CNN story.
Perhaps the problem here is that instead of teenagers working in the fast food industry, people are working there for a living.
What the hell made the job market so bad? Bush? Obama? A Republican Congress?
McDonald’s has apparently taken the site down, at least temporarily.
I worked at McDonald’s all through high school and most nights I came home smelling like their fries, it still makes me a little sick to my stomach 30 years later.
I’m wondering WTF McDonald’s and WalMart are doing in the financial counseling business…is Dave Ramsey so swamped that they are helping him out, or something? No wonder they are being pummeled in the press.
I think that McDonald’s and Walmart are trying to react to criticism that they don’t take care of their employees by providing this kind of information instead of an actual living wage.
There is an intersection here with a McDonalds on one corner, Burger King across the street, Subway on another corner, and Arbys & KFC about a block down the street. Narious high school kids worked at each of them, They all got vouchers good for a meal if they worked a shift.
But they said that after spending hours making Big Mac’s, you didn’t want to eat one. So they went to Burger King or Subway and traded their voucher with friends who worked there, and used it for lunch. So you had McDonalds workers, in uniform, waiting in line at Burger King or Arby’s. All the managers were OK with it; it kept their workers happy. This was quite a few years ago, I don’t know if the current manager types care about that any more.
In what context is advising minimum-wage workers on how much to pay their pool cleaners and au pairs, to sell their belongings if they can’t afford to live on a McDonald’s salary, and to not eat McDonald’s food, appropriate, I wonder?
Well, they could make suggestions as to which of their foods is better as a regular diet - they do have salads and apple slices and milk which is admittedly better than a burger, fries and a soda. Someone suggested the light mcmuffin that uses the egg whites and a whole wheat muffin, the oatmeal, there is as I recall non-english muffins which might be better than the sandwich made from pancakes and sausage.
[I will comment that if I have to eat at mcdonalds or any other fast food place, I tend to get a salad and milk instead of the classic burger/fries/soda.]
I could see a valid suggestion to selling off older possessions that you might not use any further, older textbooks from the previous semesters, older clothing you no longer use and so forth. I know people who have older game platforms and games they no longer play that could be sold off. I sold clothing that I no longer wear a couple years ago because they were taking up room rather than I needed money but the principal is the same. I got $100 for a leather jacket that I had paid $300 for about 10 years previously that was too small by 3 sizes but I could see selling off something that I was just tired of wearing.
I do not think the other parts - the tipping of employees is valid but I do agree that the HR person probably just copy and pasted crap from some web page without thinking, just like an ex-boss suggested that I simply put a whole new work wardrobe “on my credit card” until payday when they changed the dress code in mid-pay cycle. When you strictly budget every penny and don’t actually have a credit card it is a stupid assed suggestion. I don’t know many CS workers that can afford to turn around and blow $300 or so on a new work wardrobe at the drop of a hat.
I had to seriously wonder earlier how their internal people could continue to do this sort of PR Nightmare bullshit and not get shitcanned. Then it comes out that the content is provided by a vendor.
Which only modified the question: Why the fuck didn’t their internal management jump all over that vendor after the first two PR catastrophies (budget, gift suggestions for your maid) involving the provided content?
Maybe I’m just completely unforgiving, but if I was the McDonald’s CEO, if this happened the third time (which it just did), I’d be shitcanning every single person involved in the oversight of this website and it’s provided content, since they obviously failed to correct the issue with the vendor after the first two times it happened.
No. Demote them and put them on the line in the restaurants, at minimum wage.
Exactly. McDonald’s has lately been going out of its way to point out that they provide more healthful options. Publicly telling people not to eat their food (employees or not) seems counter to that idea.
And, on an unrelated note, I knew a girl in college who ate exactly one cheeseburger from McDonalds every day. Or, at least, that was all she claimed to eat. Seeing as she didn’t waste away, I think she definitely ate other stuff, if only due to certain binges due to an altered consciousness.
Come to think of it, the bit where she didn’t seem to consider getting a room mate to cover expenses was where I lost interest in that book (at the time, I was splitting a house in College Station with two other guys, total rent not including utilities was $950 a month split three ways).
A few years later, I was renting a single bedroom apartment in Wichita for around $400 a month. It wasn’t anything fancy. It wasn’t even all that nice, but it was an enclosed space with a lock and a kitchen and HVAC.
Car payments on my 2003 Ford Focus came out to around $150 or $200 a month (I bought it in 2009, complete with hail damage, cracked windshield, and what turned out to be a bad starter). Can’t speak for the insurance costs or the au pair (military, so I get Tricare, and I don’t know what an au pair is so I’m guessing I don’t owe one any tips)
EDIT: Wichita and College Station are not Los Angeles, but they do at least have plenty of McD’s (and thus presumably McD’s employees). I wonder if the suggested costs they came up with were based on some kind of average or if they pulled numbers out of a back pocket?