Garlic Jims Gormet Pizza Closed

[SomeGuy]

RW hit on a key point that may be in play here. The people who were just laid off were likely employees of Garlic Jim’s corporate, based on the fact that the parent company had been running this location since taking over from the original franchise owner.

Whomever has now assumed the WS business may well have their own legal entity (e.g. “WS Pizza LLC” or similar) and therefore all former employees may have been let go and then (the good ones anyway) rehired by the new entity.

I agree the timing is terrible, but I bet there’s more to this story than originally posted. Curious to see if the new owners weigh in – both to get “the rest of the story” and also to see if they realize the business value of proactively communicating with the well-informed WS community, thanks in large part of course to WSB.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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[tom kelley]

I just saw a post on Craig’s List that announced open interviews in WS today for what looks like all positions. “We will provide an outstanding work environment where teamwork, integrity, respect & fun thrives.” reads their ad.I’m having a little trouble squaring that philosophy with canning the entire staff.

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[JoB]

if your intent is to rehire existing employees who are capable..

you pre-screen them before inviting open interviews so you know how many positions are left to fill.

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[SomeGuy]

Coincidentally, today’s Daily Deal from Living Social is 50% off Bison Creek Pizza and Pub:

http://livingsocial.com/deals/14336-50-off-pizza-beer?msdc_id=27&ref=SEADeal122410_27_729email

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[JanS]

talked briefly with my friend whose son delivered for Garlic Jim’s. He worked last Sunday night, nothing said to him. Got a text on Monday that he was no longer employed. Now, that’s professional! Now he’s desperately looking for a job…he’s a college student, and this was helping with expenses.

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[yeah-me]

SomeGuy — you make the most sense here. If they liked their jobs at Garlic Jim’s then hurry up and apply with the new owners! Unless they were horrible at their job they are very likely to get rehired very quickly.

It is probably a paperwork issue (that should have been handled with more finesse — but maybe the outgoing owners did the firing without consulting the new owner.)

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[WSB]

I have an appointment to speak with the new owners this afternoon, so if you’re online later in the day, be on the lookout. They are working at their Edmonds location today so the staff can have Christmas Eve off, they explained when we set the appointment to chat later.

Until speaking with them, I won’t know their side of the story, but in a fair amount of business stories I’ve covered, it would seem the employees of a sold business worked for its previous owner, and wouldn’t necessarily be part of the deal, however poorly or well it was executed. Not that there’s ever a good way to have your job cut (I was part of a mass “we deactivated your keycards even before we told you you were all out of work” layoff at Disney a decade ago).

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[dhg]

You worked at Disney? I hear their work ethic was, “Don’t want to work on Saturday? Don’t bother showing up Sunday!” (did I just hijack a thread? aww, Chupacabra!)

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[WSB]

Disney Internet Group. But every media job I have ever held (including that one) required work potentially every day of the year, every night of the year, so nothing was different there, and I knew what I was getting into when I went into a Life Of Media. News/information never sleeps.

Meantime, just spoke with new owner. Story in the works. But one correction right off the bat to the OP here: The old owner, says the new owner, closed the business on Monday, before the new ownership was even in place (they signed the deal Wednesday). The old owner (a private firm, not the parent corporation) therefore threw everybody out of work (and did the notifying). Three former employees who came in to pick up stuff were invited to reapply, and two did, says the new owner. Writing up the rest now.

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[antmanbee]

Garlic Jims posted on Craigslist

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/fbh/2126931564.html

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[HMC Rich]

I thought this post was in the running for a world record in jumping to conclusions.

No one is owed a job. NO ONE IS OWED A JOB.

I don’t know how everyone was let go but at least a manager or owner should tell a person face to face. That is what I did and how I have been a recipient of a pink slip.

Nuemes. Talk radio and right wing radio is freedom radio, not hate speech. I like the fact that we can choose our flavor, 1090 or 770 or whatever. Free speech is a gift and a right. If you view right wing radio as hate, so be it but I think that is not very respectful and wrong, but you are allowed to believe and say what you want.

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[JanS]

right wing radio…Rush, and his ilk…IS about hate..and false information. Can’t get around that. I don’t listen to it all very much these days, not on the liberal side either…I just get pissed off, the BP goes up. Sigh…so I get my info in other ways. Mostly by reading.

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[Vanessa]

Wheeee! Sometimes reading posts from last to first sure takes some wild turns. How did pizza folks losing their jobs turn into Rush and right wing hate speech radio…?……wheeeee back to work.

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