McDonald’s Puppets “Serve” Fired Friends

Chicago’s McDonald’s temporarily shut down its offices & told employees to stay home so its HR drones could virtually tell them about lay-offs? Yet global fast-food giant couldn’t say how many jobs to get butchered?

Mooovalous? In an internal email last week, says the WSJ, the company “asked employees to cancel all in-person meetings with vendors & other outside parties at its headquarters” but, when asked by the paper, refused to reveal exactly how many employees were being laid off. A tad callous, you think? Not so, claimed the McDonald’s PR flak & HR puppets: “We want to ensure the comfort and confidentiality of our people during the notification period.”

Ok. Have it your way. Or not. In my 50-year work career, I got “laid-off” a couple times so a troubled company I worked for could “right size” or “responsibly restructure” just as McDonald’s is now claiming. Then, as now, I had the brains to realize it really meant I was getting my rear end “fired.” Sure felt that way, too. But, the one thing that rankled me at those disillusioning times is the baloney of the worthless HR people who invariably had the gall to begin to wield the guillotine by saying “this is the toughest part of my job”. You think Mc Donald’s PR & HR folks are worried about the “comfort & confidentiality” of “our people”? Or, are they sorry Happy Meal excuses for PUPPETS?

Davd Soul