I think it's time to take them seriously (Reply #96)

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Thu Nov 21, 2013, 03:30 AM

96. I think it's time to take them seriously

and have charity workers stand outside walmart to collect toys, canned items, etc. for walmart associates. Let the customers experience that before coming into the store.

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109 replies	Author	Time	Post
McDonald’s Advice To Underpaid Employees: Sell Your Christmas Presents For Cash [View all]	diabeticman	Nov 2013	OP
Further down it suggests	Capt. Obvious	Nov 2013	#1
And though your children may not be legally entitled to sell their organs . . .	hatrack	Nov 2013	#2
I'm afraid it's medical experiments for the lot of you	phantom power	Nov 2013	#4
LOL!	2Legit	Nov 2013	#48
Well do we really need two of everything? really you need both eyes and ears, that's just selfish	Heather MC	Nov 2013	#95
Have you considered being a mule?	Capt. Obvious	Nov 2013	#7
some people have tried to sell their children on eBay	yurbud	Nov 2013	#25
Well, hey, win-win, cause extra cash and one less mouth to feed	Thor_MN	Nov 2013	#93
you would need the sarcasm smilie if you were a McDonalds or Walmart exec	yurbud	Nov 2013	#106
Great idea! The 1% can use them for giblet dressing or gravy for their turkey. n/t	Tanuki	Nov 2013	#41
Aside from that it's sociopathic, I've always wondered "then what?"	phantom power	Nov 2013	#3
Debtors prison with work release. n/t	librechik	Nov 2013	#6
As a poor person I can answer that for all of us...	Demo_Chris	Nov 2013	#20
Thank you.	djean111	Nov 2013	#28
From the heart.	Jesus Malverde	Nov 2013	#29
that's worth an OP of it's own.	yurbud	Nov 2013	#30
Best wishes to you.	grantcart	Nov 2013	#34
Wish I could rec your post. nt	awoke_in_2003	Nov 2013	#37
I can relate	Saviolo	Nov 2013	#38
Some years ago, at least twenty now,	SheilaT	Nov 2013	#39
Being poor is very expensive...	Demo_Chris	Nov 2013	#43
Got a bit of the idiot advice from a food stamp information trainer today	Half-Century Man	Nov 2013	#49
Having spent long years of my life in this state, the analogy you used..........	socialist_n_TN	Nov 2013	#61
You describe very eloquently, why being poor is so costly...	CoffeeCat	Nov 2013	#89
And you can never ever afford to buy anything in bulk	eridani	Nov 2013	#98
and most likely do not have room to store it all	lunasun	Nov 2013	#104
You write really really well.	Demit	Nov 2013	#102
thank you. nt	Demo_Chris	Nov 2013	#108
THank you for posting. PLEASE make this an orginal post on the board.	diabeticman	Nov 2013	#47
I feel bad that it took 47 posts before this was	4 t 4	Nov 2013	#55
thank you for this eloquent post. Please consider making it into an op	cali	Nov 2013	#54
Post removed	Post removed	Nov 2013	#56
Why can't DU be a "hobby"?	Curmudgeoness	Nov 2013	#71
well said.	blackspade	Nov 2013	#66
Thank you. nt	Demo_Chris	Nov 2013	#69
...	SammyWinstonJack	Nov 2013	#70
I appreciate the time you took to give a glimpse	Curmudgeoness	Nov 2013	#74
Thanks for the insights. You're a good writer - good voice and you know how to tell a story...	polichick	Nov 2013	#82
Cover California entitles residents to free healthcare if your income is less than 17 grand..	busterbrown	Nov 2013	#97
Poverty as frame of mind.	lumberjack_jeff	Nov 2013	#109
somebody needs to make a color cartoon of official new character Ronald "Scrooge" MacDonald	librechik	Nov 2013	#5
Scrooge was finally redeemed; that was the point of "A Christmas Carol"	LongTomH	Nov 2013	#27
I'm having a hard time believing this	Revanchist	Nov 2013	#8
That was a joke. Organ selling is illegal. So they wouldn't advise you to do it, just nudge.	Shrike47	Nov 2013	#16
Yeah, I'm definitely functioning on too little sleep	Revanchist	Nov 2013	#19
you could still come out ahead if you bought a plane ticket to where it was legal	yurbud	Nov 2013	#107
Please Mr. McBumble.....	Chipper Chat	Nov 2013	#9
Keep this up, and you'll have a visit from Bill McSykes	hatrack	Nov 2013	#23
Nah. Not worried.	Chipper Chat	Nov 2013	#44
What is this, a competition with Wal-Mart?	malthaussen	Nov 2013	#10
real contest	Brainstormy	Nov 2013	#32
Attention 1%'ers. Great to hear you have Christmas presents and that they are resalable commodities	Coyotl	Nov 2013	#11
I know, a few dollar store gifts	4 t 4	Nov 2013	#57
Lovely. (sarcasm) k&r n/t	Laelth	Nov 2013	#12
Why don't McDonalds workers just borrow from their parents	Ace Acme	Nov 2013	#13
This is starting to get really sick.	leftyladyfrommo	Nov 2013	#14
Remember when they caught a Walmart manager taking toys out of the 'Toys For Tots' bin?	Shrike47	Nov 2013	#17
Every year the Toys for Tots program gets robbed.	leftyladyfrommo	Nov 2013	#22
McScrooge	newfie11	Nov 2013	#15
Parody Website	erpowers	Nov 2013	#18
The line in Fast Food Nation - book or movie -older from 90's	lunasun	Nov 2013	#105
Sick fucks.	Solly Mack	Nov 2013	#21
chew your Soylent Green slowly....	ZRT2209	Nov 2013	#24
What is it with these corporations they dig themselves into a hole and instead of addressing the	Arcanetrance	Nov 2013	#26
I absolutely hate McDonald's, but...	Vashta Nerada	Nov 2013	#31
It's on their resource site, also featured as a screen cap in this video:	NYC_SKP	Nov 2013	#52
Ah.	Vashta Nerada	Nov 2013	#63
Actually, I just busted them, they've scrubbed the "Digging out from Holiday Debt" page.	NYC_SKP	Nov 2013	#65
The McResource site is also McOutsourced.	mwooldri	Nov 2013	#78
Yes, "nynurturlife.com" manages resource sites for lots of different clients and insurance cos.	NYC_SKP	Nov 2013	#79
True Socialism,,,,,,,?	Cryptoad	Nov 2013	#33
Keeping in mind that there are McDonalds in Germany....	Spitfire of ATJ	Nov 2013	#35
The exit sign is better	jmowreader	Nov 2013	#75
LOL! I only saw "Drive In" not out.	Spitfire of ATJ	Nov 2013	#80
Agreed	Pretzel_Warrior	Nov 2013	#36
Few things are more revolting than a McDonalds inside a WalMart	Blue Owl	Nov 2013	#40
It's almost as if execs are saying, "Let's see how much the pawns will take..."	polichick	Nov 2013	#42
yes that is it ,no joke	4 t 4	Nov 2013	#59
My advice to McDs employees: Sell weed through the drivethru	NightWatcher	Nov 2013	#45
KamaAina's Advice To Overpaid McD's Execs: Shove It!	KamaAina	Nov 2013	#46
3 bowls of gruel per day, an onion twice a week, and they have the nerve to ask for more	Major Nikon	Nov 2013	#50
I'm surprised they don't suggest employees sell sex	Ilsa	Nov 2013	#51
Wanted: Will pay up to $34.95 "A partridge in a pear tree" ...and YES!..We have Lads a Leapin'	BlueJazz	Nov 2013	#53
Fuck McDonald's I will never eat there again.	gopiscrap	Nov 2013	#58
how dare they	4 t 4	Nov 2013	#62
Thank You for this opportunity-	ruffburr	Nov 2013	#60
WTF?!	blackspade	Nov 2013	#64
Are we absolutely certain that isn't a parody/satire website?	ChisolmTrailDem	Nov 2013	#67
no , what do you think!	4 t 4	Nov 2013	#73
These über rich criminal assholes are becoming characatures of Ebaneezer Scrooge.	Initech	Nov 2013	#68
I hate McDonald's so much that I never yield for cars pulling out of their lots	valerief	Nov 2013	#72
The real question remains unasked	jmowreader	Nov 2013	#76
I saw the video. It also says, "Stop whining" to reduce stress.	muntrv	Nov 2013	#77
McDickens (TM) n/t	devils chaplain	Nov 2013	#81
LMAO!	adirondacker	Nov 2013	#84
Dickens? Nah.	bucolic_frolic	Nov 2013	#83
"Trickle Down," bay-bee.	blkmusclmachine	Nov 2013	#85
WTH uses the phrases "break apart food" and "breaking food"?? These are NOT American-English terms!	WinkyDink	Nov 2013	#86
now THATS the Christmas Spirit	fascisthunter	Nov 2013	#87
Disgusting, yet part of what makes us truly...exceptional. n/t	Alkene	Nov 2013	#88
Better than Wal Mart....	Tigress DEM	Nov 2013	#90
McDonalds could have added, "and don't buy presents for anyone" so all in all, this wasn't too bad	progree	Nov 2013	#91
It's a sick management that allows "advice" like this to be released. I think they secretly laugh at	reformist2	Nov 2013	#92
Are they trying to make themselves look like the biggest tools ever?	treestar	Nov 2013	#94
I think it's time to take them seriously	greymattermom	Nov 2013	#96
I think this and Wal-Mart just go to show how far our economic system has devolved...	AngryOldDem	Nov 2013	#99
How much can you get for stuff from Goodwill or the $ store??? Honestly what items if you are	lunasun	Nov 2013	#100
K&R. "We have basically devolved into a Dickens novel!"	Enthusiast	Nov 2013	#101
The Empire Is Dying - Rotting From Within	cantbeserious	Nov 2013	#103

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