I remember my first job interview, and it was unbelievably nerve-racking. 15-year old me trying to make it in the world on my own two feet decided to get a job. Looking back I’m delighted I got my first working experience in such a lovely place. It doesn’t mean I wasn’t petrified going into the interview. This little girl was horribly nervous about trying to get her first job at McDonald’s and that’s understandable. What I can’t understand is how some grown man can be so disgusting as to make a young teenager feel so uncomfortable. Every time I pass that beautiful glowing yellow M, I’m filled with warm happiness and joy. Now, every time this poor girl sees a McDonald’s she gets sick to her stomach. You’re not supposed to get sick until after you’ve already eaten the McDonald’s.
A parent’s love is a fierce power; I can’t imagine how my mom or dad would’ve handled this jabroni after being utterly inappropriate during her interview. This girl is lucky to have a mother that doesn’t mess around. Below is the Facebook post the girl’s mother Rita Pryce putting the inappropriate interviewer on blast!
Burgu (Young Wattle Flower), Gananhdharr (White Heron) and Bonba (Butterfly) ready for Bunggul with our Yolngu family…
Posted by Rita Pryce on Friday, July 11, 2014
Insanely inappropriate interview.
‘Do you think you’re beautiful?’ was one of the many ridiculous questions an award-winning senior staff member of the Manoora McDonalds asked my 16yr old daughter at her FIRST ever job interview recently. YEP, McDonalds! The place where shit looks like a happy meal! Poor thing was so scared, and confused by ‘Do you think you’re beautiful?’ so she answered ‘Uhhh…I guess…yeah…’. The staff member then said ‘Well that’s what YOU make of it’ :/ Just when I was furious to hear that in the car minutes later from my daughter while she was crying – scared after feeling intimated through the entire interview, she told me about the rest of it:Him: ‘Thursday Island?? Where’s that?’
Daughter: ‘In the Torres Strait’
Him: ‘I thought an island was a piece of land floating in amongst water?’
Him: ‘What’s 2 + 2?’
Daughter: ‘4?’ (wondering why)
Him: ‘Yep, it’s 4 in our country too!’
Him: (looking at paperwork) ‘16 and still no job??’
Him: ‘How would you describe yourself?’
Daughter: ‘Bubbly…..’
Him: (interrupting) ‘Bubbly?? Should I just stop you there and end this interview?’ Bubbly? Someone who is bubbly makes a lot of mistakes. Do you make a lot of mistakes?’Daughter: (Putting her hand over her face with head back, holding her tears)
Him: ‘Are you gonna cry? You look like you’re gonna cry!’
You all know I would never let anything like this happen to my children. So before I made a formal complaint, I left my number for him to call me while he was interviewing someone else. I waited till the next afternoon and eventually went in to see him at the store. I asked for him and waited for 25 minutes in the store until someone came to recheck if I was okay. When he did finally come to speak to me, I told him I would make a complaint. I also asked how many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were employed at that store…considering it was in a highly populated area of our mob. This of course, was something he could not and did not answer. I also told him and 2 staff members over the phone, how my daughter feels sick in the stomach every time we drive past a big yellow M now. Eventually I got a phone call the other day, and was told that they spoke to the staff member who interviewed my daughter and from now on there will be more than one person doing interviews. I told the lady ringing that I’d been getting coffee from down the road at that particular McDonalds every single day for years, sometimes 3 times a day.Me: ‘Now I have to drive all the way in to town, coz I don’t wanna have to see his face as I keep picturing how upset my daughter was. We’re actually driving to town now’
Her reply: ‘Oh I’m so sorry to hear that’
Me: ‘Oh, so he’s still there’
…….. and you KNOW the reply!I was hoping this would all fade from my mind, but NAH! Those inappropriate questions left my daughter feeling sexually harassed and racially vilified. Not to mention MCDONALDS: on your website under your Vision and Values, you state: ‘We operate our business ethically’. It also mentions that ‘McDonald’s is a signatory to the Corporate Leaders for Indigenous Employment Strategy and are working to provide increased and more effective training and employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians.’
What a load of crap! Or should I say, what a load of burgers!!
#wrongmoveclown#dasmybaby#saysorry
‘Do you think you’re beautiful?’ was one of the many ridiculous questions an award-winning senior staff member of the…
Posted by Rita Pryce on Sunday, January 14, 2018
#Wrongmoveclown
Imagine someone asking your child those things at a McDonald’s interview? No shot. Not up in here! The fact that the interviewer was making things racially charged is insanity. Not only that the level of how creepy this guy sounded. She must have been so uncomfortable when the first question he asked is if she finds herself pretty? She’s 16 you sicko what does that have to do with slinging fries? I bet nobody thinks you’re pretty you 40-year old virgin power tripping fast food manager punk. I’m glad this mother stood up for her daughter but extremely disappointed this creep retained his job.
McDonalds manager under investigation following claims he bullied teen during interview asking if she thought she was 'beautiful' https://t.co/qoXA3eaLeL
— The Courier-Mail (@couriermail) January 16, 2018
I mean, this one man’s actions won’t stop me from getting my Mcnugget on but there’s no chance he should be employed. The girl is lucky to have such an awesome mom, and I hope she gets an awesome job at an opposing fast food chain, I also hope the manager at McDonald’s burns his hand deep frying the fries every day. Karma, man.