WTF?!? McDonald's 'No Quit' Notice Forbids Employees From Quitting; Sparks Debate

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Story by Tyler Connaghan • 7h ago


It seems like since the start of the pandemic, the restaurant industry has been grappling with an ongoing staffing sho© Source - @f--kyouiquit / Twitter

It seems like since the start of the pandemic, the restaurant industry has been grappling with an ongoing staffing shortage. However, in the face of this challenge, one McDonald's franchise has taken a controversial approach, attempting to address the problem with an unconventional, not to mention potentially illegal, measure.

Now, the restaurant is stirring up online backlash. This McDonald's displayed a sign prohibiting employees from quitting, declaring itself a 'no-quit restaurant.’ Of course, this caused widespread outrage, especially from the larger community of food workers.
The crazy thing is that turnover is an inherent aspect of running a McDonald's or any fast-food franchise, for that matter. The industry is notorious for its transient work culture, and many employees come on board and quit when their lives take them elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, few people view drive-thru operations as a viable long-term career.

Instead of accepting this transient culture as a regular business expense, this McDonald's decided to take a different approach by creating and displaying a “no-quit” sign within the restaurant. Essentially, employees working here aren’t allowed to resign without prior approval from management.

Who or what inspired the sign remains unclear, though it appears to be associated with a single McDonald's franchise, as no one has heard reports of any others. It's pretty unlikely that a global corporation as large as McDonald's would endorse such a boldly unconventional approach to their quitting policy.

Nevertheless, the sign has been an absolute shock to people across the internet.
The employees at this particular location must meet with McDonald's management to address their reasons for quitting. The statement that they put out seems appreciative, as they begin by saying that the company values the employees, their growth, and the contributions that they make day in and day out. However, when they start to get assertive with the concept of being a "no-quit restaurant," which is a term we can’t say we’ve ever heard before and was likely invented by this particular McDonald's, the tone changes.

The fact that you have to speak with a restaurant manager or area supervisor so that THEY can decide whether or not you’re able to move on with your life is a backward approach to management.

According to the restaurant, the reason the sign exists is that there are many different “situations” that lead to employee resignation, many of which can “be resolved.”
However, the issue lies in the fact that the reasons prompting someone to quit a fast food job, or whatever job they have, should be considered private and personal matters.

The looming presence of this sign triggered a wave of anger on social media, and people were taken aback by the audacity of this McDonald's management. One woman shared her perspective on TikTok, questioning how the restaurant's owners could claim that "all can be resolved" when the CEO of the company earns a hundred times what their low-level employees make.
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BFC- Over the years I've generally given two weeks notice when I wanted to move on. Aren't people doing that anymore?

 

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Story by Tyler Connaghan • 7h ago


It seems like since the start of the pandemic, the restaurant industry has been grappling with an ongoing staffing sho© Source - @f--kyouiquit / Twitter

It seems like since the start of the pandemic, the restaurant industry has been grappling with an ongoing staffing shortage. However, in the face of this challenge, one McDonald's franchise has taken a controversial approach, attempting to address the problem with an unconventional, not to mention potentially illegal, measure.

Now, the restaurant is stirring up online backlash. This McDonald's displayed a sign prohibiting employees from quitting, declaring itself a 'no-quit restaurant.’ Of course, this caused widespread outrage, especially from the larger community of food workers.
The crazy thing is that turnover is an inherent aspect of running a McDonald's or any fast-food franchise, for that matter. The industry is notorious for its transient work culture, and many employees come on board and quit when their lives take them elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, few people view drive-thru operations as a viable long-term career.

Instead of accepting this transient culture as a regular business expense, this McDonald's decided to take a different approach by creating and displaying a “no-quit” sign within the restaurant. Essentially, employees working here aren’t allowed to resign without prior approval from management.

Who or what inspired the sign remains unclear, though it appears to be associated with a single McDonald's franchise, as no one has heard reports of any others. It's pretty unlikely that a global corporation as large as McDonald's would endorse such a boldly unconventional approach to their quitting policy.

Nevertheless, the sign has been an absolute shock to people across the internet.
The employees at this particular location must meet with McDonald's management to address their reasons for quitting. The statement that they put out seems appreciative, as they begin by saying that the company values the employees, their growth, and the contributions that they make day in and day out. However, when they start to get assertive with the concept of being a "no-quit restaurant," which is a term we can’t say we’ve ever heard before and was likely invented by this particular McDonald's, the tone changes.

The fact that you have to speak with a restaurant manager or area supervisor so that THEY can decide whether or not you’re able to move on with your life is a backward approach to management.

According to the restaurant, the reason the sign exists is that there are many different “situations” that lead to employee resignation, many of which can “be resolved.”
However, the issue lies in the fact that the reasons prompting someone to quit a fast food job, or whatever job they have, should be considered private and personal matters.

The looming presence of this sign triggered a wave of anger on social media, and people were taken aback by the audacity of this McDonald's management. One woman shared her perspective on TikTok, questioning how the restaurant's owners could claim that "all can be resolved" when the CEO of the company earns a hundred times what their low-level employees make.
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BFC- Over the years I've generally given two weeks notice when I wanted to move on. Aren't people doing that anymore?

Not always, and especially in the lower-paid end of the job spectrum.

Fast-food workers are notorious for leaving after (or during) a shift and simply never coming back. No notice of any kind.

 

[mzkitty]

I've walked out on several jobs over the years. I think I left a note on the boss' desk in one instance; in another I just left, and the third I told my agency I could not do that particular job and wouldn't be going back after only 3 hours. If they don't like it, tough.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Not always, and especially in the lower-paid end of the job spectrum.

Fast-food workers are notorious for leaving after (or during) a shift and simply never coming back. No notice of any kind.

And what of it? If they were to fire you, they'd do it without notice.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Who or what inspired the sign remains unclear, though it appears to be associated with a single McDonald's franchise, as no one has heard reports of any others.

Directive 10-289

 

[Luddite]

Aren't people doing that anymore?

I wouldn't.

I have watched the "death angel" aka the HR rep swoop in and fire salaried people with NO notice. Escorted off the property immediately.

I watched a union official unofficially drag supervision by the hand through the process of firing an hourly employee.

The "company" had ample reason but seemed to lack any desire to do their job.
The employee was stealing from the company and other employees with abandon. Late, no calls no shows and customer complaints. It was a "no brainer". Supervision had the no brain part down to an art.

Get this one: an hourly employee gave 4 months notice. The company was still too "do-less" to have a replacement hired. Other workers including me were inconvenienced for MONTHS while a suitable replacement got trained.

WHEN I decide to go, I'll clean out my stuff without even a "goodbye" to anyone.

A permanent "no call, no show".

 

[Blacknarwhal]

You can DECLARE yourself a "no-quit restaurant" until your tongue flaps through the other side of your skull, but until you can actually compel an employee to show up, it's about as meaningless as it gets.

 

[Profit of Doom]

So you quit in violation of that policy. What are they going to do, fire you?

 

[Blacknarwhal]

So you quit in violation of that policy. What are they going to do, fire you?

No, you get DOUBLE employed. And if anyone calls checking your references, they say you're still employed there.

 

[Countrymouse]

So you quit in violation of that policy. What are they going to do, fire you?

What it reminds me of is two things:

1. Usually telling people "you are NOT allowed to do X", MAKES them WANT to do "X" all the more.

2. The only countries that tell you "You MUST do this job until WE tell you that you are excused / reassigned" --- had either the hammer/sickle or the color red as their identifiers.

 

[kyrsyan]

Not going to work. But good try. Unless I was really happy there, I would have walked the moment I saw that sign go up.

 

[Countrymouse]

My son: "Sounds like slavery to me...."

Ironic given the recent focus of most Micky-D advertising and their clientele.....................

 

[blueinterceptor]

It strikes me that the McDonald’s in question at least is trying to keep its workers. The sign seem to suggest that most problems are solvable. I would suppose that some people quit over scheduling or maybe assignments. Maybe school necessities. Or sexual harassment issues. Maybe the store wants a crack at fixing the problems before the employee leaves.
Of course no one is going to stop you from quitting if you are determined to quit.

 

[mzkitty]

All you have to do is walk out the door. What are they gonna do, chase you down and drag you back?

 

[Griz3752]

Somebody at McD's HQ had a brain fart . . . . .

If I owned stock on that company, I'd be questioning snr mgt about where/how that was determined to be something the corporation wanted to get behind.

 

[meandk0610]

Is the owner of that franchise Japanese?

 

[Millwright]

Hard to force someone into a job at a place that just got gutted by a massive grease fire.

OOOOOPS

 

[ktrapper]

It takes me a bit to come to the decision but the bridges that I have burned have lit the way on the road ahead of me.

Only one I ever just walked out on without a notice was when I was shop foreman at a trailer manufacturing company. I built that guy up starting in his backyard to having 10 welders full time in the summer months.

Owner wanted me to work the welders up to lay off day in the fall before I told them that winter slow down and lay off was happening.

I told them all right then and that if they needed a day here or there to look for other work to take it that I would cover for them if need be. The Owner called me on to the carpet about that and proceeded to give me the what for about it. I knew then, I had his ass.

Come spring when we started all the custom trailer builds, of which I had all the measurements for the new designs. I walked and the measurements with me, changed my phone number and already had another welding job.

The guy I knew that still worked there let me the owner couldnt believe I done that.
I told him to tell the owner thats how it feels to be just a paycheck.

He was good to work for to begin with but turned into a ass when he started making good money, and started cheating on his wife.

 

[Babs]

Is the owner of that franchise Japanese?

I was going to suggest Chinese.

 

[blueinterceptor]

If the signage had said please dont quit until you speak to a manager or area supervisor or words to that effect, would that change anyone’s feelings about the sign?

 

[Phelan]

If the signage had said please dont quit until you speak to a manager or area supervisor or words to that effect, would that change anyone’s feelings about the sign?

as I remember working in fast food years ago, yes it would have made a difference in my attitude. Sadly my reasons for leaving those types of jobs was:
1: The hours on my paycheck don't equal the hours I worked.
2: 20+ days straight without time off.
3: open to close, 3 days in a row, with no overtime pay.

 

[blueinterceptor]

as I remember working in fast food years ago, yes it would have made a difference in my attitude. Sadly my reasons for leaving those types of jobs was:
1: The hours on my paycheck don't equal the hours I worked.
2: 20+ days straight without time off.
3: open to close, 3 days in a row, with no overtime pay.

I’m guessing here but I assume (I know) your time in the ff industry was before a lot of the modern protections of laws and contracts? But if the issues you had were resolvable by talking to a manager, would have stayed a little longer.

 

[SurvivalRing]

I've walked out on several jobs over the years. I think I left a note on the boss' desk in one instance; in another I just left, and the third I told my agency I could not do that particular job and wouldn't be going back after only 3 hours. If they don't like it, tough.

Here’s the funny thing. You’ll like this story, I mean seriously… bat shit funny. Revenge is a quarter pounder best served ice cold…

I moved my family and everything we owned (and had room for) in October 2000, from central Alabama to Lander, Wyoming…leaving a career as a letter carrier behind because of the absolute danger on the streets of Bessemer…at the time the fifth most dangerous city in America (and yes, after I was targeted in a drive by, and I looked down the barrel of a .38 special as two black thugs drove slowly by laughing at me…but not pulling the trigger). I stood there and waited to die. No one should ever have to be THERE.

A friend I’d known since junior high (1973) had offered me a trucking venture based in Casper. In less than 10 months we were stone ass broke, bankrupt, and homeless. I didn’t do my due diligence, and ex-friend hid many aspects of the job rather…nebulously.

He lied his ass off.

From the Teton Motel on Main Street in Lander, where my mom paid for a month for us, I applied for many jobs all over Lander and Riverton…no go. No one needed someone with manufacturing experience, vehicle building, or massive computer skills, in that tiny 6k population Rocky Mountain foothills town.

My daughter gotten a job at the McD in town, and hat in hand, so did I, as a cook at minimum wage.

I never felt so low in my life. But, I worked my ass off. In three months, I was a shift manager…six months after that, I was promoted to general manager at the Worland, Wyoming store.

Paid an annual salary of $26k, I learned all the idiosyncrasies of store management…literally ALL of it. Scheduling, inventory, training, machine cleaning (including that nasty ass shake machine), opens, closes, money management and security, ad infinitum.

Moved to that store in February 2002, moved the family up there in April. Over the next year, I worked so many 80 hour weeks, I stayed perpetually exhausted.

During that summer, I mastered the first disk of my huge 14 CD/DVD library, and Shane bought ten thousand of them at wholesale. Quite a payday and a much needed cash infusion after the penniless, homeless debacle.

I got so good at managing and supervising, scheduling and training, that a year later, April 2003, my store was the third highest increase in sales in the entire Rocky Mountain Region. I learned this in the first week of May, when the McD corporate newsletter was delivered to my store. At the time, the best thing I’d ever done. I was so proud of that fact….and my mom was too.

Early in the third week of May, my boss (owner operator Bob Luck) and his girlfriend (NOT his wife…who would soon divorce him) his franchise store manager, came to visit me about my store, my priorities, and my future.

They didn’t come up to say “good job” about the leap in sales and efficiency.

They didn’t come up to say “here’s a raise for working your ass off”.

They didn’t come up to tell me I’d earned a bonus for such a happy occasion.

No…they came up to threaten me…force me to do their bidding…and insult me over my life choices…thusly….

So, after they got their coffee and breakfast bagel, we went and sat down at the farthest booth from the front counter…for a reason. He was going to strong-arm me.

(I should mention here that Bob had sent me to every corporate manager training school down in Denver…and kept mentioning Hamburger U in Illinois…the ultimate training for “team players”). Sending anybody there would cost the franchisee a smooth $10,000, for corporate’s best training system.

Then he said…I need you to make a decision about your future…are you going to focus on your career, or are you going to keep playing with your “little computers”?

Ouch…bad opening. I’d just made a $22.5k deal for two months of work, in my FEW off hours…with the ON hours spiking his sales more than he’d ever seen. I saw the glass ceiling materializing right above my head. This is gonna hurt…

Bob thought he had me by the balls, with his next comments. “We’re not happy with your focus not being fully on McDonalds. We’re going to take this store away from you, and move you down to Thermopolis (80 miles south). We’re also going to cut your pay down to $22k.

$500 less than that CD project…interesting.

(Side bar :: Bob’s vast McDonalds empire consisted of four stores; Lander, Riverton, Thermopolis and Worland.

Oh, and this is a good spot to mention that his soon to be ex-wife’s family provided the money that bought him this franchise, and the million buck home they lived in on a hill…oh, and the plane he flew between stores.

Her family owned the Cheyenne and Laramie McD stores at I-80 and I-25…the companies highest grossing stores)

“Oh. But…” and I let that thought trail off.

At his company Christmas part in December 2001, he and his “girlfriend”…both assuredly inebriated, approached me about the GM position. I wasn’t drunk…haven’t been since 1980. I told them to let me talk to my wife.

I also asked him that I’d consider it seriously, if he would promise not to leave me hanging and swinging in the wind…like my ex-friend had just done six months before.

They said they’d treat me better than that. They didn’t.

My store change would take effect on June 1st, 2003. I worked everyday from their visit until 5 pm on Sunday May 31st. I then faxed my resignation to them, handed my keys to my assistant manager, and went home. Short and sweet.

Annie and I had discussed this for the last week before…we were ready. Also, everyone I’d worked with in all the stores knew that Thermopolis had NEVER made a profit, but in order to get the three stores, he HAD to take Thermopolis.

He thought that the magic I’d done with Worland would also work for Thermopolis. Nope! Not gonna happen.

Hardy-har-har…

First thing Monday morning I drove three streets over from the house to Wyoming Workforce and applied for unemployment, and began a job search.

By Friday, I had a job as a plant manager at $100 more a week, with Worland Cleaners. During that hot, nasty, maggot filled summer (don’t ask…), Annie and I decided it was time to go back to college and finish my degree I’d started in 1978.

Within a couple of trips to Riverton and back to fill out paperwork, see counselors, and sign up for our first courses, we sold most of our belongings, appliances, thousands of my precious books, and put all the rest in storage, and all five of us moved into the west dorms at Central Wyoming College, and started classes.

I’d never thought it would ever be possible…we had absolutely no savings, yet Annie had faith it would all work out. I’d only planned on one degree…but earned three. It did all work out…and I’ve shared here a couple of times just how extraordinarily successful with EVERYTHING I was…and I did everything.

Between the five of us, we earned 10 degrees, including Annie earning her bachelors degree with the university of Wyoming…all online.

And, what about Bob?



He no longer has his franchise. Plus, everything I did at CWC (scholarships, awards, video projects with the police department and high school, and national recognition I earned, he and his new wife (aka girlfriend) read about in the Riverton newspaper…for several years…because of my “little computers”.

(Yeah…they forgot that corporate sent those newsletters directly to THE MANAGERS)

Payback is a bitch…

 

[SurvivalRing]

I was going to suggest Chinese.

No matter WHERE he’s from, he’s most definitely a communist.

 

[Phelan]

I’m guessing here but I assume (I know) your time in the ff industry was before a lot of the modern protections of laws and contracts? But if the issues you had were resolvable by talking to a manager, would have stayed a little longer.

yes it would have. I was trying to continue H.S. and needed any paying steady work I could. But, I couldn't have them look to close at my information so I didn't make a fuss and walked, i'd have rather kept those jobs . I was 14 and on my own, no fuss was worth going back to foster care or being found by my stepdad.

Colorado's group homes are horrible now, in the late 80's they were something straight out of Steven Kings nightmares.

 

[Old Gray Mare]

In "Right to Work" states that policy probably isn't worth the paper its printed on.

 

[Melodi]

Laughable and illegal. And when I was in food service, I would have started applying to other places the day after this went up because of the attitude. But then I quit a waitressing job in a corporate own position because unpaid overtime was considered normal and mandatory. I pointed out this was illegal (some of the time was not paid at all) and told: "We always do it that way." Well, sucks to be you, I'm out of here...

 

[PghPanther]

So you can quit........but you can never leave?

Eagles anyone?

 

[TKO]

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Story by Tyler Connaghan • 7h ago


It seems like since the start of the pandemic, the restaurant industry has been grappling with an ongoing staffing sho© Source - @f--kyouiquit / Twitter

It seems like since the start of the pandemic, the restaurant industry has been grappling with an ongoing staffing shortage. However, in the face of this challenge, one McDonald's franchise has taken a controversial approach, attempting to address the problem with an unconventional, not to mention potentially illegal, measure.

Now, the restaurant is stirring up online backlash. This McDonald's displayed a sign prohibiting employees from quitting, declaring itself a 'no-quit restaurant.’ Of course, this caused widespread outrage, especially from the larger community of food workers.
The crazy thing is that turnover is an inherent aspect of running a McDonald's or any fast-food franchise, for that matter. The industry is notorious for its transient work culture, and many employees come on board and quit when their lives take them elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, few people view drive-thru operations as a viable long-term career.

Instead of accepting this transient culture as a regular business expense, this McDonald's decided to take a different approach by creating and displaying a “no-quit” sign within the restaurant. Essentially, employees working here aren’t allowed to resign without prior approval from management.

Who or what inspired the sign remains unclear, though it appears to be associated with a single McDonald's franchise, as no one has heard reports of any others. It's pretty unlikely that a global corporation as large as McDonald's would endorse such a boldly unconventional approach to their quitting policy.

Nevertheless, the sign has been an absolute shock to people across the internet.
The employees at this particular location must meet with McDonald's management to address their reasons for quitting. The statement that they put out seems appreciative, as they begin by saying that the company values the employees, their growth, and the contributions that they make day in and day out. However, when they start to get assertive with the concept of being a "no-quit restaurant," which is a term we can’t say we’ve ever heard before and was likely invented by this particular McDonald's, the tone changes.

The fact that you have to speak with a restaurant manager or area supervisor so that THEY can decide whether or not you’re able to move on with your life is a backward approach to management.

According to the restaurant, the reason the sign exists is that there are many different “situations” that lead to employee resignation, many of which can “be resolved.”
However, the issue lies in the fact that the reasons prompting someone to quit a fast food job, or whatever job they have, should be considered private and personal matters.

The looming presence of this sign triggered a wave of anger on social media, and people were taken aback by the audacity of this McDonald's management. One woman shared her perspective on TikTok, questioning how the restaurant's owners could claim that "all can be resolved" when the CEO of the company earns a hundred times what their low-level employees make.
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BFC- Over the years I've generally given two weeks notice when I wanted to move on. Aren't people doing that anymore?

How will illegals move onto the next higher paying job if they can't quit MickieD?

 

[Terrwyn]

The only jobs I had that were good jobs with great bosses were in beer bars. After quitting several so called good jobs I never worked anywhere else until we opened our business. And believe it when I say those jerks I quit were shaking in their boots and very glad to see me gone. Like the t-shirt says something about God made redheads so you could see them coming. I wish I was young enough to get a job at that Micky Ds. Quitting would be so much fun.

 

[WalknTrot]

Hahaha..a pretty contradictory way to try to try to retain employees & resolve issues by telling them up front in bold letters that they are basically slaves.

I tell ya...idiots are in charge these days.

 

[West]

In some states if not all, when you become a licensed, insured and bonded contractor you are obligated (by state law) to take state government jobs in a emergency and if called in by the state.

Said before and say it again better...

If ever I'm drafted to do government work and I'm not happy about it,..

"I'll pretend to work even harder".

 

[ktrapper]

Here’s the funny thing. You’ll like this story, I mean seriously… bat shit funny. Revenge is a quarter pounder best served ice cold…

I moved my family and everything we owned (and had room for) in October 2000, from central Alabama to Lander, Wyoming…leaving a career as a letter carrier behind because of the absolute danger on the streets of Bessemer…at the time the fifth most dangerous city in America (and yes, after I was targeted in a drive by, and I looked down the barrel of a .38 special as two black thugs drove slowly by laughing at me…but not pulling the trigger). I stood there and waited to die. No one should ever have to ever be THERE.

A friend I’d known since junior high (1973) had offered me a trucking venture based in Casper. In less than 10 months we were stone ass broke, bankrupt, and homeless. I didn’t do my due diligence, and ex-friend hid many aspects of the job rather…nebulous. He lied his ass off.

From the Teton Motel on Main Street in Lander, where my mom paid for a month for us, I applied all over Lander and Riverton…no go. No one needed someone with manufacturing, vehicle building, or massive computer skills, in that tiny 6k population Rocky Mountain foothills town. My daughter got a job at the McD in town, and hat in hand, so did I, as a cook at minimum wage.

I never felt so low in my life. But, I worked my ass off. In three months, I was a shift manager…six months after that, I was promoted to general manager at the Worland, Wyoming store. Paid an annual salary of $26k, I learned all the idiosyncrasies of store management…literally ALL of it. Scheduling, inventory, training, machine cleaning (including that nasty ass shake machine), opens, closes, money management and security, ad infinitum.

Moved to that store in February 2002, moved the family up there in April. Over the next year, I worked so many 80 hour weeks, I stayed perpetually exhausted.

During that summer, I mastered the first disk of my library, and Shane bought ten thousand of them at wholesale. Quite a payday and a much needed cash infusion after the penniless, homeless debacle.

I got so good at managing and supervising, scheduling and training, that a year later, April 2003, my store was the third highest increase in sales in the entire Rocky Mountain Region. I learned this in the first week of May, when the McD corporate newsletter was delivered to my store. At the time, the best thing I’d ever done. I was so proud of that fact….and my mom was too.

Early in the third week of May, my boss (owner operator Bob Luck) and his girlfriend (NOT his wife…who would soon divorce him) came to visit me about my store, my priorities, and my future.

They didn’t come up to say “good job” about the leap in sales and efficiency.

They didn’t come up to say “here’s a raise for working your ass off”.

They didn’t come up to tell me I’d earned a bonus for such a happy occasion.

No…they came up to threaten me…force me to do their bidding…and insult me over my life choices…thusly….

So, after they got their coffee and breakfast bagel, we went and sat down at the farthest booth from the front counter…for a reason.

(I should mention here that Bob had sent me to every corporate manager training school down in Denver…and kept mentioning Hamburger U in Illinois…the ultimate training for “team players”)

Then he said…I need you to make a decision about your future…are you going to focus on your career, or are you going to keep playing with your “little computers”?

Ouch…bad opening. I’d just made a $22.5k deal for two months of work, in my FEW off hours…with the ON hours spiking his sales more than he’d ever seen. I saw the glass ceiling materializing right above my head.

Bob thought he had me by the balls, with his next comments. “We’re not happy with your focus not being fully on McDonalds. We’re going to take this store away from you, and move you down to Thermopolis (80 miles south). We’re also going to cut your pay down to $22k.

$500 less than that CD project…interesting.

(Side bar :: Bob’s vast McDonalds empire consisted of four stores; Lander, Riverton, Thermopolis and Worland. Oh, and this is a good spot to mention that his soon to be ex-wife’s family provided the money that bought him this franchise, and the million buck home they lived in on a hill…oh, and the plane he flew between stores. Her family owned the Cheyenne and Laramie McD stores at I-80 and I-25…the companies highest grossing stores)

“Oh. But…” and I let that thought trail off.

At his company Christmas part in December 2001, he and his “girlfriend”…both assuredly inebriated, approached me about the GM position. I wasn’t drunk…haven’t been since 1980. I told them to let me talk to my wife.

I also asked him that I’d consider it seriously, if he would promise not to leave me hanging and swinging in the wind…like my ex-friend had just done six months before. They said they’d treat me better than that. They didn’t.

My store change would take effect on June 1st, 2003. I worked everyday from their visit until 5 pm on Sunday May 31st. I then faxed my resignation to them, handed my keys to my assistant manager, and went home. Short and sweet.

Annie and I had discussed this for the last week before…we were ready. Also, everyone I’d worked with in all the stores knew that Thermopolis had NEVER made a profit, but in order to get the three stores, he HAD to take Thermopolis.

He thought that the magic I’d done with Worland would also work for Thermopolis. Nope! Not gonna happen.

Hardy-har-har…

First thing Monday morning I drove three streets over from the house to Wyoming Workforce. By Friday, I had a job as a plant manager at $100 more a week, with Worland Cleaners. During that hot, nasty, maggot filled summer (don’t ask…), Annie and I decided it was time to go back to college and finish my degree I’d started in 1978.

Within a couple of trips to Riverton and back to fill out paperwork, see counselors, and sign up for our first courses, we sold most of our belongings, appliances, 1000 of my books, and put all the rest in storage, and all five of us moved into the west dorms at Central Wyoming College, and started classes.

I’d never thought it ever be possible…we had absolutely no savings, yet Annie had faith it would all work out. I’d only planned on one degree…but earned three. It did all work out…and I’ve shared here a couple of times just how extraordinarily successful with EVERYTHING I was…and I did everything.

Between the five of us, we earned 10 degrees, including Annie earning her bachelors degree with the university of Wyoming…all online.

And, what about Bob?

He no longer has his franchise. Plus, everything I did at CWC (scholarships, awards, video projects with the police department and high school, and national recognition I earned, he and his new wife (aka girlfriend) read about in the Riverton newspaper…for several years…because of my “little computers”.

(Yeah…they forgot that corporate sent those newsletters directly to THE MANAGERS)

Payback is a bitch…

Revenge is best served cold and sometimes the best revenge is for them to see you succeed. I never wasted time squabbling with with people who had no vision.

Had family dogging me every step of the way for about every idea i had except for the few that I still keep in touch with.

All they know is I succeeded and doing way better than them.

I decided a long time ago with them, that if you arent with me you best get out of my way.

I moved to Alaska from east central Alabama. Lived just east of Anniston.
I know Bessemer pretty well and what you speak of. The only family I keep in touch with live in Helena. I moved my family out of the area where we were partly because of the racial crap. Didnt want my kids growing up in that.

 

[subnet]

When they started farming out our IT one of my co-workers wasnt going to sign on with the contracting company taking over...the parent company threatened him with a lawsuit claiming some obscure covid era rule about essential workers...a lawyer told him take it for a week and quit as it would cost to much to fight.
And here I thought slavery was illegal.

 

[greysage]

This is an outrage-distraction story that affects no one but a handful of people that may quit working at that particular restaurant. My guess is, it's just a sign on the wall by the time clock.

 

[20Gauge]

Not always, and especially in the lower-paid end of the job spectrum.

Fast-food workers are notorious for leaving after (or during) a shift and simply never coming back. No notice of any kind.

I have actually had that happen more than once. I expected results and they expected to simply stand around for 8 hours. So they simply left a 1st break and didn't come back.

Funny thing is the next day they demanded my firing and they get their job back.

Didn't happen

 

[Quiet Man]

Directive 10-289

I've been expecting this, too, though not quite so soon.

 

[willowlady]

My son: "Sounds like slavery to me...."

Ironic given the recent focus of most Micky-D advertising and their clientele.....................

Your son has a strong, analytical brain. Good job!

 

[Mark D]

Directive 10-289

Seeing how .gov is already using Orwell as instruction rather than warning, I can't see why they would bothered to avoid the mistakes in Atlas Shrugged either.

 

[Quiet Man]

Seeing how .gov is already using Orwell as instruction rather than warning, I can't see why they would bothered to avoid the mistakes in Atlas Shrugged either.

Agree.