Cry me a river!

[vetran]

That is because the unhappy ones don't tend to hang around.

Still working at McDs is not nearly as bad as working in a food production factory, spending your day at 3 degrees above freezing, dressed in head to toe PPE, like quite a few of my indian relatives do.

Now the eastern Europeans who undercut the locals have gone home they are having trouble finding people to work for them!

[xoggoth]

Stopped at petrol station to get some fuel a couple of days ago and saw a big queue. Thought, oh no! the shortages are back! Then realised the queue was not for the pumps but for the McDonalds drive through. People must be stocking up on burgers before the prices rise.

[SueEllen]

That is because the unhappy ones don't tend to hang around.

Still working at McDs is not nearly as bad as working in a food production factory, spending your day at 3 degrees above freezing, dressed in head to toe PPE, like quite a few of my indian relatives do.

Ready meals or airplane food?

I know there are factories for both within a reasonable distance of Heathrow.

[Fraidycat]

The people normally seem fairly happy when you watch them work

That is because the unhappy ones don't tend to hang around.

Still working at McDs is not nearly as bad as working in a food production factory, spending your day at 3 degrees above freezing, dressed in head to toe PPE, like quite a few of my indian relatives do.

[d000hg]

You mean McDs pays a higher wage than being a care worker?

Who knew....

I don't mean that at all. Rather, there are lots of middle-aged people in low-level jobs.
But as Mal says there are far worse places to work. The people normally seem fairly happy when you watch them work, are friendly (when you can hear them) through the drive-through thingie, etc. Maybe that's an oop north thing, but it suggests to me it's not a terrible place to be working.

[malvolio]

You mean McDs pays a higher wage than being a care worker?

Who knew....

Don't knock McDs. I have a cousin who started as a burger flipper, moved up to become senior Operations Manager, and wound up as a franchise owner with 200 staff, now CEO of a fairly serious charity.

[SueEllen]

Who ever had a conversation with the person serving behind the counter at McD that wasn't about how you don't want fries with that? I do chat to the 'greeters' or whatever they are who now sort of just loiter around the kiosks - round here they are often middle-aged rather than spotty teenagers and normally pretty friendly.

You mean McDs pays a higher wage than being a care worker?

Who knew....

[d000hg]

Who ever had a conversation with the person serving behind the counter at McD that wasn't about how you don't want fries with that? I do chat to the 'greeters' or whatever they are who now sort of just loiter around the kiosks - round here they are often middle-aged rather than spotty teenagers and normally pretty friendly.

[vetran]

Seems that they did the automation on the cheap

https://hackaday.com/2022/07/25/mcte...glar-a-chance/

The golden arches of a McDonald’s restaurant are a ubiquitous feature of life in so many parts of the world, and while their food might not be to all tastes their comforting familiarity draws in many a weary traveller. There was a time when buying a burger meant a conversation with a spotty teen behind the till, but now the transaction is more likely to take place at a terminal with a large touch screen. These terminals have caught the attention of [Geoff Huntley], who has written about their surprising level of vulnerability.