That's just the exorbitant profit that they put into stock buy backs. And if they spent half of that on buybacks and gave every employee a 10k bonus I'm sure opinions of them would be a lot more favourable.

They could easily cut back some of their "profit" to pay people better

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I don't disagree that it should have gone to employees, just wanted to be clear that $10 an hour wasn't quite accurate. I'm sure a one time yearly bonus would be just as much appreciated and needed.

[–] Fogle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They also paused stock dividends for COVID 3 years ago and only resumed it now at 9¢ instead of 38¢

And their 2022 gross profit was nearly 21 billion dollars. That's an extra 60 dollars an hour for every employee

They have the money.