McDonald's workers detail burns, job hazards

kpvi / ap ^ | 3-16-2015

[Citizen Zed]

McDonald's workers in 19 cities filed complaints over burns from grease, a lack of protective equipment and other workplace hazards, according to labor organizers.

This is the latest move in a campaign to win pay of $15 an hour and unionization for fast-food workers by publicly pressuring McDonald's. The push began more than two years ago and is being spearheaded by the Service Employees International Union.

[mountn man]

Listed at $7100.

Most McDonalds are open 24 hours a day.
To have just one person working all the time is 24 man hours.
If wages are raised from $9 an hour to $15 an hour, that's $6 an hour more.
Add in payroll taxes to that.

So...that's about 1000 man hours to pay for a machine.
About 42 days and 1 machine would pay for itself.

[fireman15]

I grew up on acreage... my dad still has beef cattle. You are absolutely right! We were always getting hurt doing something; mostly not directly work related. Fortunately, my mother was a nurse which cut down on emergency visits to the doctor greatly.

I remember when I was about ten; we would tell my dad we were going to use some gasoline to burn up ant piles. His only concern was that we didn’t waste any of it.

[mad_as_he$$]

Not anymore. Lukewarm at best.

[aomagrat]

I started working at Hardee’s when I was a sophomore in high school at 15 years old. They used gas char grills back then. Burned all the hair off of my arms flipping burgers until I graduated. Never thought of suing them.

[mountn man]

McDonalds little grease burns is where teens learn not to be stupid on the job so that someday maybe they can work in a really dangerous environment.

And then there are the ones who never learn not to be stupid...
They're 40 years old and still working at McDonalds (not as managers)
...still getting burned.

[P-Marlowe]

Paying these clowns more money will magically make them invincible. They only get burned because they aren’t making enough money.

[Safetgiver]

I don’t recall the thought of PPE ever crossing my mind.....IF PPE was offered and you got hurt from not using it, DOOM on you.

[mountn man]

[Fester Chugabrew]

Can’t remember the last time I had McDonald’s food that had evidence of any serious heat going on.

[mountn man]

I dug those groovy hats man.

[Interesting Times]

I worked as an assistant manager at Pizza Hut in the late 70's, back before they had conveyor belt cookers. We cooked pizzas in a two-deck, 600 degree oven that was two large pizzas in depth. To get to the back pizza, you reached over the front pizza with a large pair of pliers ("channel locks"), and tried not to graze the top of the oven with your wrist. If you did make contact, the reflex usually dropped your forearm into the bubbling cheese of the front pizza. It was entirely possible to hit the top of the oven once more on the way out.

After that, you used the other arm for a while. When you ran out of arms, you got to choose which crispy arm went back in the oven...

Whining about this was not encouraged.

[dware]

If ya can’t take the heat...right?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Ha! Machine has a 30-day warranty.

[fungoking]

Long John Silvers in the 80’s. Dress like a pirate, sea chanteys on the speakers all day, burns on my forearms.

Took from that job the truth that it isn't my bosses responsibility to pay me a good wage. It was my jobs to get the skills that would require my boss to pay me a good wage.

[5thGenTexan]

“We at McDonald’s agree, these jobs are too dangerous for humans. We are working on corrective actions to completely eradicate the problem”

[JRandomFreeper]

If ya can’t take the heat

Inventory the walk-in cooler and then get back on the line. ;)

/johnny

[MrB]

And someone’s gotta install, program, maintain, and upgrade those machines,

and it won’t be a minimum wage fry cook.

[mountn man]

You ever eat at a Culver's or Chick fil A?

Seems like they higher a MUCH better class (and smarter) group of kids, than McDs and BK.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

At that time just about anyone who had worked in a mill for more than a few years was missing at the least a couple of fingers.

That reminds me of an old joke:

A friend calls a friend to inform him that there's been an accident at the local saw mill.

Lem: "Hey Ephus. Been an accident at the saw mill. Stuart Spagweiller slipped and cut off his foot."
Ephus: Oh my gosh! What did you do?"
Lem: "Heck, we just put his foot in a plastic bag, took Stuart to the hospital where they stitched it back on. He was back at work before lunch."
Ephus: "Wow. Can you believe the miracles of modern medicine!?"

The very next day, Ephus gets another call from Lem.

Lem: "Hey Ephus, had another accident at the saw mill. This morning Ernest Trapp cut off his hand."
Ephus: "What did you do?"
Lem: "Well, we put his hand in a plastic bag, took it and Ernest to the hospital. They stitched it back on and he was back to work this afternoon!"
Ephus: "Wow. Can you believe the miracles of modern medicine?!"

And...the following day...yet another call.

Lem: "Hey Ephus."
Ephus: "Yeah Lem, another accident at the saw mill."
Ephus: "Uh oh."
Lem: "Yeah, today Lorton Ludwig lopped off his head."
Ephus: "Don't tell me. Don't tell me. They put his head in a plastic bag, took him to the hospital where they stitched his head back on and he was back to work by the end of the day?"
Lem: "Oh no....he's dead."
Ephus: "He's dead!? What happened?"
Lem: Well, we're not positive but we're pretty sure he suffocated in that plastic bag on the way to the hospital."

[mountn man]

Okay...so it takes another week to pay it off.