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Date Posted: 17:44:21 01/28/08 Mon
Author: Lynxia
Subject: Re: McQualified
In reply to: klutz 's message, "McQualified" on 16:46:38 01/28/08 Mon

>As an aside (and as I've not kept up), has McDonald's
>named anything in recent history McAnything? I can't
>recall, but it seems like they're distancing
>themselves on that particular branding...

I dunno. It doesn't seem to work out for them when they un-Mc something. Remember the Arch Deluxe? Didn't work out.

Okay, on to the diploma thing in the UK. Actually, I have a bit of respect for McDonald's in this regard. They have a long commitment to giving their employees, the ones who will stick with it, a hand up. Frankly, I would consider a McDonald's diploma more valuable than a GED, because I suspect that the employee has to learn a fair bit to get one, whereas it is considered rather simple to get a GED. At least that seems to be the prevailing attitude around here, where there is a high dropout rate.

I have known two people who stuck with the McDonald's program and benefitted quite well. One was a relative-of-a-relative, a high school graduate who started out many years ago as a French fry man and today owns a crapload of McD franchises. The other was a high school classmate who rose to the upper echelons of the McDonald's corporation. I'd say that both got a very good education in the line of work they chose.

McDonald's food is dreck, and they have been as instrumental as Wal-Mart in the corporatizing of America. That's not something we chose; neither is it something we can stop, or control in any way. So, if they want to educate a portion of their employees in their own fashion, in the process giving them a hand up, then that's better than Wal-Mart, which perpetuates a permanent underclass of employees who must rely on public assistance for basic needs.

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