Posted on 07/27/2017 7:23:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
I know he’s 18 y/o, but you would think this fellow would have a family member advising him on the virtues of diplomacy. You don’t publicly shame your employer without respectfully giving them a chance to improve the situation.
If things remain dirty and poorly managed, then quit that job, use a good reference to get another, and then talk, maybe. There are probably anonymous ways to communicate with the public health department. Use that route.
This show another example of oversharing online.
Those photos were beyond sickening. So clean it, then talk you the manager.
Those who are saying he should have just cleaned his machine and kept quiet are wrong. McDonald’s has a million stores all over the world. How does his simply cleaning his own machine solve the problem?
I’d say this is a perfect example of using the Internet to solve a public hazard that probably would never be solved otherwise. He sacrificed his own job to do this.
Why didn’t the kid just clean the dman machine? Why’d he have to go and post pictures?
He deserved to be fired.
You have to empty it of product ($$$) to clean it. Cheapskate franchisees don’t want to do that.
No kidding!
I skimmed the article and failed to find any mention of the kid having told management about the problem prior to going public with it. (And, given how he described his job, why didn't he just go ahead and clean it?)
Guessing he sees himself as some kind of crusader when, in fact, he's just a common ass-hat.
Need to fire the manager.
Never would have happened on Ray Kroc’s watch, I can assure you of that.
Never would have happened on Ray Kroc’s watch, I can assure you of that.
“you got time to lean...you got time to clean.”
Loved that line.
My favorite Kroc story was when he bought the Padres, and went on the PA system, and announced, “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the Dodgers drew 31,000 for their opener and we’ve drawn 39,000 for ours. The bad news is that this is the most stupid baseball playing I’ve ever seen.”
The job is to fix it, not just take a picture of it. If he won’t let you fix it go above his head. Regional manager is usually in every couple of days and they will not be happy about a store manager letting that happen.
That was my first reaction as well.
First off, if I were an employee, and I found that, I would clean it on the damn spot, then tell my boss we need process to clean it and get it on a schedule so it gets done.
But, no. He takes a picture instead of cleaning it.
I’ll take an employee who approaches it in this fashion:
“Ugh. This is disgusting. Boss, I found this (shows it to Boss) so I will clean it, but when we clean this machine at night we need to make sure we check this tray as well!”
Over some POS employee who takes a picture, then shows it to potential customers. What a POS.
Supposed to disconnect the flavor tube and run it into the draw bucket, the stuff is totally reusable if it hasn’t been flavored.
“The Founder” is about the only Hollywood movie I have watched in the past few years, I highly recommend it.
Yep. I took an instant dislike to the twerp.
Because that’s where the problem is, on his store. The other 36,000 and change stores all have a copy of the O&T which says that machine is to be taken apart daily. Now is his the only store not following the manual? Of course not, but it’s the only one he KNOWS isn’t, and he has the power to fix it.
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.I'm betting one of his "tasks" was to clean the ice cream machine...which by evidence of his own picture he failed to do.
Trying to go up the corporate ladder with a message through an employee is a fruitless task.
So is writing to the CEO, as a matter of fact.
The Internet was made for such revelations.
I would be totally against it for singling out a particular individual, but for a general problem it’s probably the only way to get anything changed. I doubt that anything would be done if he just mentioned it anonymously as a general problem.
It sickens me to think many of those people buying those clean-looking cones are getting mold along with them.
Great line of a past America.
Our ‘blue ribbon for showing up’ millennial snowflakes would be insulted by it, I’ll wager, and give the “Escuuuuuse me, you’re not the boss of me!” look. Then go back to normal head down smart phone mode.
The kid screwed up, and his life lesson was granted.
Let him post some dirty laundry about his mom and see what he gets.
Not at McDonalds it isn’t. The franchise structure at McDs means you’re in regular contact with the people above your boss. Regional managers come in regularly who have the power to fire the store manager on the spot (seen it happen). And if you get no joy from them there’s a bunch of contact info on the web to rat them out to corporate, who can revoke the franchise license on the spot (again, seen it happen), they can actually revoke ALL of a franchise holder’s licenses taking every store he owns. Now if he got no joy on that path then ratting it out on the internet is fine, but having done time in McHell I have no doubt if he’d used channels the problem would have been fixed with 72 hours and the list of people getting fired would not have included him.
He broke the cardinal rule of business, he took it outside first. Somebody who does that MUST be fired. Even if the complaints were valid a business can’t have somebody that goes to outsiders first.
I enjoyed that movie too. Ray Kroc sure was a ruthless bastard. Especially when he told the McDonald brothers to take their name off their own restaurant. Kroc owned the name. I tried to pattern my management style after Kroc. Not too many friends but no question who in charge.
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