Sarah writes:
Saw this on Dart – friends and I remarked on how offensive it was to fast food workers… Thought this since recession people had lost working related snobbery and wouldn’t be quick to belittle those doing an honest day’s work ..
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Thought this since recession people had lost working related snobbery and wouldn’t be quick to belittle those doing an honest day’s work ..
Not the marketing departments of companies. We must be compelled to feel inadequate so we will continue in the rat race.
For $deityOfChoice’s sake, so being so melodramatic. There’s no need to pretend to be offended by this kind of thing; it’s a *particularly* harmless joke.
…relatively inoffensive.
I saw that ad to and thought the same.
Is the chicken good?
Relatively good. The chips would be good too, if only they could keep Schrödinger away from the fryer.
So you’re saying Einstein would have fulfilled his potential working in a fast food restaurant?
Einstein worked as a patent clerk in charge of basic, repetitive admin for most of his life, and all his achievements he managed on the side. He was probably an ill-informed choice for an ad like this
“Einstein worked as a patent clerk in charge of basic, repetitive admin for most of his life”
He worked there from 1902-09, NOT most of his life and he worked as a patent examiner, a high level patents office position, NOT as a patent clerk.
Do you always play this fast and loose with the facts?
That is patently untrue.
Einstein Started working at the patent office in 1901 and was appointed a university lecturer in 1908, having completed his PhD thesis in 1905. He lived to be 76.
At the patent office he worked as a technical examiner, and would have been required to investigate whether the science behind new patents was sound; such work requires a formal education in science and is not repetitive, rather involves exposure to a lot of different and new ideas.
All this talk of how many years he worked in burger shack, or how he lived until he was 76, is all irrelevant until someone tells me what year he was born in.
Here Wayne, let me Google that for you…
Since the start of the recession (which is rapidly fading away lest we forget) many people also appear to have lost their sense of humour.
Rapidly fading away? You think? Are you an estate agent or something?
Are you an economist? Do you you read the news or just listen to tales of woe?
+1
Some of our ‘best’ economists failed/refused to see the last great f**k up coming down the line.
So there’s another big f**k up coming down the line is there? Or are you another consumer of woe?
Ha!
Joe’s Chicken Shack is a kip. I went there for dinner two weeks ago and then all of a sudden yesterday I crashed my car. Be warned peoples.
…that’ll be your poor review on tripadvisor:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g34345-d7088705-Reviews-Joe_s_Chicken_Shack-Key_West_Florida_Keys_Florida.html
It’s all relative I guess.
I see what you did there.
+e
I think it was a good advert that shows both recruiters and clients that a skills mismatch is of no benefit for a worker or an employee.
What do you say to an Arts graduate?
Quarter pounder with fries, please…
As an Arts graduate with several engineering and science graduates reporting to me, I find this amusing.
Not everyone who did arts has mummy a daddy to fall back on for a job.
I am both shocked and appalled.
Which is more offensive, this ad, or assuming anyone flipping burgers has reached their potential as a human being?
There may be some very satisfied fast food workers but I imagine most see it as a stepping stone to something else.
Given this ad is aimed at people who have probably had money spent on their education, then maybe we should be hoping they try to achieve great things…
Recruiters talking shite?
Yep.
We’re back.
The church of the perpetually offended strike again.
Eamonn, you got a set of capital letters and puncuation marks from Santa? Well wear!
Some people work very hard at being offended. They should work as hard upskilling themselves.
That was a very asinine comment.
Has nobody learned the lesson from Good Will Hunting? Achieving your potential is nothing if you’re not happy. Will achieved his potential, but then realised he was happy being with the girl he liked, so ditched his job and moved west. Of course, we don’t know what happened when he arrived there.
Of course, Einstein seemed pretty happy with his career choices, judging from the numerous wacky photos that we have of him down through the years.
We do. In the director’s cut he climbs inside Minnie Drivers gigantic mouth and lives happily ever after.
Looking for a Walter White,
Poor Sarah. Poor, poor Sarah. So easily offended.
as if people have lost this snobbery, plenty of money types still about you know! Dublin is not less elitist, things have stayed the same, exactly
Money Types? That’s a new one on me. Are they the opposite of Ordinary People?