No wonder the lineups are so bad.


"Let's go shag behind the fryer" "Alright, grab a box of Timbits"