Originally Posted by alc6379
...Glad to have feedback from a former employee. I'm sure every fast food worker could tell some horror stories. Surprisingly, I don't have any tales of disgustingness from my stints at Pizza Hut and a Pretzel joint that I worked at!.
But my whole issue is one of free will. After discussing my gripe with some of my coworkers, a valid point was raised. The government is actually trying to crack down on McDonalds because of people getting fat off of the food. Their reasoning for it is that cases of morbid obesity, stroke, and heart disease end up costing taxpayers greatly, especially when the fat person is on government assistance to start with, thus on government funded healthcare. This I can understand, but I even have a gripe about such social programs that I won't get into here.
Heck yeah! Put a sign up that says that your muscles will turn into styrofoam by eating McDonalds. (After all, they had to do something with all of those old containers-- "all beef" patties, anyone?) Put up a sign that says whatever you want, I don't care. I just feel that people should be less compelled to not do things by the government and guided more by their own common sense. I've never seen a single commercial purport that McDonalds is the epicenter for a healthy lifestyle. People go there of their own accord, and should accept the consequences of what happens if they go there too much, just like I have to accept the consequences of deciding to shove my finger in an electrical outlet.
My biggest concern isn't with the "vice" itself, but with the fact that there are people out there who seem to think that we world's population should not be responsible for our actions. Additionally, they feel that our choices should be minimized to the least harmful choices, so that the responsibility for our actions that we do assume is of little real consequence.
Note: Just to celebrate losing McDonald's super size option, I went to my favorite Mexican restaurant here in Nashville and ate a chicken, sour cream and pico de gallo burrito that was the size of my forearm. Take that, nutrition dictators! pfft! Those with full bellies snub thee!
Like I said, I have seen some stuff that would make you never want to eat at another resturant as long as you live. I remember this one time that we had a manager take this guys order.
Well, he was horriabley rude, cursing up a storm, yelling at her for something that she did not do, etc.
So what she did was she took the chicken patty that she was cooking for that sandwich and 'accidently' flipped it on the floor. She stepped on it and what not, and then put it on the bun, added the dressings and served it.
The reason that he brought it back was not the fact that it had been trampled on, but the fact that it was cooked only 30 seconds, and was cold and dripping with grease.
She then (fully) cooked another one, stepped on it and everythign else that she had dome before, and served it again. He took it and happily ate it, despite the black tread marks, and the other things that were on it.
The manager was never fired for it.
Yes, people do want to always place the blame on someone (or thing) and try to make it not their problem. It's like Leno Said:
'You ever notice that when a man (no offence) gets indigestion, they blame it on the last thing they ate... They could have had Ribs, with baked beans, a side of potato and then at the very end, he has a small dinner mint.... what do they do? BLAME IT ON THE MINT!'
Kinda like the 'Blame Canada' thing. (Not trying to offend ANYONE here!)
It is not the nations fault that other people are overweight, can't breathe or fit in their beds. The food is there to eat, no one is forcing them to do so.
