MF Day

By the time this blog gets posted it may very well be January 16, 2007. However MF Day is definitely January 15.

Ahhh . . . You don't know what MF Day celebrates. In fact, you are probably looking at your calendar right now and noticing that today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is also that. That is the reason that you didn't see many government employees out and about today. I do not wish to steal any of the thunder from Martin Luther King Jr., so before I delve into the dirty details of MF Day let me share the Martin Luther King Jr. quote that I think best illustrates the threat to our nation today.

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."

But what about this enigmatic MF Day? MF Day is the anniversary of the last day that I had to throw on some crest pants and dig for a uniform shirt from Aramark. MF Day is the anniversary of the last day I entered a Dasher Mismanagement store as an employee. MF Day is McDonald's Freedom Day.

So on this the occasion of the 1 year anniversary I would just like to take a few quick jabs at the village idiot that owns Dasher Mismanagement and his clueless son-in-law that runs things.

I will take these shots via the medium of quotes. I will not share any of the pearls of wisdoms these fellows dropped on me in my days chained to the oar in the basement of their wage slave ship. If I shared them with you it is most likely that you would think I was making them up any way.

No, the quotes I am going to use are from the McMessiah - Ray Kroc. You probably don't understand what I mean by that, but towards the end of my tenure with Dasher Mismanagement I was becoming deeply frustrated with the fact that McDonald's was a religion to many of the upper management people in the organization and the co-op. They even would quote Ray Kroc as if what he said was the gospel and therefore was beyond contestation.

I don't blame Ray Kroc for what his organization had become. He most likely didn't realize how evil his corporation would become in the future. He probably would have never believed that his hamburger business had turned into a real estate business with a "restaurant" front.

So I will use a Ray Kroc quote and show how Dasher Mismanagement reflected the vision of their messiah.


"It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."

The Dasher Mismanagement view would be that you are a better person when you are rich. Therefore whatever a rich person does is the principled thing. It is the job of the poor people to take such things in stride and turn the other cheek. That is how poor people show their principles by submitting to the will of the wealthy. It is important that they do that because that is how they show that they are good people.


"You're only as good as the people you hire."

At Dasher Mismanagement we hire tons of good people. Then we treat them like crap so that they quit and we can hire more good people. I believe that Dasher Mismanagement has set a record for hiring good people therefore they think that they are very good. Ray Kroc never said anything about retaining good people.



"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."

Of course at Dasher Mismanagement the Village Idiot and his son-in-law can't be expected to live up to the standards that they set for themselves. Hell, they can't even be expected to live up to the bare minimum standards for decent human beings. But they sure can set the standards for other people. So what if they don't live up to the minimum standards that they have set for themselves in their handbooks?



"When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot."

As soon as you understand what you are doing, then we can no longer lowball you on salary. So we will have to start treating you like crap so that you quit.




"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

Dasher Mismanagement takes this one quite literally. That is why they strive to make sure that the air condition units work in next to none of their stores. So what if the temperature in the grill area can sometimes reach 110 degrees, think of all of the luck that those wage slaves are generating.




"None of Us is as Good as All of Us."

This means that nobody is as good as the heads of Dasher Mismanagement. If you have an idea, it is not any good. Unless the heads of Dasher Mismanagement regurgitate that idea as their own 2 months later.


I have just one last bit of commentary about what I really feel about the demons at Dasher Mismanagement. It is visual commentary and the idea is stolen from a no talent hack by the name of Andres Serrano.





This picture is entirely symbolic. I didn't really fill a jar with urine. I don't have the time or the inclination to do such a thing. The yellow liquid is actually Mountain Dew and water. It is symbolic of urine. The whole piece is symbolic of how I feel about that company I used work too damn hard for. I call it "Piss Kroc". Again the name is stolen from the afore mentioned no talent hack.

Thank you for indulging me in this narcissitic episode.