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[rh71]

Meh, you are at McDonalds. You get what you deserve for eating there.

You better be joking just to look good / be funny on an internet forum. Waiting patiently for 20 minutes because of someone else's mistake earns her no credit? She got what she deserved?

 

[snoopy7548]

Actions have consequences, but the consequence should be appropriate to the action. Throwing a blender at someone's head if you had a cheeseburger thrown at you is not appropriate reaction.

If the employee had thrown a box of fries, then yes, that would be entirely appropriate...

 

[dainthomas]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes should apply here. Unfortunately she'll probably get a settlement.

 

[BudAshes]

You better be joking just to look good / be funny on an internet forum. Waiting patiently for 20 minutes because of someone else's mistake earns her no credit? She got what she deserved?

I don't think waiting patiently and throwing a burger at someone's face are likely to have occurred in the same visit. But in general, if you want bargain basement food from minimum wage employees that don't get tips, then you should expect terrible service.

 

[rh71]

I don't think waiting patiently and throwing a burger at someone's face are likely to have occurred in the same visit. But in general, if you want bargain basement food from minimum wage employees that don't get tips, then you should expect terrible service.

I don't get crappy service at fast food places ever. At worse, they mess up my order (happens ANYWHERE) but it gets corrected with a sorry and a sometimes even a smile. To say that we should EXPECT terrible service from anyone making a salary of any sort says a lot about the area you chose.

 

[zinfamous]

I wonder if our society has been desensitized to this kind of comic violence because our addiction to pointless super hero movies has inculcated within us the notion that throwing vehicles and bridges and even buildings at other people (our antagonists) always seem to result in absolutely no consequences for anyone--no one really hurt and certainly not killed, just a bit upset maybe that no differences have been resolved in that moment--that's 2 sequels away!

A blender in response to a burger seems to be following along that line..

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

I wonder if our society has been desensitized to this kind of comic violence because our addiction to pointless super hero movies has inculcated within us the notion that throwing vehicles and bridges and even buildings at other people (our antagonists) always seem to result in absolutely no consequences for anyone--no one really hurt and certainly not killed, just a bit upset maybe that no differences have been resolved in that moment--that's 2 sequels away!

.redro gnorw eht yletelpmoc ni tub ,pihsnoitaler thgir eht evah uoY

No, media does not influence us, we create it. It reflects who we already are as a society. Nobody neutral watches Fox news and turns conservative, they watch Fox news because they're already conservatives. Teenagers don't become Satanists by listing to heavy metal, they listen to heavy metal because those are the lyrics that speak to their anger and dissatisfaction with the world. Hollywood didn't wake up one day, lose their collective mind and decide to desensitize people to violence. Hollywood woke up one day, looked as a spreadsheet and saw the box office returns of violent movies and thought "hey!! people love this shit, let's make more!!"

Superhero movies are popular because that's what people want. They feel powerless, they feel downtrodden and they feel like one side of the country is taking advantage of them to help the foreigners and criminals and that they other side of the country is taking advantage of them to help the rich and powerful. Superheroes are the wish fulfillment of people who want to be the superhero. They WANT to be the person that sets things right. They WANT to be the one throwing the bus. They WANT to be able to influence the world around them and shape it the way they they think it should be. And they can't. It's not news that Superheroes were always most popular with the people that felt the most powerless. The chess team and math club dorks and the girls who felt invisible because they were not into clothes and makeup were tired of being viewed as weaklings and outsiders and hated being picked on the the more physically powerful or the more popular. They view superheroes as their champions, their better selves, who they would be if they got bitten by a radioactive spider and gained super powers. Well EVERYBODY feels that way now. Everyone is angry and wants to Hulk out and toss a bus at the idiots who make them sit through an extra red light cycle because the idiot was on their cell phone and missed the green.

 

[zinfamous]

.redro gnorw eht yletelpmoc ni tub ,pihsnoitaler thgir eht evah uoY

No, media does not influence us, we create it. It reflects who we already are as a society. Nobody neutral watches Fox news and turns conservative, they watch Fox news because they're already conservatives. Teenagers don't become Satanists by listing it heavy metal, they listen to heavy metal because those are the lyrics that speak to their anger and dissatisfaction with the world. Hollywood didn't wake up one day, lose their collective mind and decide to desensitize people to violence. Hollywood woke up one day, looked as a spreadsheet and saw the box office returns of violent movies and thought "hey!! people love this shit, let's make more!!"

Superhero movies are popular because that's what people want. They feel powerless, they feel downtrodden and they feel like one side of the country is taking advantage of them to help the foreigners and criminals and that they other side of the country is taking advantage of them to help the rich and powerful. Superheroes are the wish fulfillment of people who want to be the superhero. They WANT to be the person that sets things right. They WANT to be the one throwing the bus. They WANT to be able to influence the world around them and shape it the way they they think it should be. And they can't. It's not news that Superheroes were always most popular with the people that felt the most powerless. The chess team and math club dorks and the girls who felt invisible because they were not into clothes and makeup were tired of being viewed as weaklings and outsiders and hated being picked on the the more physically powerful or the more popular. They view superheroes as their champions, their better selves, who they got bitten by a radioactive spider and gained super powers. Well EVERYBODY feels that way now.

Well I, for one, am thrilled that you took my post more seriously than I did!

 

[Luna1968]

Yay for lawsuit happy country!

I don't know if throwing food at an employee entitles them to retaliate with a blender, but the simple point of the customer starting shit like this over food should be enough to throw it out of court instantly... But....alas... that is not the country we live in.

well the manager did cause injury by breaking a cheek bone and nose by throwing the blender at the customer. McDucks has to pay up.