This McDonald's Workers' Savage Facebook Rant Has Gone Viral

Working at McDonald's is considered by some to be a useless, last-resort job to land.

But think about it: without their presence, we'd have no-one to wave receipts at at 4:00am. No brilliant junk food to soak up all the beer with.

Now, one Scottish McDonald's worker has defied that stereotype in spectacular fashion.

Mike Waite, who works at an Edinburgh branch, took to his Facebook to defend his position in the company.

"Today I have had enough of the judgmental criticism." he writes. "Let me be clear. YES I work at Mcdonalds and do it nearly 50 hours a week.

"Why? Not because I have no aspiration, motivation or intelligence...but for the opposite...because in a few months time like a great number of people I work with I will be going back into higher education.

"McDonalds has this reputation which is quite unfounded in the recent age, every person I work with has a story and every person is working their ass off in what can be a very tough job for their own reasons...be it they are in school, uni, have family, have kids, saving...etc."

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Mike also made a big point of co-workers having aspirations beyond the fast-food chain:

"The one thing McDonalds is is a job which is extremely (extremely) flexible, has opportunities for growth and can allow you to do what you want to do. There are people becoming pilots, lawyers, designers, architects, and people who are at a point in their life that they will do whatever it takes to look after their family.

"I work with people I would aspire to be like, who have strengths in areas I wish I had, who have overcome situations I never could and who have the determination to not fade away on handouts but rather step up and work for their living unlike a huge number of people in this country.

"In the past I have known and worked with very rich folks in very high end jobs, and a few of them could never match the resilience and work ethic of some of the current lads/lassies.

"After the ending of a big part of my life McD's is not only letting me save up for University, but setting me up with flexible work I can continue over the next years to come."

Here is the actual post.

Good on him.

Let's not to be dicks to people like Mike, who are willing to do the work you or I necessarily wouldn't or couldn't.

Words by Josh Teal

Image credit: Facebook/PA

Topics: McDonald's

Josh Teal

Josh Teal is a journalist at LADbible. He has contributed to the 'Knowing Me, Knowing EU' and 'UOKM8?' campaigns interviewing everyone from student drug dealers to climate change activists.

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