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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 4:43:53 PM

MasterKalif

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Arpig, I have been unlucky I guess...I usually get superb service abroad...in the US just regular...and close to where I live, just awful, they take forever..I mean as in 20 mins...it defeats the purpose of fast food. Then when I get up to the window, they are just hanging out, chit chatting, etc.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 4:49:05 PM

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....so this idiot kid also got a lesson in customer service, alas, the hard way.

Lets not make excuses for lazyness....or the nasty cops who abuse power for that matter.

How do you know, he/she was an idiot? Sometimes the line in a drive thru is backed up. Sometime the guy in front of you orders a enormous amount of food for his entire crew at work. Sometimes an appliance is on the fritz. A lot of things could have been delaying his order. If he didn't want to wait, he should have asked for his money back and went somewhere else. I can almost bet there was another fast food place across the street. You don't pull fucking guns on people to teach them a lesson. You don't pull guns or any weapon on someone unless they are threatening your life. The guy is a fucking douchebag, and I hope he enjoys the protective custody unit (where they put all the dirty cops, child molesters, and snitches) of the prison he hopefully will be going to. I saw nothing in the story that indicated the fast food worker was being lazy.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 4:57:04 PM

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very well said, Louve00...and hence generally I tend not to go there.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 5:00:30 PM

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Problem SBFY is we can't be sure he is going. He certainly should, but in the end after the media quiets down he will most likely just get fired. Of course it is a hell of a job to lose. Cops make about thirty bucks an hour around here, and the benefit package is usually very good.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 5:01:57 PM

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slaveboy LOL..I know, I agree with you on the cop being a douchebag...he deserves to be fired with little consideration..and you are correct, the story does not say that in this instance the employee was being lazy - so if we stick to the facts of this one newspaper as it happened then correct. However - based on my personal experience at the MickeyD's - where you have to wait for 20 mins in this one place close to where I live - and when I pull up I see 3 guys hanging out chatting and not doing their job...that pisses me off, because it is my time that due to their lazyness was wasted...in any case, you get what you pay for, that is the true moral of the story.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 5:10:14 PM

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or
Problem SBFY is we can't be sure he is going. He certainly should, but in the end after the media quiets down he will most likely just get fired. Of course it is a hell of a job to lose. Cops make about thirty bucks an hour around here, and the benefit package is usually very good.

Damn, where the hell do YOU live? And can I apply as a cop there? Here a starting cop salary is no more than $34K a year. I made almost that kind of wage working my last 'temp job.'

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 5:58:16 PM

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Damn, where the hell do YOU live? And can I apply as a cop there? Here a starting cop salary is no more than $34K a year. I made almost that kind of wage working my last 'temp job.'

We live in the South Loki, cops don't get paid shit here. When I graduated from college, I was approached by the New Orleans PD. They were offering around 25K a year! I told them thanks but no thanks. It was the most dangerous city in the country, and they wondered why their police department has such a reputation for corrupt cops. Our teachers have the same shitty deal on pay in the South. Arkansas can't keep education graduates in the state.

Term lives up in Cleveland if I remember correctly. Up north, they do pay their cops a lot more. Hell, they pay their garbage men almost as much. I know my uncle in West Virginia has a garbage man friend in Pittsburg, and they make close to 50K with full benefits. It's the unions.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 6:28:25 PM

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Problem SBFY is we can't be sure he is going. He certainly should, but in the end after the media quiets down he will most likely just get fired. Of course it is a hell of a job to lose. Cops make about thirty bucks an hour around here, and the benefit package is usually very good.

You're probably right, Term. The SOB should at least be sitting in county jail, instead of his house collecting pay. If you or I yanked a gun on a McDonald's worker, we would be sitting in there with probably no bond allowed. I know they usually deny bond for violent offenses in my county. We sure as hell wouldn't have our employers continuing to pay us while we await trial. I'd get fired after a couple of days of missing work. Being in jail would not be a good enough excuse.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 9:27:02 PM

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It sounds like to me that the police department while starting the investigation put the officer on "paid leave" but plan to change that once they recieve formal charges.
This doesn't seem much different than any other employer to me except it isn't his vacation time being used. I know that in the places I've worked at (generally customer service) if I needed vacation time unexpectedly they would do their level best to accomidate me unless I didn't have the time built up.

"Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said Saunders has been suspended with pay during the investigation, but he would be put on unpaid leave once the department is formally notified of the charges. "

It's not a perfect system but I don't really find fault with how the police department has handled this particular incident. As for that specific officer, yes I believe he should loose his badge and ability to carry or own a firearm. However, just like any citizen of this country he has the right to due process.

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RE: How NOT to speed up a McDonald's employee - 7/24/2009 9:47:26 PM

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FR, after read thru

Without commenting on the particulars of the OP, I'd just like to address the sub-issue of paid versus unpaid leave during the investigation of police officer misconduct . . . . .

I'm thinking that, as unpopular as the police are with some, if all it took to put an officer into unpaid leave was a complaint, that would be bully incentive for some to make untrue allegations. Sure, in the long run it would probably work itself out, but it could create havoc for the affected officer in the meanwhile. Knowing that the investigatory period would entail paid leave seems to eliminate much of that motivation, to me . . . . . .

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