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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think you were quite grasping the scope the McDonald's operates at. That's only a couple hundred per location, and fast food restaurants tend to have extremely high turnover, so that's definitely not an unrealistic number.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?

One of us doesn't know what that stands for. I feel like the time my grandpa died, and mom sent me an email telling me "We're going to the funeral this Friday to pay respects to grandpa. LOL!"

I was quite confused. Turns out she grew up with "Lots Of Love". For a second she seemed like she turned into an absolute psychopath, for like....no reason.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?

In this context, it means "Edited To Add". I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since "Estimated Time of Arrival" is a much more common meaning. I would accept "E2A" or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use "Edit:".

Edit: added link.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

This is my first time reading about this alternate "ETA" initialism. Interesting...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

ETA: Mine, too.

(ETA in this context means "Entering Text As:")

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What an ~~Enternaining~~ Entertaining Twist of an Acronym.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no, we're out of letters!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

ETA = Edit to add

Just trying to explain why my comment changed, in case anyone saw it before that LOL.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.

The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.

Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it's tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

i mean there's a shit ton of unskilled labor out there whose vertical reach isn't that great.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

What does their basketball skills have to do with this?

/s

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

They pay well everywhere but the US.

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