Let me get this straight.
You and your friends went to McDonald’s “in the early hours of Sunday, October 19th.” Their employees were mean to you. You had them fired.
Really?
The Daily Pennsylvanian article reported that the group of friends initially entered the restaurant so they could use the bathroom. You couldn’t hold it? Or better yet, partake in a little public urination?
Anyway, they made you order and the cashier, as cashiers often do, made a mistake that required help from the manager. Fair enough. But at this point “you had already complained about the service.” Service that was probably tired of deciphering slurred orders from the several dozen patrons that pack Mickey D’s “in the early hours of Sunday” (read: the end of Saturday night).
But it gets better. The manager comes out, and, in an effort to waste valuable minutes of your life (I’m not exactly sure what your next destination was…) tells the cashier to take her time.
You complain again. The security guard steps in, and when all is said and done, there’s a formal complaint filed on MacDo’s website, a freshly created Facebook group (with the imaginative title “Boycott McDonald’s”) and a handful of jobless former McDonald’s employees.
My favorite part of this whole incident is the response from the restaurant manager whose Drexel co-op (he’s a 2007 alumnus) may not have worked out as well as he might have hoped. He said, “we support Penn kids as much as we can and … don’t want to make them feel like they are not at home.”
But “Penn kids,” you’re not at home in McDonald’s — you’re in a public place where people are trying to earn some money. Even if you were home I would love to know what your mommy would say if you demanded a trip to the potty and a meal from her “in the early hours of Sunday.”
Nothing good happens in West Philadelphia during “the early [drinking/puking/fast-food eating] hours of Sunday” But getting McDonald’s employees fired because they weren’t super sweet to you? I’m not lovin’ it.
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