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vienna 07-06-15 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 2316305)
I can sympathise with you, when I was out of high school, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a career goal either. And here I am 340 years later and I still don't know :wah:
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...)...


<O>

AVGWarhawk 07-07-15 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 2326555)
Now, here's one area where the Obama administration has it right.



http://www.usnews.com/opinion/econom...ors_picks=true


I remember when I was the Manager on Duty at the Crowne Plaza. I would work 60-70 hours a week, and there was no additional compensation for all the hours over 40. Seriously, that's messed up. Companies set up "managers" for additional time on the job as part of the job. I remember being told from day 1, "managers here are expected to put in at least 50 hours a week". And then I would spend half my time subbing for a front desk clerk or restaurant employee.

Pay people for their time, all their time.
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.

em2nought 07-07-15 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2327033)
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 soda/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.

AVGWarhawk 07-07-15 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by em2nought (Post 2327068)
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.

Schroeder 07-07-15 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2327072)
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.

Jimbuna 07-08-15 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Schroeder (Post 2327075)
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'.

AVGWarhawk 07-08-15 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Schroeder (Post 2327075)
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.
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.

August 07-08-15 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Schroeder (Post 2327075)
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.
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2327241)
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.

Armistead 07-08-15 12:48 PM
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!

AVGWarhawk 07-08-15 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 2327245)
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.

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.

AVGWarhawk 07-08-15 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 2327246)
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!
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.

Schroeder 07-08-15 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2327258)
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.
What surprises me is that McDonald's has exactly that in Germany. Why they don't have it in the States is beyond me.

August 07-08-15 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2327258)
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.
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.

Betonov 07-09-15 02:38 AM
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.

Onkel Neal 08-01-15 05:23 PM
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

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Three months ago, a Seattle businessman had an epiphany. Dan Price was the CEO and co-owner of a Gravity Payments, and he concluded that everyone in the company — including him — would be happier if he took a big pay cut and used the money to give his lowest-paid employees big raises. So he instituted a new policy where within three years, every employee in the company would make at least $70,000 per year. For some employees, that meant tens of thousands of dollars in raises.

You might think this was a win-win situation for everyone. A bunch of employees got raises. Price thought he'd get more satisfaction from helping his employees than from making more money himself. No one else's salary went down.

But as the New York Times reports, the plan made a lot of people upset. Most upset were employees who were already making salaries near the new $70,000 minimum. They felt that giving formerly much lower-paid employees the same salary as them deprived them of their status as highly-paid employees. Two employees even quit in protest after the raises were announced.
He's about to hit the street corner himself
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/01...ake-ends-meet/

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Dan Price, 31, tells the New York Times that things have gotten so bad he’s been forced to rent out his house.

Only three months ago Price was generating headlines—and accusations of being a socialist -- when he announced the new salary minimum for all 120 employees at his Gravity Payments credit card processing firm. Price said he was doing it, and slashing his $1 million pay package to pay for it, to address the wealth gap.

“I’m working as hard as I ever worked to make it work,” he told the Times in a video that shows him sitting on a plastic bucket in the garage of his house. “I’m renting out my house right now to try and make ends meet myself.”
The newest in office furniture :)
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