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I don't think your dilemma is real!

Posted by: Siamak ( UK ) on June 12, 1997 at 23:21:32:

In Reply to: Should global matters dictate my career? posted by RS on June 12, 1997 at 14:55:13:


: Basically - Do I stand by McDoanlds because they are my employers, who I think are an excellent company in many respects (RMCC for example), or do I let my concerns for global matters dictate my future career.

To me, you sound like a person commited to his job and loyal to the company. If you think the impact of McD on the global matters is so small and you like the company, then what's your dillema? Stick with McD and, as you advised other workers, thank the company for having given you a job and a career. With your attitude you will go far as long as you don't mind how you are treated.

For most of us though the environment we work and live in is very important. It is also important that a powerful multinational company the size of McD contributes to destruction of the rainforests, produces unhealthy food, misleads the public, mistreats its workers and.... tries to silence anyone who dares to tell the truth about them. And NO these are not small matters and the role of McD on the global scene
is not insignificant.

: I guess the other problem is justifying a 120mb site devoted to slating McD's when it is not necessarily the best way about solving the global problems of which McD's is just a VERY small part.

I couldn't disgree with you more! The justification is called freedom of information and expression. How else could you find out about the operation of a company as secretive as McD? I am absolutely delighted to have access to so much info. about the company. And It's not only the critics who use this site either. A few of my Business studies students are actually using the material on this site to complete their dissertations on the business practices of the global companies.

The only other way to gather this kind of information is to employ spies; The McDonald's way.



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