McDonald’s in ‘sex for shifts’ scandal as 700 workers launch new harassment claims against fast food giant

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1. Stand down Elon. This one doesn’t suit your agenda so give ‘em a pass.

   Maybe a few quid for the offenders to buy their victims silence? Be like the good old days

2. I’ve been telling everyone what a sexual cesspool it is at my local McDonald’s for years, good to know it wasn’t an isolated thing.

3. Nigel, shouldn’t we be calling for a public enquiry on this too? Probably not, CEO is the wrong ethnicity and colour.

4. Imagine being so desperate for cash that you’d sleep with a manager of McDonald’s just to get more shifts.

5. If this is true it goes to show the power dynamic and exploitation is still as rife as ever in the UK. We should be looking into how any company can employ and maintain this kinda action over and over again.

6. Absolutely crazy to me.

   “Hey. Fuck me and I’ll let you work 5 days a week”

   “Oh great. So not only do I get to fuck my fat ugly add McDonald’s manager, but now I have to work here 5 days a week. Boy life is fun”

7. > The fast food giant says the average age of its employees is 20.

   I don’t think one can run a company hiring mostly teenagers and *not* have their horniness cause issues in the workplace.

8. I worked at McDonald’s for many years and the number of 30/40+ year old managers sleeping with teenagers is high. Some have gone on to have families and a happy ending, but for the most part it is rather disturbing.

   I still have friends that work for McDonald’s and they have new people audits, but they tell me it only really cares about work time directives and not the fact harassment is being reported on a regular basis.

9. I remember when I worked at McDonalds when i was fresh 17 and the business manager would squeeze himself down the second line, which was tighter and further from his office but coincidentally was always full of young girls and college students during his shifts, got fired for calling him a nonce and then 3 months later left for “inappropriate conduct” so god knows what it was that they finally decided it wasn’t worth it

10. Not surprised- I’m a bouncer & one of my venues hosted a McDonald’s xmas party last month, during which I had to throw out a 30+ year old senior manager who was trying to grope a 19 year old girl who he had spent the entire night buying drinks for.

    This girl then proceeded to have a meltdown when we tried to get her to book an uber home.

11. This is disgusting for so many reasons. People who are going to be asking for extra shifts probably need that money and are as such being taken advantage of by people in positions of power. Get the managers names published who did this.

12. Employee with less than 2 years service; ‘My manager said if I didn’t shag him he’d reduce my hours’

    Maccies HR; ‘unfortunately, due to business needs, we have decided to let you go’

    Demand employee rights from your local MP. Also, act your wage. The role should have rights from the first day of employment.

    I’m raising my kids to ensure they have empathy, and never would consider a HR role. No excuses. HR should be a job that is looked down upon, and people in that field need ostracised

13. Zero hour contracts check and yeah it’s a factor

    > “This investigation has exposed how sexual harassment and insecure work can go hand in hand.”

    >McDonald’s outlets work using a franchise model, meaning local managers are in charge of recruiting staff.

    >About 89% of British workers at McDonald’s are on zero-hours contracts.

    >Mr Nowak added that the contracts “create a huge imbalance of power in the workplace that leaves workers vulnerable to predatory bosses”.

    Everyone but Teenagers definitely need a workplace model where someone isn’t gate keeping your pay and work. Abuses like this happen when they allow that level of control.

    Doubt it’s just McDonald’s issue. My first teenage retail job over decade ago I had to quit due to advances by an employee that tried to assault another girl before me at work. Bosses took his side and I found it better to quit than risk it. Problem is if you need the money that option isn’t there. Found number of companies or managers in retail don’t have a safe whistleblower system for stuff like this. Smaller teams means anon report are easy to guess who and get losses from retaliation

14. This doesn’t surprise me at all. Heard stories about these places quite a lot when I was younger. Was told blatantly not to apply for a job in certain businesses. Hope everyone in the lawsuit wins.

15. When you’re on a zero hour contract you’re at the mercy of those that gives out the shifts.

16. I worked at McDonald’s when I was 17 until I was 20, mental place and witnessed lots of seedy stuff.

    Shift managers in their late 20’s/early 30’s praying on all the barely legal teenage girls, store general manager sleeping with an 18 year old behind his wife’s back, assistant manager unhooking a girl’s bra strap through her top.

    If I had a daughter there’s absolutely no chance I’d let them work there.

17. Yes thats some level of desperation when the sex being demanded/offered isn’t even for money, but for the chance to earn money.

18. This is only coming to light now?

    It’s not just McDonalds. I was 17 when I had to “impress” my manager to get shifts for the first time at fucking Tesco.

19. I would have thought that if you’re willing to blow your manager for a shift, it’d be easier and more profitable to just work as a hooker.

    On a more serious note this is absolutely wild, and really reflects on how fucked our economy is when it comes to jobs.

20. Which countries… They never say, unless I missed that somehow

21. My neighbors daughter works at one locally. I’ve just asked her mother to ask her if she’s safe at work. If the answer is no then I’m straight down to that franchise to kick off…… As a mother this makes me feel like going mental on them.

22. Hopefully they can sue them.

    These big companies should really push for automation of management to avoid discrimination and atrocities like this.

23. And you’re still paying £15 for a trash burger oof.

24. A former colleague,who had previously worked for Macdonald’s in Liverpool, told me years ago, women would perform oral sex on the manager to swap shifts, to have Saturday night off for example I thought this was crazy but apparently not.

25. And there’s me thinking it was just Luigi they fucked

26. What can we do as a community to ensure young workers feel safe in their workplaces

27. There’s a lots of kids that work there too…it’s horrific that they are being abused like that 😡

28. I had to give a wristie behind the Wendy’s dumpsters once

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