McDonald’s Is Hiring 50,000; Usual Media Ridicule of ‘Hamburger Flippers’ Notably Absent
First, let me make something clear. One thing I learned in my first job as a dishwasher back in the Mesozoic Era is that all work conscientiously done can be noble. I don't criticize McDonald's for wanting to grow their business and the businesses of their franchisees, and I surely won't criticize anyone for taking a fast-food job to put food on the table or to gain an employment foothold. That said, the people who have expressed contempt for such jobs and for an economy that for the last 30-plus years has, according to certain wong-headed social critics, been devolving into one where the only jobs available will be low-paying, dead-end service-sector jobs have been awfully quiet in the wake of the fast-food king's announcement that it's looking to hire 50,000 workers. An unbylined write-up at the Associated Press Monday evening comes across as more of a puffy promo than as a hard-news piece (puffery in bold): McDonald's wants to fill 50K jobs on hiring day
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on April 5, 2011. Filed under