Years ago I was a manager at a sandwich shop and the owner sold the franchise. About 90% of the employees had been working at the shop for years. Our labor to sales ratio was always great and the employees made a halfway decent living. The moral was high and the customers could tell. The new owner decides that in order to maximize profit he wants me to cut everyone's pay because “You can hire people for minimum wage, why should I be paying people over $10/h?”. I tried telling him that these guys have been working here for years and the customers like that and our labor costs are better than any of the other stores. I basically just ignored his request and after the next pay day he called me up pissed. I tell him if he wants to cut everyone's pay then he has to tell them himself. He goes off on me about how that's my job and that if I want to keep it I better do as I'm told. I tell him that's ok because I quit and put in my two weeks notice. I then call my coworkers and tell them what's going on and they follow suit and submit their two weeks as well. The owner calls me up all apologetic and says he's reconsidered. I tell him his actions don't give me a good sense about the outlook of my future employment and that he's a shitty person. The other employees know that they'll be replaced as soon as he can and still quit as well. About a year and a half later the stores shutdown as well as about half the others in town he owned. I'm guessing he wished he hadn't tried to “maximize” his profits because he lost at least half of them in the long run.