{"id":8653,"date":"2014-05-22T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2014-05-22T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:22:47","slug":"mcdonaldlandgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/22\/mcdonaldlandgate\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonaldLandGate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note: We&#8217;re catching up after a few days of &#8220;actual reality before virtual reality&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Worst &#8220;-gate&#8221; scandal title ever, but we move on. So, the two McDonalds in South Boston and the one in Clarksville sent a bunch of employees packing last week. Outrage and protests followed. Let&#8217;s take a look at it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll focus first on the South Boston News &amp; Record&#8217;s coverage of this story because we can have more fun it&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovanow.com\/index.php?\/news\/article\/not_lovin_it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not lovin\u2019 it<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I think the stagehands are rolling out a Big Board for this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies can fire people for no reason at all unless it&#8217;s discriminatory by law. They can fire people for stupid reason that are unjust. I know that personally.<\/li>\n<li>Over 80% of the comments that I&#8217;ve read or heard have said that the customer service was crappy at these stores. I know for a fact that I&#8217;ve been treated poorly by at least one of those employees in the photo.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to do the media tour (which they did to booth Halifax County newspapers and WSET-TV), wouldn&#8217;t you at least dress business casual so that you would like professional? How about smiling for the camera? That News &amp; Record photo could easily be mistaken for a police lineup.<\/li>\n<li>In this article, Tom McLaughlin should be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his research. He went to the Urban Dictionary to cite a definition for the word &#8220;ratchetness&#8221;. Since McLaughlin is as white as a mayonnaise sandwich (just like me), he spelled the term incorrectly every time that he used it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next, let&#8217;s take a look at the Gazette-Virginian&#8217;s take on the story and a fresh .<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/yourgv.com\/index.php\/news\/local-news\/10359-former-workers-stunned-at-mcdonald-s-firings\" target=\"_blank\">Former workers stunned at McDonald\u2019s firings<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s racist&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">&#8230;According to Tucker, he and the other terminated employees have contacted the local chapter of NAACP to look into the matter and they plan to file a complaint with the organization&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh shut up. The NAACP isn&#8217;t going to do a damned thing with this.<\/p>\n<p>You folks have fun with the always-hilarious Facebook comment section on that article, ok?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note: We&#8217;re catching up after a few days of &#8220;actual reality before virtual reality&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Worst &#8220;-gate&#8221; scandal title ever, but we move on. 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