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Please. Joel did not write that ALL McDonald workers are idiots. He wrote that McDonald created process that anyone can follow to create a burger which has cert

Please. Joel did not write that ALL McDonald workers are idiots. He wrote that McDonald created process that anyone can follow to create a burger which has certain taste. To quote Joel, "The rules have been carefully designed by reasonably intelligent people (back at McDonald's Hamburger University) so that dumdums can follow them just as well as smart people." (emphasis mine)

ekanes 17y ago
You're missing the point over a technicality. Yes, while he didn't say that all McDonald's workers are idiots, you don't write sentences like this if you're saying it's like any other workplace, with it's share of smarties and dumdums, to use his term. If it's like any other workplace, it's not noteworthy for his essay and he wouldn't have brought it up. (worked there for a year, age 13)
- solutionyogi 17y ago
  No, I am not. The OP wrote 'continually calling McDonald's workers idiots' and Joel didn't write anywhere in the article that McDonald's workers are idiots.
  - mikeryan 17y ago
    Maybe I'm paraphrasing or reading too much into it, but this line implies as much "The other secret of Big Macs is that you can have an IQ that hovers somewhere between "idiot" and "moron" (to use the technical terms) and you'll still be able to produce Big Macs that are exactly as unsurprising as all the other Big Macs in the world."
    - solutionyogi 17y ago
      Let's read the sentence again. ""The other secret of Big Macs is that you can have an IQ that hovers somewhere between "idiot" and "moron" He did not say that you must have an IQ of an idiot or moron to work at McDonald. He said that even if you have IQ of an idiot or moron, you can make a Big Mac which tastes like other Big Macs in the world. It's a big difference.
      - mikeryan 17y ago
        You can read it as many ways and with inflection wherever you like. But even if the insult is indirect, I don't think most would feel better when told they "could" be an idiot as opposed to they "are" one. For me he could have made a more compelling argument without ever using the terms "dumdum", "idiot" or "moron".

ekanes 17y ago

You're missing the point over a technicality. Yes, while he didn't say that all McDonald's workers are idiots, you don't write sentences like this if you're saying it's like any other workplace, with it's share of smarties and dumdums, to use his term. If it's like any other workplace, it's not noteworthy for his essay and he wouldn't have brought it up. (worked there for a year, age 13)

solutionyogi 17y ago
No, I am not. The OP wrote 'continually calling McDonald's workers idiots' and Joel didn't write anywhere in the article that McDonald's workers are idiots.
- mikeryan 17y ago
  Maybe I'm paraphrasing or reading too much into it, but this line implies as much "The other secret of Big Macs is that you can have an IQ that hovers somewhere between "idiot" and "moron" (to use the technical terms) and you'll still be able to produce Big Macs that are exactly as unsurprising as all the other Big Macs in the world."
  - solutionyogi 17y ago
    Let's read the sentence again. ""The other secret of Big Macs is that you can have an IQ that hovers somewhere between "idiot" and "moron" He did not say that you must have an IQ of an idiot or moron to work at McDonald. He said that even if you have IQ of an idiot or moron, you can make a Big Mac which tastes like other Big Macs in the world. It's a big difference.
    - mikeryan 17y ago
      You can read it as many ways and with inflection wherever you like. But even if the insult is indirect, I don't think most would feel better when told they "could" be an idiot as opposed to they "are" one. For me he could have made a more compelling argument without ever using the terms "dumdum", "idiot" or "moron".