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In reply to the discussion: OMG Get a load of the guy's reason for wanting English as the official language [View all]ieoeja
(9,748 posts)57. That would only work if you discovered a trail of documents showing McDonald's nefarious actions.
In the case of the woman who sued McDonald's, her lawyers discovered that McDonald's calculated the cost of paying off people hospitalized with burns by coffee super-heated beyond the recommended safety standards versus the cost of more coffee going bad. Having concluded that they would make more profit by hospitalizing customers, they knowingly chose to injure people.
And did so. To thousands of people. Before this policy was uncovered.
Were McDonald's a single privately owned entity, and not a limited liability corporation, the owner would go to jail for willfully injuring others. Since they are a corporation money is used as the incentive to change bad behaviour.
So for your plan to work, you will have to discover that McDonald's calculated that the cost of paying off injured Spanish speaking people was cheaper than printing the warning in Spanish. Without the conspiracy to knowingly injure people, there is no major lawsuit.
Compare this to how the local franchise owner of a Dairy Queen handled my elderly aunt. Finding herself short of money in retirement, she took a job cooking at the restaurant. The owner realized that he could take advantage of the stove tops to keep the water for gravy -- water for gravy? shudder! -- hot. My aunt pointed out that someone was going to drop that water on themselves trying to take the pan down. As coincidence would have it, it was my aunt herself who dropped the water on herself.
The owner admitted his fault and paid her medical bills and paid her for the time she missed off while recovering. And most importantly ... he changed the unsafe practice! He did the responsible thing. He was not punished. He should not have been punished.
McDonald's, on the other hand, coldly and cruely determined that there was money to be made off of hospitalizing people and chose to do the wrong thing. And for that they should have been punished.
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OMG Get a load of the guy's reason for wanting English as the official language [View all]
arely staircase
Dec 2011
OP
I'd be fine with that, but instructions on shit have come in multiple languages since
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#4
well, i disagree right back at you. you have just made some logical (though I believe wrong)
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#17
while you are undoubtedly correct to say "that doesn't mean every supporter of English as the
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#25
ok, i got confused. the other poster used the term ghetto (which to me has
arely staircase
Jan 2012
#44
I actually sigh with relief when I encounter the foreign-language sections.
Frank Cannon
Jan 2012
#42
without a doubt what the guy was saying was "i hate furners." and perry's
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#24
They should just be thankful they're pressing 1 for English. There may come a day when Americans
Erose999
Jan 2012
#55
Yeah, I'm beginning to think that's what's left, blow their unintelligible bullshit back
RKP5637
Dec 2011
#23
Not that I agree with this ignoramus, but I always imagined this happening (Warning: HUMOR)
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#33
That would only work if you discovered a trail of documents showing McDonald's nefarious actions.
ieoeja
Jan 2012
#57
SO he's opposed to exporting American made products to other countries. Allllllrighty then.........
Erose999
Jan 2012
#51
Probably confuses him ... because it takes him a long time to realize that its not English.
JoePhilly
Jan 2012
#54