What baffles me about this whole situation is McDonald’s (corporate) role in perpetuating it. It doesn’t make sense as a way to squeeze money from the franchises, because the extracted rents¹ don’t go to corporate; it goes to Taylor. It’s a loss to the franchisee, and no benefit to McDonald’s central.
This smells of graft. Someone at McDonald’s corporate is getting paid off illicitly.
¹ In the political-economy sense of “rent”, not the one that means “lease payment”.
Someone at McDonald’s corporate is getting paid off illicitly.
By the values of Corpmurica, that executive is just acting out of rational self-interest.
Isn’t our society in favor of fucking over anyone we can for individual profit? Isn’t that what we’re taught by example to do, lest we be considered an un-American commie?
You can bribe our politicians legally with infinite sums of money to PACs since Citizens United, you think anyone gives a shit about bribing a McDonald’s executive?
Huh? By the rules and values of Corporate America, breaching your employer’s trust by taking kickbacks from a contractor would be solidly against the rules.
My suspicion is that McDonald’s corporate is not making as much money as it could be, because franchisees are paying Taylor for fake repairs instead of buying more shitty ice cream mix from corporate.
This is not a matter of Good vs Evil. It’s one Lawful Evil group getting ripped off by another.
breaching your employer’s trust
Oh yes, harumph I say! Multinational corporations are as honorable as they are trustworthy, and demand that very same honor and integrity from their executive team in their scrupulous business practices, I say!
Honestly though, do you think sociopathic multinationals like McDonald’s have a leg to stand on expecting not to attract people that reflect their lack of values? Garbage attracts garbage. Unrepentant Garbage deserves to suffer garbage.
I don’t claim to have a solution but one thing that has always bugged me about this. When I award contracts or buy pretty much anything I can’t take a bribe of money, but I can take a bribe of effort. It is acceptable for me (I did have this conversation more than once) to straight off tell a salesperson I can go higher on price if they agree to keep prices constant so I don’t have to constantly look at them. Or if they agree to do some other time saving measure.
I upvoted you because I don’t award contracts, so I have no idea if that’s common practice but I hope your comment gets some visibility and discussion. It’s quite interesting to think about the value of our time or effort and how maximizing those isn’t a bribe, it’s just common sense.
Your boss asks you to go to the store to buy something, I don’t know a flashlight. You can go to the store that is further away and get a lower price of the store very close and pay more.
For some reason this is different than if a flashlight sales person offereded you money to buy their flashlight.
Bribes of time are fine bribes of money aren’t.
There is also no loss for McDonald’s central, but they have a old and close business relationship with Taylor that they seem to care about more than their own franchise owners.
It hurts the brand immeasurably, how is that not a loss? Not only does it annoy customers, it causes them to go to other franchises instead. That decreases the value of their franchise, which directly hurts the company.
Long trip, daughter wants an ice cream, I am hungry, pull off the highway and go towards McDonald’s, then remember their ice cream machine is probably broken so I go to Wendy’s instead. Realize they are running their biggie bag promotion and get like 2 meals worth of food and an Ice cream for like 7 bucks… Why would I go to McDonald’s again for fast food if I have the option?
I honestly don’t understand how they’re still around when places like Wendy’s exist. Their prices have skyrocketed and the food is mediocre of im being incredibly generous.
I think it smells more of grift.
Graft means hard, honest work. Maybe you mean grift.
graft [ graft, grahft ]
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the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one’s position or influence in politics, business, etc.
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a particular instance, method, or means of thus acquiring gain or advantage.
Well I’ll be. TIL!
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No, graft is used as a term for things like police demanding weekly payments in exchange for protection, acting like a local gang or mafia, or politicians soliciting bribes. It’s when anyone in an official position abuses their authority in such a way.
There’s already a link to the vid talking about the utter bullshit and corruption surrounding the McD’s ice cream machines posted in this thread, but here’s a resource I haven’t seen posted yet: an online tracker to find out if your local McD’s ice cream machine is working or broken right now.
(love the domain name)
I swear that site makes green dots smaller until they disappear when you zoom out. Still pretty cool though, our nearest McDonalds has a broken ice cream machine
Funny, the one nearest to me and where I grew up are broken. This is such a neat tool!
Why is there some countries without thoses (e.g. Spain, France, Italy…) ?
Hey, kids! Do you want to play a game? Its called “Everyone In Any Position of Power is Corrupt!”
I freaking hate this game, when can we play something else :(
The game only ends when there are no remaining players who can stand or when the players have nothing left, not even the clothes on their backs.
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
Can you win if all the people in power happen to not be alive anymore?
Thats a surprise tool that we’ll save for later
One way to find out?
BTW, fixing broken machines’ software (printers) was how Richard Stallman got so frustrated to invent the GPL license…
The Superior Court of Alameda County is charging roughly $1 per page to get legal filings. To download the entirety of the court proceedings to date, the court wants $2,999.
Alright, fuck it! Lets build our own soft serve ice cream machines… with blackjack and hookers.
Okay, and then you get fined for violating your franchise contract that requires you use these machines.
Then we’ll create our own franchise. We’ll call it FuttBuckers, or something like that…
Unrelated to the topic but has anyone else noticed the quality of the soft serve has gone down dramatically in the last several years. I got a ice cream cone and it didn’t even taste good. I was looking at their advert for a Mcflurry and it looked all ice crystally and not good at all. If they can’t even make the picture look good that is saying something.
Healthy, Fast&Cheap, or Delicious. Pick 2.
I think it’s more like
Healthy, Fast, Cheap, Delicious
Pick 2
Let’s be honest it’s pick one and another may or may not be randomly picked for you.
Healthy, Fast, Cheap, Delicious exists it’s called fruit from Trader Joe’s
My neighborhood isn’t bougie enough for a Trader Joe’s
I see you also are a project manager.
I had forgotten that McDonald’s even has ice cream… If I ever knew at all… I go there for the fries 🍟
You didn’t know they sold milkshakes?
I live in a country that doesn’t even have a McDonald’s, never has…so my McDonald’s experience is very tunneled when I go to USA, I don’t drink milk or eat beef… So I go there, drive through, or walk in, and get my fries 🍟
In the USA, McDonalds fries contain milk, just so you know.
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/small-french-fries.html
That’s fine I’m not fanatical with the milk, I said I dont “drink” milk, and I don’t eat ice cream… So noticing milk shakes or ice-cream wouldn’t be on my radar
Pwned
I mean its not real ice cream anyway its some horrible mad science concoction which probably causes cancer so the scam McDonalds and the manufactured are pulling here is likely doing the public a favor.
Id blow them up and buy one from a reliable source…
