Lawsuit: Arkansas McDonald's fired employee for being HIV positive

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[Gamecock]

McDonalds.

Didn’t they used to have good hamburgers, like back in 1965?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Food safety be damned.

[JimRed]

Didn’t they used to have good hamburgers, like back in 1965?

Pretty decent. Now their best is the McChicken, a crispy little thing on a bun that's on their dollar menu (or whatever it's gone up to).

[Zack Attack]

HIV is a disability? How does that square?

[two23]

We have not give McD's any business for a few years.

Their advertisements "Ahm Luvin' It" are very unappealing. and somewhat anti-white.

A few years ago we went to a McD's to get some coffee and the paper that they use on the trays was advertising to minorities ONLY for management training. Black, Latino, and some other non-white whatever.

Their current radio ad campaigns in our area are the same. It is their attempt to target the traditional Burger King patrons.

They don't want white customers? Fine, happy to oblige! We are better off for it as well. Crappy food and generally a good location (besides ihop and waffle house) for brawls.

[Popman]

Unless the employee would spit raw blood on the food and the customer has open wounds in his mouth, I doubt there would be a chance for HIV transmission from any McD employee.

I know the transmission likelihood outside of body fluid to body fluid is very low, but there are cases where it has happened.

It certainly won't stop lawyers from trying to extract a monetary claim out of McDonald's...

After all, they are lawyers...

[unread]

"An Arkansas McDonald's is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) after they claim the restaurant fired an employee after they found out he was HIV positive."

HOW DARE YOU TO DISRESPECT A QUEER..!!!

Just because they are emotionally ill (crazy), have a communicable disease and love to stuff strange and unusual things up their butts doesn't give you the right make them stop preparing and serving food to you and your family.....s/

[oldtech]

This company needs to counter sue the EEOC for ruining their business. Anyone with a brain should know you don’t have people who are HIV positive working in food preparation. Letting that employee go in that situation was not discrimination;it was common sense.Now I’m wondering if any HIV cases will result from someone who has eaten there in the past & what that might portend. Wonder if the EEOC would back an employee on discrimination charges if said employee was a known terrorist?

[Dr. Sivana]

A fellow I know who worked at Gillette (pre-merger, back in the ‘90s) had a useless employee who had AIDS. He was transferred to Boston, given his own office a chair and a desk. No phone. No computer. Nobody to interact with. He was paid.

[fella]

I posted a thread on this story last night from a different source and now it has totally disappeared. How does that happen?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My comments on Facebook...

If we let a HIV person work in the food industry maybe we should also allow Typhoid Mary and “lungers” (TB positiive) to also work there. Nothing better than having your food cooked and seasoned by a Leper.
Maybe we could bring in some plague carriers to show “diversification”.

[fella]

I thought HIV is in all bodily fluids (BRIGADIER GENERAL JACK D. RIPPER USAF was on to something, Dr. Strangelove ref.) and people who floss usually have some sort of gum damage. Not to mention that the moist warmth a burger is a great growth median.

[pgkdan]

I just assume all of them have it and don’t eat out unless I have to. I’m a lot healthier and have a lot more money in my pocket at the end of the month.

Me too!

[SleepySimon]

Ok. I know the tradition here is for posters to remain silent on their own threads but I’m in medicine and I can’t really sit still for the people who seem to think or imply that HIV can be transmitted by food handling.

Handling your food or even tainting it with saliva is not an HIV risk. It’s blood, semen or nada for HIV transmission. Even then he could spit blood on your burger and unless you had an open sore in your mouth the chances of you avoiding HIV are pretty good.

If you suspect your food servers are not just spitting in your food but tainting it with blood and semen then you have other problems.

[yuleeyahoo]

I was in the Navy during the 80’s. One of cook’s tested positive for HIV. He was immediately transferred from the galley to a position where he would have no contact with food.

[Perchant]

So even communicable diseases can’t be discriminated against now? Let the Democrats run on that one. Little particles are falling out of their mouths and noses onto the food all the time.

[sagar]

“I thought HIV is in all bodily fluids “

The issue is transmission, not presence. Transmission requires the virus surviving outside of the body. Unless it is raw blood, it will not. Even bloody saliva has low virus count and unless the person is drooling right into your open mouth herpes sore, it will not transmit HIV. There has been no instance of saliva/sweat/sneeze transmitting HIV like it can transmit cold/flu/ebola.

I understand that people with any potentially contagious disease should not work in food/preparation. Just don’t panic for no reason.

[sparklite2]

I eat out regularly, so being illness-free isn’t from that.
But I haven’t been sick in decades, can’t remember the last time.
The secret is to stay away from children. They are infested!

[Calvin Locke]

I take it you haven't seen the South Park "Yelper" sendup?

I thought the ending song, "The Yelper Special", was a bit over the top, myself.

[SleepySimon]

Lol. I may have left only 10% for a tip sometimes but I’ve never done anything that would lead someone to carve open their own flesh to bleed on my food. I’m no Alec Baldwin.