This is one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time: McDonald's is encouraging its workers to blog. (Cuz they have soooo much time during their busy, minimum wage-earning days to help McD's brand themselves as the caring fast food joint.) In any case, BellaSugar and I had some fun today imagining what a McDonald's blog would sound like. After you read some of our McMusings, add your own McBlog in the comments below!
3/10/08. 9:38 pm. Today I fried 4,000 Chicken McNuggets, 50 more than my Nugget-per-shift quota. This has made me eligible for a free bathroom break per shift!!! I am BEYOND excited. If all continues on this trajectory, I may get a 20 cent/hour raise in six months and/or maybe — just maybe —I will be promoted from grill de-greaser to coveted hashbrown grease trap cleaner. Honestly, though, if one more person asks me for a
coffee stirrercoke spoon, I'm gonna lose it. We haven't had those in years, people!! And no, I don't have time to get you extra Horsey sauce (Arby's, FYI!) — I gotta write this damn blog!
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Um, Giggle, Bella, this is quite hysterical, but I absolutely can not picture any McDonald's employees that I've come across using the word "trajectory" in regards to their career at McD's...if at all
1i work at mcdonald's, yet i do use words like "trajectory." i have an extensive vocabulary. where do you work, phasekitty, and how would you like for all of society to consistently stereotype you as being a moron? i went to college for 4 years. although i understand the groupthink on the subject, i personally find it really offensive how i am degraded on a daily basis solely due to my place of employment. i suppose it's a sensitive subject for me at the moment. i just wish people would realize that it is wrong to stereotype people in such a way. these same individuals wouldn't enjoy it if someone called them hideous names and acted so offensively in THEIR workplace. nor would they go to any other business establishment and call those workers names and just generically talk down to them. it just makes me sad.
2plus, i think bella sugar was using the word 'trajectory' in a joking way, for that exact reason. it's called irony.
3This post is definitely meant to ridicule McDonald's for inviting their already over-worked employees to blog about McD's on their off time when they clearly have other things to do, like go to school, raise families, etc. It is NOT meant to ridicule the employees who work hard and who, many of them, are working their way through school, etc. I've waited tables, I've been there re: assumptions people make about you. Definitely not the intent, Deannest!
4Yikes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be offensive! I was totally joking- most people who work at McDonald's are just kids, at least where I'm from, and use McDonald's as a learning experience for a first job. I meant it to mean that most of the kids I knew who worked there wouldn't be thinking about the trajectory of their career there, they'd be thinking about what colleges they'd applied to or perhaps what career they'd like to pursue. I did get the irony, I was replying to how funny I found it. I do respect those that choose the food business as a career as I had many jobs in the food business to work my way through school. My comment was thoughtless and I apologize.
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