Employees at Crosstown restaurant owned by Kimbal Musk wonder where emergency fund is

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[link:https://wreg.com/news/employees-at-crosstown-restaurant-owned-by-kimbal-musk-wonder-where-employee-emergency-fund-is/|

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Employees who work for a small restaurant chain are out of a job right now, and they’re confused about what happened to an emergency fund meant for them.

Mason Whitman said he enjoyed the majority of his one year working at Next Door American Eatery, one of the flagship restaurants at Crosstown Concourse. In that short time, he rose through the ranks from server to head chef.

"It was a really uniquely encouraging atmosphere to work in," Whitman said. "I never dreaded a single day of work."

I am not personally familiar with this restaurant, but I'm guessing this is the NORM, while repukes LOOT STIM FUNDING!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Kimbal Musk sounds like something that calls for a fungicide and deodorizer.

[Igel]

2. It's a "here's part of the story,"

now decide.

There's a Family Fund people that was paid into.

So why isn't it being used to help people now?

Assumption: It's all still there, or it was pilfered. There's no logical alternative.

Possibilities: It totaled not so much, 50 employees at $2 a week for a year is $5000. Maybe it was more, maybe it was less. That's not going to help a whole lot of people for very long. And maybe that was dumped into the general operating expenses to keep people on the payroll just a day or three longer.

Perhaps it was used along the way by employees in need last summer, last fall, last winter. My old church had a fund to help people. When this one woman asked for help the fund was empty. The assumption was that the money was stolen (there's trust for you). I was bookkeeper. I know who got the money and why (it wasn't me, or the ministers). But because she didn't know who the money went to, the assumption was it was there or stolen. The people it did go didn't give us permission to publicize names and amounts. It would have been nice if they had, but they didn't and that was their choice. When I said this to the complainers, I was told that there were two sets of books--to which I responded that she must mean that people getting receipts for their contributions were okay with being told that they gave much less than they really did. "You just don't get it!" and she'd storm off.

Given just those two alternatives, it makes the conclusions a bit less than iron-clad.