McDonald’s Tells Workers Not To Eat Fast Food
On its employee resources website, McDonald’s offers workers reasonable if not unexpected advice for a healthier diet. McDonald’s employees should steer clear of fast food, the website warns, because meal consisting of burger, fries, and a soda cause weight gain.
“Fast foods are quick, reasonably priced, and readily available alternatives to home cooking,” one post on the McResource Line site says. “While convenient and economical for a busy lifestyle, fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put people at risk for becoming overweight.”
The McResource Line is now infamous for advising low-income fast food workers to sell Christmas presents for cash and to live on food stamps.
The corporation stands firm against raising wages, despite facing embarrassment whenever McDonald’s discusses its $7.81 hourly wage workforce. On these wages, even McDonald’s admitted it is nearly impossible for workers to afford basic expenses from healthy food to heating to transportation.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...eat-fast-food/
And McDo and other BigFood marketers market aggressively to kids.
Dam!
I see now that the MacDough employee website has been taken down.
Fast food is unhealthy?
Who knew?
McDo just attempts to fool the employees (knowing they're generally undereducated and therefore gullible) into believing that crap. Sure fast food ain't good for your health which's common knowledge but it's not like poison or which kills people instantly. The company just wanna instil such fear in those minimum-age workers' brains so they don't grab anything to eat while working.
You absolutely CAN eat their food, but the key is to do it in moderation.
Yeah MCdonalds sucks, those burger flippers should go work somewhere that will feed them a hearty healthy meal.
McDonald’s Ditches Worker Advice Website Due To ‘Unwarranted Scrutiny’
McDonald’s is making it harder for outsiders to see the advice it gives its employees on how to get by on the poverty wages the company pays. The company’s “McResource Line” for workers will remain accessible by phone, but the fast food chain took its McResource website offline indefinitely this week according to CNBC.
The website was taken down in part because of “unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary” directed toward the company’s interactions with its workforce, a company spokesperson said in a statement. “A combination of factors has led us to re-evaluate, and we’ve directed the vendor to take down the website. Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary,” the statement said. “We’ll
continue to provide service to them through an internal telephone help line, which is how the majority of employees access the McResource services.”
McDonalds’ online outreach to its workforce has brought notoriety to the fast food giant more than once in 2014. Before it was shut down this week, the McResource site had advised McDonald’s workers
to avoid holiday debt by
selling their Christmas presents for cash, and
warned them not to eat fast food.
McResource also advised workers to
break their food into small pieces
as a way of tricking themselves into feeling full,
and suggested that workers “sing away stress.”
The separate website that features a sample budget for McDonald’s workers remains live. That site is a joint project with Visa, which provides the prepaid debit cards that employees can opt to receive instead of paychecks.
(of which VISA sucks down in fees part of the debit cards value)
The budget recommendations accidentally prove McDonald’s critics’ point that the company pays too little for a full-time worker to live on, as ThinkProgress previously reported.
It includes no allotment for heat or food or clothing, and
features unrealistically low estimates for the costs of health care and rent.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...dvice-website/
Does this mean you're going to let this thread die too?McDonald’s Ditches Worker Advice Website Due To ‘Unwarranted Scrutiny’
McDonald’s is making it harder for outsiders to see the advice it gives its employees on how to get by on the poverty wages the company pays. The company’s “McResource Line” for workers will remain accessible by phone, but the fast food chain took its McResource website offline indefinitely this week according to CNBC.
The website was taken down in part because of “unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary” directed toward the company’s interactions with its workforce, a company spokesperson said in a statement. “A combination of factors has led us to re-evaluate, and we’ve directed the vendor to take down the website. Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary,” the statement said. “We’ll
continue to provide service to them through an internal telephone help line, which is how the majority of employees access the McResource services.”
McDonalds’ online outreach to its workforce has brought notoriety to the fast food giant more than once in 2014. Before it was shut down this week, the McResource site had advised McDonald’s workers
to avoid holiday debt by
selling their Christmas presents for cash, and
warned them not to eat fast food.
McResource also advised workers to
break their food into small pieces
as a way of tricking themselves into feeling full,
and suggested that workers “sing away stress.”
The separate website that features a sample budget for McDonald’s workers remains live. That site is a joint project with Visa, which provides the prepaid debit cards that employees can opt to receive instead of paychecks.
(of which VISA sucks down in fees part of the debit cards value
The budget recommendations accidentally prove McDonald’s critics’ point that the company pays too little for a full-time worker to live on, as ThinkProgress previously reported.
It includes no allotment for heat or food or clothing, and
features unrealistically low estimates for the costs of health care and rent.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...dvice-website/
thanks for keepin it alive, we really need your superb contributions.
Meanwhile china just told us to take our gmo corn and off
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