the thing that bothers me about the McDonald’s sauce business, as someone who’s worked fast food before, is that corporate completely shat the bed and put the health and safety of their minimum wage workers on the line for the sake of some publicity for their company that is already a household name
let’s be real here, while the behavior of the fans of Rick and Morty is disgusting, the idea that these restaurant chains knew that the supply wouldn’t meet the demand that over a year of hype had caused and then made their employees, who typically aren’t making enough to live day to day, deal with it, without telling anyone, “hey, there’s only about twenty promotional sauces here, you’re going to deal with having to turn a lot of people away”
that wasn’t the advertising campaign, that wasn’t “hey we’re only going to have a very, very, very small limited amount of sauce available,” it wasn’t “hey, you have a chance of winning this sauce by purchasing our product and we’ll fucking mail it to you or something,” it was “hey, fuck it, we’ll make them give it away to about twenty people and then deal with thousands more”
how is that a good business practice? how is that nothing but cruel for your employees? how is that good pr, even?
to be fair you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick & Morty, were above other people, smarter, nihilistic, rational… probably the most intelligent people on earth tbh *burns a McDonald’s to the ground for not having a sauce packet*
were above consumerism and being sheeple *drives 150 miles to a mcdonalds for a sauce theyve never had because a cartoon said it was good once*
I was working as an intern for an animation studio. My
duties were all about writing and proofreading, I had no skills or duties about
graphic stuff. I can do some things with GIMP and have some very, VERY minimal Photoshop skills for
simple tasks.
Client: Wait, why can’t we simply give this job to
her?
Boss: Well, she’s not a graphic.
Client: Don’t try to cheat me! I can see she has a
graphic software right there.
For good twenty minutes, me and my boss BOTH tried to explain
him I wasn’t qualified for that work – work that for sure he couldn’t have done
with GIMP. The best part?
Client: Fine, I suppose I should meet your guy, then.
But I’d prefer her.
Me/ Boss: But why?
Client: She’s an intern! I could have this done
for free!
