Insulting doesn’t even come close to describing what’s wrong with this
This is like the
episode with the gas station rebate, where customers could only take advantage of if they placed their form in a collection box hidden at the top of a mountain.The best part was when he became good friends with the last two people and then told them there was no rebate box and the real rebate was the friends they made along the way and then they left only for the camera to pan over to the well hidden box
What show is that?
Nathan for you, iirc
Nathan For You, season one, episode four
What’s especially insidious about this is that a lot of people won’t go through the effort for a measly $1 credit. Imagine how much settlement money they ultimately won’t pay because people aren’t claiming it.
And splitting that measly amount into four separate uses of a coupon code! Not only does that make it four times as annoying, but it means you need to give them more money four times anyway.
Up to $22 million it seems (random article)
A coupon giving you 25 cents off four times is an advertising campaign not a settlement
the lawyers disagree actually and it is
Another “cost of doing business” settlement. At least in Japan and Korea, the CEOs have to apologize and prostrate themselves before the public and ask forgiveness. In the US, they just add insult to injury.
Reminds me of the thank you note we got here for work in the public sector. It was a “print yourself” note.
here, we got you a pdf
chuds unironically buying nfts for their loved ones as a gift be like
Damn, 1 dollar? You can now buy that clove of garlic you’ve always wanted
The system works, folks!
I have a friend that take part in every single class action lawsuit they can. I never understood it because it’s never more than a couple of bucks.
hey now i once got like $75 because there was a disk drive settlement and I, at the time, worked at a computer store that had a bunch in the back from teardowns.
anyways i used to do the same thing in HS. It was just easy to do a bunch and I always knew at best I’d be getting like a $0.50 check in the mail twenty weeks later, but it was so amusing just getting home one day and seeing I had a check in the mail for some damn settlement I’d forgotten about. Funnily enough I used to do the same thing but way more obsessively with free samples and my mother never let me live down the day a walking cane for blind people showed up & made me donate it to an assisted living community
I respect the grift. Honestly, from the standpoint of sticking it to the corporation any way possible, I’m all for it.
Hey, that still worked out, they probably needed that.
It’s the hustle and the grindset
best I ever got was a 4-pack of redbull I think.
my sibling got like 1200 from a papa john’s employee class action
Yeah I just read another comment where someone brought up the same suit… I can’t recall the specifics, but i stand corrected. There are definitely some outlier instances.
Lol, I just commented about this and didn’t see yours
I got $25 dollars once, it’s absolutely worth it. Technically made over $100 an hour off that, lol.
Hey, I joined one against the Papa Johns when I worked there and got like $3000. People we were there longer got closer to $20k
Interesting… I guess the employee class action lawsuit paid out more to less people then your average consumer class action.
Happy to hear you made out okay there, just hoping the damage was worth more…I can’t recall what this situation was with Papa Johns, but you are the second command I saw about it.
It was failure to pay mileage minimums to drivers using their own vehicles (everyone). So the pot was split based on the amount of miles you were cheated out of based on length of employment.
The reason it was so high was that the management was told anyone who signed on would get fired, which is also incredibly illegal and triggered a second class action lmao
The reason it was so high was that the management was told anyone who signed on would get fired, which is also incredibly illegal and triggered a second class action lmao
Holy shit lol. That’s fucking wild.
The whole thing is wild and unsurprising. It’s not to be outdone by the Papa himself being an unrepentant racist drunk.
The class actions were filed against the franchisees, not corporate (they knew better and didn’t fuck around in the corporate stores). The regional Papa Tsars were Haffaesque in their business practices though.
The one I worked for owned like 40% of PJs on the east coast and all of them in Canada. I did get to de-Pappafy our store when the N-word recording came out though so that was fun. Still have a ton of drunk papa magnets on my fridge and garage door.
I also got this exact email. Not a resident of California so I don’t even get the non expiring dollar, very cool
one time the warehouse/factory i worked at gave everyone a $0.05/hr raise.
This pissed everyone off so bad that we all went in and just told them to take it back.
no court ever found parkmobile liable for anything
I got tripped up on this. And assumed that it’s actually just a promotion or scam? Why did they send it to me if the court didn’t make them?
because it’s a settlement and not a court ruling, they signed an agreement with the lawyers that they would compensate the people affected but will not admit fault
that’s how most settlements workA settlement means the issue is put to rest and the claimant can’t sue them again
I literally never thought about this before - couldn’t there just be a revolving door where legal teams sue and settle for basically nothing, then get lucrative contracts from the company they settled against while the company can’t be sued again?
It depends. The law firm sues on behalf of a class of affected individuals/entities (i.e. customers who were wronged) but they can’t do that without your permission. Sometimes this permission is implied if you don’t respond to a notice, so it’s opt-out. Sometimes it is opt-in. Not sure about this one, but you do have a choice to decline representation and theoretically pursue your own legal claim since you wouldn’t be bound by the settlement. But in practice, you aren’t gonna be able to successfully sue a large corporation on your own. That’s the point of class-action lawsuits.
I guess in theory a corporation could set up these flimsy settlements as a sort of inoculation against later claims, but I think that wouldn’t really work in practice. They would have to do this for every possible line of complaint, which is near infinite for a sufficiently large organization.
Cool, thanks for the info!
Whenever I get one of these I always find the email of the lawyer who “won” the case and send them a shitty email. It does nothing but I feel slightly better.
i got this too! i can’t wait to spend my $1 in 4 transfer within the next 180 days before it expires!
