Trump's campaign sent him to McDonald's because of Harris having worked there in college. Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald's, in large part because the job wasn't listed on her later resume for a legal job.
I don't often get jobs with a resume, but is it uncommon to drop low level and irrelevant jobs from your resume?
I dont think the IT firm i'm applying to cares if i worked at walmart in high school....
It common practice to curate your resume to the job you're applying for, you can smell the bullshit drifting off this one
You absolutely want to drop irrelevant jobs from your resume. You're spot on.
Trump's just mad because she's actually worked real jobs before, and he hasn't.
Cut out any experience that isn't relevant and is too old.
That being said, I did hire someone for a tech support position because he'd done five years at a McDonald's, which meant he was used to dealing with people.
I've had around 15 jobs since i was in high school, across multiple states with moves, some of them pretty brief when i found better opportunities, several in fast food, retail, and factory labor. I do not list any of them on my resume as a data engineer.
Nobody cares or wants to see your entire work history as a student. They want to see your professional work experience that is relevant to your desired roles. Hell I have even made multiple versions of my resume with different jobs listed or delisted depending on the field I was applying for.
But on none of them do i put that in worked at Burger King at 16 years old for 4 months, nor the better paying job I got at a Steak n Shake as a server where I worked until I left for college. I don't list my shitty campus dining court dishwasher job, or my Sam's Club Cafe job I had at College either. Now I have listed my programmer internship from this time though, even though I don't list the seasonal Gamestop job and the chicken processing jobs i had afterwards, because programming is relevant... chicken cutting is not. Just because there are gaps doesn't mean I wasn't working. I was far too broke not to.
It is common to omit short-term or less relevant experience from a résumé and to prioritize including jobs that are longer-term or more field specific to what you are applying for. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If McDonald’s corporate was not directly involved with this stunt, perhaps they’ll clarify if Harris did indeed work for them in order to lessen the negative perception of Trump using their franchise.
Your pre-career jobs become less and less relevant as you get more experience. Once your career experience is sufficient for the jobs you are applying for all those pre-career jobs do is take up precious space on your resume and distract from the skills that actually set you apart from other job candidates.
I stopped putting McDonald's on my resume as soon as I stopped being a "college new hire".
Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald's, in large part because the job wasn't listed on her later resume for a legal job.
This man doesn't know how resumes or jobs work.
Why would he?
He also couldn't get hired at McDonalds for real.
They don't hire convicted felons IIRC.
A group of Republicans and conservatives who have consistently opposed Trump, called the Lincoln Project, also added, "Good practice for his next job in the prison kitchen."
Well, dayam.
Did McDonald’s corporate agree to this political stunt? Or was it just one specific location that agreed for him to come in?
One specific franchise location and they were closed to customers during the visit with the staged customers all vetted by USSS and having gone through a rehearsal ahead of time to practice what they were going to do.
Someone else I just read compared this to a make-a-wish® activity.
More like that time Michael Jackson paid to have a grocery store shut down for the day and filled with his friends and family as customers just so he could feel what it's like to be a normal person.
trump is dying, and it was his last wish to see where the hamberders come from.
I feel bad for the workers there. You see so many examples in the past of people meeting the President in "normal" situations and how it's an experience of a lifetime to remember. I guess this still will be something to remember, but not in the way others have been.
"I once helped this old guy through a shift in fast food."
"Yeah, how was that?"
"Terrible. He couldn't understand basic stuff like cooking fries. I had to help him do everything. Oh, he was a former President too."
I doubt even a few years ago when Carter was still building houses for people, no one had to walk him through stuff even more complex than cooking fries. Granted he's had experience working for decades. Can you imagine Trump with a hammer or a power tool?
Totally. He's mocking them on a number of different levels, and it's extra fucked up:
There's like a dozen more I could pick out, but these are just the most egregious.
It was entirely staged. Apologies in advance for the Reddit link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g88apd/it_was_all_staged_trump_did_not_work_mcdonalds/
Of course. They're all staged. His barbershop bullshit last week was the same thing.
it's not an actual representation of all the bullshit and hard work the people working there have to deal with
This is the one thing from the list I think many* people don't understand. Unless you've worked in some sort of retail environment, it's hard to relate to the shitshow they can be.
*I say many because I have no idea how many people have had a touch of the wonderful world of retail. Maybe a lot have, and some people just are assholes anyway afterwards.
If you've ever seen someone like a reality TV personality or aging pop star try to start a restaurant, this is that exact same thing. There's always some SUPER awkward PR footage of these folks working someone else's job at this new business and trying to show they understand it. They have zero fucking clue. Most recent I can think of was the Eminem fried chicken restaurant he started. So bad.
He's really fixated on the Harris/McDonald's thing. I honestly think with his cognitive decline, he can't comfortably conceive something he loves and something he hates overlapping like this. I know that sounds insane, but let's remember who we're talking about.
He mentions it all the time.
He couldn't even make fries. The kid walked him through the easiest thing ever, clearest instructions ever, has obviously been teaching people. Trump still fucked it up. Kid tells him to put them slowly in the oil and trump tries to put it on the hanger. The kid had to grab his hands and pull him away to get him to actually put the fries in the oil.
Even worse than putting it on the hanger—which I could excuse as a first-timer mistake—he was told like 5 times that you don’t need to shake them when they’re done cooking, you just drain them. He took some out and shook, and the trainer corrected him and showed him again how to drain them, then just 10 seconds later Trump is shaking another basket and dumps it out without draining it.
Doing fast food work when your are famous as a publicity stunt is desperate. One day as a pampered trainee with someone shadowing you all day is no where near the same as living day in and day out working a minimum wage fast food job, serving up shit food for customers that treat you like shit.
If i pulled up to someone doing this id laugh and ask "wtf is this" and tell them how it is. You fundamentally can't live the fast food experience when you have billions and fast food employees are trying to figure out how to get by when they make minimum wage and never get enough hours to get any benefits.
But that wasn't even what happened. The store was closed lmao. He made a batch of fries and fucked off. I honestly can't believe he even agreed to this outside of that he probably got free McDonald's.
This mcdonald's was not owned by mcdonald's. It was a franchisee who owned the restaurant. One that has actively publicly campaigned against increasing the minimum wage. Now you know why it was allowed to happen there
I'm just going to go ahead and avoid McDonald's now
He will forever be McDonald Trump to me now, what an excellent PR backfire
This is one for the history books that people won't believe is real lol.
Rage and reaction .... it's the only thing he's got going for him at this point
Just keep shit posting to the world and keep everyone talking about him in whatever context or situation ... it doesn't matter as long as we're talking about him.
And we are .... the campaign is working ... expect more shitposting, stupidity and insanity in the weeks to come.
Turnip may be dumb ... but we're all equally stupid for putting up with him and watching this dumpster fire and endlessly talking about it.
And yes ... I am guilty of it all too.
Dress him up in a fireman hat, let him honk a truck horn, unwrap and rewrap a cheeseburger at a closed restaurant.
Grandpa is all gone
"So why do you think you would be a good fit for a vice president?"
"Well, I worked in McDonald's three decades ago so..."
Because sane people definitely put a McDonald's job from their youth in their political career resume
I already don't eat there and now I wish I could eat there less; that man is gross.
Man I hate these fucking headlines. The race is insanely close and news headlines like this aren't helping that. It just helps reinforce Trump's narrative that media outlets are irrationally out to smear him.
Fake, like his fake union workers ad and his fake-patriotic chinese-made merch.
He looks tired in the photo. And sad
Tired. SAD!
Anyways...
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