McDonald's employee decided to etch Swastika symbol, customer offended, McDonald's fire employee
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[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;45659202]If you consider it a high standard to not be a fucking idiot who draws a swastika on a bun then I don't know what to say[/QUOTE]
all it really takes is a little boredom from some teenager.
"how can i make this even a little interesting for me personally"
*draws a swastika*
"heh"
*goes back to work*
[QUOTE=Atlascore;45659239]Did a swastika piss in your cereal this morning? You're getting way too mad at this, it was just some dumb teenager drawing a butter swastika on a fast food biscuit, there's no need to spend two pages raging at people.[/QUOTE]
I literally wouldn't care if this happened to me personally. But it didn't happen to me, it happened to someone else and they have the right to get offended (and rightly offended in many ways), damaging the reputation of the company. Therefore, they are justified firing this guy and giving his job to someone who takes their job a tiny bit more seriously and doesn't damage the companies reputation.
Would the same thing happen if one were to draw a Nazi eagle on a bun?
Oh right.
[QUOTE=NixNax123;45658838]The swastika is originally (and largely) a religious symbol meaning peace. Would they fire someone if they etched a cross into a bun?[/QUOTE]
this excuse is garbage
[QUOTE=_Axel;45659285]Would the same thing happen if one were to draw a Nazi eagle on a bun?
Oh right.[/QUOTE]
A swastika has obvious connotations. A poorly drawn eagle does not.
[QUOTE=_Axel;45659285]Would the same thing happen if one were to draw a Nazi eagle on a bun?
Oh right.[/QUOTE]
If somebody tried googling what it was and found out, it probably would lead to much the same thing.
[editline]11th August 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;45659294]this excuse is garbage[/QUOTE]
Your avatar fits so great with your post and this thread.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45659061]swastika definition[/QUOTE]
that's real fucking neato but there's no conceivable way he was using it in that sense
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;45659309]that's real fucking neato but there's no conceivable way he was using it in that sense[/QUOTE]
I wasn't trying to apply that to what happened in the incident, I was just trying to point out that the symbol has more connotations than 'hurr Nazi Germany'.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45659318]I wasn't trying to apply that to what happened in the incident, I was just trying to point out that the symbol has more connotations than 'hurr Nazi Germany'.[/QUOTE]
Dude everyone has heard the 'Hindu peace symbol' excuse before
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45659296]If somebody tried googling what it was and found out, it probably would lead to much the same thing.[/QUOTE]
I guess nobody would give two shits anyway because it could also be a patriotic symbol in America.
I found it quite funny that McDonald's fired the employee afterwards as well. It's like there's no denying the swastika is an oppressive symbol when it's the reason you lost your job.
Obviously this kid was trying to spread his nazi beliefs through his victims ingesting that very ideology.
In all seriousness I used to draw swastikas on people's notebooks all the time. I suppose I should never be hired anywhere, ever. Seriously though this lady just needs to calm the shit down-
[QUOTE=_Axel;45659341]I guess nobody would give two shits anyway because it could also be a patriotic symbol in America.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/1297px-Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png[/t]
Are you sure?
[QUOTE=gokiyono;45659383][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/1297px-Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png[/t]
Are you sure?[/QUOTE]
Whoops.
Welp, only keep the eagle and you're good to go :v:
[QUOTE=gokiyono;45659383][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/1297px-Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png[/t]
Are you sure?[/QUOTE]
Well...
[img]http://llnw.wbez.org/main-images/Marquette%20monument.JPG[/img]
Yes that is a real plaque in Chicago.
Erected by this chap: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hale_Thompson[/url]
why's everybody acting like a bored highschooler drawing swastikas (and probably dicks, 666, swears, etc) where nobody's going to see them is out of the ordinary
it's dumb subject matter but it isn't like Eva Braun was working the fryers
[QUOTE=gokiyono;45659383][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/1297px-Reichsadler_der_Deutsches_Reich_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png[/t]
Are you sure?[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/snT7210.png[/t]
Yes.
[QUOTE=Mr. Jelly;45659066]I'm confused
what's wrong with thousand island?[/QUOTE]
The taste.
[QUOTE=Gentry;45659208]intent[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah I won't try to pretend he wasn't drawing a Nazi symbol on purpose.
But I just meant that the basic shape 卐, with no context, isn't a "Nazi swastika" or a "Hindu swastika", it's just a swastika.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;45659548]Oh yeah I won't try to pretend he wasn't drawing a Nazi symbol on purpose.
But I just meant that the basic shape 卐, with no context, isn't a "Nazi swastika" or a "Hindu swastika", it's just a swastika.[/QUOTE]
yeah, the thing is unless you figure it out for yourself on the internet, most people learn about WWII waaaaaay before they start getting into world religions (in college, if at all), so it's literally the only use of it people see. It's synonymous, it's like it represents a word of its own, instead of acting as a commonly shared shape like stars, the crescent moon, arrows/triangles, and other stuff you see representing countries and ideologies
[QUOTE=Fort83;45659629]What if someone is actually religiously Hindu and uses it in the Hindu version? There are some pretty obvious differences in the nazi version and the Hindu one.[/QUOTE]
Except the guy who did it in this case was probably just looking for shock value and the consequent cheap laugh. Joke's on him, though, since it backfired spectacularly.
You'd still have to be careful about that kind of thing, it could very easily be taken the wrong way.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45659645]Except the guy who did it in this case was probably just looking for shock value and the consequent cheap laugh. Joke's on him, though, since it backfired spectacularly.
You'd still have to be careful about that kind of thing, it could very easily be taken the wrong way.[/QUOTE]
there's no expected shock value if you think people aren't looking at the underside of their bun for butter symbology. It's probably something he regularly did to pass the time and provide the needed coverage
[quote]This anti-Semitic symbol was used by the Nazi party in Germany during the Holocaust[/quote]
There are so many things wrong with this sentence
Thoughts on drawing a dick in your taco wrappers and then going back through the Taco Bell drive thru and claiming that somebody drew dicks in your wrappers to get free tacos?
The employee is a bit of an immature bugger, so he got what was coming to him. I still can't help but look at the woman funny for her reaction.
So, long ago, I was bored out of my mind in a math class so I started doodling on my book cover. I had recently discovered graph paper and was going through mental exercises in symmetry. I thought the repeating "L" shape was kinda neato and drew it all over the place.
Then my teacher sees it and has a fit. I find myself waiting in the office to discuss it with my teacher, principal, and parents. It was determined that since I had never even heard of a "fucking Hitler" (parent's words) that my teacher was an idiot, and all returned to normal.
I didn't get interested in history for another few years, and even after I found out about WWII, Nazi's, the Holocaust, and modern skinhead jackoffs... I still think that teacher was being reactionary and way over dramatic.
It's a stupid stick figure and that folks are still hanging a specific emotional attachment to a widely used and easy to conceptualize figure when there are only a handful of people left alive from that era, is half retarded. Not full retard though. That would be the asshat white superiority guys. Their stupidity must never be understated.
[QUOTE=tirpider;45660927]So, long ago, I was bored out of my mind in a math class so I started doodling on my book cover. I had recently discovered graph paper and was going through mental exercises in symmetry. I thought the repeating "L" shape was kinda neato and drew it all over the place.
Then my teacher sees it and has a fit. I find myself waiting in the office to discuss it with my teacher, principal, and parents. It was determined that since I had never even heard of a "fucking Hitler" (parent's words) that my teacher was an idiot, and all returned to normal.
I didn't get interested in history for another few years, and even after I found out about WWII, Nazi's, the Holocaust, and modern skinhead jackoffs... I still think that teacher was being reactionary and way over dramatic.
It's a stupid stick figure and that folks are still hanging a specific emotional attachment to a widely used and easy to conceptualize figure when there are only a handful of people left alive from that era, is half retarded. Not full retard though. That would be the asshat white superiority guys. Their stupidity must never be understated.[/QUOTE]
reminds me of the time i had return my biology book back to my teacher and he said he wouldn't take it unless i had erase the markings on the front pages first (which wasn't me)
and then after i erased all the marks i went to page 69,420, and 666 and then drew a bunch of dicks
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;45660646]Thoughts on drawing a dick in your taco wrappers and then going back through the Taco Bell drive thru and claiming that somebody drew dicks in your wrappers to get free tacos?[/QUOTE]
Dicks aren't enough, you need Swastacos.
[QUOTE=Tacosheller;45658991]The swastika's the symbol of the Holocaust, dude. If you think "hey let's put the symbol of a genocide on a burger" is funny, [b]you must find the genocide itself funny as well.[/b] If you don't think it's funny, don't make jokes about it.[/QUOTE]
Y'know, while I can't argue that what he did wasn't pretty dumb, this is a bit of a stretch. I mean it's a bored teenager working at mcdonalds. I doubt the thought of making a joke even crossed his mind he probably just decides to start drawing shapes on the burgers and being a dumb teenager drew that one.
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