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California Helps McDonald’s Wipe Out Its Competition

In the name of equity or some other progressive god, the State of California embarked on a pilgrimage to the minimum wage holy land. A search for a price-point on an hour of labor most likely to accumulate Democrat votes without any regard for the cost to voters.

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So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”? The Follow Up – Part 2

So my first post, “So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”?“, told the tale of poor customer service at the Laconia McDonalds (“You WILL use our ordering kiosk – Oh, the sausage burrito isn’t on it…”) and then attempting to get in contact with a responsible adult (“So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering …

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So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”? The Follow Up – Part 1

Although I finished my previous post concerning the bad Customer Service experience we had, as well as emailing its contents to the two entities whose dreary jobs must be in handling complaints,  late last night, I kinda figured that some kind of contact would be made by now. After all, one (that would be me) …

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Is McDonald’s a Better “Teacher” Than the Average Modern University?

I started my working life, paper route aside, working at McDonald’s for $2.35/hour. Before I left, I was a store manager, training, and experience which lead to other such positions. Those lead to a testing gig in high-tech. QC and ISO positions (all self-trained), product management, technical writing, logistics, and other productive skills the free market needs. But …

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