<p>[McDonald’s</a> to hire 50,000 workers, starting April 19 - Apr. 4, 2011](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/04/news/companies/mcdonalds_jobs/index.htm]McDonald’s”>McDonald's to hire 50,000 workers, starting April 19 - Apr. 4, 2011)</p>
<p>Could be interesting…or appalling.</p>
<p>McDonalds would be a great place to work. They promote heavily within (the CEO started as an entry level crew member), there is high turnover so you have a chance to move up relatively easily, and it’s fast paced fun work. </p>
<p>I’d recommend it for any college student - but will admit that I say that partly because working there is a gentle encourgement as to the importance of college education.</p>
<p>That was my first job and I worked my way through school as a mgr, it was amazing training for running any sort of business.</p>
<p>I have had several relatives work at mcdonalds and say it wasn’t a bad place to work at all, at least for what it was.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn’t work for them, given their contract with Coca-Cola. I could not, in good conscience, sell that to people.</p>
<p>Like somemom I worked there. First job in HS. I was a counter person, then a shift manager then a crew trainer. Left to go to college. Great training for any kind of business. Years later I was a hotel manager. My GM and I were both former McDs employees and often talked about that training.<br>
One of my siblings is very high up in another restaurant chain. He makes great money and in fact never “used” his college degree because of the opportunities he had from those first HS jobs on.<br>
Of course, it isn’t looked on as “a good job”. Even at his level people turn up their noses “fast food?” (Probably lots of them eat it though…) Maybe with this economy that will change.</p>
<p>At the McDonalds near my son’s school, they had a banner stating that they were looking for assistant managers paying $35K/year. My guess is that this was for a lot of hours. Not a bad chunk of change without a college degree and not too bad for some of the degrees out there.</p>
<p>I read the description of the career ladder too and the perks and benefits rise quite nicely as you move up the management chain. As others have said, there’s a lot of turnover so you can move up the ranks quickly. They have tuition reimbursement so you can get someone to pay for your degree as well.</p>
<p>Coca-Cola as an impediment? That means that you wouldn’t work for any grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations, pharmacies, convenience stores, etc. My company provides free Coca-Cola (along with other soft drinks, teas, hot chocolate, coffee, water, juices). I’m pretty happy to work there. I’d guess that companies like Akamai, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. also do the same thing.</p>
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I won’t work somewhere that exclusively sells Coca-Cola, given Coke’s history of exploiting slave labor in Nazi Germany, and its modern practices of torturing and murdering Colombian union organizers and their families at their bottling plants, not to mention stealing water from Indian villages and African tribes and having a product full of pesticides.</p>
<p>[Criticism</a> of Coca-Cola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola]Criticism”>Criticism of Coca-Cola - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>That’s a pretty bizarre rationale but hey, it’s a free country.</p>
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How is it bizarre to not want to support a company that hires paramilitary squads to torture and kill would-be union leaders? Or not support a company that exploited slave labor in Nazi Germany (where they developed Fanta, selling that to the Nazis and Coke to the Allies)? The red of Coke is for the blood of innocents. I cannot stomach drinking it, let alone selling it.</p>
<p>Wow,i wonder if Coke was behind the Kennedy assasination?</p>
<p>McDonald’s sell Coke because Pepsi is a competitor in the fast food industry.</p>
<p>That’s right - the Pepsi on-again/off-again ownership of Burger King.</p>
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Right, we’ll demean the suffering of innocent victims through mockery of their plight.</p>
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Burger King also sells Coca Cola and has for years. Most fast food restaurants seem to as well, including Wendy’s, though I know Taco Bell serves Pepsi. I don’t really eat much fast food, though.</p>
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<p>And because Coke tastes a thousand times better than Pepsi - ick!</p>
<p>My wendy’s sells pepsi!</p>
<p>I think I might be the only person that does not have a preference over coke and pepsi.</p>
<p>McDonald’s is ALWAYS looking, every year. Why is this noteworthy? McDonald’s is a great employer - that is a non-issue.</p>
<p>These kinds of jobs are always available. That this is news is so profoundly…desperate. Is this supposed to be an economic achievement of some sort? </p>
<p>I just want to make sure this isn’t about economic growth, because this is an economic joke.</p>
<p>My guess is this is a PR move for McDonalds…‘Look all you unemployed,underemployed…WE have jobs for you’ …as noted above,mcdonalds is ALWAYS looking for help,and in this crappy economy,they might fill some jobs by those desperate enough to take one…</p>
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<p>I am disheartened that people care so little about the suffering of others, when caring about that suffering would interfere with their junk food intake. We’ll do what’s right… When it’s convenient. Great motto.</p>
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<p>Are you sure about that? My boyfriend applied for a job at mcdonalds last summer and there were three rounds of interviews, and like ten different guys were waiting at the first interview. That’s a lot of competition for a job that’s always available. BF had two years food service experience and three years total of work experience (as a 19 year old) and almost complete availability and didn’t make it past the first cut. I’ve applied for the mcdonalds in our area two or three times and never even gotten an interview, and there’s nothing wrong with my applications or work history other than a lack of experience that is proportionate to my age (or was at the time, anyway.)</p>