James Franco: ‘I Wish I Was Gay’ - The Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/james-franco-gay_n_3894154.html
Sep 09, 2013 · After a star-studded comedy roast fueled by a million gay jokes, James Franco once more has responded to perennial gossip about his sexuality. The gay ...
Oh, please. It was nothing personal to hire Franco, they just needed a place-holder grunt to flip burgers and help them make a profit.
Truly free-market employment agreements are mutually beneficial agreements, always.
The good thing about McDonalds is you can go from there to being elected President. It’s a more highly skilled job than community organizer.
Has anyone ever seen a stray dog in the vicinity of a McDonald’s?
And a too high minimum wage would have killed that for him, and lots of young and/or desperate folks. Minimum wage is a depression bringer.
His story reminds me of Penny from Big Bang Theory working at the Cheesecake Factory. You do what you have to do till something better comes along
While I'm glad for him that he was able to find work in his chosen profession I think claiming he is "one of the most successful actors in the industry" is overstating it a bit.
Good for him. 999 out of 1,000 Hollywood types wouldn't be caught dead near a McDonalds, with its Capitalist, unhealthy, Middle-American Red State food (think of the story of Gwyneth Paltrow freaking out when Chris Martin took their kids to McDonalds).
If Franco gets the value of work and is grateful for an entry-level job and sees how it was a springboard to bigger and better things, more power to him.
I just keep hearing about James Franco almost every day now because he is making another movie in my neck of the woods and Facebook and the local paper seem to be full of stories about it. The movie is based on a book called The Long Home which I had never heard of. It is set in 1940’s Tennessee which made me wonder why he isn’t filming it in Tn instead of Ohio!
He was promoted to working the counter?
I worked at McDonald’s and you could get promoted to working drive thru.
But, each franchise does things differently
Hmmm, I wonder if they're planning to take a step back from their entirely black-oriented advertising campaign? Maybe have one or two commercials where you actually see white people? Oh, and while they're at it, they might want to start dispersing (and discouraging, rather than inviting) the crowds of feral youth that seem to gather in and around their establishments...
My first job (other than growing up on the farm) was at a mcdonalds in high school, they tought me some important job skill i used on my college jobs that then turned into careers.
I see McDonalds as “Kindergarden for Careers” and workign the fry line should never be a “Lifetime Career”, however some become managers that manage the peole who work the fry lines and they make a decent living with that job too.
But the fry line cook at mcdonalds should always be job that gets fresh highschool students every year as the veterans of those grunt jobs either get better job elsewhere or they become managers and further their education at hamburger U.
Now this GREAT endorsement of his for McDonald's and essentially the capitalist system, should warm the hearts of everyone here, and yet ...!!! Just amazing. A lot of FReepers would complain if they were hung with a new rope.
What I liked best about this article is that he was a vegetarian at the time he started working there, but then started eating the burgers!!! 'ATTA BOY!!!!!! Shows both humility (willing to work at McDonald's) and smarts (mature enough to let go of adolescent emotion-based "be nice to animals" vegetarianism).
McDonald's. It's not my favorite place, but it's helped me stay healthy OFTEN because of its inexpensive healthy breakfasts so easy to get on the road, which were around LONG before anyone else had them.
Hooray James Franco.
That's how I like them too
I worked at McDonald’s back in the 1970s. One of the best jobs I ever had for teaching teamwork, personal responsibility, management, quality control, etc. And it was also a fun place to work.
You know, it’s truly a loss for mankind that he can express his thinking (and thus the lesson that *could* be learned by others if their minds were not sawdust-filled) so simply and in so few words, because I am feeling the microaggression that we missed out on a 3500 word article in The Atlantic and an insulting snarky expose of airborne fat globules from Salon.
I have worked with James and he was thoughtful and kind to everyone involved in the production, especially us nobodies. He went out of his way to spend time with us rather than hobnob with the more famous and wealthy participants. This article on MacDonalds is in keeping with his loyalty to those who have been good to him. Don’t know his politics, don’t know about his personal life, but I do he does not put on airs or think he is better than anyone else.
That's pretty funny...
Good payback from Franco. You have to give him “props” for this. Lots of people in his position wouldn’t admit to ever having worked at a MacDonalds.
“He was able to leave his job at McDonald’s after booking a Super Bowl commercial with Pizza Hut. Since then, he’s become one of the most successful actors in the industry, starring in The Interview, 127 Hours, and Spiderman.”
I don’t dislike Franco by any means but saying that he became one of the most successful actors is stretching a bit.