What is it about McDonald's, cultural black holes, and not being able to make tech work? A bit of drivethru borkage is on show today, courtesy of regular contributor McDonald's. Yes, we're back to a Chelmsford branch of the greasemonger yet again, and we're saddened to note that things outside appear as wobbly as things inside, although at least a driver hoping to sate their desire for fried delights was spared a …
>>> Yep and, unfortunately, we in the UK have one as a Prime Minister.
>> Not to worry - our American cousins have one too......
> He’s not funny
Neither are clowns. They're just vaguely disturbing, but mostly harmless. Here in the US, our "clown" is deeply disturbing in (many) very specific and concrete ways and by no means harmless. Calling him a clown is an insult to clowns — and I don't even like clowns.
Clowns at least have some skills (juggling, unicycle riding, makeup, knowing when not to talk).
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"You never ever ate the peanuts on a bar for good reason."
Pah! That's just a rumour spread by men so they can eat all the peanuts without worrying about women pinching them.
I can't actually remember the last time I was in a bar with free peanuts on the counter.
Does Beverley Pilkington still appear on the display boards?
I grew up there in the 1970s, and it neither throbbed or had any culture back then. However, one street had more pubs along it than anywhere else in the country, and helpfully they built a college at one end of it. As well as passing my exams, I learnt to be a functional alcoholic too.
Sadly, the same road has lost many of the pubs, but now holds the record for the most hair salons on one street. I blame the kids.
the record for the most hair salons on one street
The late, lamented Douglas Adams told us about the Shoe Event Horizon, where everything in the world turns into shoe shops. Time has moved on. Now the towns of Britain seem to be being taken over by barber's shops, many of them, for some reason, Turkish.
How can there possibly be enough money in barbering to support all these places? And why have we lost interest in shoes?
McD's has to be the epicentre of the bozocalypse, the ultimate collision between machine intelligence and human stupidity. Their decentralized operating model means that local ops have only as much internal discipline as the locals care about, which isn't much. The main concern is getting the cheapest people who can still walk in a reasonably straight line and pick up objects reliably. The only way to improve staffing at McD's is to have a recession, which tends to expand the pool of unemployed but above-average workers. Trust me, I've seen the ups and downs of it as I picked up breakfast over the years.
I was going to give you an upvote then you mentioned breakfast.
I had to pass by one outlet yesterday (Cambridge Services) and the Numpties (sorry customers) were not obeying social distancing and standing right in the way of anyone wanting to use the toilets.
No wonder this country (and others) are in the middle of an obesity epidemic as well as CV-19.
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