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"Some way to treat a little kid..."

Now shame on me for judging, because I know NOTHING about parenting. But surely people should know better than this:


I've been working at MacDonalds over Christmas holidays.

The other day, I was working in the dining area, cleaning up after the messiest mofo's on the planet (I mean, you sometimes wonder if they actually EAT anything...) and wiped a table that some kids were sitting on.
One of the girls (aged between about 5-7 I'd guess) started trying to help me by wiping it with her hands.

Her mum went mental.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!? ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING?!? THAT'S AN EIGHTY FIVE POUND COAT!!!"


I was thinking, are you stupid or something?
First off, spending £85 on a coat? I know I wouldn't.
Secondly, how's a kid supposed to appreciate something like that. I mean I won't go as far to say that they wouldn't care what sort of coat they were wearing, because if it was really tatty then they wouldn't like it. But £85?
Lastly, it's cruel. Loading them with a responsibility? Stopping them from having fun and being themselves. For a coat that they probably didn't even choose to have and doesn't really mean that much to them anyway?


Now shame on me for judging, because I'm not a parent but...

:-S!

gerbil man wrote:
> £85 isn't that much for a coat.

Yep, if that coat lasts for 3 years then you will get 1096 days of use. This roughly works out to 0.08p per day, which is pretty much nothing.

£85 isn't that much for a coat.

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> I feel sorry for that kid. They're going to grow up with low self
> esteem; being punished for something which isn't particulary wrong is
> a bad way to go about being raised.

that kid's going to be a townie anyway.

Worse was the time I saw an angry woman kick her schoolkid hard enough to launch him into the car from outside, then speed off angrily, nearly hitting a car as she went.

By "worse" I meant "funnier".

I feel sorry for that kid. They're going to grow up with low self esteem; being punished for something which isn't particulary wrong is a bad way to go about being raised.

SHEEPY wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> I was in a McDonalds once, and one of the staff went for a customer
> over the counter. Seriously. Packed Saturday afternoon, and she
> went over the counter, screaming at him. Everyone looked, and she
> was carted off. About ten minutes later they put up a sign saying
> "TODAY'S SPECIAL: Screaming Harpee Burger, one hour only".
>
> Haha, took me awhile to get that. Heh, least it would be something
> fresh in McDonalds.

No no, that actually happened. Well, the burger bit didn't, but the screaming harpee girl bit did.

I couldn't work in a MacDonalds. My friends tell me not to be so picky and to get a job, I tell them where they can go.

monkey_man wrote:
> I was in a McDonalds once, and one of the staff went for a customer
> over the counter. Seriously. Packed Saturday afternoon, and she
> went over the counter, screaming at him. Everyone looked, and she
> was carted off. About ten minutes later they put up a sign saying
> "TODAY'S SPECIAL: Screaming Harpee Burger, one hour only".

Haha, took me awhile to get that. Heh, least it would be something fresh in McDonalds.

Infact i'm not going to let my kids near MCDonalds or Burgerking as they are not things that i eat. (plus my kids will be in the factory for 16 hours a day)

I was in a McDonalds once, and one of the staff went for a customer over the counter. Seriously. Packed Saturday afternoon, and she went over the counter, screaming at him. Everyone looked, and she was carted off. About ten minutes later they put up a sign saying "TODAY'S SPECIAL: Screaming Harpee Burger, one hour only".