http://finance.yahoo.com/...3.html?x=0

McDonald's Corp. plans to hold its first national hiring day April 19 to fill 50,000 openings at its restaurants nationwide.

The company says it is making a concerted effort to add staff as its business improves and as more of its restaurants stay open 24 hours a day.

The company's hiring goal translates to between three and four new hires per restaurant.

McDonald's says turnover slowed because of the weak economy. The company sees an opportunity to attract employees in a tough job market.

McDonald's held a similar event in its Western region last year. More than 60,000 people applied for the 13,000 positions.

Those who are interested can apply in stores or online. Some restaurants will hold events and interviews that day.

McDonald's is based in Oak Brook, Ill.

BlackAdder7 said:

http://finance.yahoo.com/...3.html?x=0

McDonald's Corp. plans to hold its first national hiring day April 19 to fill 50,000 openings at its restaurants nationwide.

The company says it is making a concerted effort to add staff as its business improves and as more of its restaurants stay open 24 hours a day.

The company's hiring goal translates to between three and four new hires per restaurant.

McDonald's says turnover slowed because of the weak economy. The company sees an opportunity to attract employees in a tough job market.

McDonald's held a similar event in its Western region last year. More than 60,000 people applied for the 13,000 positions.

Those who are interested can apply in stores or online. Some restaurants will hold events and interviews that day.

McDonald's is based in Oak Brook, Ill.

I saw that article and thought the same thing!

There is honor in all work. If someone has to take a McDonalds job, it is not a definition of their worth. HOw they do the job is.

purplenuts said:

There is honor in all work. If someone has to take a McDonalds job, it is not a definition of their worth. HOw they do the job is.

BlackAdder7 said:

http://finance.yahoo.com/...3.html?x=0

McDonald's Corp. plans to hold its first national hiring day April 19 to fill 50,000 openings at its restaurants nationwide.

The company says it is making a concerted effort to add staff as its business improves and as more of its restaurants stay open 24 hours a day.

The company's hiring goal translates to between three and four new hires per restaurant.

McDonald's says turnover slowed because of the weak economy. The company sees an opportunity to attract employees in a tough job market.

McDonald's held a similar event in its Western region last year. More than 60,000 people applied for the 13,000 positions.

Those who are interested can apply in stores or online. Some restaurants will hold events and interviews that day.

McDonald's is based in Oak Brook, Ill.

You're so thoughtful, BlackAdder!

Always thinking of others,

trying to find ways to help out your fellow orgers.

I'd like to nominate you'd for Org Humanitarian of the Year!

purplenuts said:

There is honor in all work. If someone has to take a McDonalds job, it is not a definition of their worth. HOw they do the job is.

^true

http://albany.craigslist.org/jjj/

well then too bad they don't have their employees covered in earrings or i'd be set.

purplenuts said:

There is honor in all work. If someone has to take a McDonalds job, it is not a definition of their worth. HOw they do the job is.

i disagree. you're either better than McDonalds or you're not.

purplenuts said:

There is honor in all work. If someone has to take a McDonalds job, it is not a definition of their worth. HOw they do the job is.

I like the sentiment here.

no i've known ppl who worked there. by now i got a list of places that discriminate ppl based on tattoos and piercings. same with sam's club and petsmart. i can understand petsmart cause some cats and dogs will attack ppl with body mods. first time meeting my cousins that bastard dog 2 mins after i waked in the door jumped up and mauled my face. nearly broke my glasses.

this isn't a excuse. it's merely stating a fact

this is funny cause i dont even need to start my own threads now

whistle said:

purplenuts said:

There is honor in all work. If someone has to take a McDonalds job, it is not a definition of their worth. HOw they do the job is.

i disagree. you're either better than McDonalds or you're not.

My brother never got his HS diploma. He spent years working in fast food. He got his GED and decided he no longer wanted to work in fast food. He spent 4 years not working, in fast food or any other job, until last month because, "no one was hiring."

To bring in a paycheck, sometimes you have to work at a job that you're overqualified for, but if I had to flip burgers or clean toilets (which I have) to put money in the bank until I found something better, so be it and I'd do it damn well.

Nothinbutjoy said:

whistle said:

i disagree. you're either better than McDonalds or you're not.

My brother never got his HS diploma. He spent years working in fast food. He got his GED and decided he no longer wanted to work in fast food. He spent 4 years not working, in fast food or any other job, until last month because, "no one was hiring."

To bring in a paycheck, sometimes you have to work at a job that you're overqualified for, but if I had to flip burgers or clean toilets (which I have) to put money in the bank until I found something better, so be it and I'd do it damn well.

Considering some of the ppl i've worked with in the past? there were cokeheads constantly sneaking off to snort. stoners who on breaks went outside and got high at work stoned 24/7,gang members and ex gang members constantly bitching about how bad jail was and the food and comparing the work to being in prison.i watch LOCKUP. they are full of shit. halfway house or not. your not living with your overprotective parents still. we had a crackhead too.

At my jobs i'm always the one picking up everyones slack. that last place was all lazy bums barely doing their jobs. texting nonstop or whatever. so i was the jack of all trades getting pulled into every direction. so then when i complained and had panic attacks i got bitched at. i always left my jobs so physically and mentally exhausted. one of my first jobs was at a foodstore and they'd never give us our breaks. 9 hr shifts.you would only get your lunch. how many of us developed carpel tunnels,tendonitis and cysts in our wrists. 10 yrs later i gotta deal with this pain till i die now.

I was at 2 locations for my last job. i remember when boss started she said there was a couch in the breakroom and ppl were puff puff passing. so much for the big we drug test sign in the window.ok i understand if ya wanna smoke a joint on the weekend every so often with friends but on your time! not works! i remember a whole group on the boys on lunch went to bar and came back drunk. what a turnaround there.

I've done jobs like that. i wanna find something i enjoy. then the ppl going to school and working the same time?? both sides of the family are all stressed out crazy worryworts. i don't wanna end up in a fucking mental instuition shaking in a corner. WHY OH WHY DIDN"T I JOIN THE ARMY OR GO STRAIGHT TO COLLEGE! i need a time machine.

i'm in that movie suckerpunch and the icepick keeps getting closer....

EVERY job has nut jobs.

EVERY job has slackers.

EVERY job has shit work.

Military?? HA!! Been there, done that and it's a great gig if it's made for you, but talk about an institution that rewards hard work and dedication with more hard work! The biggest fuck up and slackers I've ever worked with were in the military. It's no fairy tale.

When I was in, a million years ago (early 1990's) if you were E-4 or lower you qualified for WIC and food stamps.

I'm an x-ray tech. It's a really great career but don't talk to me on barium enema day, or when I'm in the ER dealing with a combative, intoxicated and high 400 lb dude that just fell and hurt himself and can't move.

(Which is why I specialized in mammo, so that the "worst" thing I have to deal with are unbelieveably rude, hygienically challenged patients that come 2 hours late for their appointment and snit because they have to wait 15 minutes for us to work them back into the schedule, and doctors that think they have G.O.D. behind their name instead of M.D.)

Those that love their work all the time are the most blessed mother fuckers on the PLANET. As good as my job is, the only thing that keeps me going to it is the money. I'd LOVE to not work, but then again, being broke sucks to, so as much as I hate the grind I'm there.

purplemookiebut said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

My brother never got his HS diploma. He spent years working in fast food. He got his GED and decided he no longer wanted to work in fast food. He spent 4 years not working, in fast food or any other job, until last month because, "no one was hiring."

To bring in a paycheck, sometimes you have to work at a job that you're overqualified for, but if I had to flip burgers or clean toilets (which I have) to put money in the bank until I found something better, so be it and I'd do it damn well.

Considering some of the ppl i've worked with in the past? there were cokeheads constantly sneaking off to snort. stoners who on breaks went outside and got high at work stoned 24/7,gang members and ex gang members constantly bitching about how bad jail was and the food and comparing the work to being in prison.i watch LOCKUP. they are full of shit. halfway house or not. your not living with your overprotective parents still. we had a crackhead too.

At my jobs i'm always the one picking up everyones slack. that last place was all lazy bums barely doing their jobs. texting nonstop or whatever. so i was the jack of all trades getting pulled into every direction. so then when i complained and had panic attacks i got bitched at. i always left my jobs so physically and mentally exhausted. one of my first jobs was at a foodstore and they'd never give us our breaks. 9 hr shifts.you would only get your lunch. how many of us developed carpel tunnels,tendonitis and cysts in our wrists. 10 yrs later i gotta deal with this pain till i die now.

I was at 2 locations for my last job. i remember when boss started she said there was a couch in the breakroom and ppl were puff puff passing. so much for the big we drug test sign in the window.ok i understand if ya wanna smoke a joint on the weekend every so often with friends but on your time! not works! i remember a whole group on the boys on lunch went to bar and came back drunk. what a turnaround there.

I've done jobs like that. i wanna find something i enjoy. then the ppl going to school and working the same time?? both sides of the family are all stressed out crazy worryworts. i don't wanna end up in a fucking mental instuition shaking in a corner. WHY OH WHY DIDN"T I JOIN THE ARMY OR GO STRAIGHT TO COLLEGE! i need a time machine.

i'm in that movie suckerpunch and the icepick keeps getting closer....

As a citizen of the United States, I'd just like to say

ill work at mcdonalds

really i thought the armed forces got ppl in line and all mannerly? i know they help pay for school.

i could imagine some bitchy women freaking over getting their boobs squished. my aunt wasn't 40 yrs old and got cancer the first time already. she's beaten it 4 times.

i went to a "girl parts doctor" at 18 just for a routine checkup and fainted when i saw the metal thingies. never been back.

truthfully i don't feel nearly 30. now that i'm not super shy and have made a bunch of friends i feel i missed out on alot not being social in my teens and early 20's.

i would imagine the worse job ever to be a bikini waxer or giving colonoscopies . my aunt was a massage therapist b4 the cancer. i heard stories of the nasty, hairy, stinky ppl who came in. and she's got this thing about not wanting to touch tattoos also. she's grabbed my arm b4 saying she thought i was gonna feel all scarred up...

We all know what kind of world we have to make it in.

Unless you were just shipped from some remote tribe where your body mods were ritualistically put there as part of your secluded upbringing, you can't cover your body with all kinds of metal and ink and then go around crying descrimination. I'm sorry.

formallypickles said:

ill work at mcdonalds

i don't care i would. my luck the frying oil would splat up to my face and disfigure me like the harvey "twoface" dent. i can't scrub toliets. i'm highly allergic and senstive to cleaning solutions. the condo gets cleaned with all natural orange products.

man i should live in bubble. my mom is ocd freak. this place is like hospital. u can eat off the floors i bet

johnart said:

We all know what kind of world we have to make it in.

Unless you were just shipped from some remote tribe where your body mods were ritualistically put there as part of your secluded upbringing, you can't cover your body with all kinds of metal and ink and then go around crying descrimination. I'm sorry.

You better have another martini. You're sounding all sensible and shit.

Genesia said:

johnart said:

We all know what kind of world we have to make it in.

Unless you were just shipped from some remote tribe where your body mods were ritualistically put there as part of your secluded upbringing, you can't cover your body with all kinds of metal and ink and then go around crying descrimination. I'm sorry.

You better have another martini. You're sounding all sensible and shit.

It's Drag Race night. Come back see me around midnight.

My 18 year old son has been working at McDonald's for a year now. He's happy with it. He's got those big, stupid, ugly plugs in his ears and they make him take them out at work. He can't go around scaring the senior citizens at night when they're on their plain hamburger and black coffee run! Our McD's is small-town, country. Not one of those crazy ones where fights are always breaking out.

purplemookiebut said:

well then too bad they don't have their employees covered in earrings or i'd be set.

Well then take them out

johnart said:

We all know what kind of world we have to make it in.

Unless you were just shipped from some remote tribe where your body mods were ritualistically put there as part of your secluded upbringing, you can't cover your body with all kinds of metal and ink and then go around crying descrimination. I'm sorry.

i keep saying i'm in the wrong era and don't fit in. i need to go live with a tribe like that.

ok so in the indian religion they got the nostril piercings. they told the indian workers they need to remove the jewelry too. the indian workers never did. did they get written up? no! they always stressed the dress code is for everyone at my last job but i'd see new ppl with modifications and they'd ask me about it and they were getting hired not being told about this dress code.

so tell how that's not discrimination? i need to wear long sleeves and sweat. bandaids on my lips. then walks by a few coworkers with inked sleeves,neck tattoos, rings in their face...no one batted an eye. and i got written up a few times for being that to their attention.

bandaids? u know often ppl would ask me if i was in car accident,got plastic surgery or waxed off a moustache??

i've had ppl i've talked to online to tell me to move to a city cause they don't care and accept it. you need $$ to live in a city. and you need a good job to save up the $$$$!

the vicous circle of life

Michelesky said:

purplemookiebut said:

well then too bad they don't have their employees covered in earrings or i'd be set.

Well then take them out

Nothinbutjoy said:

whistle said:

i disagree. you're either better than McDonalds or you're not.

My brother never got his HS diploma. He spent years working in fast food. He got his GED and decided he no longer wanted to work in fast food. He spent 4 years not working, in fast food or any other job, until last month because, "no one was hiring."

To bring in a paycheck, sometimes you have to work at a job that you're overqualified for, but if I had to flip burgers or clean toilets (which I have) to put money in the bank until I found something better, so be it and I'd do it damn well.

Yep, I've had to work crap jobs before just to make ends meet. I once thought delivering pizza's was beneath me (early 20's) but I took a job doing that. I loved it and made really good money at it too!

Michelesky said:

purplemookiebut said:

well then too bad they don't have their employees covered in earrings or i'd be set.

Well then take them out

i tried once for a job. some of them have been in there over 10 yrs. i couldn't get em out. i had pliers trying to get some undone. i was scared i was gonna poke out my eye or knock out a tooth.

when i got hurt and was thought to have a skull fracture i messed around how long to get my eyebrow barbells out. 2 of them rejected cause of it. i glued those beads now after that. that was in 2005.

i remember first starting out with my ears b4 stretching some 12 yrs ago. i took out all the studs and went to six flags great adventure. i put threads in my holes to keep em open and the threads went from white to red cause those violent roller coasters banging you around irriated my piercings and they were all bleeding. luckly now i can't handle rides like those anymore.

Michelesky said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

My brother never got his HS diploma. He spent years working in fast food. He got his GED and decided he no longer wanted to work in fast food. He spent 4 years not working, in fast food or any other job, until last month because, "no one was hiring."

To bring in a paycheck, sometimes you have to work at a job that you're overqualified for, but if I had to flip burgers or clean toilets (which I have) to put money in the bank until I found something better, so be it and I'd do it damn well.

Yep, I've had to work crap jobs before just to make ends meet. I once thought delivering pizza's was beneath me (early 20's) but I took a job doing that. I loved it and made really good money at it too!

My niece has worked at a local fast food restaurant since she was 14 (she's 17 now). I asked her once, "How do you like your job?" She said, "It's okay. But it isn't very stimulating." I said, "Well, here's the thing. You work that kind of job now so, with any luck, you don't have to do it later."