So Bad It's Good FoRuM
https://sbig.dead-donkey.com/

Guantanamo-based McDonald's seeks applicants
https://sbig.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=15677
Page 1 of 1

Author:  Pure [ Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Guantanamo-based McDonald's seeks applicants

MIAMI - Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba - serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay.

The help wanted ad popped up recently at the McVirginia.com careers Web site featuring the Golden Arches, a headline "Find a Career (at) McDonald's" and this enticement: "Enjoy the perks."

It didn't specify salary but said, "Candidates must have restaurant management experience, possess a valid United States passport and be willing to relocate to Cuba."

Other incentives include half your rent paid and, potentially, tax-free status for year-round residents.

Apparently no special security clearances are necessary for the job that requires you to both live and work on the 45-square-mile base of some 6,000 residents. Customers include sailors and their families, at last count 215 war-on-terror captives and their guards, as well as hundreds of Jamaican and Filipino guest workers.

"This restaurant has been there since 1986 and is independently owned and operated by a McDonald's franchisee," McDonald's USA spokeswoman Danya Proud said by e-mail from Oak Brook, Ill.

Frozen fries and burgers arrive by barge from Jacksonville, Fla. Early on, prison camp commanders said they allowed interrogators to bring Big Macs and fries as incentives for cooperation - a kinder, gentler concept than the screeching heavy metal music that was blasted at times to soften up suspected hardened al-Qaida fighters.

Now, with the goal to empty the place, captives cleared by the courts and segregated in a special compound called Camp Iguana can get takeout orders, brought by guards.

In one noteworthy omission, the ad does not mention Guantanamo by name.

"The job listing states this restaurant is located on the United States Naval base in Cuba, which is where this restaurant is located," Proud said.

How many had applied so far?

The spokeswoman would not say.

From:
AZCentral.com

Page 1 of 1 All times are UTC + 1 hour [ DST ]
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
https://www.phpbb.com/