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Re: Things on McSpotlight that I've noticed at work - well observed!

Posted by: Siamak ( UK ) on June 05, 1996 at 17:52:10:

In Reply to: Things on McSpotlight that I've noticed at work posted by a on June 02, 1996 at 16:56:05:

: There have been several things that I have read on your site that
: I have noticed in my work. When it comes to the hamburgers,
: chicken, nuggets and filets they all have holding cabinets. I
: think the times are supposed to be 20 min for chicken, filets and
: hamburgers and 25 or 30 for nuggets. Well anyways I have noticed
: that during a major rush you can't help but make too much food
: sometimes. So when the rush is over you have all this food that is
: left over. And obviously when you have all this left over food it
: can not be sold within the time they are supposed to be sitting in
: the cabinet. So I always ask the manager or person on production
: - do you want me to waste them or make them. They usually say
: waste a few, make a few or just leave them for an extra 20 minutes.

What you are describing here is normal practice at McD. They do
anything to minimise their waste in order to cut down their costs and
therefore maximise their profits. Throughout the years that I worked for McD, we
hardly ever threw out any food. The food had to be literally completely
dehydrated in the holding cabinet before it got thrown away. Things were
even worse on Friday and Saturday nights. On these two nights we were
instructed by our managers not to throw away any food no matter what
state it was in as the customers were considered to be too drunk to
realise what they were eating or bother about complaining! We were also
instructed to do many other things to minimised waste such as
serving out of date food to customers, watering down tomato
ketchup and drink cyrup to increase yield, cooking defrosted
meat for customers and of course never closing down the store even when
sewerage is almost ankle high on the floor. And you know what? The McD store
I worked in was given the Store of the Year Award by the head office!
Which made me wonder what other stores must be like.

: When it comes to your section on employment. It kind of bothers
: me because I really hope none of this stuff will happen to me.
: Like the whole thing with the sewage and electocution. I'm kind
: of hoping that this kind of stuff doesn't happen in Canada. But
: if some of these things happened in the UK than chances are good
: these types of things have happened here as well.

I sincerely hope that this sort of things won’t happen to you personally. But you
can bet your bottom dollar that McD will try anything anywhere in the world
(wheter illigal or immoral or not) to maximise their turnover if there is the slightest chance that they can get away with it. And as you suggest, the principle business
policies of McD are the same whether inthe UK or Canada. So I would keep my eyes
wide open for abuse if I were you. I have seen many young unskilled McD workers
being pushed to their limit and abused (eg. working 26 hr shifts, being sent home
before the end of the shift if store not busy, being sent on trash-walk as a punishment,
working well past midnight and then walking home because no taxi fares were paid etc etc). Some people like Nit Nurse in this group regard all of these as either gross
exaggeration by some malicious anti-McD people or legitimate business conduct on the part of McD. But believe me, these things have happened and they are unacceptable and in some cases illigal. So please watch out.




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