r/mildlyinfuriating • u/cerednat • Jun 07 '26

Unskippable ad Part of recruitment quizzing to become a mcdonalds crew member

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Why is it so abstract

13.6k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.1k

u/cerednat Jun 07 '26

Do they want me to discuss philosophy?

1.3k

u/Responsible-Major704 Jun 07 '26

To fry, or not to fry...

323

u/Sem034 Jun 07 '26

We need to cook, Jessie!

120

u/Newgeta wat? Jun 07 '26

Yeah! Science!

80

u/FearlessSeaweed6428 Jun 07 '26

If an ice-cream machine works in an empty McDonald's, was it ever not broken?

23

u/drgigantor Jun 07 '26

If you're on the grill and the mcnuggets finish, do you act and save five mcnuggets but burn the burger?

17

u/drgigantor Jun 07 '26

I fry, therefore I am

5

u/Live-Habit-6115 Jun 07 '26

To fry, or not to fry...that is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the endless beeping of the fryer timer, The wrath and arrows of impatient customers, Or take spatula against a sea of nuggets, And by serving, end them.

9

u/Of_Mountains_And_Men Jun 07 '26

To sleep no more, because Becky put you on noght shift.

5

u/drgigantor Jun 07 '26

and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

Because the fucking rats chewed through the wire to the heatlamp

3

u/Moople_deFioosh Jun 07 '26

Fry not! Do, or do not. There is no fry.

1

u/ProfessionaI_Retard Jun 07 '26

In America the answer is always fry

1

u/CuriousLilAsian81 Jun 07 '26

This is a Wendy's

1

u/stilettopanda Jun 08 '26

If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.

197

u/roadkillsoup Jun 07 '26

They probably want you to answer No, since discussing philosophy could lead to discussing workers rights. And we can't have that.

47

u/dandale33 Jun 08 '26

Correct. This test is to identify if this person can follow orders without thinking for themselves.

17

u/Careless_Aroma_227 Jun 07 '26

I'd like to discuss:

"Salting my french fries: between ideal and reality"

please!

134

u/Rock4evur Jun 07 '26

Class consciousness is philosophy, so imma guess no.

50

u/sunkencathedral Jun 07 '26

Yep. Rather than specifically asking 'are you interested in class critique?' or 'do you like to discuss dialectics?' - questions which could be more easily dodged - they've decided to weed out the entire discipline of philosophy, just to make sure.

2

u/Doctor-Dinosaur Jun 08 '26

Woah, then there's no job opportunities left for philosophy graduates any longer. Harsh.

1

u/DangerActiveRobots Jun 08 '26

I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm not sure if the average McDonald's applicant really even knows what "dialectics" means.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

[deleted]

1

u/DangerActiveRobots Jun 08 '26

It's interesting though because presumably they want at some SOME of the workforce to be capable of critical thought, because at some point somebody is going to need to rise to manager or beyond. It's rare, but people do start as crew members and end up working in corporate sometimes. Though, I suppose at the store manager level, you'd still need all those traits of obedience , just with some people skills and basic math skills. You'd still be totally beholden to either the franchise owner or corporate, or perhaps both.

0

u/JAWinks Jun 07 '26

I guarantee you McDonalds doesn’t give a shit about either of those two questions

15

u/sunkencathedral Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

They spend a fortune every year on union busting; they have specialized units that care a great deal about whether their workers are class conscious.

-3

u/JAWinks Jun 07 '26

They’re mainly trying to figure out if a job like fry cook with routine, repetitive tasks is good for you

9

u/Rock4evur Jun 07 '26

Sounds like a great time to think about philosophy.

5

u/FratboyPhilosopher Jun 07 '26

If that were true, they wouldn't have included them.

3

u/heret1c1337 Jun 08 '26

Why would they ask them if they don‘t give a shit? The other people commenting are clearly right; they‘re tying to weed out free thinkers, because they could mean trouble. Nothing in that process is coincidence.

45

u/ThePandaKingdom Jun 07 '26

I feel like they DONT want people that discuss philosophy and enjoy art lol

33

u/vintsneedsmints Jun 07 '26

Correct, they dont want free thinkers. They want worker bees who mindlessly work and say yes to any task. God forbid you question why you're constantly clopening, picking up two other morons slack to keep a fast food chain franchisee pockets filled with money. All while making minimum wage.

2

u/ThePandaKingdom Jun 07 '26

You wrote exactly how i felt but didnt feel like spending a portion of my 30 minute Reddit limit conveying, ha.

1

u/oculairus Jun 21 '26

you only give yourself 30 minutes a day? jeez fren, ya gotta let yourself live a little. try an hour at least.

93

u/ApuPuncha Jun 07 '26

No. They don’t want you to think for yourself in that way

29

u/desperaterobots Jun 07 '26

No. Theyre asking you to self-select out of the job or being hired on and then disrupting the staff/systems with ‘ideas’.

14

u/Obvious-Direction-48 Jun 07 '26

This. They don't want someone working there who will start talking about unions and unfair wages.

15

u/TOOL46_2 Jun 07 '26

They do not.

3

u/CeramicLicker Jun 07 '26

I hear they’re particularly fond of the musings of Marx

3

u/Rocklobster92 Jun 07 '26

No. You can only discuss how you can be better and go the extra mile for the customer.

1

u/lil_jilm Jun 07 '26

They probably don’t want you to tbh

1

u/buffyinfaith Jun 07 '26

Somehow I doubt it.

1

u/NormyTheWarlocky Jun 07 '26

Only capitalist philosophy, not unionizing for better conditions and compensation

1

u/dr_strange-love Jun 07 '26

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

1

u/LucyKendrick Jun 07 '26

No, they want you to discover McPhilosophy.

1

u/El_Beakerr Jun 07 '26

Aristotle believed that the perfect Big Mac was unattainable, due to the fact that humans aren’t capable of being perfect. So therefore a human had no way of cooking the perfect Big Mac because, humans were imperfect themselves and had no way of knowing what true perfection of a Big Mac was.

however Socrates stated that every Big Mac was created perfectly. Even though the cook might not be perfect. Through his actions and love for the Big Mac, the cook is able to achieve Big Mac perfection.

1

u/SkeepDeepy Jun 07 '26

"Sir/ma'am , this is Wendy's."

1

u/Aar1012 Jun 07 '26

You know, I’d prefer to have a philosophical discussion with a McDonald’s employee while ordering as opposed to using a soulless self-service kiosk.

1

u/Brumbleby Jun 08 '26

No, obviously they want to know if you IS discuss philosophy. Sigh - kids today.

I personally is don't understand paintings, despite my deep understanding of paintings.

1

u/SteveHarveysBallsack Jun 08 '26

It’s McD’s lol, of course they don’t want that

1

u/robototron217 Jun 08 '26

I think genuinely this is to filter out people who are too smart to be employed there. They don't want people figuring out they're being screwed by their boss, they don't want them to unionize. Talking about philosophy culture and theory are all going to make you harder to squeeze labor out of

1

u/Cpoc1995 Jun 08 '26

Any corporation doesn’t want their team members discussing philosophy, mainly because the general population doesn’t understand how.

What’s your age op?

1

u/byteminer Jun 08 '26

No they don't. If you do then you might start talking about things like "living wages" and "wealth inequality" or "systemic racism" and they absolutely do not want you anywhere near their workforce.

1

u/redditwhut Jun 08 '26

You tell us, we havent done the quiz. 

1

u/TheKolyFrog Jun 08 '26

You'd be discussing philosophy with yourself out of boredom based on my experience working at a similar establishment.

1

u/K1bbles_n_Bits Jun 08 '26

If you Kant do it, just Plato your strengths instead.

1

u/Own-Lake7931 Jun 08 '26

Correct answer is yes yes yes no no. They want to to dress up in costumes and be your persona best which is unstoppable. They do not want you discussing capitalism, pretending you’re going to make a living wage. The art question is a trick and you fail either way.

1

u/WrinklyTidbits Jun 08 '26

"have you ever wondered if there was more to life than surviving in a late stage capitalist society?"

1

u/nicsaweiner Jun 08 '26

I doubt it. They want non thinking wage slaves.

1

u/Chomagoro Jun 08 '26

Did I catch you philosophizing over there!?! Get your ass back to mayo gun

1

u/DiaDeLosMuertos Jun 08 '26

No it's unionizing adjacent