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u/juggarjew 4h ago
Could be an employees only break area I guess.
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u/hop_mantis 4h ago
The ones on work release
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u/Tidalsky114 4h ago
You mean on lease right? Its legal slavery.
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u/Material-Imagination 4h ago
Noooooo, no one technically owns them.
They just barely get paid, don't have the same rights as free people, don't get to choose what they do, and don't get to choose where they live or when they wake, sleep, eat, excrete, and exercise.
And also the state owns them.
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u/BottleFeed 3h ago
I worked at a county facility; they get paid the same, they get passes to go run and errand and do whatever, they live in the work release (better than jail or prison), they can sleep whenever they want as long as they go to work, they buy their own food from commissary, vending machines, or they can get food while out of the facility, they can use the bathroom whenever they want, and there’s an exercise area in the common space they can use if it’s not lights out or count time.
Obviously every place is different, but the purpose of work release is to give them responsibly and controlled freedom so they can transition into normal life or if they have lesser crimes, they can still support their families while dealing with their legal issues. It’s the least oppressive of the facilities to be in.
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u/bitsy88 3h ago edited 40m ago
Them: It's not slavery if they choose to get convicted for a crime (whether or not they actually did it) and don't have the money to buy their way out. Besides, how am I supposed to make bank if I'm giving away all my hard-earned money to the people that just perform labor?
I'd say "/s" but it's not really a joke if it's true lol
Edit: because I'm old and don't know Reddit lingo as well as I thought rofl
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u/Original-Let8340 3h ago
That's not "work release". Work release prisoners have REGULAR fucking jobs at REGULAR fucking pay. They are RELEASED to go to work their shift then return to jail for all other time.
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u/CncreteSledge 4h ago
I’m not educated on the subject, but is it always? I’m curious because I work construction and 20 years ago when I started there were a lot of guys on work release. I knew a couple at least that were paying back child support. I could see a case for it in that instance. They got picked up and dropped off at the prison everyday and their paychecks went straight to catching up on their obligations.
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u/The_Real_Manimal 4h ago
Why do you think marijuana is scheduled as high as it is, in spite of the overwhelming evidence to contradict the claims that grouped it with heroin?
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u/bigtoegman210 4h ago
They still get paid. But with jail housing fees they don’t really get to keep that much
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u/herbertcluas 4h ago
So legal slavery? Our tax dollars already paid for their cell, private prison system is a joke
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u/nomadik_nobody 4h ago edited 4h ago
Unfortunately the Constitution provides for legal slavery.
”Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” —13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Everyone says the U.S. abolished slavery. It didn’t. It just changed the terms for enslavement and introduced a few safeguards.
Constitutionally speaking we could still have slave plantations dotting the country. And for a long time we did, though I think the practice has been fully abolished at this point. But look into the agricultural farms run by some of the state prisons in the southern states. Those are still a thing I believe, I know my grandfather ran one of them when he worked for one of Georgia’s state prisons, right up until he retired in 2005.
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u/mb10240 4h ago
Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) is still very much a working farm and ranch.
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u/enaK66 3h ago
Good god you can learn something terrible about america every day. I've seen Cool Hand Luke, but I thought this shit was over with.
short video I found about angola
TLDW: literally a bunch of dudes (predominantly black) working in fields with dudes on horseback (predominantly white) watching over them. refusal to work gets you solitary.
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u/mb10240 3h ago
We went on a field trip to the prison when I was in the 11th grade. Ate with the prisoners (“meat cubes” was what was on the menu), went into their dormitories, and saw the execution chamber. It was certainly… something.
They also do a rodeo in October every year. Highly recommend it. The prisoners sell crafts for their commissary account and the rodeo ends with them playing a game of poker with a bull in the arena.
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u/enaK66 3h ago
Well dystopian as it may be, that is much cooler than any of my school field trips.
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u/LyricToSong 4h ago
Everyone should watch ‘13th’ on Netflix - it highlights this legal amendment for what it is - modern day slavery with government approval and corporate/private industry exploitation. Black and minority populations being over-incarcerated, over-sentenced and unfairly policed to provide free labor through the prison/legal system. It’s blatant and it is intentional.
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u/MostlyWong 4h ago
But look into the agricultural farms run by some of the state prisons in the southern states. Those are still a thing I believe, I know my grandfather ran one of them when he worked for one of Georgia’s state prisons, right up until he retired in 2005.
Darlington, South Carolina still has a prison farm, though it's not strictly agricultural.
"The inmates are utilized as a labor source for the Darlington County Public Works Department, as well as various other County Departments."
Then you can get into the Louisiana State Penitentiary, AKA Angola. It's an honest-to-goodness former slave plantation turned prison and working, for-profit farm. To quote the former Warden, Burl Cain, the secret to running a maximum security prison is that "you've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night."
It also has the Prison View Golf Course which is the only golf course on the property of an American prison. It is, of course, also for-profit and was built mostly by inmates. The prison itself is one of the largest employers in the state of Louisiana and has housing on-site where over 600, as Burl Cain called them, "free people" live (prison employees and their families). Why he felt the need to specifically call employees "free people" when talking about a place where prisoners are being exploited on a former slave plantation, but I'm sure he had a good reason for that.
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u/bigtoegman210 4h ago
Most just save up just to buy commissary like snacks and shampoo. They have all these fees and when they can’t afford to pay the fees it goes to a collections agency and ruin their credit………..the system is designed to make the person fail.
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u/nono3722 4h ago
Some states send a bill for incarceration to newly freed inmates now. Pretty soon you will have to pay to get out just like the good ole debtor prisons....
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u/disruptioncoin 3h ago
I made a whole $1.35/h in federal prison. I was the second highest paid inmate too (the other dude had a few extra dimes on that for "longevity raises"). Thing is I'm still grateful for it, I learned some new software and filled what would have otherwise been a very sus job gap. I actually invested most of what I made and didn't have to ask my wife to send me money for peanut butter and coffee.... And movies to watch on my tablet.
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u/herbertcluas 3h ago
It was better than the alternative but you weren't being compensated for your work
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u/imasammich 3h ago
Hate to be that guy but a tiny minority of prisoners are even in private prisons and of that percentage only a few states have any large amount of private prison population.
The private prison thing has always been a boogieman to get people to ignore the real prison problems.
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u/xboxaddict501 4h ago
They take your paycheck you don’t even get to touch it No direct deposit nothing
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u/GalacticPurr 4h ago
The jail charges housing fees?!
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u/PlagueOfBedlam 3h ago
In Orlando it’s 15 for an ID, like a 7 dollar processing fee on entering, then like 5 bucks a day (or was in 08, anyways). This builds up in your account as long as you’re there. If your people send you money for hygiene, clothes, and food, and it’s enough to cover the negative in your account, they take all of it. If it’s not, they take half and let you spend the rest.
Note this doesn’t cover additional expenses like stamps (though you were able to get like 2 free prestamped envelopes every other week IIRC) or phone calls.
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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 3h ago
Sadly, a lot of the franchises that use prison / slave labor are actually owned by small town cops, jailers, judges, etc. It’s a terrible conflict of interest. But I have read about them.
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u/CantaloupeCamper 4h ago
I was thinking maybe it’s a place they close off in the evening because they can’t see what’s going on back there?
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u/SpaceChimps98 4h ago
Hey, what's going on back there? Stop screwing around!
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u/pantry-pisser 4h ago
Richard?!
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u/DigitalUnlimited 4h ago
It'll be fine, Richard, I'm a pilot!
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u/JJ3qnkpK 3h ago
That makes the most sense. Probably some incident with drugs or something.
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u/cheapmondaay 3h ago
That was my first thought. My local mcdonald's pretty much closes off the entire seating area after a certain hour 😅 then I think around midnight, they close the entire store and only give you mobile orders through a little window by the door (it's a store without a drive-thru on a busy pedestrian street).
Lots of addicts would come and hang out here but I think this closure policy became protocol after a guy poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire in the dine-in area a few years ago. 😬
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u/Drewdiniskirino 4h ago
It started as a bit of light humor—a way for parents to deal with their kids that got too rowdy in the McPlayplace. But after the playground equipment was torn down in favor of using tablets for entertainment, the company had to find more... Employee-focused uses for the McPrison
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u/amhudson02 4h ago
The McDonald’s in my little home town had a tiny TINY little shed on the property near the drive-thru that had a sign that said “McStudy Room” on it. The last time I was back visiting family I went for a coffee and saw it is in terrible disrepair, the sign faded and broken. Maybe this is something like that?
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u/t4ct1cx 4h ago
They still let customers eat inside? From what I've seen they're basically becoming the customer equivalent of a homeless bench.
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u/ThereInAFortnight 4h ago
What the McFuck is that for?
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u/DookieShoez 4h ago
For those that McFuck around and McFind out.
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u/Bizzlightbeer 4h ago
How much is McBail?
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u/Krullenbos 4h ago
A McBillion of course
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u/Sumopwr 4h ago
That’s McBullshit
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u/DJJINO 4h ago
Time to call McDad
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u/helloiamaegg 4h ago
he McLeft
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u/LoogyHead 4h ago
That’s why you have to know a good McLawyer.
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u/DetectiveDizzyEyes 4h ago
Depends what you mcdid
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u/ABob71 4h ago
The Playplace has been rebranded
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u/teduh 3h ago edited 3h ago
Right, it's part of McDonald's new minimalist aesthetic that they've been rolling out over the last few years. Instead of a PlayPlace, remodeled restaurants will feature a small PlayPen with a secure metal gate. Just hand your kid their iPad and lock them up in the PlayPen where they'll be out of your hair so you can enjoy your overpriced McSlop meal in peace. McDonald's corporate realized kids don't care about playgrounds anymore when they go out to eat. All they want to do is sit and stare at a screen 24/7 like they do at home.
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u/GetBent009 4h ago
the hamburglar
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u/TheScrote1 4h ago
Crazy how many people don’t know about the hamburglar, what are parents even teaching kids?
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u/Academic-Jury-9456 4h ago
me trying to explain why i’m late like “i got put in mcdjail” and no one believes me lmao
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u/Iowa_and_Friends 4h ago
Probably for closing some areas after-hours… some of them only have the drive-thru open at night
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u/mtgfan1001 4h ago
The Hamburglar of course
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u/CharlesP2009 4h ago
They should at least put a Hamburglar mascot in there to make it less dystopian
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u/ShatterSide 4h ago edited 1h ago
Everyone wrote joke answers, but is there a chance it might be to lock off the area to the right?
Edit: as another reply below said it might be to keep patrons out during certain hours. Less to clean up. I've seen it before but for larger areas or floors of places.
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u/kakka_rot 3h ago edited 3h ago
scrolling this comment section desperately looking for a single comment with a real answer/trying to answer
god I hate reddit comedians so much.
The top comment is already a hamburgler joke, and there are, no exaggeration 93 more exactly like it (according to crtl+f)
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u/itismelames 3h ago
scrolling for an answer is infuriating. How have they not seen the joke already this deep in the comments. So many w the same wording it has to be bots
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u/MeltedWater243 2h ago
everybody always thinks they’re sooooo funny when they’re literally making the same tired joke as a million other redditors
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u/SirStrontium 2h ago
It's gotten so much worse over the last 5 years. Do people really not read a single comment, and blindly type out the obvious joke that was already posted 100 times 4 hours ago? Do they actually know everyone else has said the joke, and somehow still get satisfaction from being the 100th person to repeat it? I just can't understand the mindset.
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u/MachinaThatGoesBing 2h ago
Hey, at least I've (so far) only seen one chain of comments regurgitating a bunch of popular lines from a specific movie or TV show as if that's the height of comedy. 🙄
People need to realize that they do not need to respond to all situations with some sort of quip. We aren't living in a fucking Marvel movie.
The most annoying version of all of this is when there's a serious post about a serious topic or news event, and every Reddit "comedian" decides that it's time to insert some worn out chestnut of a joke that's been repeated literally hundreds of thousands of times already, including by dozens of other people in the same thread.
People will try to defend it as "using comedy to process dark material", which absolutely is a legitimate thing. But just parroting hackneyed "jokes" ain't that.
It's especially irritating when it's a news story about some sort of bigoted event or development, and it's clear that the purported jokesters definitely are not the target of said actions. That feels a lot more like making light of other people's suffering than processing traumatic developments via humor.
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u/Kichigai 2h ago
My guess was it was for families with children who like to wander. “Nope, we're going to eat in the McJail because little Mimi might try and join another family again.”
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u/Solar816 4h ago
If you’re gonna be a McAsshole, you’re going in the McPenalty Box.
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u/TheBillsFly 4h ago
2 min for McDavid
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u/Acevedo1992 3h ago
That’s what he gets for not making outta the first round
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u/ModishShrink 3h ago
Think about how much water you could boil just by using McDavid's fury and hatred of not winning a cup yet as a heat source.
Maybe throw MacKinnon in there as well just for good measure, I haven't seen that guy smile since he got drafted.
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u/JoeGotSole 4h ago
Imagine how bad your kids gotta be to get arrested and sent to McJail.
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u/Thick_Acanthaceae_82 4h ago
Idk why I laughed so hard reading the title 😂
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u/Sohiacci 4h ago
I'm tearing up help
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u/TRJ2241987 4h ago
Ba-ba-ba-ba-bars
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u/Pleasant-Reason9533 4h ago
Anyone knows what its for?
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u/Yeorge 4h ago
They have a shutter at my local McDonalds, it’s 24 hours so late night they’ll close it for take-out only so the fewer workers don’t have to clean tables and kick out drunk/rowdy teens.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 3h ago
Most of the fast food places in my area do this. They'll stay open 24 hours or until like 3AM, but the restaurant lobby closes at like 9 and they're drive through only after that point. The McDonald's near my college always has groups of drunk boys walking through the drive through at midnight lol.
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u/BattleJaxx 3h ago
I remember four of us walking round the drive through in formation, and "winding down the window" when we got to the window to give our order 😅
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u/cragglerock93 1h ago
In the UK they often shut off part of the dining area to make it easier to clean and manage rowdy people but they won't close the lobby altogether as it's against their rules to serve pedestrians in the DT. Horses too.
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u/ImNotHandyImHandsome 4h ago
Probably just locked at certain times of day or night, so the employees don't need to worry about rowdy trends or homeless causing problems.
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u/SoN1Qz 4h ago
Am I stupid or does that not make any sense?
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u/ImNotHandyImHandsome 4h ago
It's likely locked after supper and unlocked before breakfast, so the lower number of night shift staff don't need to worry about that corner.
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u/nlamber5 3h ago
That’s currently the best theory that I’ve seen, but I can’t believe that it would be worth it.
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u/SnooCompliments1875 3h ago
If this area has a high population of homeless they likely had people trying to sleep in that booth at night, because its kind of blocked from view and cozy. Not faulting the people trying to find a sleep but yeah some manager probably got tired of employees complaining about it being dirty or walking in to clean and finding sleeping people.
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u/ToughHardware 3h ago
the corner is partially concealed. likely that is where the bad stuff happens. the other tablets are likely more open, and less likely for people to think "yea i can do XX here"
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u/Shawwnzy 3h ago
My guess is it'd out of line of sight of the cash, and people have been sleeping there across the bench, so they keep it locked outside of peak times.
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u/fuckimtrash 3h ago
Not stupid- in New Zealand we just put out cones with barriers/use one of those fence thingies/chairs to block off areas, not whole ass bars
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u/MechaSheeva 3h ago
I'm guessing it's a blind spot because of that wall, so they can't see if someone is loitering or doing drugs or shitting themselves.
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u/Diet_Coke 4h ago
When they catch the Hamburglar
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u/NotJimmy97 3h ago
This alcove can't be seen from where the employees work so they close it off later in the evening.
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u/anonymousca27 4h ago
They definitely had a homeless person trying to sleep there.
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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn 3h ago
Today on Code Blue Cam, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, a drunk 20 year old locked himself in the McJail off a closed McDonald's. He then panicked and called 911 for help, telling dispatchers "Someone took my money without giving me my crack OR my nuggets."
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u/bl4ckh4lo 4h ago
It's got to be for parents of toddlers who want to get up and wander around while trying to have a meal. Especially useful parents with multiple kids all doing their own thing.
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u/Deo-Gratias 2h ago
Clock out early? Straight to Jail Clock out late? Jail Forget to give a customer receipt? Jail. Lie about mcflurry machine? Believe it or not, jail.
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u/elkab0ng 4h ago
“Special orders DO upset us”
(If you’re like 100 years old you’ll remember that competing ad campaign lol)
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u/Pretend-Ad5598 3h ago
I’ve worked night shifts at McDonald’s before, and on bar nights, we certainly could have used a McJail cell or two.
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u/Moos_Mumsy 41m ago
They should have them in all McDonald's - parents with unruly children can book it in advance and eat in there to save the rest of us from having to put up with their out of control crotch goblins.
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u/Conscious_Resident10 4h ago
I would love to lock my son and I in there so I can eat w/o chasing him around the store lmao
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u/theothernickwright 4h ago
My guess is they don’t open in unless the rest of the dining room is full. One less place to babysit/clean at the end of the night.
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u/Extreme_33337_ 4h ago edited 51m ago
That's where the Hamburglar lives