What would you do if you won $20 Thousand?
How would you like $1bn? How would you like to divide that between your coworkers. How about dividing it between all 50k of them?
If you worked a minimum wage job and you suddenly were handed $20 thousand would you still work there? Or would you quit?
According to Yahoo Finance The owner of Raising Canes Chicken is going to be buying a lotto ticket, for $2 a piece for every employee there. That’s 50k employees which comes to 100k tickets. If it wins he will divide the winnings up amongst the employees. That comes to 20k each out of a $1 billion jackpot.
Here are some questions I have about it:
First of all how do you go about buying that many tickets? Do you send someone down to the local gas station and stand in line? Because I worked at a gas station and can TOTALLY see that happening.
If I worked there and we won, I would quit in a heartbeat. If I’m living on minimum wage that’s close to my yearly salary. If I can survive on minimum wage I could survive on $20k for a while and not have my hands constantly getting burned by frying chicken grease.
How does the money get distributed? I’d assume evenly, but what about management? You’re gonna tell me they aren’t going to want a bigger slice? Cause that would NEVER happen.
Would it be cool if an owner just ran their own lottery. Just once every quarter or so gave out $20k checks to random people? I would totally work at a place like that…and then quit as soon as I won.
Jonathan Wier is the host of Jonathan Wier and Ayla Brown, The Morning Show on Country 102.5. You can hear him every day from 5:30am to 9:00am! Check out the podcast of the show right here: Jonathan Wier and Ayla Brown Full Show
