Yet Another Problem at the K? Aramark Concessions Treating Employees Poorly?

I’m speaking for the vendors that work the aisles, not necessarily for the stand workers. I have seen in an ESPN article on page 2 that vendors make a few % points less in Boston than we do here – so they are actually treating us nicer on this first contract, which expires after 2011 season. I assume they can do that to the Boston vendors because they always have a full house and presumably do better than us because of that. (FYI – stand workers are paid hourly, somewhere in the area of $9 or $10 per hour range. All vendors work on straight commission, subject to a minimum of $41.72(4.5 hrs) minimum per game. Beer vendors get paid by the bottle sold, I believe it is in the 80 something cents per bottle. Food vendors get between 18 and 20.5% (goes up as your total sales for the year accumulate), but that is based on net sales; i.e., I sell a bag of nuts for $4.50, but you gotta divide by 1.09725 to subtract out the inherent sales tax and find the “real” selling price. Bottom line – sell a bag of nuts, get about 80 something cents. Vendors pay for each load as we get them; hence we keep any tips we receive automatically. Naturally, I report all of those on my taxes, in case we have any IRS agents reading this! : )

I have noticed the payroll department needs improvement. They make numerous errors on paychecks – but they do always correct them. Just a hassle to deal with. One major error they STILL have not corrected – they have yet to withhold the KC earnings tax (KC municipality has a 1% earnings tax on all wages earned within the city limits). We have been pointing it out to our supervisors all year – but this is a big company, so it may be that payroll could be processed anywhere in the country for all I know, so this hasn’t got changed. I’m sorta shocked that the city hasn’t figured this out yet. We want them to get it figured out, because the LAST thing we wanted was for us to get to the end of the season and have what would normally be a weekly pittance withheld turn into a $50 or $60 whopper to make up for their error.