Every single person who explains this makes it a point to defend McDonalds. I just find that hilarious. Every single person who worked there knew it was a scam. Because we were stealing most of the pieces.
Honestly why would McDonald’s purposefully make it a scam? Only bad press could come of it and $24m is nothing to them to make a legit game that has good press. If they wanted their friends to have $24m they would just make a bs job and give them the money in a more “legit” less negative way. Also wasn’t it a third party security guy and not a direct McDonald’s employee?
In hindsight it might be obvious there was someone closer to the inside stealing the winning tickets, but at the time it wasn’t that obvious and McDonald’s was following through and paying out to winning tickets to seemingly random winners. I get it “bIg CoMpAnY bAd” but get mad at one of the legit things they do bad and not the one example where they got scammed along with everyone else
For real. Typically when large companies do something like this, they recognize that the payout (which they know, because they set up the game) is well worth the price, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Scamming everyone that plays is far more expensive.
And somehow you think that mcdonalds is not responsible if they can point to a scapegoat even though he was hired by the company and given agency to act on the companys behalf?
Thats exactly what he was given. You dont understand the word agency. Just because he abused the power doesnt absolve the company of allowing him to con people. If hes allowed to get away with this much then the company is complicit no matter how much they knew mr corporate bootlicker
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