Submitted 2 months ago by Greg@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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There was a term I really liked for this kind of things: “Vacationing in poverty” I think, where people with wealth ‘adventure’ being homeless or something but don’t even remotely appreciate that the people they’re pretending to be don’t have an ‘off’ switch or an easy out of their situations.
I find the whole premise despicable.
Kinda like that undercover boss show where they tried to show how great these CEOs are by throwing some money at specific employees that are struggling, ignoring that better leadership and compensation that lines up better with the value being created would improve things for all of the other struggling employees that weren’t lucky enough to be assigned to boss babysitting duty (assuming the whole thing wasn’t staged entirely).
It probably wasn’t staged sadly. Those privileged billionaires saw the struggling employees as the exception, not the rule.
I know it wasn’t because there was an episode where an employee disillusioned with life and struggling with drug addiction was fired “As a favor to him”, and it was framed as being super wholesome, even though now that guy without any financial support and no way to get help will likely relapse harder than he ever has…
I would understand a boss going undercover to investigate where things are least efficient and whether their subordinates are lying about safety violations at a lower cost than getting an actual investigation.
Especially since they keep doing it to prove that “Oh anyone can be a millionaire, ya just gotta not be lazy.”, and despite each of them failing when they fail to prove this, they still proceed to learn nothing form this.
If only I could show the world what rich people really think of the common man, but if thousands of films like “Joker” and “V For Vendetta” where that’s the sole point didn’t do it, then what the fuck else will?
Probably comes from the beef itself since it’s an outbreak on a wide scale.
McDonald’s workers where I live don’t wear gloves, wearing gloves isn’t more sanitary, you still touch the gloves to put them on, if your hands are dirty the gloves are contaminated.
Plus, consider how much plastic waste that comes to. I’ve seen people describe them changing gloves several times an hour to comply with food safety laws. We don’t have outbreaks of this shit because people wash their hands and don’t rely on gloves.
I saw an announcement yesterday saying it was from the onions.
Thanks for the correction!
Food service workers do not scrub down like OR personnel. They really need to wash their hands routinely and wear hairnets and not touch their privates. The whole thing of Subway employees donning a new pair of gloves for each sandwich is just theatre. Go into any professional kitchen away from public view and you will not see the cooks and chefs wearing gloves.
Surgeons wear sterilized gloves. Do you think those 100 gloves boxes are sterile?
How come did poisoning isn’t an issue where I live if cooks don’t wear gloves even though it’s the governmental norm? And I mean, in restaurants, in hospitals, in long term care buildings… No issues, no gloves… Weird right?
Also, did you know that healthcare workers mostly don’t wear gloves unless there’s a risk THEY will be exposed to YOUR fluids?
Cross contamination is so much worse than people think it is.
Everything is pretty much contaminated all the time.
I’d still want the illusion of the workers trying to be sanitary by wearing gloves.
How about they actually are sanitary by washing their hands instead of relying on putting their dirty hands in gloves that they never clean?
Back in 2017, I didn’t understand how an extremely wealthy heir to a billion-dollar fortune (and regardless of all his business failures) could present himself as the candidate of the little people. Today, after Trump was president and - of course - only made policy changes for the rich, I understand it even less. What is this photo-op all about? Are there seriously still people who don’t understand that Trump has never represented the middle class - or even the working class? You can’t be serious, dear US citizens.
It’s super frustrating but as an example - my parents are deeply conservative and supportive of Trump, and also on the lower end of “wealth” and semi-retired. It is 100% misinformation. My Dad quotes the Fox news rhetoric like it’s facts, and regardless of me disproving most of the BS, he is completely brain washed. At this point Trump could run a live execution of his political opponents and the Trumpets would more or less shrug.
They wouldn’t just shrug. They would actively cheer it on.
Yes. Half the country thinks Trump is for the little guy and Harris is an elitist asshole.
Trump was born rich. Harris grew up middle class and a member of two minority groups. The problem is the democrats are shit at messaging. It’s why Walz calling republicans weird took off. Democrats don’t usually come up with sound bites like that.
I sincerely don’t understand how this is even possible. A lot of these people are old, do they not remember the 90’s? Trump being “Smug Rich Asshole: The Character” was his whole brand, and people loved him for it because we were still drinking that “Capitalism good” kool-aid left over from the cold war.
How is this man with a literal solid gold toilet “The Voice of the People”
This whole nonsense makes me perfectly understand how “War of the Worlds” was mistaken for a legitimate news broadcast.
Before 2016 he was a celebrity people liked him as a no bullshit business owner like the middle class small business owners. As he was exposed to more media and has proven he was more of an idiot it personified him as someone like them. A moron who does what they want with 0 reflection or cares about other people.
I’m baffled as to how anyone other than asshole bosses saw him as anything other than another asshole boss. The Apprentice gave me a strong negative opinion of him, similarly to how Shark Tank gave me a strong negative opinion of Kevin O’Leary.
As someone who went down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole in the 00s but realized Alex Jones was full of shit by 2010, I was incredibly baffled to see the movement align behind someone who could be an avatar of everything it feared.
That said, the racism and bigotry in that movement had gone right over my head and I generally dismissed the more out there shit like lizard people or aliens being involved because it sounded stupid. I believed (and still do) that that shit is part of a real strategy to use ridiculous claims to generate noise that makes real things like MK ultra more likely to be dismissed along with them.
Went through the same thing, admittedly what got me out of it was realizing how often it came back to “And that’s why Hitler did nothing wrong!”
Which made me go “That whole “genocide is good actually” thing… doesn’t really align with all this talk of how peace and love are being threatened by the forces of darkness…”
Went thru the same thing in 2014
Probably belongs to a franchisee who donates heavily to the GOP and trump.
Where I live McDonald’s workers don’t wear gloves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same here, but I don’t think the workers tend to wear diapers either.
He didn’t wash his hands either.
Neiter do McDonalds workers
This is a double-whammy PR nightmare.
Are we going to do what happened with Jack in the Box in the naughts and start associating E Coli with McDonalds? I remember hearing that FUD so much back then and now that the shoe is on the other foot, I wonder what will happen. 🤔 Not to engage in the fast food wars or anything, but also fuck McDonalds for helping this fat ass at all.
As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald’s, I don’t think McDonald’s corporate had anything to do with this. I’m pretty sure this was a franchise.
That being said, McDonald’s may need to revisit some of the restrictions in their franchise agreements with regard to direct participation in political campaigns. A candidate visiting a location is one thing, but this restaurant directly arranged and participated in this nonsense.
As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald’s
So you are behind the outbreak!
They basically told the franchisee that they were cool with it.
The owner of this franchise is a right-winger who has been fighting minimum wage raises and probably a “they can kiss my ass” type about corporate rules.
How was the Jack in the Box thing FUD?
I just meant that it last a lot longer than the few months it was a real problem. Like, I feel like we all talked about it for years and it affected their business.
I somehow expect that won’t happen here considering how popular McD is worldwide, that’s all I mean.
Gloves and hot oil do not mix well. Good way to get gloves melted to your hand.
If you get hot oil on your hand, glove or no, you’re gonna have a bad time.
For sure! I would rather have a burn than a burn with plastic/rubber in it, though.
It’s not that bad unless you get a shitload on there. It’s not even as bad as cutting your finger with a knife, I’d say.
This is all media just dog piling on Trump.
The diseases he spreads are WAY worse than e coli.
Y’all real can’t help but give Trump extra publicity on his stunt, eh
it is crazy since this was like right after saying he’d persecute his critics
Wow, someone has actually died as a result of this McDiddles E. Coli outbreak? Imagine living your whole ass life, doing regular shit, being a regular ass person, and then dying to a mcdouble. WTF. Just another reason I rarely let other people cook my food.
He only served fries. These aren’t related.
Of course it’s not, and anyone thinking so is a fool, but it’s funny. It’s a shitposting community, the post fits the bill imo.
Lol, exactly and the CDC advisory is for 10 states
Wooosh
Next you’re gonna tell us JD Vance didn’t really have sexual relations with a couch
Hand hygiene >>>>>>>>> than gloves when it comes to food safety. Wash your hands sufficiently and frequently.
Isn’t Trump a germaphobe?
I just looked it up and apparently it’s a lie he made up when asked whether he enjoys getting peed on.
Love it when people handle money with a gloved hand. They didn’t understand the concept.
Yeah, he didn’t do that either. I read that they asked him to and he said that his hands were nice and clean already.
I mean… Correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, I’m not sure.
When he went to the bathroom earlier to do the mud pie… he must have used too small of a slice of toilet paper when he wiped, and he got mud pie on his tiny hands, and then he touched the fries, and then someone ate the fries, and now they are sick off of his mud pie.
Every october he dresses up and pretends he’s the spookiest thing he can imagine. This year he’s one of the poor ghosts that make his fries.
Donny, quit scratching your diaper while serving people food! its gross.
Damn he looks old.
He is old.
Isn’t he cosplaying a perverted, old ghoul?
Nah, that’s just him.
Well shucks. I thought that maybe some really racist people were weekend at Bernie’s him. I guess he’s just an asshole.
I know people love fake hygiene, but gloves are disgusting af. I worked with food for a huge part of my life and washed my hands three times before I touched the first piece and throughout the day after each time I touched something. Was it good for my hands, no. Did anyone ever get sick from my food, yes if we count the spicy challenge we did with colleagues
LOL I wonder how far back this goes. When I was young and immortal I ate at McDonalds a lot because it was handy, and the Quarter Pounder (aka Royale) with Cheese was my favorite thing there. After decades of avoiding it I did venture into one a couple years ago. Very disappointing.
It’s funny yeah but Trump didn’t spread E. Coli to 10 states in 2 days, and the McDonalds wasn’t open during their photo op.
No, see, he’s like santa. He can break the sound barrier under his own power in his goal to spread e. coli.
I just remembered this song. William Shatner at his finest youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0?si=j0hPFKd4QXRM9zle
“you’re amazed that they exist, and they burn so bright while you can only wonder why” - pulp
He looks older than biten
It’d feel soooooo amazing to fire donny trumpet…
Erasmus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coincidence? I think not.
Lupus@feddit.org 2 months ago
Covfefe? I think so.
technohacker@programming.dev 2 months ago
Trivago? Hotelikely