THE DAILY BLADE: Is This One Of Those Jobs That “Americans Won’t Do?”: Part XVI
Even though the health benefits offered by McDonald's don't meet ObamaCare standards (fourth item), fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp. hired 24 percent more people than planned during its first national hiring day April 19th, Bloomberg News reports:
McDonald’s and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said today in an e-mailed statement. Previously, it said it planned to hire 50,000.
NBC-TV (channel 5, Chicago) reports that “[a] McJob looked mighty appealing” to the 75,000 job-seekers who applied for 2,000 Chicago-area positions”:
The openings were for full- and part-time restaurant crew and management positions, which translate to about three or four new hires per store. Applicants were asked to apply at franchises or online. …
For the 73,000 that didn't land a new job with the company, the hiring isn't over.
Restaurant managers expect to boost staffing in the future, the company said.
And with unemployment at 12.7 percent in the Sacramento area “fast-food jobs looked particularly inviting” to job-seekers who “lined up before dawn Tuesday and crowded McDonald's restaurants across the region late into the afternoon on the restaurant chain's national hiring day,” The Sacramento Bee reports:
The fast-food chain hoped to hire 50,000 employees for its more than 14,000 U.S. locations, including about 600 employees at its 165 sites in the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto area Tuesday.
That averages to less than three jobs per outlet nationally, although some local sites said they were planning to hire as many as 15.
That mattered little to Jason Scott of Sacramento. He just needed one.
Scott, 24, a cook and a recent transplant from Washington, D.C., had hopscotched half the city by midafternoon, filling out applications, waiting in lines, looking for work since 7:30 a.m. at one of the few places hanging the help-wanted sign. …
Scott hoped he had a leg up. He worked five years at McDonald's in Washington, D.C.
"I hope to show I can bring something to the table here," he said. "Hopefully, I can win here and get a job."
McDonald's didn't have a complete count on how many applicants showed up Tuesday, but so many arrived on some local McDonald's doorsteps that restaurant owners were nearly overwhelmed.
"At one point, we had 120 people outside the door, but we were able to get all 120 interviewed," said Courtney Ristuben at her Citrus Heights location on Sunrise Boulevard and Old Auburn Road. …
McDonald's and other fast-food chains, once a first job for teenagers, appear to be turning into an employer of more adults: The average age of a fast-food worker is 29.5, up from 22 in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
An immigration raid temporarily closed eight Pei Wei Asian Diner locations in Maricopa County, AZ, while managers “scrambled to hire replacement workers.” Hundreds of people “lined up for those jobs,” reports AZFamily.com, suggesting that job-seekers who didn’t snag one of the McDonald’s spots should head on over to Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants - forced to fire “hundreds” of illegals employed in its restaurants in MN after ICE audited its I-9 forms - and Chuy's restaurants in AZ and CA, which also fired unlawfully employed workers after an ICE raid.
In Memoriam
Madelyn Pugh Davis, March 15, 1921 — April 20, 2011
William A. Rusher, July 19, 1923 – April 16, 2011
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