I Ain't Lovin' It

Oh, Ronald, Ronald, Ronald.

We had those happy years, we did, we'd hang out at the zoo, or downtown, or while I read some comics maybe. It was good. We should have lunch some time. Erm, my choice of place to eat, though, k?

Now, the reason I'm writing here is because I'm really disappointed in a couple of managers (possibly part-time rectal haberdashers - maybe both, even?) of yours, at a location in Florida. See, this young woman, like so many others, thought she'd try for a job at that store. But your managers put on their asshats and made clear that people like her - oh, and like me, as it turns out, but you didn't know that when we were together, did you? - weren't welcome working for you.

They even left her a phone message, after rudely refusing to even interview her after figuring out that she might have been born with a less-common-in-women arrangement of pants-covered-parts, telling her "We do not hire faggots". As an aside, may I point out that this is not only crude and offensive, it's really stupidly inaccurate, too? Since she's a woman, she can't, sorta by definition, be a faggot. What you wanted was "bitches". Trust me on this one, I know which slur goes with which meal course.

I think what confuses me is, what are you teaching in Hamburger University that trains managers that employees should be using their genitals in cooking? Because this seems to me not only manifestly unsanitary, but also quite thoroughly dangerous. I am alarmed that your Health & Safety personnel are not providing better training: I cannot recommend strongly enough that you immediately enact a policy forbidding employees from using their genitalia while cooking.

If you have not instituted this genital-cooking policy, I remain quite thoroughly unsure of why this young woman wouldn't be eminently suited to your establishment's labour pool. I speak from experience when I say that someone who is seventeen and has transitioned six years earlier, is a cool, collected character of the highest order, and would be likely to be a more effective and less embarrassing manager than the bigots you currently employ in that role.

Anyway, Ronald, I just thought I'd drop you a line, and express my disappointment. I find I'm really not lovin' it, and much as I'd hate to end our long friendship, I think I'd pretty much have to, if you didn't find that these persons were manifestly unsuitable for the responsibilities they currently hold.

With a sad goodbye - or will you make it au revoir?

CaitieCat

PS: I gave some of my friends your address, so you may get a few letters about this one. I really hope we can still be friends, but I guess it's up to you now.

Tip of the CaitieCap to Shaker Curmudgeonly for the heads-up.

Update: From Shaker tricia, a link to a site which says McDonald's released a statement saying the individual was no longer working for them. That's a start. I'd like to see what policies they're going to put in place to see that this doesn't keep happening.