Liberals are angry at actor James Franco for bursting their bubble about McDonalds

by SooperMexican

James Franco wrote an op-ed praising McDonalds for giving him his first real job, and hooo boy that drove liberals absolutely insane.

From the Free Beacon (not Bacon):

The piece, entitled “McDonald’s was there for me when no one else was,” is actually kind of delightful; I suggest you give it a read. After dropping out of UCLA, Franco needed to find work because his parents wouldn’t support him while he went to acting school. Here’s how he stumbled into the gig at Mickey D’s:

I had very little work experience. In high school, I was fired from a coffee shop for reading behind the counter and from a golf course for reading while driving the cart on the driving range. All the waiter jobs were taken by more experienced actor/waiters.

Someone asked me if I was too good to work at McDonald’s. Because I was following my acting dream despite all the pressure not to, I was definitely nottoo good to work at McDonald’s. I went to the nearest Mickey D’s and was hired the same day.

Look at what Franco is saying here: He had no experience, he wasn’t a terribly committed employee, and he needed something that literally anyone can do. McDonald’s hired him the same day. The lesson? McDonald’s is not terribly picky and frequently relies on transient, unskilled labor.

And you know what this tells us? This work isn’t worth $15 per hour. Employees who do it are, frankly, overpaid at $7.25 per hour, the current federal minimum wage. This is not because they are bad people. It’s because they are doing work that requires minimal brainpower and often entails standing around not doing a whole lot. It’s work that you can train someone to do in a single shift. Franco’s anecdotes ring true: screwing around in the drive thru window, awkward “office” romances, snatching fries right out of the oil in violation of any number of health code violations, the annoyance of dealing with families.*

I found a few people on Twitter talking about it, but mostly it was astroturf political organizations pushing for a $15 minimum wage:


https://twitter.com/Maps4Missing/status/596472618904985600

Yeah I think most people don’t care, because they know he’s right.


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