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by DebtDeflation 1325 days ago
It jumped the shark a few years back when Jimmy Johns tried to force their "sandwich artists" to sign non-competes.
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Does JJ refer to their employees as sandwich artists too? I thought that was just a Subway thing.

But yeah, beyond ridiculous, as if a JJ employee is going to leak some crazy trade secret to Subway or whoever.

That's the most hilarious double speak. I can only imagine the repressed artists getting told off for putting 5 slices of cheese on a foot-long instead of 4. "I was just trying to express myself, you said I was an artist."
I assume the "sandwich artist" title is an allusion to that old saying - y'know because they pay their employees so little that they're starving.
Everyone knows you spread mustard from right to left. We aren't knaves.
Jesus, “sandwich artist” is borderline insulting one’s intelligence.

In France, the official term for a janitor was “surface technician”, which I previously considered to be the most condescending name for a job, but it has been violently dethroned by “sandwich artist”.