Posted on 07/27/2017 7:23:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
Eighteen-year-old Nick was an employee of a McDonald's in LaPlace, Louisiana, for five months. He was a general crew member, which meant he was tasked with a little bit of every operational duty at the restaurant.
Nick told BuzzFeed News that while on the job about a month ago, he was instructed by a manager to refill the ice cream machine. He'd accidentally spilled some of it, and so he tried to clean the areas of his mess, including the sides of the machine.
"I was completely shocked by what I saw," said Nick after he found what looked be mold completely coating the inside of a tray.
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It was the same when I worked at Baskin Robbins as a kid. The owner was too cheap to empty the soft serve machine every night and waste product. So we served nasty soft serve.
Nothing new. I worked FF as a kid in late 60’s and early 70’s, and it was the same then. The stuff won’t kill you..............
This ought to get the McD exec’s on the stick to better inspect ALL sites and improve conditions.
I have noticed improvements in more populated areas, but smaller town stores still need attention.
Completely believable ,, I had to embarrass a manager at a fast food I visited almost daily about 5 years ago about green mold on the outside of an ice machine above the soda fountain...I’m sure the inside was pretty gross.
In 1969 I worked at a snack shack (a large one) at a Summer Retreat. One of my jobs was running the milk shake machine.
The first day of Summer the Sealtest man came in and showed me how to disassemble, clean, sterilize and lubricate the machine with special grease. This was done before going to my dorm each night.
Maybe 26 years later I was in the place and spoke to the guy who ran the machine. I asked him if they still took it apart every night. It was still the same machine btw.
He replied that it had not been cleaned all Summer.
I call BS. Instead of addressing a problem through proper channels, he shared it. In every job from roofer to ice cream maker to pharmacist has error and room for improvement. Employers don’t hire people to air dirty laundry, they hire them to clean it.
That is not just McDonalds, I came to that conclusion after working with 82nd Airborne when some things did not work because of lax oversight.
I have been trying to teach my wife that point as she is the CEO of the business, but it usually takes me (the CFO) doing an inspection and pissing off everyone by showing issues.
I would have turned green right there on the spot.
Is it an indictment of an “American Icon” that they fire the messenger, as the make excuses for lack of adequate maintenance of something that is supposed to deliver a “wholesome” food product. There is something basic missing from “free market businesses” today, and that is that profits are a byproduct of rendering a service, not that rendering a service can’t get in the way of profitability no matter what. And it isn’t just McDonalds, I just don’t know why anyone would buy their $hit food! There isn’t anything wholesome about their “products!”
Steve Martin was right!
I have a theory about McDonald’s, that is, everything they make is all one thing, and in the back they have this big vat full of this stuff, these little molds combining, like SPLURT ‘Hamburger!’ SPLURT ‘Malt!’ SPLURT ‘Paper box!’ SPLURT ‘Here’s your change!’
if it was his job to clean the machine... gone.
Ray Kroc must be turning in his grave.
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People who have experiences actual employment for a long period of time would understand this "kid" is being a punk.
Why didn’t the kid just clean the dman machine? Why’d he have to go and post pictures?
He deserved to be fired.
“I always knew deep down I was going to post it,” Nick also said. He added that this is one McDonald’s location — and it should not be seen as reflecting the conditions of all of the chain’s restaurants.”....
Sounds more like the little creep was planning to undermine his boss or someone and was saving the photos as support for his plan. It was his job to clean that machine as directed. Apparently others who were given that same responsibility did not do a complete cleaning.
Just another reason I DO NOT eat a McDonald’s.
“Kids” don’t know how to work anymore! He should have said something internally. As far as I can tell, it’s spillage and not, to say the least, edible. Nonetheless, the kid should have asked someone about it and/or taken the initiative to clean it or learn how to clean it.
Great point.
As an employee; if you find a problem tell the boss and if you can fix it.
If the issue continues to be a problem go above the boss’s head and bring it to the attention of their boss.
The kid deserved to be fired because he did not follow these basic principles of being an employee.
The last thing you do is embarrass your employer. Nowhere did I see that he brought the issue to his boss and his boss blew him off.
Online whistleblowing is a very Millenial thing.
They ALL want to be Edward Snowden now.
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