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Posted: 8/27/2016 10:38:51 AM EDT
NEEDHAM (CBS) – A woman with Down syndrome who has worked at the same McDonald’s for over three decades is retiring. Freia David has spent 32 years working at the french fry station at the McDonald’s on Chestnut Street in Needham. She lives in a Charles River Center-supported home in Needham. The center is a Needham nonprofit that provides employment, job training and housing for nearly 1,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities. McDonald’s was one of the center’s first local business partners. View Quote |
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Good for her and good on McDonalds. I hate the food, but McDonalds does some good things.
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At my old job at UMD we had a mentally disabled guy that washed the buses.
Fun enough guy to be around, and he took pride in what he did. Probably still there now that I think about it |
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Good for her!
All we have is illegals that barely speak English. |
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Angering to see a legit disabled person contributing while millions of able bodied people sit back and collect SSD and welfare.
Good for her though. |
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Quoted: Now imagine the same article, but about a non-disabled persons retiring from McDonald's. GD would be derisive as fuck. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Good for her! Now imagine the same article, but about a non-disabled persons retiring from McDonald's. GD would be derisive as fuck. Why? Happens all the time, it's just a non-story. |
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Hopefully she still gets to have lots of social interaction with others at the Charles River center. She has had a job that has kept her engaged in society and the world for 32 years, she still needs something.
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NEEDHAM (CBS) – A woman with Down syndrome who has worked at the same McDonald’s for over three decades is retiring.
Freia David has spent 32 years working at the french fry station at the McDonald’s on Chestnut Street in Needham. She lives in a Charles River Center-supported home in Needham. The center is a Needham nonprofit that provides employment, job training and housing for nearly 1,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities. McDonald’s was one of the center’s first local business partners. View Quote View Quote Good for her. |
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Mentally handicapped guy at the Mickey D's in my town, Mike, has been there over twenty.
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Angering to see a legit disabled person contributing while millions of able bodied people sit back and collect SSD and welfare. Good for her though. View Quote Too bad she had Downs and not restless leg syndrome or something that required treatment with a therapy pet and SSDI check. |
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Negros better watch out, mildly retarded white people will put you out of work.
I keed. Good for her and her parents. You know her parents had to support her in that without a doubt. |
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Was in a McDonalds years ago waiting in line and there was employee mopping the floor who clearly had Down's Syndrome.
There was a typical fat-assed female fast food manager present. This manager's young daughter was sitting at one of the tables near the front counter, too young to be left unattended. Obviously a bring-the-kid-to-work situation because she couldn't find someone to watch her that day. The manager had leave to do something and asked the employee to watch her kid. He kept mopping and told her he wasn't her father. Don't assume they are all dumb and unaware of their surroundings. |
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Some of the hardest workers I have known has been handicapped.
Mean while, able bodied youths are too busy killing each other and using their EBT cards. |
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Probably getting a big pension check too. View Quote And there's a good chance she's a millionaire. McDonald's, being a typical, evil, American capitalist business has a very generous 401(k) plan which is designed to encourage all employees but especially lower wage employees to contribute. A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation says that if she averaged $7/hour and contributed the minimum to maximize MCD's match (4%+4% match) she's worth roughly $250,000. MCD also has a generous profit sharing plan which, depending on it's implementation, could have boosted her returns by a factor of 18. And that, my friends, is how investing works. So simple...well, you know. |
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Now imagine the same article, but about a non-disabled persons retiring from McDonald's. GD would be derisive as fuck. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Good for her! Now imagine the same article, but about a non-disabled persons retiring from McDonald's. GD would be derisive as fuck. Working to ones fullest potential > working at ones least potential. |
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NEEDHAM (CBS) – A woman with Down syndrome who has worked at the same McDonald’s for over three decades is retiring.
Freia David has spent 32 years working at the french fry station at the McDonald’s on Chestnut Street in Needham. She lives in a Charles River Center-supported home in Needham. The center is a Needham nonprofit that provides employment, job training and housing for nearly 1,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities. McDonald’s was one of the center’s first local business partners. View Quote View Quote I can believe that. Many years ago when I worked at a McDs they had a woman who worked lunches at the fry station. She wasn't very smart but she showed up for every shift and worked her ass off. Nice older lady. |
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Boooooo! You should be sent to the puniteniary for that one! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I bet productivity goes Down in her absence. Boooooo! You should be sent to the puniteniary for that one! sad thing is that she probably was the most efficient worker they had. |
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Was in a McDonalds years ago waiting in line and there was employee mopping the floor who clearly had Down's Syndrome. There was a typical fat-assed female fast food manager present. This manager's young daughter was sitting at one of the tables near the front counter, too young to be left unattended. Obviously a bring-the-kid-to-work situation because she couldn't find someone to watch her that day. The manager had leave to do something and asked the employee to watch her kid. He kept mopping and told her he wasn't her father. Don't assume they are all dumb and unaware of their surroundings. View Quote This is true! Never underestimate our friends with disabilities. I've known a few people.with downs syndrome, it's a shame they are saddled with a disability like that. And if you think they don't understand you're wrong. Treat everyone with respect and we'd be much better off! Except FHRC and the gun grabbers, fuck them! |
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At the Florida State Capitol, there was an individual that worked the night shift as a custodian. Clearly developmentally challenged. He walked to and from work daily. Guy busted his ass and did it with a smile. He had a heart of gold, worked hard, was proud of his job, and never complained. He started working there in the 1970s. With every State Employee pay raise and the FRS. He's doing very well on retirement.
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Down' Syndrome and 30 years of work. So..... what's the black community's excuse? Down's privelege?
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Angering to see a legit disabled person contributing while millions of able bodied people sit back and collect SSD and welfare. Good for her though. View Quote The school system my girl teaches at (top 3 in the state) has 100% employment rate for actual retarded people after high school. They do summer internships every year, learn how to do laundry, make a grocery list within their budget, and other basic life skills. The special Ed system that failing parents use to hide their entitled suburban perfectly functional kids in behind EBD labels has a 15% employment rate after high school, and a 5% college entrance rate. |
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Now imagine the same article, but about a non-disabled persons retiring from McDonald's. GD would be derisive as fuck. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Good for her! Now imagine the same article, but about a non-disabled persons retiring from McDonald's. GD would be derisive as fuck. If you are an able body person of average intelligence who puts the effort every shift and is not a complete tool after 30 years you should be managing at least one McDonalds store. If you are still a full time Fry Cook after 30 years and posses no physical or mental handicaps or familial handicaps then at least your earned your pay. |
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Angering to see a legit disabled person contributing while millions of able bodied people sit back and collect SSD and welfare. Good for her though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Angering to see a legit disabled person contributing while millions of able bodied people sit back and collect SSD and welfare. Good for her though. Ditto. From money.usnews 2010 They Rate McDonalds in the 3rd Place on their list of 5 Companies with Most Generous 401K Plans. McDonald's. The company that invented extra-large fries and soda provides many of its employees with a supersized 401(k) match. McDonald's matches each dollar an employee contributes to the 401(k) plan with three dollars, up to the first 1 percent of pay. For employees age 21 and older who have been with the company for at least a year, the company also matches a dollar for each dollar saved on the next 4 percent of pay. Workers may also receive a discretionary profit sharing match, which was 3 percent last year. The frontloaded matching formula is designed to help employees without a lot of extra income to save to start building their nest egg. "That's a tremendous way to inspire employees at all income levels to participate," says Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, a Chicago investment firm. Salaried restaurant managers are automatically enrolled in the plan at 1 percent, unless they opt out or change their contribution level. Ninety-eight percent of these managers participate in the 401(k) plan. "This plan is for everyone in the company, from the CEO to the restaurant worker," says Ken Naatz, director of retirement plans at McDonald's. Naatz saved 5 percent of his pay in the 401(k) plan last year and received a 10 percent employer match, including the 7 percent maximum guaranteed match and the 3 percent discretionary match. "This is our only retirement plan. We want it to be really good," Naatz says. "It is designed to retain talented people at McDonald's." |
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Both of my cities major grocery stores it seems like make it a point to hire disabled people, makes me feel good and probably helps them out a lot. Wal mart on the other hand almost hires nothing but disabled people but they are a different type of disability it seems
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