340 years? No wonder: I personally know how hard it is for someone over sixty to find a good career; it must be very, very difficult over 340 years of age...

(You don't look a day over 335...)...


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When FEMA goes active I work around the clock. It is not unusual to start on a Sunday morning and get perhaps 4 hours of sleep through a Wednesday. I'm salary. The additional accolades I receive are...well...never. However, the brow beatings go on for days.

As far as McDonald, start with filling the orders correctly. Stop screwing people at the drive through. Stop giving me half drunk milk with the cap screwed on. Keep the bathrooms spotless as well as the parking lot, main dining room, and soad/condiment counter then we'll talk $15.00 per hour. Good luck.

As it is, I'll only buy McDonald's when I've got a coupon(or Mcdoubles full price). No way I'm paying "more" for their quality of food.

Truth be told, for a few bucks more, one can get a better quality meal elsewhere. I eat at McDonald's rarely. And it is not so much the food that turns me away. It is the lack of quality in service and cleanliness of the establishment.

Strange, here in Germany they check on the cleanliness and customer service quite often. My brother in law worked at a McDonald's when he studied and they had to keep their restaurant clean and be quick with the service as McDonald's would send test customers every couple of weeks.
I thought they would do that in the states too.

Certainly happens in the UK and is called 'Mystery Shopper'.

No sir. By and large the bathrooms at McDonald's, from my experiences, are a study in cesspools and e-coli. Service is fair-to-middling. Often the order is incorrect. Specifically if you are using the drive through. Once my father ordered a milk. Upon looking to opening the plastic bottle of milk he found it was already opened and half gone. Once I ordered a Big Mac. There are three slices of roll in a Big Mac. Top, bottom and middle roll. Some how all of the bread was on the bottom and the two patties/special sauce sitting on top. This individual that put this Big Mac together in a box and served it up wants $15.00/hour?

As far as inspections, this is done by the Dept of Health. They may visit once a year. As far as accounting for customer service...there is none that I'm aware of.

The difference in the two experiences may be due to the diligence of the franchise owner. Sounds like Schroeder's BiL's McD has an owner that cares about his business whereas Tarbox's McD owner does not.

I rarely eat fast food, we have numerous mom/'pop diners still where u can get a real burger, bigger, pure beef, fresh veggies on it for a buck more. Last McD burger I got, I opened it up and threw it in the garbage. Look like it had been made from dumpster scraps.

I do love Biscuitville!

Very true. Not all are franchises though. But that is besides the point. McDonald's has an image. Currently my image of McDonald's is the city dump. One would think that McDonald's corp headquarters would have a system in place that would assure the franchises are clean, courteous and efficient. I have been a few that are very good. I have been in many more that are sub-par acceptable.

Yes sir, a few bucks more and one can eat in a mom/pops diner type place. This is where I go. McDonald's is just a rush meal to fill the hole because I have no time to sit and enjoy a better meal.

What surprises me is that McDonald's has exactly that in Germany. Why they don't have it in the States is beyond me.

Must be a local thing because all the McD's i've been in here in the northeast have been as clean or cleaner as any other fast food joint.

Slovene McD are also spotless.
It's the food per price ratio that turns me away. For the price of a big mack menu I can get a kebab triple the size with fresh vegetables and coke.

Man, you think this guy is a businessman? He sure didn't see this coming. Whatta maroon. :O:

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/1/9084071/ceo-raise-angry

This CEO gave his lowest-paid employees huge raises and it made some people angry

He's about to hit the street corner himself
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/01...ake-ends-meet/

The newest in office furniture :)
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He went too hard too fast.

A 13th pay for every employee or bonuses when the company makes profit would be better and would raise the productivity even more. Yes, higher wages raise productivity, who knew. Rewards are even better though.

The low level would get their raises and the middle level would get their raises as well. No jealousy.
I don't care about the higher level, they're already ovepaid and overfed

I think you're being a bit optimistic about society in the US there. :03:

Frederick Herzberg might disagree with this. Hygiene vs motivator

To be fair, a quick overview of Herzberg on wiki gives me:

I think the last two is all that anyone can ask for really, a reasonable level of pay and job security. The quibbling factor comes down to what is a reasonable level of pay, which in my opinion would depend upon the cost of living in any particular area. The higher the cost of living, the higher the wage should be, so that people aren't forced to work two or three jobs in order to make ends meet. As an employer, you want your staff to give you their 100%, and if that person is torn between three jobs, you'll be lucky to get 33.3r% out of them. So it's in the employers best interest to match a living wage, and it's in societies best interests too, but anything that involves pushing prices up (even if wages go up too, to match) makes people shy away. :dead:


EDIT: Of course, I realise now having typed all that out, you probably mean about the likelihood of a wage rise raising productivity. In which case I think that in the long term, Herzberg has a fair point, but I'd wager that there would be a short term boost as morale briefly improves, but it takes more than wages to fix morale problems in many jobs.

EDIT EDIT: Just reading briefly through the Two-factor theory, can't say I disagree with it, I think that wages cross the line from Hygiene to Motivation in a couple of instances, such as for something like performance related pay or bonuses, but mostly it is through recognition and achievement that satisfaction is primarily earned.