Need better business skills? Try a McDegree in business

haha!

I have a friend that works in McDonalds..well more of an aquaintance, and he told me about one of the tests you have to pass in McDonalds...

You have to be able to tell how hot something is, and it's weight by looking at it..Needless to say, he ACED it with a 100 percent..

I wonder what this degree will produce

After years of consumer testing in various outlets, I can do that as well.. and it never looks like the picture on the wall

Makes sense to me. I know the gutter press will deride it as a degree in how to flip a burger, but the actual management of the stores - carrying the can for customer service, keeping on top of stock control, monitoring and negotiating employee issues, dealing with a crisis and so on - yep, I can see how that range of practical experience could contribute to a Business Management degree. After all, they've got to teach their managers to do all that stuff anyway, so why not get the course materials accredited?

And for the kids doing it, they earn their way through their degree, with an employer who is guaranteed to let them fit their shift patterns to their course requirements, and at the end of it, they're a reasonable way up the ladder of a *huge* multinational, have decent job security, or a transferable qualification with accompanying real-world experience if they want to apply for jobs elsewhere. That's quite a hefty advantage over all those fresh graduates spending a year on the dole and eventually applying for the burger-flipping at the age of 22.

I'd quite like to work for McDonalds, if it wasn't for the rather obvious practical barrier to the principle (which I believe in and would not wish to bypass) of starting in the kitchen.

Being devils advocate, as all/most of the restaurants are franchised, I wonder if the franchisee's have to allow employees to apply, or if their own business needs take priority, ie unable to release staff, accommodate shift patterns etc.

I don't know, but I would imagine that it's one of those things that would go via central HR and I bet it's weighted so that the franchisee gets ticks in his boxes for having X number of staff doing CPD.