Thread: McDonald's Fires Manager of Eight Years for Showing Gratitude to Firefighters

You sell garbage for food, and now we find that your upper management is garbage.

Stay classy, McDonald's.





Written story:

http://visiontoamerica.com/16861/mcd...-firefighters/

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Yea, i saw this the other day. Pretty low for a corporation to do something like this.

If you ask your boss if you can do something and he says no, you don't ask his boss. I assume that's why she got fired. Either that, or she was sleeping with the managers wife. #plottwist

We can start speculating on what she did and ruin the point, or we can understand
what happened here. She paid out of her pocket. She worked for it. The money
belonged to her. She should not have had to ask anybody whether she could pay
for something out of her pocket.

McDonald's should be boycotted, anyway, just for serving garbage for food. But
this is way over the line.
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I refuse to ever eat mcdonalds except for their pumpkin pies around Halloween.

Originally Posted by topscribe

We can start speculating on what she did and ruin the point, or we can understand
what happened here. She paid out of her pocket. She worked for it. The money
belonged to her. She should not have had to ask anybody whether she could pay
for something out of her pocket.

McDonald's should be boycotted, anyway, just for serving garbage for food. But
this is way over the line.
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Speculate? The story says what she did. Going above your boss is pretty stupid. I hope she keeps her sense of charity, but learns from her experience.

Originally Posted by dbfan2007

Speculate? The story says what she did. Going above your boss is pretty stupid. I hope she keeps her sense of charity, but learns from her experience.

What is stupid is their telling her what she can do with her own money that she
worked for and earned. Neither her boss nor her boss's boss has any right to tell
her what she can do with her own money. I hope she sticks by her guns. That
is all.

Our country gets more screwed up by the day - seriously - they will get a lot of backlash over this and try to fix it - they dont like bad PR. I agree with top tho - I do understand she got fired for going over her managers head but regardless its her money to do with as she pleases. I dont understand why she even asked in the first place - I would have just said - its on the house guys and put the money in the drawer and moved on with my day

Originally Posted by topscribe

What is stupid is their telling her what she can do with her own money that she
worked for and earned. Neither her boss nor her boss's boss has any right to tell
her what she can do with her own money. I hope she sticks by her guns. That
is all.

She called her manager to see if he would pay for their food. He said no. She called corporate to see if they would. They said no.

This is bad pub for McDonalds, but the manager isn't being fired for being charitible, although the media will use that because it makes a better story.

The FF's called to complain? WTF were they thinking?

According to her facebook post quoted in this story - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1621013 - she got fired for swearing at and hanging up on her boss [when they refused to pay for the firefighters]. That sounds more realistic than being fired for paying out of pocket.

Two things:

1. According to the story, she did not go over the boss's head. She asked the company
to pay for it, and when they said no, then she paid for it. It cost her a total of $153.

2. The story does not say she swore and hung up. She said she was told that she
swore and hung up.

But the nuances of the story don't make any difference. The fact is, no matter what
happened, the company is so cold that they fired her after she dug into HER OWN
pocket and picked up the tab in a gesture of appreciation for the firefighters. That
should have covered a whole lot of sins.

But I guess not. Not in this society . . .
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Originally Posted by dbfan2007

She called her manager to see if he would pay for their food. He said no. She called corporate to see if they would. They said no.

That's right. So then she PAID OUT OF HER OWN POCKET, HER OWN MONEY.

Wow. Just wow.

Originally Posted by topscribe

Two things:

1. According to the story, she did not go over the boss's head. She asked the company
to pay for it, and when they said no, then she paid for it. It cost her a total of $153.

2. The story does not say she swore and hung up. She said she was told that she
swore and hung up.

But the nuances of the story don't make any difference. The fact is, no matter what
happened, the company is so cold that they fired her after she dug into HER OWN
pocket and picked up the tab in a gesture of appreciation for the firefighters. That
should have covered a whole lot of sins.

But I guess not. Not in this society . . .
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The nuances of the story make all the difference in the world.

Common sense tells us that a woman isn't going to be fired for a single act of charity. If she was - then I share in your outrage...

But from what I've read - it sounds more like she was insubordinate and then tried to spin the story in her favor to drum up some sympathy.