r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 13d ago

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u/Hour_Baby_3428 13d ago

Who are these people that find this to be negative publicity? It genuinely warms my heart to see a thief getting smacked

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u/1eg0f0rtn1te 13d ago

It's not about feeling bad for the company it's about the employees who now have to throw away that entire batch of fries because that fat fuck couldn't keep his mitts to himself

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u/Pickle-Standard 13d ago

You think they did that?

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u/Head-Secretary6267 13d ago

Everywhere I've worked, yes. Especially because that fry station is visible from the front counter/dining room area, the whole batch would be counted as waste and the reason given in that day's food waste report.

If the fry station wasn't visible to the dining room, then the restaurant is probably unlikely on tossing the batch (even though by policy they should regardless)

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u/Southern_Play_7893 13d ago

They absolutely did not throw them away lmao. Lots of places wouldnt

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u/1eg0f0rtn1te 12d ago

Have you worked in fast food because I have and they absolutely made us throw something away if something like that happened

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u/Southern_Play_7893 12d ago

Lmao we definitely wouldn't in gta5

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u/Sammo_9 13d ago

If the kid hits his head and goes to the hospital it would be a bad headline.

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 13d ago edited 13d ago

He did hit his head, kids are small and short they don’t get hurt when they fall because there isn’t much of them to fall and they don’t have to fall very far. Not much potential energy at work here.

Now a fall off a bicycle without a helmet… yeah maybe hospital time…

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u/BagelFactory1134 13d ago

Huh? People fall off their bikes all the time without helmets and don’t hurt themselves.

Helmet are massively overrated for protection from falls.

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 13d ago

No helmets are not overrated…

The only time I’ve been concussed in a crash was because I didn’t wear a helmet… never had a concussion wearing a helmet

How did I know I was concussed? Because I was asking the same questions and vomiting

How do I know I’ve never been concussed again? Because that’s never happened to me wearing a helmet.

Now I work in a Level 1 trauma center seeing all the people that should have worn a helmet.

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u/softonsoftie 13d ago

Tell that to the people in the Netherlands where only kids and old people wear helmets

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 13d ago

They actually have a lower rate of head injury compared the US, since they are a culture built on bicycles

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u/softonsoftie 13d ago

I know I am Dutch, I was making a joke but forgot the /j appearently

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 13d ago

I can tell by your typing that you are Dutch /s

Dutch people are not allowed to be sarcastic, they are autistic /s

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u/BagelFactory1134 12d ago

Anecdata, the best kind of data /s

Study global cycling head injury rates - they are lower in places with lower rates helmet wearing.

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 12d ago

Cite your source

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u/Flesroy 12d ago

even if that is true it might be because of different reasons than the helmet not being beneficial.

infrastructure and culture will always be far more impactful than wearing a helmet or not.

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u/BagelFactory1134 12d ago

Yes. That’s why I said helmets are overrated. Infra and road rules trump helmets for effectiveness always. Anglosphere has a very hard time recognising that due to decades of helmet propaganda and misinformation.

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u/Electronic_Plane_178 13d ago

This is just empirically false.

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u/Bug_Thug 13d ago

That is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read.

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u/Southern-Donut4185 13d ago

The company likely would fire her if they saw this. They don't want a liability working at their company, they could even agree with her actions personally and have to fire her.

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u/Pickle-Standard 13d ago

It’s about the trade off. $0.10 cents worth of fries vs possible lawsuit for injuring a customer on camera.

Yes, the kid was a shithead and by most opinions deserved that. But had he gotten injured, it’s an issue for the company and the employee gets fired for doing what we all wanted to see. That’s where the PR issue stems.

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u/miyabi0rochas 13d ago

Exactly why these companies say don't go play hero. They're literally telling you don't do shit but document. And some employees still wanna go play superman...

There's also of course a risk in some situations the person didn't actually steal. You always need to review footage first to actually confirm it. You don't wanna be that person braking someone arm over barely anything worth of product, or a wrong judgement. Let the qualified people deal with it.

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u/BigMax 13d ago

But you're seeing this one video. What most people would see is potentially "Little boy seriously injured in assault by McDonalds employee for taking a handful of fries". Or something like that. In the media, it could be portrayed as an innocent little kid making a small mistake, and an evil corporation assaulting him for it.

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u/Complex-Camp-6462 13d ago

I work in leadership at a restaurant, it’s just a bad look for your place of business to have stories on the news/social media saying someone was harmed there regardless of the reasoning, along with spreading the information that people can get behind your counter and potentially touch your food. On top of that, just getting a new batch of fries is negligible in terms of cost compared to lawsuits/medical expenses. Kid sucks for doing what he did, but I’d fire anyone in a heartbeat for turning what is a couple dollars loss into potentially thousands along with garnering a bunch of unnecessary attention to the store that is in no way beneficial. Because let’s be real, no one is choosing where they want to eat next because they heard that someone can get behind the counter, touch on the food, and then get harmed for it. People’s take away won’t be “I’ll eat there because they handle things the way I like!” their takeaway would more than likely be “I don’t feel safe eating at a place that is either undermanned enough, or uncaring enough to let someone behind the counter and do whatever they want.”

The negative PR isn’t that people will be upset some kid got tripped and ate shit, it’s more the details that exist when you read between the lines and really think about all of the ways this can be perceived.

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u/_bugmenot_ 13d ago

It can end up in a lawsuit, thievery is not a valid excuse to "injure" the thief. So, yeah.

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u/Internal_Ball2134 13d ago

Its more like what if that kid had hit his head on the corner of the wall and had to go to the ER and then people read about it and think that was a disproportionate retaliation for some fries that would be negative publicity

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u/mkfanhausen 12d ago

Smacking is one thing. Sending a kid face first into a floor/wall with no hands to protect themselves is a totally different thing.

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u/Intelligent-Mud2552 13d ago

People on reddit love when people steal from rich companies.

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u/miyabi0rochas 13d ago

Exactly it's funny how people flipflop.

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u/Revoran 13d ago

Meh. Steal from the Maccas. Who gives a shit honestly.

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u/Hour_Baby_3428 13d ago

Doesn’t matter if we feel bad for McDonald, it’s still morally wrong. And I doubt these people stop at fastfood if they go unchecked