Why do you want to shut down McDonalds?

[dessiato]

Whose “regulations” and “legislation” were these?

Government. There's a massive amount of food legislation and regulations, covering most foodstuffs, which list what foods are and what is allowed in processed foodstuffs. My favourite was the meat and spreadable fish products legislation. It was years till I ate processed meats and spreadable fish again.

 

[hash tag]

More on the Israeli buy back.

McDonald's: Behind the fast-food firm's boycott controversy

McDonald's will buy back all of its Israeli sites after sales slumped following a boycott of the brand.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Saul Goodman]

Whose “regulations” and “legislation” were these?

McDonald's

 

[Spymaster]

Government. There's a massive amount of food legislation and regulations, covering most foodstuffs, which list what foods are and what is allowed in processed foodstuffs.

Can you dig that out? I've had a bit of a Google but can't find anything and I'd be interested in how and why the government are telling people that fries aren't chips. Fries are a type of chip. I can just about appreciate that calling a chip a "fry" may be misleading in certain circumstances but the other way around is nonsense. "Do you want chips with that?" is perfectly understandable to anyone purchasing food at a McD's, Burger King, or the like; unless they're an idiot!

 

[Ted Bunting]

Pringles.

70% fat
0% tasty

 

[dessiato]

Can you dig that out? I've had a bit of a Google but can't find anything and I'd be interested in how and why the government are telling people that fries aren't chips. Fries are a type of chip. I can just about appreciate that calling a chip a "fry" may be misleading in certain circumstances but the other way around is nonsense. "Do you want chips with that?" is perfectly understandable to anyone purchasing food at a McD's, Burger King, or the like; unless they're an idiot!

I'm at a funeral this afternoon but will when I get time.

 

[phildwyer]

They are the worst employers in the world, ime anyway. You get paid in hamburgers! And you're literally never allowed to take an unauthorized break: they make you learn slogans like "time to lean, time to clean" to remind you. And you have to watch company propaganda films on a regular basis. And this isn't even mentioning the pay, or the uniforms, or the supervisors. Or the "food" ffs, which is literally poison and will kill you if you eat much of it. They truly are the pits of the world.

 

[Ted Bunting]

They are the worst employers in the world, ime anyway. You get paid in hamburgers! And you're literally never allowed to take an unauthorized break: they make you learn slogans like "time to lean, time to clean" to remind you. And you have to watch company propaganda films on a regular basis. And this isn't even mentioning the pay, or the uniforms, or the supervisors. Or the "food" ffs, which is literally poison and will kill you if you eat much of it. They truly are the pits of the world.

Do you want fries with that?

 

[phildwyer]

Do you want fries with that?

I never even got to say that, I was only a ketchup-squirter.

 

[Ted Bunting]

I know they compartmentalised every aspect of the running of the restaurant but didn’t know it was that extreme. Wouldn’t you have been making burgers?

 

[phildwyer]

I know they compartmentalised every aspect of the running of the restaurant but didn’t know it was that extreme. Wouldn’t you have been making burgers?

Christ knows where they find the burgers, but they certainly don't "make" them onsite. No it was ketchup-squirting for me, all day and every day. Actually it's a really difficult job, because the burgers come in trays holding twelve of them, and you have to remember exactly which ones not to squirt ketchup on. The "cook" shouts something like "hold ketchup on left side middle and bottom right corner" and that tray reaches you 10 minutes later, behind about 25 others, and you have to get it exactly right or a 4ft-tall Chinese lady comes along and screams at you. Look what you've done now, the nightmares are back.

 

[krtek a houby]

They are the worst employers in the world, ime anyway. You get paid in hamburgers! And you're literally never allowed to take an unauthorized break: they make you learn slogans like "time to lean, time to clean" to remind you. And you have to watch company propaganda films on a regular basis. And this isn't even mentioning the pay, or the uniforms, or the supervisors. Or the "food" ffs, which is literally poison and will kill you if you eat much of it. They truly are the pits of the world.

Maybe this is a recent thing. When the better half worked there, long ago, you got a wage and free meal if you were on a long shift.

But you certainly weren't "paid in hamburgers".

 

[DotCommunist]

oh I remember the 'we expect you here 15 minutes before shift' stuff. Not the only employer to take the piss with that one, unpaid start time followed by 'give us another ten minutes mate' at the end of the shift. Unpaid. I've been telling managers to jog on with that since I started working. Just constantly seeking ways to dip your pocket as if the profit they make off your labour isn't enough. I'm paying you to employ me motherfucker.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

They are the worst employers in the world, ime anyway. You get paid in hamburgers! And you're literally never allowed to take an unauthorized break: they make you learn slogans like "time to lean, time to clean" to remind you. And you have to watch company propaganda films on a regular basis. And this isn't even mentioning the pay, or the uniforms, or the supervisors. Or the "food" ffs, which is literally poison and will kill you if you eat much of it. They truly are the pits of the world.

I mean given how many young people they employ I'm glad to hear they are hot on cleaning.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Christ knows where they find the burgers, but they certainly don't "make" them onsite. No it was ketchup-squirting for me, all day and every day. Actually it's a really difficult job, because the burgers come in trays holding twelve of them, and you have to remember exactly which ones not to squirt ketchup on. The "cook" shouts something like "hold ketchup on left side middle and bottom right corner" and that tray reaches you 10 minutes later, behind about 25 others, and you have to get it exactly right or a 4ft-tall Chinese lady comes along and screams at you. Look what you've done now, the nightmares are back.

My very first job was working at Dairy Queen. When the hamburgers came out of the cooler, they were pre-formed and green. I've never been able to fathom why green, but they were. As soon as they went on the grill, they turned the right color. You haven't lived until you've cleaned the ice cream machine several nights in a row. I used to go home and have nightmares about working there, after working there all day. My next job was mucking stables, and I found my clientele much more appreciative of my work.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

oh I remember the 'we expect you here 15 minutes before shift' stuff. Not the only employer to take the piss with that one, unpaid start time followed by 'give us another ten minutes mate' at the end of the shift. Unpaid. I've been telling managers to jog on with that since I started working. Just constantly seeking ways to dip your pocket as if the profit they make off your labour isn't enough. I'm paying you to employ me motherfucker.

About half of the employers, I've had play at that shite. It's always at jobs where they know you're too poor to quit.

 

[freshapple]

I mean it's pretty similar. Much of Belgium was part of France right?

Belgium is basically France with beer rather than wine I think

 

[ouirdeaux]

Belgians don't go in for that charming French habit of pretending not to understand what you're saying because you have an accent (which is how I know my French, however crap, is comprehensible). But then they're a funny country. Some people in France, and others in the Netherlands, didn't like their respective countries, so they decided to join forces and set up independently. It didn't occur to them until later that they had nothing much in common with each other, apart from being hard to get on with. But at least they're aware that other languages exist, because their own compatriots speak one of them.

 

[Spymaster]

I'm at a funeral this afternoon but will when I get time.

My condolences.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

oh I remember the 'we expect you here 15 minutes before shift' stuff. Not the only employer to take the piss with that one, unpaid start time followed by 'give us another ten minutes mate' at the end of the shift. Unpaid. I've been telling managers to jog on with that since I started working. Just constantly seeking ways to dip your pocket as if the profit they make off your labour isn't enough. I'm paying you to employ me motherfucker.

When I worked at Tesco on the checkout, I was paid up to 9.00 p.m., which is when the store closed. But they'd let customers in up to about 2 minutes to 9, so they'd be sauntering around doing their shopping and not getting to the checkouts till about 9.30. So they got at least an extra half an hour a day unpaid work from everyone who had to stay until all the customers had left the store.

 

[dessiato]

My condolences.

Thank you. He was a much loved friend and will be greatly missed by us.

 

[Dogsauce]

You mean fries?

We call them chips in this country. We call the other things ‘crisps’ here. Hth.

 

[Serge Forward]

We call them chips in this country. We call the other things ‘crisps’ here. Hth.

Though there has been disagreement over the chips/fries distinction on here.

 

[Raheem]

I don't know. Why would they piss about with a chip?

We Broke Down the 19 Ingredients in McDonald's French Fries to Find Out What We're Eating

One of them is also found in silly putty.

spoonuniversity.com

My understanding is that UK McDonald's fries are basically potato and fat, and not the same as the ones Americans eat.

 

[phildwyer]

Maybe this is a recent thing. When the better half worked there, long ago, you got a wage and free meal if you were on a long shift.

But you certainly weren't "paid in hamburgers".

It's not a "free meal," fool. They literally tally up the cost and take it out of your wages. It is being paid in hamburgers.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's not a "free meal," fool. They literally tally up the cost and take it out of your wages. It is being paid in hamburgers.

It may be taken out of your wages but once again, you aren't being paid in hamburgers.

And the 4ft tall Chinese lady screaming? Is that part of your Walter Mitty McBollocks?

 

[NoXion]

It's not a "free meal," fool. They literally tally up the cost and take it out of your wages. It is being paid in hamburgers.

Maybe in Yankee-doodle land they pull that kind of shit, but that's hardly unique to McDonald's. Comes with the territory of living in the land of the fee and the home of the knave.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I remember working for a second hand goods company where we got a ‘bonus’ of vouchers that could be spent in the shops. That seemed to suit some of the workers despite the poor wages. I guess having first dibs on a second hand synth or whatever with vouchers to put in beat free hamburgers.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I failed at getting a job at McD as a teenager, how I strove since
french:
chips = crisps
frittes = chips
freedom fries = some burger joint potato thin wedges

 

[phildwyer]

It may be taken out of your wages but once again, you aren't being paid in hamburgers.

Obviously, if they're taking it out of your wages, you ARE being paid in hamburgers.

And not just any hamburgers. The food they sell in McDonalds is poison, it will quite literally kill you if you eat enough of it. And you do eat enough of it because it's taken out of your wages. Quite soon you start to feel lethargic, then ill, and before long you're addicted to the chemicals they put in you food, and even ketchup-squirting comes to seem a challenge. Many people end up working there for 40 or 50 years.

And the 4ft tall Chinese lady screaming? Is that part of your Walter Mitty McBollocks?

She was real alright, her name was Ping. I've no idea what she was saying, well I suppose it was something like "get the ketchup right next time white devil," but she said it very loudly, especially when her immediate superiors were doing an impromptu inspection. That used to drive her insane, she'd be rushing about all over the shop screaming in Cantonese at bemused St. Lucians. I think she had ambitions to sleep her way to the top of the Mickey D's corporate hierarchy.