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McDonalds Hires 62,000, Turns Away Over 938,000 Applicants For Minimum Wage, Part-Time Jobs
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2011 Apr 28, 7:35am 1,884 views 4 comments
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terriDeaner
2011 Apr 28, 7:59am
To put this in perspective, there were 13.5 million unemployed people as of March 2011 (as counted by BL&S). So about 1 in every 14 unemployed persons IN AMERICA applied for a job at McDonalds on their national hiring day, and only about 1 in 218 actually got a burger-flipping job. How fucking depressing.
This is a lot of media spin being done with numbers. The reality is that 'Big Number of Jobs Advertised' = 'Big Number of Applicants'. In reality McDs got less then 20 applicants for each job they advertised for. Wow! After national attention/advertising a whopping 20 people showed up to compete for a job. I remember back in the 90's when thousands of people turned out for 3 jobs at the Fire Department in SoCal. 333+ people per position is news. 20 is not.
HousingWatcher
2011 Apr 30, 10:08am
Fire Dept, jobs pay a lot more than McDonalds jobs. The better they pay, the more applicants you will get.
McDonalds Hires 62,000, Turns Away Over 938,000 Applicants For Minimum Wage, Part-Time Jobs
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mcdonalds-hires-62000-turns-away-over-938000-applicants-minimum-wage-part-time-jobs
That's less than 7% of all applicants. And here's the original article:
McDonald’s Hires 62,000 in National Event, 24% More Than Planned
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-28/mcdonald-s-hires-62-000-during-national-event-24-more-than-planned.html