McDonald's Hires 62,000 U.S. Workers In One Day

Bloomberg:

cDonald's Corp. (MCD), the world's biggest restaurant chain, said it hired 24 percent more people than planned during an employment event this month.

McDonald's and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said today in an e-mailed statement. Previously, it said it planned to hire 50,000.

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Comments

[thebearschick]

09:48 PM on 05/08/2011

Wow, lots of job snob commenters here. I wonder how many of the people slamming Mcdonald's jobs went through the drive through last week and enjoyed the fruits of these workers' labor?

[bryanzth]

05:38 PM on 05/07/2011

Those aren't jobs!!! All you have to do is go into any fast-food place, not just McD, and see what kind of "jobs" these are. Add to that any big box store cashier, floor staff and backroom staff. There is minimal training, minimal investment but maximum usage of the warm body concept.

They promise advancement. What is the ratio of staff to management? There's your answer.

No, this is 62K excuses for not being good businesses for the USA.

BZ.

[fortressfountain]

07:37 PM on 05/06/2011

Some of my friends work as waitors and waitresses. Now they have to give part of their tips to the company because of transaction fees of the credit cards.
No wonder people find it easier to beg instead of work.
The politicans catering to the banking and corporations caused this problem.

[bryanzth]

05:40 PM on 05/07/2011

Give back tips. At the same time, the wait staff can be paid a special minimum wage way below that of the standard minimum wage. And then with short staffing, they have to take the customer guff.

Everyone is annoyed. I hope they don't start eating the staff.

BZ.

[demilieu]

02:42 PM on 05/04/2011

And the report came in of 179,000 jobs added this month. So 1/3 were at McDonald's.

[bryanzth]

05:47 PM on 05/07/2011

Yeah, that's the real story here. And don't forget any other fast food job is in the balance of those "jobs".

Advancement, promotion.... What happens to those who over the past years were promoted and advanced? They were layed off, because their salaries were too high.

BZ.

[gmb007]

12:46 AM on 05/03/2011

One can only wonder when the Foxconn-likesuicides will begin here in America - not from being worked to death, but from NO work and NO income and NO home and NO hope.

No nothing.

[bryanzth]

05:50 PM on 05/07/2011

Well, I hope that you are writing out of compassion and not out of personal desperation. Take care, friend, that you don't fulfill your prediction. And if you do need assistance, remember that many of us are beginning to band together to help each other. No one is alone.

By being together we also become a force for change.

BZ.

[gmb007]

12:16 AM on 05/03/2011

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of these 62k jobs are seasonal. I believe I read this somewhere the other day and cannot remember where.

Again, if anyone has further info on this, please post. Thanks.

[bryanzth]

05:52 PM on 05/07/2011

I think they are mainly McJobs, personally, even if they are not in manufacturing (ok, burguer assembly) ;0)

We need to call the media outlets to report the true nature of these "jobs".

BZ.

[travelaholic]

03:19 PM on 05/02/2011

I have a 6.2% chance of getting a job at McD's?

[texastrixie]

01:18 PM on 05/02/2011

Any job is better than no job, but these 62,000 new workers haven't hit any jackpot. Even if a few of them become location owners, and a greater minority finally makes it to management, this won't won't be even 5% of these 62,000. A country built on Mac-jobs is a country which watches its economy erode into universal poverty over time. There is no "win" here folks.

[fortressfountain]

11:05 AM on 05/02/2011

I am disappointed that both parties support the flip burger and big box stores giving them incentives to do as little as possible for the american people.
These megas go to other countries and ask employees how they can make it better for them-yet in the USA they provide the minimal.
Wake up megas, if people were smart they would not shop or support you!
When the american consumer drops out-you will have to leave the country too!

[Drivernorth]

10:31 AM on 05/02/2011

The future of employment opportunity is here. Our business leaders and politicians have built us a nice little service economy. Isn't that nice?

Next up, the pogroms to cull the undesirables from our population. After all more than a million apps to fill 62,000 jobs. As we strive to get the odds of getting a living wage job matched up to the odds of winning the lottery.

[joe kim]

09:39 AM on 05/02/2011

1,000,000 people applied for 50,000 jobs. This economy sure is getting better.

Think about it. 1 million people applying for minimum wage jobs and 950,000 people were turned away without a job.

That is just sad.

[bryanzth]

05:55 PM on 05/07/2011

Correction. 1,000,000 were applying for 50,000 McJobs. ;0)

BZ.

[osofar]

06:47 AM on 05/02/2011

How many people did McD's hire in China?

[bryanzth]

05:56 PM on 05/07/2011

They couldn't have included jobs (McJobs) overseas, could they?????

BZ.

[lunacougar]

06:14 AM on 05/02/2011

Low income workers serving low value unhealthy food to low income Americans, welcome to Americas' own private soup kitchen.

[studmoose]

01:38 AM on 05/02/2011

Full-timers?

Or were the full-timers fired and replaced with part-timers so they don't get benefits?

[MaryfromIL]

01:46 AM on 05/02/2011

I see you are familiar with large corporation hiring practices.

A fast food company I know that shall remain nameless, told pregnant headquarter employees, if they accepted the (guessing 6 week) short term disability, the company wouldn't hold the jobs of those that took more than 3 months off (most of it without pay).

So those expectant moms didn't take the short term disability, so the company would hold their jobs. Did the company hold their jobs those 6 months? Is a snake, a snake? Of course they didn't.

One woman I know who was hosed by this, then moved to a family friendly company, and was expecting her next child. She took the 6 months off, and all the workers that took more than 3 months were laid off when they tried to come back.

This was the world before Family Medical leave, wasn't super long ago either.

[JWerner]

02:14 PM on 05/02/2011

Another question is: How many people did McDonalds lay off in the previous month, before this hiring spree? McDonalds has a turnover rate of something like 4-6 months.

[urweatherman]

04:19 PM on 05/01/2011

Okay now.....where are all the spin meisters and corporation haters?