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A Boring Dystopia

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A little light reading while you wait 20 minutes for your McFood because nobody wants to waste their life being abused for hunger wages by a literal clown.

This was hung up in plain sight next to the registers at the McDonald's along I-80 in Winnemucca NV. Name and shame

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's doublespeak for giving people a discount.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, it's not, it's referring to e.g. the cashier scanning their personal mobile app rewards account when checking out people that don't have one, accumulating tons of points in the app

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like the most likely definition. But really, it's on them for not putting any sort of definition for the term. Some random person reading it will assume all kinds of possible meanings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is almost certainly in an employee only area (hence the "NO CELL PHONES" reminder with it), so any "random person" reading it has most likely heard the many reminders from corporate they most assuredly get weekly.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh that’s….somehow less bad than I thought, at least. I thought it was something about faking loyalty to the company.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So theft is theft. I guess I get it but the term loyalty theft makes it sound so much different. When I used to work fastfood I gave free food to people I didn't even like - usually shitty customers just to get them out of my face. But hey that's not loyalty theft at least.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea that an employee is not only not given the agency to make that kind of decision, but that an employer would consider using discount codes inappropriately a crime, and that they see nothing wrong with posting this in plain view of customers is dystopian as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Fear tactics indeed. Shitty management 101.