Posted on 04/28/2011 5:09:28 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
This is what the US economy has been reduced to: McDonalds reports that as part of its employment event to hire 50,000 minimum wage, part-time (mostly) workers, subsequently raised to 62,000 it received a whopping 1 million applications, or a Tim Geithner jealousy inducing 6.2% hit rate (h/t X. Kurt. OSis). Alas, the US economy is now so pathetic that the bulk of the population will settle for anything. Literally anything. And the saddest part: over 938,000 applicants were turned away. Here's hoping to Burger King needs a few million janitors in the immediate future too. And yes, aside from reality, things in America are really recovering quite nicely.
From Bloomberg:
McDonald’s and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said today in an e-mailed statement. Previously, it said it planned to hire 50,000.
The April 19 national hiring day was the company’s first, said Danya Proud, a McDonald’s spokeswoman. She declined to disclose how many of the jobs were full- versus part-time. McDonald’s employed 400,000 workers worldwide at company-owned stores at the end of 2010, according to a company filing.
Earlier this month, McDonald’s said sales at stores open at least 13 months climbed 2.9 percent in the U.S. after it attracted more diners with items such as beverages and the Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus burger. The fast-food chain has about 14,000 stores in the U.S. and more than 18,000 abroad. About 80 percent of all McDonald’s stores are franchised.
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Funny how the Dems accused Bush of building the economy on minimum wage jobs. Now people are fighting for those under a Dem president. Well done.
What happened to the “worthless burger flipper” scenario, created by the MSM, during the Bush years?
What an economic rebound!
To be precise, the term "McJobs" was coined.
Funny, I haven't heard anyone in the MSM use the term "McJobs" since, oh say, around late 2008.
What's funnier is that not only do we have an assload of "McJobs" being filled (while unemployment breaks records) but according to this article, nearly 1,000,000 people were turned away from them.
Burger King has been cutting back I hear, so sorry about those layoffs.
Is this our “little green shoots” sprouting up a year late.
McDonalds gets an obamacare waiver...pays dear leader back by hiring enough to bump up next months jobs numbers....can you say banana republic?
Well said.
Wow!
I bet some blood sucking lawyer is looking into the 938,000 that didn’t get hired to find some thread of commonality and a basis for a class action suit!
lol (sadly, this is probably true)
Too bad we can’t make all these grads of the elite Ivy League colleges spend a year working as a “burger flipper”, then a year as the manager of an inner city fast food restaurant.
In fact, it would be great if we could make all in Congress, including staffers, do the same. After that, all the lawyers & bureaucrats in the Administration’s departments and czars staffs. Better yet, make all the agency bureaucrats work a year at an entry level job , then as a middle manager in one of the industries that they regulate.
Wait until they lay them all off in September.
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Yes... they cut a deal.
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one Obama Unhappy Meal .... That’ll be $10.60 at the first window.
Probably because Burger Kings menu abolutely sucks anymore.
We have a BK and a McD opposite each other. Anytime of the day, especially mornings, BK empty, McD's packed.
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