Complaint Review: McDonalds Hamburgers - Orlando Florida

The only hispanics I have issues with are the ones who are in this country illegally. The original poster brought race into it. I can't be homophobic because there's no such thing as homophobia. It's just something gays and lesbians use to try to justify their sinful lifestyle.

Wow. You're going to all this trouble for the price of a cup? Good thing they didn't leave the pickles off of your burger or else they'd be in real trouble. (But, we all know what you banana-crammers do with pickles when you're alone together.) 

Sounds to me like you're one of those people that finds one little thing out of place and tries to forge that into a frivolous lawsuit. ONE cashier at ONE McDonald's gave a free cup to some of his buddies and not you and you're ready to play the discrimination card.

Get a life. There are bigger problems in the world.

Why is this automatically a race issue to you? Did you ever think that maybe Walmart employees get free drinks? And maybe the lady in street clothes was an off duty McD's employee? Think of other possible reasons before you flip out and blame it on race.

At several of the McDonald's I worked at we had agreement with other places (the Taco Bell next door and the like) that employees were entitled to certain things.

Amen brother.  We had a deal with the Papa Gino's in the mall.  They got all the free food and milkshakes that they wanted and we got to eat pizza and drink free beer after they closed for the day.

Oh and a big LOL to the guy who doesn't normally stand with the "gays" but will this time since the complaint is against the "hispanics".  I guess that makes you more racist than homophobic?

Although I normally don't side with gays(I'm dead set against it for religious reasons), it definitely appears that this Enid person gave preferential treatment to his fellow hispanics. Contact the INS, maybe he's here illegally.

Stop crying like a girl...am I infringing on your rights by saying that?

Stop crying like a homo

Although I never worked at this particular McDonald's I have been a manager at several others in the past and here is my take on this...

Could it be possible that the reason the other 2 people received free cups was, as you stated, they were Wal-Mart employees.  At several of the McDonald's I worked at we had agreement with other places (the Taco Bell next door and the like) that employees were entitled to certain things. With the Taco Bell we did drink exchange - we were coke Taco Bell was Pepsi and our employees who preferred Pepsi could drink there for free and vice versa.  Another example is at my last job we had a popular mexican burrito place in the same building and everybody in the building was allowed to drink fountain drinks for free.

So this may have been the reason behind the free cups not because he was white/male/middle aged/gay/or whatever it was because he was not an employee of the Wal-Mart. 

It must be a crackup manning the phones at 'customer complaint'.  You can almost see their eyes roll when they get a call from a goofball complaining that he didn't get free water.  LOL

I bet they save the most hilarious calls and share them at parties.

On top of all this, they have to pretend they actually care so they can keep their job.

I'm sure it would get boring but it might be interesting for a week or two.

Sounds to me by your report that you want to be victimized, because you keep describing yourself in terms of protected-classes. Nothing illegal happened, my advice is report it if you want the business to get better, but otherwise let it go.

You're rights weren't violated, you just got slightly crappy service. Business' are allowed to be crappy. An employee can be a crappy employee. Nothing illegal transpired, and if McDonalds cares they'll probably reprimand the employee, but they aren't obligated by law to care.

You're fine to call the 1-800#. That's how adults take care of situations - independently with the business, to try and make the business better and in the end come back and get better service.

As a final note, I'm sure he doesn't care what you are, my friend. I'll bet he just decided to bend the rules for some attractive women that just walked in.

"I want to make sure the problem is resolved and understand McDonalds has committed a serious offense against a customer."

  Not getting free water is a serious offense.  Can't you all see that.

  Unfortunately, the constitution has not yet been ammended to compell McDonalds to offer free water to middle aged, white, gay men, but there is hope.  In the meantime, imaginary constitutional rights will have to suffice.

  Fight the power! 

I may not be a homosexual (I assume that term is politically correct), but I have lodged complaints against McDonalds in the past.

Can you send me a case of Fiji water? I really like that stuff. Lord knows what is contained in a cup of tap water from McDonalds.

If you do not send me some Fiji water..then I may have to lodge a discrimination case against you for offering this to a homosexual, but not to a heterosexual.

If you can not send Fiji water....Evian will do.

Please - you are calling the ACLU because you did not get free water?? Good luck explaining that to a Judge - This report has nothing to do with the Constitution but more to do with a glass of water

I also ask the same when I go to McD and I get a bottle of water which I pay for with a value meal - Maybe the gal was discrminatory to caucasions but who knows?? But still this has nothing to do with the Constitution - Good luck finding an attorney you have no case

I think that you're a little confused by the concept of constitutional rights. For the sake of argument, let's go ahead and assume that the employee wrongly denied you a cup of water while giving cups to others. You could claim that you were wronged. You could even argue that you were discriminated against but this is not a constitutional issue (that document was not written for McDonald's.)

I'm not really sure what you want beyond the apology that you received. I see that you wrote you want them to understand you were offended- I think they get that.

Do you seriously want to bring the ACLU into this because you didn't like your apology? Tell you what, post your mailing address and I'll gladly send you a large bottle of Fiji brand bottled water.