Boss tells staff to eat 2 day old McD Burgers...

02/21/2009 09:31:16 PM · #1

Millionaire City boss tells staff to eat two-day-old burgers... to remind them how lucky they are to still have jobs

That's sorta of an unconventional way of teaching your staff a lesson. It doesn't actually specify whether or not they actually ate the burgers or not. Besides what could the boss do to them if they had refused to eat them?

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

02/21/2009 09:53:39 PM · #2

what do you guys think?

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

02/21/2009 09:56:08 PM · #3

I don't understand what kind of a point it was supposed to make. I'm sure there was some connection in his mind that made perfect sense as a lesson.

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02/21/2009 10:10:18 PM · #4

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

I don't understand what kind of a point it was supposed to make. I'm sure there was some connection in his mind that made perfect sense as a lesson.

I read some of the comments below, and a lot of people were agreeing with his punishment. What would've happened if his employees got food poisoning or something? I don't think he really thought this through.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

02/21/2009 10:45:08 PM · #5

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

I don't understand what kind of a point it was supposed to make. I'm sure there was some connection in his mind that made perfect sense as a lesson.

Sure there's a connection, at least in his mind. He wanted his staff to come face-to-face with the reality that there's a whole HECK of a lot of people barely getting by, or not getting by at all, and that they (his staff) had better re-examine their sense of entitlement before they, too, had to live "like this". Or something of that ilk. I imagine if he thought he coudl get away with it he'd have rented a gymnasium for the night, set it up as a homeless shelter/soup kitchen, and had his "motivational meeting" there, and forced his staff to spend the night.

I think it's BS, of course, but I can see how he might delude himself into thinking this is a valid rationale for doing soemthign like that.

R.

randoo53

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02/21/2009 11:44:27 PM · #6

I noticed the Millionaire didn't eat one of his own burgers either. So much for leading by example, huh??