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Not hired for being fat.
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McDonald's didn't hire someone cause he was fat. Do you think stores, restaurants have the right to hire someone based on apperance or creating a certain look?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=817&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20030417/ap_on_fe_st/mcdonald_s_sued
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=817&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20030417/ap_on_fe_st/mcdonald_s_sued
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Though I don't feel a company has the 'right' to discriminate in terms of gender, race, sexual orientation, etc.
Did McDonald's actually tell him that they weren't hiring him because he was fat? If so, how stupid can they be? :rolleyes:
Shouldn't this be in anything goes rather than politics?
I just wonder if he could fit in some of the spaces McDonald's makes people work in.
I feel sorry for him, though I really don't know why he'd get a job at such a tempting and unhealthy place regarding food.
Have you ever seen computer technicians, engineers and so? Many of them are the most unorganized and unpresentable people you'll see. Why should they care? They know what they do, and don't need to present themselves, only their work.
Though, his looks really doesn't have to do with anything. Except from when he travels to promote the company and work with partners.
I'd have done the same
Seriously, I don't get it.
I wonder what the obese person's diet consisted of? Any chance he's been feeding on McShite burgers all his life, and the company was embarrassed to hire a living example of what such shit food does to people?
That was what I said
Aladdin, I'm really don't think that it is in anyway appropriate to be using the word "delicious" in a thread about McDonalds, do you?
BTW Good to see you back. NYC treat you well?
Great city, great people. Not a single restaurant selling Freedom Fries though. I was greatly .
The Americans had all left for their hols then had they? Or is NYC just an example of what is great about an immigration policy?
Many thought the missus and I were British- despite my Spanish accent- and engaged in conversation all the time to let us know what their favourite part of Britain was.
I was surprised to see a lot of anti-war graffiti on the streets and a general disconnection from the gun-ho "Support Our Troops" movement seen elsewhere.
but IT IS there food that is making someone be obese, i honestly wouldnt have a problem with a large person serving me, it doesnt make me change my mind wanting to eat something from whos servign me, people know the risks from eating junk food before they partake in entering the building and consuming the product.
Agreed. It is down to the individual to choose, and in the case of children, it is the parents responsibility. Blaming a company for it is an unfortunate outcome of modern society, in which everyone else is to blame for everything that goes wrong in the world, and by God, I'm going to sue them for it! Everyone (well, everyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together) knows junk food is bad for you. It's not like the manufacturers put one of the most addictive narcotics known to man into their product to get you hooked, and then lied about it. [/rant]
Besides, I'm not worried so much about the fat content of McDonald's as the hygiene issues. I hear that people who've worked there are a little reluctant to eat there....
No one who has worked/works there, eats their food. I haven't eaten their burgers for months, due to the horror stories I've heard. Can't shut it out of my head. Though I do eat their ice creams
You want a horror story? On a British satirical quiz show, "Have I Got News For You", one round is the odd one out, where contestants have to pick out which of four people or items is the odd one out (surprisingly enough). In one such round the four items were (as I recall) raw sewage, e-coli bacteria, a nematode worm, and the back half of a mouse. Three of these four had been found in McDonalds restaurants. I believe the odd one out was the worm, but I remember the back end of the mouse was actually found in someone's food at McD's, not just on the floor. :yuck:
Aladdin you mispelled it. The new burger that will be all the rage in Baghdad will be called the McShi'ite.