Hi monkeys, sounds like y'all had a grand time - excellent! As it turns out, I was busier than a whore on dollar day at work and didn't get out of there until almost 2am, at which point I took my tired ass home.
Looking forward to DaShiv's pics and catching you guys next time!
Heyas! the_bone was kind enough to drop me a message about this. I'd love to meet up with the group though it would be a later arrival as I have to work that night.
There's a good stream of info over at MeFi, but if at all possible, a check in here would be greatly appreciated as well.
In the meantime, much monkey love and support; please let us know if and what we can do to help.
Girls are rarely banished by the FLDS, but they are regularly gang raped to teach them proper respect.
posted by LaGatta at 01:46AM UTC on June 15, 2005
This just makes me want to cry.
Too true, jb, and it also depends on the location itself. Our store wasn't allowed to keep garbage inside, but we were in a temporate area. I can't imagine asking kids to take garbage out every hour or so in the middle of winter in Iowa, for example. I would have balked.
[Warning: long post that veers slightly off topic - read at your own risk]
Working at McDonald's was my first 'real' job in high school. With exception of a few years here and there, I've been in working in restaurants for the last 20 years and can say that their kitchens are cleaner than most, by a long shot. In actuality, the health department doesn't visit all that often - quarterly maybe - and it's rare that a place receives such a bad rating that it warrants being shut down on the spot. Reversing a poor rating is often as easy as getting your steam tables and refrigerators recalibrated and making sure there's handsoap in the employee restroom. This is isn't to say that your average restaurant kitchen is a sty, but I think that most people would be surprised if they saw one in action - and I'm not talking about the pretty open ones, either.
McDonald's has put a great deal of money into r&d for the physical plant of their stores. This applies especially to stores constructed in the last 15 - 20 years. The interior building materials, the layout and the construction of the equipment are not only designed to maximize labor by making spaces quite efficient (and less messy) during business hours, but also to make the back of the house (kitchen, dishwashing and staging area) incredibly easy to clean and maintain. For example, most of the equipment is mounted on wheels and nearly the entire kitchen can be rearranged or cleared in minutes in order to hose down the walls and floor, then squeegee the mucky water directly into drains located throughout the kitchen floor.
These details coupled with rather stringent corporate policies that even the franchises are held to, along with the fact that they aggressively secret shop their locations for quality control have made it possible for them to maintain fairly high standards.
I know that it's vogue to villify corporations, Corporate America and despair the evils American consumerism and McDonald's embodies all of those in one convenient package. However, they provided excellent training, had clear standards and methods of operation, instilled great work ethics, rewarded positive performance on a frequent and regular basis, taught a bunch of spastic, hormone crazy high school kids how to be make mature decisions and take responsiblity, were incredibly accomodating about schedules while letting us have as much fun as we could in the process as long as we stayed productive. I'm not sure the same can be said for many other businesses, I certainly haven't stumbled across many since then and I feel pretty lucky to have had that as my first experience in the work force.
As kmellis says, this doesn't say anything about the quality and nutritional value of their food, but I do definitely feel that they have their own well earned strong points.
*clears throat awkwardly and steps of soap box*
The Ender series was great. My personal favorite was the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson. Also a number books by Charles Sheffield. Growing up, I read everything I could get my hands on by Ray Bradbury (clearly not hard, but wonderful reading, nonetheless.)
Oh dear GAWD, I cannot stop laughing. I have a new catch phrase. And so perfect with that knowing head shake of sympathetic pain. Thanks HuronBob!
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
In "tonights dinner"
Big Mouth Burgers on 24th and Valencia. Mmmmmmmm hmmmmmmm.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
In "Getting that Bay Area Meetup Feeling"
Hi monkeys, sounds like y'all had a grand time - excellent! As it turns out, I was busier than a whore on dollar day at work and didn't get out of there until almost 2am, at which point I took my tired ass home. Looking forward to DaShiv's pics and catching you guys next time!
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
Yay! Thanks, ooga!
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
Heyas! the_bone was kind enough to drop me a message about this. I'd love to meet up with the group though it would be a later arrival as I have to work that night.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
In "Blasts in the London Underground"
There's a good stream of info over at MeFi, but if at all possible, a check in here would be greatly appreciated as well. In the meantime, much monkey love and support; please let us know if and what we can do to help.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
Let your fellow monkeys know you're safe and sound!
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
In "Curious George - Us Against Them"
Mmmmm, the music of Yoko Kanno. Insanely dope, indeed.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 18 years ago
In "How to make a perfick cup of tea."
I can't believe no one's mentioned goatse yet. Or is that now Godwin's territory?
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "TerraGalleria"
Beautiful, peacay. Thanks!!
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "Flying Snakes"
Flying snakes!! I can die a happy woman now.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "The Lost Boys of Utah"
Girls are rarely banished by the FLDS, but they are regularly gang raped to teach them proper respect. posted by LaGatta at 01:46AM UTC on June 15, 2005 This just makes me want to cry.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In ""
Too true, jb, and it also depends on the location itself. Our store wasn't allowed to keep garbage inside, but we were in a temporate area. I can't imagine asking kids to take garbage out every hour or so in the middle of winter in Iowa, for example. I would have balked.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
[Warning: long post that veers slightly off topic - read at your own risk] Working at McDonald's was my first 'real' job in high school. With exception of a few years here and there, I've been in working in restaurants for the last 20 years and can say that their kitchens are cleaner than most, by a long shot. In actuality, the health department doesn't visit all that often - quarterly maybe - and it's rare that a place receives such a bad rating that it warrants being shut down on the spot. Reversing a poor rating is often as easy as getting your steam tables and refrigerators recalibrated and making sure there's handsoap in the employee restroom. This is isn't to say that your average restaurant kitchen is a sty, but I think that most people would be surprised if they saw one in action - and I'm not talking about the pretty open ones, either. McDonald's has put a great deal of money into r&d for the physical plant of their stores. This applies especially to stores constructed in the last 15 - 20 years. The interior building materials, the layout and the construction of the equipment are not only designed to maximize labor by making spaces quite efficient (and less messy) during business hours, but also to make the back of the house (kitchen, dishwashing and staging area) incredibly easy to clean and maintain. For example, most of the equipment is mounted on wheels and nearly the entire kitchen can be rearranged or cleared in minutes in order to hose down the walls and floor, then squeegee the mucky water directly into drains located throughout the kitchen floor. These details coupled with rather stringent corporate policies that even the franchises are held to, along with the fact that they aggressively secret shop their locations for quality control have made it possible for them to maintain fairly high standards. I know that it's vogue to villify corporations, Corporate America and despair the evils American consumerism and McDonald's embodies all of those in one convenient package. However, they provided excellent training, had clear standards and methods of operation, instilled great work ethics, rewarded positive performance on a frequent and regular basis, taught a bunch of spastic, hormone crazy high school kids how to be make mature decisions and take responsiblity, were incredibly accomodating about schedules while letting us have as much fun as we could in the process as long as we stayed productive. I'm not sure the same can be said for many other businesses, I certainly haven't stumbled across many since then and I feel pretty lucky to have had that as my first experience in the work force. As kmellis says, this doesn't say anything about the quality and nutritional value of their food, but I do definitely feel that they have their own well earned strong points. *clears throat awkwardly and steps of soap box*
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "Mundane SF"
The Ender series was great. My personal favorite was the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson. Also a number books by Charles Sheffield. Growing up, I read everything I could get my hands on by Ray Bradbury (clearly not hard, but wonderful reading, nonetheless.)
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "Shagster."
Holy crap, OneOlive, I think I about broke something laughing.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "Most Obvious New Kids Exercise Yet..."
Subversiveness persuasively encourages lusty lifestyles by instilling naughty desires in naive gentlepeople!
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
She evenly concedes observation neatly distinguishes hoaxes and non-phenomena, detailing enumerative data lightly yielded.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "Married woman does her own PI work on craigslist.org"
See, now, this is the real ending to "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
In "Most Obvious New Kids Exercise Yet..."
Years often deem exuberant laughter likely as youths haughtily experience hardships, obliviously officious.
posted by Cheeky Monkey 19 years ago
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