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Prank Calling Sonic to Ask About Wages and Free Ice Cream
from #252 - The Summer Of No Opinions | The Tim Dillon Show · #252
6 min
Caller
Tim calls Sonic and gets a real employee on the phone, asking about cashier and cook pay ($5/hr plus tips, $11/hr for cooks) and whether he can eat free food, then uses the absurd math to mock complaints about low wages.
- Tim calls Sonic to ask about starting wages for a cook position.
- Cashiers earn five dollars an hour but receive tips to supplement.
- Tim asks if he can eat and drink anything at Sonic while working there.
- The manager explains Tim would need to ration free food—ice cream one day, burger another—to avoid abusing the policy.
- Tim probes whether cooks can take home a good amount of food and mentions having young children who need burgers.
- Tim calculates what five dollars an hour actually amounts to annually and questions what the problem is with the arrangement.
- He notes that Sonic doesn't even suggest customers should tip, making the tip income model questionable.
- Tim estimates a Sonic cashier probably makes around twenty-five dollars in tips per shift.
- After doing the math—tips, hourly wage, free food, and burgers for babies—he concludes it adds up to roughly fifteen thousand eight hundred fifty dollars a year.
- Tim wraps up his critique by mocking people for complaining when cashiers get free sodas and occasional ice cream on top of their wages.