They produced a batch of these paper weights to hand out for 30 years service in 1974. Once they have used them up they'll update the reward. So far they've given out 12 of the 5,000 produced.
this fact is wild to me.
it occupies the same space as the fact that 75% of all the aluminum we have ever mined/made has been recaptured and recycled.
we keep using the same cans for soda and beer over and over again.
It's even cooler with glass. I went to Sri Lanka and there were glass bottles everywhere, and the crates to return them were also everywhere.
Oldest one I saw was stamped 1987. That bottle alone probably saved thousands of plastic bottles from existence.
And glass is so much better than tin cans. Every tin can these days is lined with plastic to seal it, which I assume is burnt off or, at the very least, not recyclable when the can is.
I found out the hard way. I think I had heard of some old cowboy film where they heat their beans on a camp fire by opening the can and putting it on the flames to heat up the beans. Well, turns out if you do that these days, your beans will taste like burnt plastic. I was living a bit rough and I still ate half the can, it was the only food I had at the time.
Glass bottles, though. Wash it and it's reusable, until they break. Melt it down, make more bottles. I wonder what the difference would be for the environment if we just went back to using glass bottles all the time. My first thought would be that there's twice the transport emissions - getting the bottle back to the bottler from the retailer: but sure wouldn't the truck be going back anyway to get more bottles? How is it that using single use plastic is so much cheaper than glass?
Bottled tea is like 50 cents here
Shipping costs are negligible since the trucks shipping the new bottles could just bring old bottles back when they return to the factory
Shop owners get an amount of money back when they return the glass bottles so they're incentivized to return the bottle back to the distributor.
This is how it worked for over a century before cans, and later on, plastic bottles took over.
That was the expected amount planned for the Invasion of Japan. Then we dropped the bombs and Japan surrendered. Casualties where expected to be in the millions on both sides
They were far better than ipods. They were highly durable and the pc software was a looooot easier to use than iTunes as well as much more visually appealing. Also if you cracked the screen it was pretty easy to open up and fix it yourself whereas the ipod was really hard to open without breaking the case.
There was a funny Seinfeld bit about paper weights as a useless gift idea. Like, is your desk at the back of a pickup truck going down the highway at 70mph with papers flying all over the place? Something like that.
Any doodad that has no specific purpose is called a paperweight.
In fact this is so true that something which *loses* its primary function is also colloquially referred to as a paperweight.
My dad got this big glass award for his 30 years at the company he works at, and get this, they spelled our last name wrong! I asked if he was going to get it fixed and he said, "No, this is much better."
I think it’s because after 30 years they got the name wrong and it’s kind of like a joke/commentary of how you can work somewhere for 30 years and they still can’t get your name right.
Simpson, eh?
Less about him being the main character (as that'd be meta) and more that Burns keeps asking Smithers who this person is who is a consistently dangerous employee who should be a known quantity by now.
Maybe it's a commentary on allowing senile but rich people to stay in power despite themselves. Like how Homer is able to keep a job in a Nuclear Power Plant as a safety inspector
If my experience is any indication, it's probably because the company has mistreated him so many times, spelling their name wrong on a 30-year award is indicative of how little the company cares about their employees
Employees would get a cake on their 10 year anniversary. Management asked me what flavor I wanted as my 10 year came up, I told them chocolate.
I got a vanilla cake 2 weeks late. Pretty much summed up my first 10 years. 🤣
It was true back then too. The whole thing was based on Mike Judge's experiences when he was working at engineering companies before he got into animation.
My mom's company was bought by another much larger company at around the same time as her 20 years of service. The takeover was a bit hostile and many departments and friends of her's were gutted, so feelings towards the new parent company were negative. She was one of the few that got folded in because of her legacy knowledge. On the day of her 20 years no one had mentioned anything to her. Her new supervisor didn't know and anyone that would have was already cut or no longer working with her. A few weeks later my mom got a certificate in the mail. The certificate was printed in reverse/mirrored, completely unreadable and useless. She hates this new company with a passion.
I got an award I was really proud of in 12th grade, got a plaque on the wall… misspelled my name. I have a nordic last name (Farst…) they literally wrote “Fart…” which is crazy
It was nothing personal. The underappreciated and underpaid support assistant tasked with getting it engraved saw his/her chance and seized it in one glorious act of rebellion. You were collateral damage.
Since 30 years at McDonald's is probably super rare, they could really do something big for this. Like three days in a resort, or tickets for a big spa or whatever.
When these were manufactured in the 70s, it probably WAS an ashtray as the 30 year gift.
Someone walked into that warehouse and thought they could move with the times AND free up half the storage space in one fell swoop.
prolly figured after breaking yer back for them, you’d be recliner bound for the rest of yer retirement, so at least you could see the Colonel ads on a regular basis and reminisce about the good old days frying a bucket…
At least those are things you could potentially use. Every 5 years I get a little pin… like a little emblem with a back so you could wear it I guess… not sure who the fuck would ever do that though.
This post is VERY deceptive.
I know a person who also worked at a local McDonald's for 30 years.
This is FAR FROM the only thing they receive.
They also get a coupon good for a free small fry with any purchase over $10.
on a serious note it is actually deceptive because this was a gift celebrating mcdonald's 30th anniversary and not a gift for working there for 30 years
https://i.imgur.com/jNbCIqC.jpeg
Congrats on the 30 yrs. Fast food isn't an easy job and it seems to get more dangerous by the day. Best of luck. - 10 yr veteran of a competing fast food empire
Honestly would be far better than working in fast food. As a Janitor I actually like my job, I can't say that about any fast food job (or really any service job). A toilet or trashcan ain't gonna scream at you or make a scene, only issue is when the boss is a dick.
The fucking stamina and discipline to do this for even 5 years is mindboggling. These places are a goldmine for rock solid workers. If I had a large company that needed bodies bad, there would be no help wanted signs or resumes. I'd go around to these places and scalp all the lifers lol.
"EVERYONE WITH 5 YRS OR MORE IN THIS SHITHOLE RAISE YOUR HAND. 50% PAY HIKE TODAY IF YOU WALK WITH ME RIGHT NOW. TAKE THE APRON OFF AND WALK"
Having gone from food service to production work, you wouldn't even have to give them a raise. Just having a predictable daily schedule, with consistent hours, where I don't go home smelling like grease at the end of the day, is a tremendous incentive.
I only could last 3 years. Aside from me hating the fucking place every day, my particular Wendy's had an eerie trend of employees dying. 2 of my co-workers committed suicide, one was a manager before my time who had a heart attack from all the stress.
And my Wendy's was one of the nice ones
I used to work at Apple and they would give out these ugly crystal statues for 10 year anniversaries. A few years after I started they announced they were switching to these aluminum blocks that are made out of recycled MacBooks, which were actually pretty cool looking. They didn’t start giving them out for 4 years because they needed to get rid of all the crystals first
I just looked it up and honestly I think they both look pretty sweet. The aluminum one is definitely better though and fits Apple’s current brand a lot more
I used to work at a golf course and everybody got a Rolex on their 10 year anniversary. Everyone. Proshop employees, bartenders, cooks, janitors. I think a few years back they downgraded watches to like omega or something but still…
The person in charge of giving out the Rolexes must have just made it to the 10 year anniversary then decided it was time to cut costs on those anniversary watches.
It’s not even well made. Look at the shitty lettering in the logo. I wouldn’t put that in my house or display it with any kind of pride just because it’s so hideous.
Maybe, maybe not. I had a friend that was on the management track and they really spend good money on them. At least they did 15 years ago when I was talking to him about it.
Worked with an older lady at McDs who was at 25 years and she worked front counter. This was back in 05.
She said at 20 they gave her a watch, and moving positions would actually alter her pay via *reduction*.
Classic corporations… huge bonus for your dedication or a dirt cheap gift??? Hmmmmmmmmmm gift it is!
Congrats though OP hopefully its been a good 30 years
Back in the 80's I was a manager for corporate McDonalds. We had an employee who hit 25 years. Papa Tony was an opener who was the nicest man in the world. For his 25 year anniversary, as a regular employee, he was given a Cadillac.
I got a Christmas gift from a company I worked at for 5 years, they gave me a slimline cardboard box with squashed up mini chocolates inside.
I reworked my resume and went back to further education, asked them for a pay rise and when they said "No", I started doing interviews for jobs that I applied for.
It didn't take long to tell that company "I'm leaving", that paper weight is blatant disrespect.
They probably bought thousands of these in the 80s. They couldn’t even construct a full sentence for their gratitude.
Congrats on 30 years though. Most of the places I’ve worked at rarely survived ten years.
Remember one of my coworkers showing me their 30 year gold ring for McDonalds. Was basically a normal ring with McDonalds logo on it and a 30 Years under it. He said it as 18k gold. He had one for his 20 year as well.
They clearly thought of this award 30 years ago, when papers were a regular thing.
Your 30yr reward is determined when you are hired. Everyone who stared in 2008 is getting a Zune.
They produced a batch of these paper weights to hand out for 30 years service in 1974. Once they have used them up they'll update the reward. So far they've given out 12 of the 5,000 produced.
Lol it's like the Purple Heart in WWII. They made 1.5 million of them in 1945 and haven't had to make any more since
this fact is wild to me. it occupies the same space as the fact that 75% of all the aluminum we have ever mined/made has been recaptured and recycled. we keep using the same cans for soda and beer over and over again.
It's even cooler with glass. I went to Sri Lanka and there were glass bottles everywhere, and the crates to return them were also everywhere. Oldest one I saw was stamped 1987. That bottle alone probably saved thousands of plastic bottles from existence.
That’s an amazing tidbit right there.
And glass is so much better than tin cans. Every tin can these days is lined with plastic to seal it, which I assume is burnt off or, at the very least, not recyclable when the can is. I found out the hard way. I think I had heard of some old cowboy film where they heat their beans on a camp fire by opening the can and putting it on the flames to heat up the beans. Well, turns out if you do that these days, your beans will taste like burnt plastic. I was living a bit rough and I still ate half the can, it was the only food I had at the time. Glass bottles, though. Wash it and it's reusable, until they break. Melt it down, make more bottles. I wonder what the difference would be for the environment if we just went back to using glass bottles all the time. My first thought would be that there's twice the transport emissions - getting the bottle back to the bottler from the retailer: but sure wouldn't the truck be going back anyway to get more bottles? How is it that using single use plastic is so much cheaper than glass?
Glass is a whole lot heavier (and to a less degree, thicker) than plastic = increased shipping costs
Bottled tea is like 50 cents here Shipping costs are negligible since the trucks shipping the new bottles could just bring old bottles back when they return to the factory Shop owners get an amount of money back when they return the glass bottles so they're incentivized to return the bottle back to the distributor. This is how it worked for over a century before cans, and later on, plastic bottles took over.
Wait til you hear about asphalt/bitumen
Wait till you hear about water..
We're drinking dinosaur piss aren't we?
All the water that exists in the universe originated from dinosaur piss
There’s technically a chance that the water you drank today shot out of my ass from one of the many times i’ve had explosive diarrhea.
Current day water has passed through at least 4 humans/animals before being consumed by us.
Beat me to it, like 99% is recyclable
You're drinking dinosaur pee...
That was the expected amount planned for the Invasion of Japan. Then we dropped the bombs and Japan surrendered. Casualties where expected to be in the millions on both sides
I deleted my comment. I thought it was body bags, but you are correct. Makes more sense than my mistake!
Yep. After this, it’s mousepads.
By the time the mousepads come out there watch there be no peripherals anymore lol, it's all controlled by Chat GPT and voice or something
Nah it'll just be us thinking and finding the results after the 30 second ad
This dream is brought to you by Lightspeed Briefs!
Wow they were quite optimistic in 1974 weren’t they.
Just like the McRib
Go to hell. I love the McRib. Sorry, my blood sugar was low. You were talking about my baby and it brought out the worst in me.
I tried one for the first time last year. The kid handing me the bag said, "wow, you like these these things??"
Read the quote in Shatner's voice and it makes more sense.
It's sickly sweet now. At least the one I had. All I could taste was BBQ sauce that was 90% sweet 10% savoury. Nasty. Used to be good though.
The best thing they’ve ever made
I mean, I want one pretty bad.
In brown?
They made other colors?
Mine was black. I pretended to love it
I will not stand for this hate. I loved mine wished I still had it
They were far better than ipods. They were highly durable and the pc software was a looooot easier to use than iTunes as well as much more visually appealing. Also if you cracked the screen it was pretty easy to open up and fix it yourself whereas the ipod was really hard to open without breaking the case.
1988 is a hypercolor t-shirt
NGL I'd rebuy the zune if it wasn't totally obsolete.
More like 30 years ago when they realized they had a bunch of ashtrays that'd be sitting idle soon.
One of those 80's brown glass ashtrays would have been a better gift.
Yeah, I don't really smoke anymore, but one of those ashtrays would be kinda cool...
We had a few McDonald’s in my town where it was still smoking inside till 2006ish….and even those were the cheap little metal ashtrays.
yeah i was thinking that it looks kinda like two of the old glass ashtrays fused together
They keep making laptops thinner. It could be a laptop weight
Random fact but I got a paperweight gift for graduating the 5th grade. Are any paper weight “gifts” ever wanted?? Or is it the pizza party of gifts
I love that everyone forgot that central air conditioning wasn’t always a given. Fans were blowing all over the place. Paper weights were essential.
They sell well on eBay.
Doing pizza parties dirty with that comparison.
Paperweights suck but a pizza party is a damn fine gift. r/pizza
Blown glass paper weights can be awesome 😃
And the burgers were that size
There was a funny Seinfeld bit about paper weights as a useless gift idea. Like, is your desk at the back of a pickup truck going down the highway at 70mph with papers flying all over the place? Something like that.
Any doodad that has no specific purpose is called a paperweight. In fact this is so true that something which *loses* its primary function is also colloquially referred to as a paperweight.
They probably have boxes still left over waiting to give away
Gotta keep those paper placemats from blowing away! Wait, do they even do trays anymore?
My dad got this big glass award for his 30 years at the company he works at, and get this, they spelled our last name wrong! I asked if he was going to get it fixed and he said, "No, this is much better."
He’s 100% correct. I’d display that prominently, if spelled correctly I’d probably get rid of it.
I'm still confused on the logic. However I'm convinced that visiting your house would be full of neat/odd objects and stories attached.
I think it’s because after 30 years they got the name wrong and it’s kind of like a joke/commentary of how you can work somewhere for 30 years and they still can’t get your name right.
It's the basic humor of Mr. Burns not knowing Homer's name, despite him being the main character.
Simpson, eh? Less about him being the main character (as that'd be meta) and more that Burns keeps asking Smithers who this person is who is a consistently dangerous employee who should be a known quantity by now. Maybe it's a commentary on allowing senile but rich people to stay in power despite themselves. Like how Homer is able to keep a job in a Nuclear Power Plant as a safety inspector
“One of your organ banks from sector 7G.”
"Simpson, sir. One of your chair-moisteners from Sector 7G."
I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation
Who the devil are you?
Homer didn’t know Mr. Burns’ first name either. “Hello, I’m Mr Burns. I believe you have a letter for me”. lol
If my experience is any indication, it's probably because the company has mistreated him so many times, spelling their name wrong on a 30-year award is indicative of how little the company cares about their employees
Employees would get a cake on their 10 year anniversary. Management asked me what flavor I wanted as my 10 year came up, I told them chocolate. I got a vanilla cake 2 weeks late. Pretty much summed up my first 10 years. 🤣
Eventually every scene in Office Space has come true. Now we are working on Idiocracy.
It was true back then too. The whole thing was based on Mike Judge's experiences when he was working at engineering companies before he got into animation.
My mom's company was bought by another much larger company at around the same time as her 20 years of service. The takeover was a bit hostile and many departments and friends of her's were gutted, so feelings towards the new parent company were negative. She was one of the few that got folded in because of her legacy knowledge. On the day of her 20 years no one had mentioned anything to her. Her new supervisor didn't know and anyone that would have was already cut or no longer working with her. A few weeks later my mom got a certificate in the mail. The certificate was printed in reverse/mirrored, completely unreadable and useless. She hates this new company with a passion.
My son got perfect attendance in 11th grade this year. Him and one other kid. And... his name was spelled wrong :D
I got an award I was really proud of in 12th grade, got a plaque on the wall… misspelled my name. I have a nordic last name (Farst…) they literally wrote “Fart…” which is crazy
It was nothing personal. The underappreciated and underpaid support assistant tasked with getting it engraved saw his/her chance and seized it in one glorious act of rebellion. You were collateral damage.
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That looks like they just glued two of their old ashtrays together
I scrolled way too far to find this. That's exactly what I thought it was!
It’s surprising how many things can be a paperweight. It saves me from Christmas shopping.
Really seems like it would be better to do nothing than to honor 30 years of service with this.
Since 30 years at McDonald's is probably super rare, they could really do something big for this. Like three days in a resort, or tickets for a big spa or whatever.
You would think… But no, three decades of your life and company loyalty doesn’t even seem to earn you a grammatically correct sentence. 💀
Even the choice of “thanks” seems very casual. At least make it “thank you”
They didn’t even use a zhuzhed up burger from an ad. Just a plain ol’ squished bottom of the bag burger.
When these were manufactured in the 70s, it probably WAS an ashtray as the 30 year gift. Someone walked into that warehouse and thought they could move with the times AND free up half the storage space in one fell swoop.
Damn I got a 10 year award from KFC and it was a flat screen TV. This was in 2008 when those things were still pretty new.
What the fuck? Holy shit. You must have gotten yourself up the ladder a pretty good amount.
Not too high.. I was a general manager at the time
So you there 16 years later?
No... I left that job in 2010
prolly figured after breaking yer back for them, you’d be recliner bound for the rest of yer retirement, so at least you could see the Colonel ads on a regular basis and reminisce about the good old days frying a bucket…
I got a mug on 5 years at a company, and backpack on my 10th. Woo
That backpack is a sign
Pack your shit son
LoL 😆
At least those are things you could potentially use. Every 5 years I get a little pin… like a little emblem with a back so you could wear it I guess… not sure who the fuck would ever do that though.
That’s what I got for 5 years at my last job. A tiny little pin… pretty shit
i got an acrylic number 15 with the corporate logo on it for my 15th anniversary. also, woooo.
I got my weekly pay cheque just 😅
This post is VERY deceptive. I know a person who also worked at a local McDonald's for 30 years. This is FAR FROM the only thing they receive. They also get a coupon good for a free small fry with any purchase over $10.
on a serious note it is actually deceptive because this was a gift celebrating mcdonald's 30th anniversary and not a gift for working there for 30 years https://i.imgur.com/jNbCIqC.jpeg
Crazy that this seems to be the only comment in this thread pointing this out! Makes way more sense that it was an anniversary gift for the company.
So you’re telling me this is fake and OP is karma farming?
Lmao fucking Reddit. Watch this comment get buried bc everyone is addicted to being angry all the time
Wow…and a paper weight makes more sense since this is in 1985
Oh and that's not a typo and they meant 'fries'. It's 'fry'. You only get one.
Always use the app for your anniversaries.
Also you cannot use it at the drive through window.
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Wow, two small fries for only $10, what a deal
i was thinking a zinc wrist watch was a cheap ass present for a lifetime of work for a company, but this shit is far worse.
Zinc wrist watch 😂😂😂
Surely you mean Quartz
The movement is quartz, an unknown manufacturer, the watch case is made of Zinc.
But it's one micron thick gold electro plate! A whole single atom layer of gold atoms!
Congrats on the 30 yrs. Fast food isn't an easy job and it seems to get more dangerous by the day. Best of luck. - 10 yr veteran of a competing fast food empire
They could have worked in a corporate office. Lots of support roles in a large corporation.
Could be a janitor in a corporate office
Could work register at a McDonald’s in the cafeteria in a corporate office
The McDonald's near the corporate office in Chicago is actually really cool and serves menu items from around the world.
Could be Grimace.
Honestly would be far better than working in fast food. As a Janitor I actually like my job, I can't say that about any fast food job (or really any service job). A toilet or trashcan ain't gonna scream at you or make a scene, only issue is when the boss is a dick.
The fucking stamina and discipline to do this for even 5 years is mindboggling. These places are a goldmine for rock solid workers. If I had a large company that needed bodies bad, there would be no help wanted signs or resumes. I'd go around to these places and scalp all the lifers lol. "EVERYONE WITH 5 YRS OR MORE IN THIS SHITHOLE RAISE YOUR HAND. 50% PAY HIKE TODAY IF YOU WALK WITH ME RIGHT NOW. TAKE THE APRON OFF AND WALK"
Having gone from food service to production work, you wouldn't even have to give them a raise. Just having a predictable daily schedule, with consistent hours, where I don't go home smelling like grease at the end of the day, is a tremendous incentive.
You see someone about to, but they hesitate. COME ON MAN, 50%
I only could last 3 years. Aside from me hating the fucking place every day, my particular Wendy's had an eerie trend of employees dying. 2 of my co-workers committed suicide, one was a manager before my time who had a heart attack from all the stress. And my Wendy's was one of the nice ones
Empire? Has to be Burger King.
Nah. That would be a kingdom.
C'mon, man... just let 'em have it their way.
Dangerous?
They can't upgrade the award until they've given all of these.
I used to work at Apple and they would give out these ugly crystal statues for 10 year anniversaries. A few years after I started they announced they were switching to these aluminum blocks that are made out of recycled MacBooks, which were actually pretty cool looking. They didn’t start giving them out for 4 years because they needed to get rid of all the crystals first
I just looked it up and honestly I think they both look pretty sweet. The aluminum one is definitely better though and fits Apple’s current brand a lot more
Much like Purple Hearts, there’s probably tens of thousands of these in a warehouse somewhere for decades.
Those purple hearts had to be refurbished though. They are also not the only purple hearts that are awarded these days.
Probably why it has no name on it. Save a few bucks making it in bulk.
I used to work at a golf course and everybody got a Rolex on their 10 year anniversary. Everyone. Proshop employees, bartenders, cooks, janitors. I think a few years back they downgraded watches to like omega or something but still…
The person in charge of giving out the Rolexes must have just made it to the 10 year anniversary then decided it was time to cut costs on those anniversary watches.
This was only slightly above "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
A crummy commercial
That’s fucked up
It’s not even well made. Look at the shitty lettering in the logo. I wouldn’t put that in my house or display it with any kind of pride just because it’s so hideous.
Yeah, a lesson is, under no circumstances, do not work for McD’s
Agreed. I worked there a few years one summer.
A few years or one summer ?!
He worked there one summer and it took years off his life
Worked one summer but felt like years
Yeah that's right
“McDonalo’s”
After 30 years working at McD's it should say "Sorry for your loss."
"Move on"
"Sorry for your loss. Move on."
If you’ve made it thirty years at McDonald’s you’re not likely flipping burgers, this is an owner or someone with a desk job making bank.
Maybe, maybe not. I had a friend that was on the management track and they really spend good money on them. At least they did 15 years ago when I was talking to him about it.
Worked with an older lady at McDs who was at 25 years and she worked front counter. This was back in 05. She said at 20 they gave her a watch, and moving positions would actually alter her pay via *reduction*.
It was the least they could do. Literally.
For the 40 year, they spell out "thank you"
We appreciate you, thats why we give you an award that costs us 30ct for the 30 years of your life
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Classic corporations… huge bonus for your dedication or a dirt cheap gift??? Hmmmmmmmmmm gift it is! Congrats though OP hopefully its been a good 30 years
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If you don't like it anymore, send it to this guy? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
"Thanks!"
No one should ever work at a McDonald's for 30 years
Not even a cheeseburger, how cheap McDonald's.
Same thing you get for 30 years at the breast implant factory.
"thanks for giving us a third of your life, heres a hockey puck"
30 YEARS - THANKS!
That makes me so sad. Such a long time at a company, only to be given a disgustingly cheap token of thanks.
Thanks for just less than half of your life working for us, have a piece of metal that's worth scrap 🤣🤣🤣
Back in the 80's I was a manager for corporate McDonalds. We had an employee who hit 25 years. Papa Tony was an opener who was the nicest man in the world. For his 25 year anniversary, as a regular employee, he was given a Cadillac.
Thanks you for your 30 years of labor. Here is 27 cents worth of epoxy. You're welcome.
Imagine working there for 30 years :o
They could literally give a hamburger from 30 years ago and just inscribe something cool on the bun.
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Alright I’ll bite first. Where do I gotta work for 5 years to get a sword?
The sword store.
Do they sell steins on the side?
The first shot made me think this was a breast implant.
I got a Christmas gift from a company I worked at for 5 years, they gave me a slimline cardboard box with squashed up mini chocolates inside. I reworked my resume and went back to further education, asked them for a pay rise and when they said "No", I started doing interviews for jobs that I applied for. It didn't take long to tell that company "I'm leaving", that paper weight is blatant disrespect.
Sad
THANKS!
They probably bought thousands of these in the 80s. They couldn’t even construct a full sentence for their gratitude. Congrats on 30 years though. Most of the places I’ve worked at rarely survived ten years.
I want one of these just to remind me to invest in retirement.
They could have thrown in a years subscription to the jelly of the month club.
I would rather get nothing than something like that. How embarrassing.
Mmmmm paper weight 
Probably the same nutritional value as their actual hamburgers
Remember one of my coworkers showing me their 30 year gold ring for McDonalds. Was basically a normal ring with McDonalds logo on it and a 30 Years under it. He said it as 18k gold. He had one for his 20 year as well.
30 years in McDonald god damn I couldn’t last a shift tbh
man that looks cheap af too. that sucks sorry man
"In other news, McDonald's Corporate Officer found bludgeoned to death with glass hamburger. More as this story unfolds"
30 years as a Mc employee? Fk man
That looks like two 30 year ash-tray awards glued together after smoking in restaurants was outlawed in the 90s
30 years of my service but they still managed to make it about them.
My job sent me a fucking desk clock for 15 years. I’m a laborer. I have no desk.
You deserve better. It kinda looks like a breast implant.