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I hate to admit it, but Miz Ruth and I buy at McD's once or twice a year, generally when we're on the road to a race track and running late.

We will now stop.

they are crap any way they tear down rain forest to raise their cows and pump them with hormones and feed to us so we can die too

Man, that Whopper is gonna taste great!!!! Can you say BOYCOTT boys and girls? I knew you could.

It's ALL about the dollar, isn't it. Deserving heroes, the Do Right Rule, and corporate good public relations be damned. Shame on McDonald's and shame on Tad Krug's outfit. (See ya next time I'm at Fellowship Bible Church, Tad.)

Yeah, I can give up my occasional fish sandwich. Though stopping my rare visits won't tweak their bottom line, McDonald's et al HATE negative publicity...no matter how small.

This reminds me of Wal-Mart's recent attempts to collect the lawsuit money that was keeping one of its permanently disabled former employees in a nursing home. And it should remind all of us that we need effective government regulations standing between us and bottom-line driven corporations. History has demonstrated time and time again that monetary gains usually take precedence over humanity. A human life, after all, is only worth a few bucks. It takes a lot more resources to patch us up/keep us going than to replace us with a young healthyl human.

Yeah, the way we can fix this is by boycotting McDonalds until they make it right with the injured employee. Right here is one of the biggest things wrong with America. It smells of the days of slavery. Work em for nothing until they drop and then replace them with another idiot whose starving bad enough to be willing to work at McDonalds. I deserve a break today....FROM McDonalds!

And whatever happened to the hottie whose husband left his phone with her nudie pictures on it at McDonalds? Brighten my day.....show her one more time! Remember no Big Macs until McDonalds does what's right. Wendy's here I come!

McDonald's Corp sucks, of course.

But, I'd bet this is a local franchiser decision. Who owns the franchise where Mr. Haskett worked? The owner would be the one fighting Arkansas workers comp. And I'll bet we can get a lot more attention from a local franchise owner than McDonald's Corp.

BTW - McDonald's sucks!!!

Its all the Lawyers fault remember the lady who spilled the coffee and burned herself and sued and won frivilous lawsuits have put McD's and the rest of us in this boat of not doing whats right the moral decay in this world is scary.

When the only bottom line is profit, things like this happen. Outrageous, but not unexpected from a multinational giant.

There are many more reasons than this to stop spending your hard-earned dollars at McDonald's, People. This should push you over the edge to a total boycott, if you happened to be teetering. Get a social conscience and do something good for yourself: stop shopping at McDonald's.

gee Pa, you've drunk the Kool-aid of the right wing lunatics. The coffee that spawned that 'frivolous' lawsuit was over 150F. The woman received third degree burns on her thighs and the lid was not on tight.

When posting about stuff you don't know, be sure not to use Flush Slimeball as your source.

Second things first:
geePar - you obviously don't follow the news in any depth - McDonalds had been told to lower the temp of their water by the local health department numerous times to no avail. McDonalds had ignored local regulations; therefore, when the women was burned she had a ligitimate right to sue because the company did not follow the law. We are a nation of laws - did you miss that in the news too?
First things now:
Is this Krug fellow the franchizee? Well, well, well, all that good time Christianity hasn't made an impact on the pure greed of the man. He should demand his money back from the "church of the hear and now" because he is still the shallow capitalist droid he was when he entered. Or, did they make him that way???? Phony is as phony does.

Well, technically his potentially life threatening injury is not work related. I mean, it is not like he slipped on the floor in the food pre area or burned himself on the fry vat.

All he did was stop a potential murder on the McDonalds property and the potential harm to other customers in the restrurant at the time.

Instead of worker's comp, now the owners of this franchise will have to go to court and fight a very expensive and lengthy law suit. I hope this young man finds a very good lawyer.

The McDonalds at Rodney-Parham will never recieve my business again. Are there other McDonalds in town operated by the same owner? If so, they should be boycotted as well.

I haven't been in a McDonalds in several years, and even then it was only to use their relatively clean restroom. Thanks, Ronald.

The Times article mentions "a fund for Haskett that was set up by Twin City Bank." I'd like some more info on this so I might donate a little money to help this guy out.

"It smells of the days of slavery. Work em for nothing until they drop and then replace them with another idiot whose starving bad enough to be willing to work at McDonalds. I deserve a break today....FROM McDonalds!" DBI

Actually that was a bad use of slaves since you had to pay for them. Was better to work poor immigrants to death and later ex-slaves under the tenant farmer system. You had no cash invested.

Dudes & Dudettes. McDonalds, unless they're self-insured, doesn't make the decision regarding whether or not to pay claims. That goes to their insurance company - who will offer up their defense once MickyD is sued.

Oh come on RickBaber - why would you want to confuse these folks with the facts?

Thirty minute orientation, huh? Yeah, I bet. Turn the new guy over to the experienced hand -- who's been there two weeks -- and so he can learn the ropes.
I wonder if the same franchisee has the McDonald's near Baseline and I-30. The one and only time hubby and I were in there, we were lucky to escape intact. They must have mopped the floor with grease. While we were sitting there, I saw five or six folks slip, but fortunately manage to regain their footing.
I guess in orientation you cover not getting yourself shot trying to protect customers, but not floor maintenance, huh, guys?
Pssst. You lawyer dudes. You're gonna lose this one.

Mcdonald's need a swift kick in the hind parts for someone being a model citizen. He is a student at my alma mater and Jr ROTC member and my heart goes out to him and his family. I hardly touch Mcdonald's as it is, but I will not stop at that location every again.

DOIGOTTA:

I know what you mean about that Mcdonald's on Baseline, just awful. The one on Geyer Springs is even worst.