Over the years, I've commented now and then on some of the legal issues facing McDonalds. I guess, in many ways, they're no better and no worse than many other large corporations.
Except a lot of them -- perhaps most -- support their local emergency services.
Not McDonalds.
A McDonalds franchisee in upstate New York fired an employee for paying for firefighters' meals out of her own pocket.
She didn't steal the food, she (and a couple of other workers) paid out of their own pockets.
Food's better at Burger King, anyway.
McDonalds management is claiming that the firing had nothing to do with the firefighters; they're claiming Levia swore at supervisors and was otherwise insubordinate... possibly by pointing out that management often gave free meals to police officers.
So now, MickyD's has lost an 8-year veteran employee, pissed off the firefighters in the area, pissed off the cops (cause now they're not gonna get freebies, either), the franchisee has been exposed as a hypocrite, and McDonalds has yet another black eye.
I will not patronize McDonalds until this mess is straightened out, and I would ask you to do the same.
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