Another Maccy D’s survivor here. Did you guys have the star system? When I worked there, you got a star to go on your badge after you mastered each area, so there was a till star and a fry star and a chicken star…After you got all 5 stars, oooooh - you got made queen, or something.
“After you got all 5 stars, oooooh - you got made queen, or something.”
There’s a tantalizingly illicit Burger King joke in there somewhere, but I’ll be arsed if I can think of one. 
Not long ago, there was a hubbub about a new federal rule having to do with defining who was exempt from being paid extra for overtime. I frankly don’t understand the rule, but I wonder if McD’s “everybody’s a manager” thing lets them avoid paying extra for overtime.
Master Bullshitter - the guy who came up with the Area Manager idea.
Wouldn’t you rather be Lord of the Fries? Sure beats a friend of mine who worked in the clothing department at K-mart and was known as Lord of the Pants.
Horseflesh, Grand Poobah of the Copyroom and Head Muckety-Muck of the Butt Hut.
Minimum wage was $3.35? Man, when you say your name is dwc1970, you mean dwc1970!!! 
Naw, the rule had to do with white collar positions that were within a certain income range (around $60-80,000). The above mentioned girl still makes overtime when she gets it, even after the “promotion.”
McD’s might have picked up the idea from their branches in Japan. For the last five years, every time I go into one, there will be five people (age 16-30) all wearing “Manager” tags on their uniforms, one person (age about 50) wearing a tag with the Japanese equivalent of “Fucking Hall Monitor”, and one poor sap of indeterminate age who has to wear the pink “trainee” uniform.
Sometimes I suspect they switch uniforms on a weekly basis.
[raises hand] $3.35 + here… 1978-1980
OK, I knew that … actually this page shows $3.35 lasted from 1981-1990! So I took a little liberty with my dates … because “you mean dwc1981-1990” just wasn’t as funny 
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