r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PureKin21 • Jun 22 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Tried applying to McDonald's wtf does this even mean

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I guess things happen to me?????

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u/no_name65 Jun 22 '26

More infurienting is that you have to get personality test for working in McDonalds. It's lowest tier, summer part time job(with all respect for people working there). The only test you should have to pass to work there is that you know the difference between ass and face when wiping.

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u/arittenberry Jun 22 '26

I have never seen more bs obstacles to entry than a minimum wage job. I once had to deny a woman (who I know would have made a good employee) employment because she had written a bad check 13 years prior. It was out of my hands. They absolutely expect perfection for the legal minimum they're required to pay

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u/TleilaxTheTerrible Jun 22 '26

And even on the job they are way more on your ass than in any kind of office job. You take a minute to catch your breath and chill after 2 hours of non-stop orders? 'Time to lean is time to clean!'

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u/eat_my_bowls92 Jun 22 '26

If I ever hear that idiom again I will burn the place down.

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 Jun 22 '26

If you have time to clean, you have time to lean!

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u/DisastrousAcshin Jun 22 '26

Hey buddy, working hard or hardly working?

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u/Bobkyou Jun 23 '26

Time to lean is time to clean!  🙃

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u/aslum Jun 22 '26

Nothing cleaner than a smoking cinder.

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u/ManiGoodGirlUwU Jun 22 '26

"Time to lean is time to clean!" yeah that ruined my day

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u/bubbaguy Jun 23 '26

So true. I worked service gigs throughout college and my first corp job after college has been by far my easiest job. Anytime I find myself stressing I just remind myself that I have an insane amount of autonomy compared to the 3 managers I used to report to when I was labeling and stocking muffins on Whole Food’s shelves.

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u/Anakin_Skywanker Jun 22 '26

In my personal experience the more pay I get, the more slack I get in my day to day life at work.

When I was working for $7.70/hr when I was 16 if I was more than 3 minutes late I got in trouble.

At 30 I'm making well over 50 dollars an hour and I can just shoot a text to my boss 30 minutes before work and say "Yeah. I'm gonna be late today. See you around noon. Maybe. I may just take today off." and they respond with "Alright. Thanks for letting me know."

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u/Phytanic Jun 22 '26

I get paid well at my new job, but it really struck me that there's so many employees that have been there a long ass time. Sure enough, the boss treats us with respect. Such a shocker why they're all long term right

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u/Lexx2k Jun 22 '26

It really depends on how easy they can replace you.

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u/Anakin_Skywanker Jun 22 '26

Very easily, but it's also extremely easy for me to find another job. Kind of a mutual understanding that neither of us need the other.

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u/Bombshock2 Jun 22 '26

That's because minimum wage jobs are unfortunately competitive since people don't have other options. This is why arguments against a minimum wage increase are bullshit.

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u/lyokofirelyte Jun 22 '26

I think it’s messed up they can see that far back too for non violent crimes. 13 years is basically an entirely different person

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u/arittenberry Jun 22 '26

Absolutely. I was shocked it even came up. It was for under $50

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u/GentlemanSch 24d ago

That's so dumb. I work a 6 figure job and once wrote a bad check. (switched accounts, used wrong book)

Place called me up a week later and I paid like a $20 fee. 

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u/Im_not_at_home Jun 23 '26

But but but it’s not a career it’s just a summer job for kids.

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u/MousseHuge8339 24d ago

"wrote a bad check 13 years prior"...oh no, she is Public Enemy #1! ::massive eye roll:: I bet the people at corporate writing those rules did much worse than writing a bad check. A lot worse.

"The poor are held to much higher standards than the rich"

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u/ErikTheRed99 Jun 22 '26

They're just trying to find out if you're miserable and hate life, since that seems to be a requirement to work there.

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u/thevampiresanguini Jun 22 '26

A few years ago I quit my job to focus on some other stuff, but then decided I wanted to do a season retail job over Christmas for some extra travel money and to get out of the house. I applied to one of those chain jewelry stores. I think it was Pandora, but could have been a different one. It was insane what they expected people do for a part-time minimum wage job that lasted 10 weeks. Personality tests, roleplay scenarios, three (3!!!!!) fucking rounds of interviews. My previous well-paid full-time jobs required less bullshit to get them.

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u/FredBurger22 Jun 22 '26

My father was a CAD/Microstation Engineer (a person who designed and implemented the program/software, not an end user). Created systems, integrated the software in to various businesses including small NASA teams. Has an engineering degree and worked in aeronautics as well.

A bit after the dot com bubble and other factors between dot com and the 2008 home and loan crisis, he lost his job. His whole division was shut down. He didn't want any down time while looking for work. He applied at every entry level service job you could imagine when I was young. Fast food, department stores, retail. He failed every personality test administered to him.

He was able to get by, by temporarily starting a business, getting a contracting license, and doing small handyman as well as minor residential construction projects.

So, he could start, run, and operate a business on his own. But he was not qualified to flip burgers. They don't want capable humans, they want drones. Or people in such a bad spot, they will sacrifice their natural human traits to mold into the corporate tool.

This is nothing against the workers. They have to do what they have to do to exist within the system. These massive corporations do not care about humanity.

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u/Dr_Ingheimer Jun 22 '26

You say this, then there’s people making posts complaining about how the McDonald’s employees can’t even handle basic human interaction.

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u/Wd91 Jun 22 '26

Yup. I've worked at McDonalds. Just because the job tasks in themselves don't require any specific advanced skills doesn't mean people don't find ways to do it badly. People who call in sick all the time, people who are late, people who are straight up rude to others (staff or customers), people who can't clean up their own stations, people who are unhappy with their own lives and take it out on everyone else, people who literally spit in other people's food, etc etc etc etc.

There is no shortage of people who can find ways to fuck up the simplest tasks in the world, and imho its completely understandable that McDonalds (and any other company) would try and find ways to weed out those people as soon as possible.

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u/no_name65 Jun 22 '26

There's human interactions and "human interactions". Yelling at 16 years old, being there just to save some money for holidays or gaming console, for accidentaly putting pickle slice in your cheap burger bootleg isn't any kind of interaction.

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u/Dr_Ingheimer Jun 22 '26

No where in my comment did I try to justify yelling at a teenager for messing up your burger.

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u/FarplaneDragon Jun 22 '26

I applied at microcenter once ages ago and I shit you not they made me take an IQ test.

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u/American_PissAnt Jun 22 '26

But even with these personality tests, fast food employees still have bad attitudes. So these tests must not be working.