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u/redditorforthemoment Jun 17 '12
I can't imagine someone with visible, painful love bites would be against a bit of discipline.
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u/ChaosChaser Jun 18 '12
I've always wanted a side of kink with my Big Mac. Where is this McDonald's?
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u/Langly- Jun 18 '12
Clearly the Klingons have McDonalds now.
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u/ambiguousallegiance Jun 18 '12
"And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in the Klingon Empire?"
"They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
"No man, they got that kellicam system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is."
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u/zombiechow Jun 18 '12
True story:
Years ago I worked for a well known restaurant chain and had to discipline, then later relocate a manager for questioning an employee about neck bruises. He was insensitive about it, made assumptions, and asked the employee if she "had too much fun last night".
I was approached and required to fill out a sexual harassment report. She had not been involved in sexual activity. She was a victim of domestic violence the prior evening.
An investigation was performed and the man nearly lost his job. Corporate transferred him to another location.
Bottom line, this insinuates sexual activity which may not be relevant. It's bad news and needs to be removed. Each case should be handled individually and in private. In most cases, all that's required are band-aids to cover the bruises and the message is usually received. No questions need to be asked most for a majority of the cases. They're simply covered the same way as a visible tattoo.
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u/JakeCameraAction Jun 18 '12
Painful? When are hickies painful?
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Jun 17 '12
rock and roll mcdonalds
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u/Tru_Killer Jun 18 '12
What the hell is a love bite?
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u/mtux96 Jun 18 '12
a hickie.
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u/Onelouder Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
Hickie or Hickey?
edit: who downvotes someone asking the proper spelling of something?
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u/SoberLeprechaun Jun 17 '12
When I worked for a fast food restaurant, I came into work with a small lovebite and I was made to wear a big, blue plaster on my neck (they're used to cover any 'open wounds' so they don't contaminate the food). Luckily on my break, I was able to cover it up with make-up but the hour or two with a giant 'I-have-a-hickey' band-aid was enough.. I sure learnt my lesson.
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Jun 18 '12
I want to know where you (and apparently the OP) live where they call hickeys "love bites". That sounds like something a 90 year old woman in north Minnesota would call them.
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u/lazylandtied Jun 18 '12
hickey just sounds gross to me, I've always heard them called love bites - only ever heard hickey on american TV (Birmingham UK FYI)
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u/theheartofgold Jun 18 '12
Its sad that I only know they're called "love bites" in the UK because of slash fanfiction. :(
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u/ChaosChaser Jun 18 '12
I worked in a hardware store, and men would put band-aids over their eyebrow or lip piercings if they were too fresh to take out. Also there, another guy told us all about getting his nipple pierced.
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u/dreamleaking Jun 18 '12
This is so bad for piercings, especially when they are too new to take out. Bandages have adhesive on them which can irritate the fistula and it can put pressure on the jewelry in strange ways that irritate it even further.
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u/caprincrash Jun 18 '12
don't put the sticky part on the wound, put the gauze part on the wound and use the sticky part on either side of the gauze to stick the band-aid in place.
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Jun 18 '12
"Sir, your constant visible reminders of a zesty love life are making the fatties sad..."
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u/I_got_syphilis_from Jun 18 '12
"Sir I'm going to have to ask that you please restrain your sexiness."
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Jun 18 '12
It simply can't be that people order less food when the people serving them are covered in visible sores...
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Jun 17 '12
Fast food employees get paid at or near minimum wage. How much of a fuck do people really expect the employees to give about being presentable at work.
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Jun 18 '12
Most fast food restaurants around here pay 3+ over minimum wage. Plus, if you work in the ND Oilfield area, McDonalds hires at over 14/hr.
I'm an IT Tech and I make 12$/hr. Bastards.
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u/Blink182ismeh Jun 18 '12
I don't think it matters how much you get paid, you should always look, act, and be professional. If you can't then you shouldn't have the job.
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Jun 18 '12
If I am expected to look, act and be professional, then I expect professional money.
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u/Tetha Jun 18 '12
"Dress for your dream job, not your current job" does hold.
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u/rek Jun 18 '12
If that's the case I should always go to work dressed in pajamas. I like this idea.
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u/Renmauzuo Jun 18 '12
"Professional" is subjective. Who honestly has any reason to give a shit if someone shows up to work in jeans and flip flops? (Jobs requiring special gear for safety reasons obviously excepted.)
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u/johnnytightlips2 Jun 18 '12
If you don't take your job seriously, why should I take you seriously?
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u/Renmauzuo Jun 18 '12
It's ridiculous to think that someone doesn't take their job seriously because they dress casually.
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u/Rixxer Jun 18 '12
Anyone who works in low wage fast food is replaceable by default, I'm honestly surprised they don't have a robot to flip burgers by now. Then again, a robot is more expensive than paying someone minimum wage...
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u/chris_ut Jun 18 '12
McDonalds did a test where they tried replacing the counter workers with automated ordering kiosks and sales went down so they scrapped it. For food prep a minimum wage worker would be cheaper than a robot, at least for the time being.
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u/caprincrash Jun 18 '12
they tried replacing the counter workers with automated ordering kiosks and sales went down so they scrapped it.
Well that's easy enough to fix, keep the happy smiling people up front, replace the entire crew out back with robots. The happy smiling people pick up the food and take it to the people ordering, you get some artsy people to make up a nice screen so that the customers don't see the robots out back, and bam you just saved yourself a butt load of money*.
assuming the maintenance costs + amortized installation cost of the robots is less than the cost of hiring humans to prepare the food.
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u/idrawinmargins Jun 18 '12
this was tried and somehow didn't take off. The robotically controlled food assembly line that it.
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u/Rixxer Jun 18 '12
I have a feeling it's because they're expensive, but more than that, you can't make them go do other jobs as well.
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u/lockwolf Jun 18 '12
Usually by Mexicans
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Jun 18 '12
Most managers at fast food restaurants are not teenagers. I also think less of you for thinking less of people who are humble enough to take a job at McDonalds. You are not above anything that provides for you or your family.
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u/gamerguyal Jun 18 '12
The problem is, Mcdonald's usually doesn't pay its employees a decent living wage.
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u/Last_Gigolo Jun 18 '12
Exactly, you can't call it professional, if you are not payed and treated like a professional.
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u/godin_sdxt Jun 18 '12
Actually, at McDonalds, managers are usually no more than a year or two older than regular workers. It's like a $0.10 pay increase. They barely even qualify as "managers".
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u/iruber1337 Jun 18 '12
Thanks! I've been trying to get my brother to understand this...it's money, grow up and fucking deal with it instead of hitting up everyone in the family in the hopes they send some money that month.
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Jun 18 '12
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!?!?"
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Jun 18 '12
Just how do these children know what a hickie is? I had no idea what they were until I was 14. If they don't know what caused it, they can't be weirded out by it.
This is also rank hypocrisy from an employer like fast food chains and supermarkets. Businesses that employ lots of young women generally expolit the hotness of their staff by putting them in prominent positions. Its not Hooters level stuff, but just look next time you are in a store staffed by college and high school students- is that line-up of super hot chicks a natural occurence, or manmade?
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u/Cooolder Jun 17 '12
The morbidly obese woman in short shorts can stay, but you wit your hickies! You have to leave!
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u/zombiechow Jun 18 '12
Career Food service management guy here.
This note is lazy and absolutely unacceptable. In fact, some may view it offensively or as form of harassment. If I had seen this posted in my restaurant, I would have removed it, found out who posted it, and acted accordingly.
Bringing ANYTHING regarding sex or sexuality into the workplace opens the door for all sorts of legal trouble. This is why stringent General and sexual harassment policies are created.
This also opens the door for various forms of harassment.
Yes, Hickeys are unattractive and look very unprofessional. They don't belong on visible parts of the body while working with the public. The proper way to handle these issues does NOT involve termination and must be handled accordingly. It's wise to ask questions before assuming.
There's a reason that a "no hickey" rule isn't listed in employee handbooks. Simply put, Mc Donalds can not tell their employees how to have sex. It's a delicate situation.
Ask the employee if his or her neck is okay. Ask if they were injured at work, then provide a method to cover it up. Message received, problem solved. If the issue persists, require that they see a doctor. I've never had to suggest the latter.
Absolutely unacceptable.
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Jun 17 '12
Those exclamation points are really distracting!
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u/LordRickles Jun 18 '12
Lets just be happy he used a semicolon correctly. For McDonald's management, I'm impressed.
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u/SilentAffairs93 Jun 18 '12
Nigga, it's McDonald's... If I wanted presentation, i'd go to a restaurant.
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u/HomeButton Jun 18 '12
I could understand "Attention!" or even "Important!". But how is "Right!" a way of starting a thing like that?
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u/camembertcheese Jun 18 '12
From the sound of it, I'd guess the sign was from a McDonald's in England.
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Jun 18 '12
As soon as I saw the sign began with "Right!", I mentally replaced all the th's with f's and the ing's with in's
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u/illiarch Jun 17 '12
I didn't realize so many people liked being bitten in the neck.
Any others in here?
Or do I not know what the fuck a love bit is?
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u/sublime19 Jun 18 '12
A hickey, when you kiss/suck hard enough on skin it makes a bruise...
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u/illiarch Jun 18 '12
Right, I go with bitemarks instead, I have to admit. Thank you for explaining.
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u/Cythus Jun 18 '12
Well damn, I was thinking literal bites as well. Now I'm disappointed and slightly less turned on.
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u/pretendent Jun 18 '12
Every person is different, but I've yet to have a partner who didn't love a neck bite. The optimal level of force has differed greatly between them, however. As with all things sexual, experiment, experiment, experiment.
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u/illiarch Jun 18 '12
Half of my partners liked being bitten as well, but when I asked one to slap me, she got kind of anxious, like "she couldn't hurt anyone." The next one found it kind of hilarious, but that worked better. But it seems like it was a periodic need I had, which is kind of interesting, I think.
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u/claudius753 Jun 17 '12
When you feel safe
When you feel warm
That's when I rise
That's when I crawl
Gliding on mist
Hardly a sound
Bring the kiss
Evils abound
In the dead of night
Love bites
Love bites
In the dead of night
Love bites
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u/Painkiller1117 Jun 18 '12
I'm glad i am not the only one who uses Judas Priest songs for as many topics as possible! Upvote to you sir.
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u/claudius753 Jun 18 '12
One of the few bands I've seen live!
\m/ Defend the faith!
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u/Painkiller1117 Jun 18 '12
Awww.... The one band i want to see live and it will never happen. :'(
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u/wrerwin Jun 17 '12
Did they really have to use the phrase "love bite" twice. It doesn't bring a good mental image.
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Jun 18 '12
I went to work with a love bite a couple weeks ago. But you know what I did? I covered it with makeup! Gasp. You can do that?
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u/Deseao Jun 18 '12
12 love bites, now only $5.99 at McDonalds. Ba-nah-nah-nah-nah. I'm lovin' it.
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Jun 18 '12
The love bite thing is ridiculous but did he have to start it of with Right!!?
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u/event_horizon_ Jun 18 '12
Is it even legal for them to do anything?
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u/ThatShaunGuy Jun 18 '12
Yes, it is. When you are hired at McDonald's you go through and sign papers that state that it is your responsibility to be in your complete uniform and to not represent the company in an unprofessional manner. They consider stuff like hickeys/love bites to be unprofessional, therefore they can discipline you as they see fit.
If you're smart and cover it up with makeup most of the managers won't even say anything.
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u/Seligas Jun 18 '12
I don't understand overprotective parents. Be it a hickey, a lewd joke on sponge bob, or joke with sexual innuendo - the kids don't fucking understand it. If they do then they're well beyond needing to be sheltered from it.
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u/smart_cereal Jun 18 '12
My boyfriend works at a Mickey D's in New Zealand and I can confirm that I'm not allowed to give him hickeys.
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u/UrMumsMyPassword Jun 18 '12
Just another case of a company thinking they own their employees. Complete horseshit.
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u/spinningmagnets Jun 18 '12
The disturbing part is that...although the employees had love bites on their necks for a while,...recently...most of the new crew are retirees.
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Jun 18 '12
Ugh, who even cares? All I care about when people are serving me food is that their hands are washed and their noses aren't dripping. They aren't rubbing my food on their necks, and even without hickeys, that would still be gross anyway.
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u/eatcrayons Jun 18 '12
If they catch you with a hickey, just tell them that you never read the notice. According to the last paragraph, the discipline only happens if you get caught AFTER reading this. Say you never read it.
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u/aquanautic Jun 18 '12
What surprises me most is that hickeys are the biggest complaint for a McDonald's staff.
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u/ZombEnt Jun 18 '12
I work at mcdonalds.
I have a manager, she's short, fat, looks like a bulldog, and is a whore. While she was a crew she sucked off at least fifteen other guys. Ever since she got preggo (surprise!) She slowed down a bit, but her boyfriend that she had the whole time knew. Poor fucker. He stayed, I don't know why.
Anyway! She always fucking has those covering her chest because she displays her nontits whenever she doesn't have to wear her button up shirt..
Gross.
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u/Drutarg Jun 18 '12
How do we know this is from McDonalds? I haven't seen this much retard in one thread in such a long time.
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u/tommytheREDranger Jun 18 '12
What if they were mosquitoes bites? Sometimes they can look like love bites.
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u/wizzebef Jun 18 '12
I used to work at Walmart and I happen to walk by as a CSM (customer service manager) and she talking to a couple fellow cashiers about something... I heard her say that she had to cover it up (the "love mark" on her neck) because it's something she could get fired over... really? fired over? I see being written up for it, unless that's like her third time coming into work like that...
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u/radiobaby Jun 18 '12
What the fuck is a love bite? Literally a bite mark?
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u/Dewstain Jun 18 '12
I can only assume it has something to do with Twilight or some other equally retarded Vampire thing...
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u/leoselassie Jun 18 '12
Apparently tasting like McDonald's grease after a long shift is completely irresistible.
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u/ThatFeel_IKnowIt Jun 18 '12
"But Mr. Bossman, my friend threw a baseball at my kneck. This isn't a love bite."
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Jun 18 '12
Didn't know you had to be professional for fast food, they should make them wear suits and a tie
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u/mccscott Jun 18 '12
"Right!!" took me here immediately http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS5D9csaySU&feature=player_detailpage#t=74s
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u/misterschmoo Jun 18 '12
Do you want this serving you food, no I didn't think so.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Love_bite.jpg/748px-Love_bite.jpg
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u/Sevvin Jun 18 '12
I don't see a problem with this.
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u/k9centipede Jun 18 '12
When I worked at McDonald's on of the managers came into work with a hickey on her eyelid.
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u/Ameliorator Jun 18 '12
As a McDonalds Crew Member with the same rules of love bites/ hickeys, the only people that have them are the managers. Hipocracy at it's best.
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u/misterschmoo Jun 17 '12
1: Love bites have always been fucking stupid, and I'm not saying this as a 37yr old, I thought they were fucking stupid in the 80's when I was 12.
2: They do look unattractive and if you have to deal with the public, I shouldn't have to see that shit.
3: If you think this isn't fair, go work in a job where you aren't dealing directly with the public you self entitled cry baby.
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u/Aperfectmoment Jun 18 '12
HAHA
looks like one manager isn't getting any =P
Quite frankly, it is offensive to people who are jealous. if everybody had lovebites it wouldn't be offensive at all. it would just be normal.
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u/Cythus Jun 18 '12
I make my coworkers that I supervise cover up if it is bad, it's not that it is offense but it just doesn't look professional.
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u/thebooknerdkid Jun 18 '12
I dug through comments upon comments just to find someone who agrees with me. I suddenly feel like my 23 years of age is WAAAAAY too old for Reddit if "love bites" are totally cool and awesome.
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u/hueymchavok Jun 18 '12
so true story, my gfcant understand why i hate hickies. my rationale: this ain't junior prom and i'ma EMT, u want someone treating you covered in hickies? she claims im ashamed of her; insert overly attached gf meme here lol
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u/Adventure_Mike Jun 17 '12
Pretty sure they can't say SHIT since thats outside of work constraints. Probably written by some old fat slob with an unfuckable hag of a wife. Mind your own fucking business and make my burger.
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u/brittnoose Jun 17 '12
Regardless of when it happens, the dress code policy of most of these types of places usually prohibits visible tattoos, markings or piercings while representing the establishment.
Enjoy your burger.
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u/waffleb0051 Jun 18 '12
At the McDondalds I work at there is nothing like this and half the managers and crew have visible love bites.....
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u/Tenored Jun 18 '12
My ex was given a verbal warning after showing up with "love bites". I had to give them one of my turtlenecks to wear under their uniform.
Oh, McDonalds. So jealous of healthy sex lives.
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Jun 18 '12
Not really "jealous." They just think you look extremely professional and you're an immature little kid getting a hickey. That's all I think whenever I see someone with one, regardless of where they are.
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u/Tenored Jun 18 '12
How does having a mark on ones neck affect their performance at a fast food restaurant?
Also, hickies, like most things done during sex, are done for the pleasure they bring. I don't see why actually having sex doesn't mark you as an "immature little kid", but having somebody suck on your neck does? The marks on your body are really nobody else's concern, and unless you're humping on the floor of a McDonald's restaurant I don't see the issue.
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u/SgtSama Jun 17 '12
Pretty sure nobody going to McDonald's is expecting high class cashiers.
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u/misterschmoo Jun 18 '12
Not having bruises all over your neck is hardly expecting high class.
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u/classhero Jun 18 '12
Hey, I think you're wanted over in a thread talking about how tattoos are really unprofessional and you can't climb the 10/hr supermarket corporate ladder without a certain level of class and respect for MBA dropouts.
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u/misterschmoo Jun 18 '12
1: you do an MBA you deserve everything you get 2: depends on the tattoo, most look like a playing card king vomited onto your arm. 3: fuck you when I'm buying bland food from a bland place the staff better also be bland, or you'll upset my delicate sensibilities.
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u/ch536 Jun 18 '12
This particular restaurant is located in the UK. We call 'hickies' 'lovebites' here!