I guess he thinks he’s one upping Harris or something? Weird.

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    Trump’s campaign sent him to McDonald’s because of Harris having worked there in college. Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald’s, in large part because the job wasn’t listed on her later resume for a legal job.

    I don’t often get jobs with a resume, but is it uncommon to drop low level and irrelevant jobs from your resume?

    I dont think the IT firm i’m applying to cares if i worked at walmart in high school…

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      You absolutely want to drop irrelevant jobs from your resume. You’re spot on.

      Trump’s just mad because she’s actually worked real jobs before, and he hasn’t.

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      It common practice to curate your resume to the job you’re applying for, you can smell the bullshit drifting off this one

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      Cut out any experience that isn’t relevant and is too old.

      That being said, I did hire someone for a tech support position because he’d done five years at a McDonald’s, which meant he was used to dealing with people.

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        Some amount of customer-facing work ought to be a required thing so people could understand what it’s like from the other side of the counter. Empathy is a wonderful thing to develop.

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      I’ve had around 15 jobs since i was in high school, across multiple states with moves, some of them pretty brief when i found better opportunities, several in fast food, retail, and factory labor. I do not list any of them on my resume as a data engineer.

      Nobody cares or wants to see your entire work history as a student. They want to see your professional work experience that is relevant to your desired roles. Hell I have even made multiple versions of my resume with different jobs listed or delisted depending on the field I was applying for.

      But on none of them do i put that in worked at Burger King at 16 years old for 4 months, nor the better paying job I got at a Steak n Shake as a server where I worked until I left for college. I don’t list my shitty campus dining court dishwasher job, or my Sam’s Club Cafe job I had at College either. Now I have listed my programmer internship from this time though, even though I don’t list the seasonal Gamestop job and the chicken processing jobs i had afterwards, because programming is relevant… chicken cutting is not. Just because there are gaps doesn’t mean I wasn’t working. I was far too broke not to.

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      It is common to omit short-term or less relevant experience from a résumé and to prioritize including jobs that are longer-term or more field specific to what you are applying for. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If McDonald’s corporate was not directly involved with this stunt, perhaps they’ll clarify if Harris did indeed work for them in order to lessen the negative perception of Trump using their franchise.

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      Your pre-career jobs become less and less relevant as you get more experience. Once your career experience is sufficient for the jobs you are applying for all those pre-career jobs do is take up precious space on your resume and distract from the skills that actually set you apart from other job candidates.

      I stopped putting McDonald’s on my resume as soon as I stopped being a “college new hire”.

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      Leaving it in would be like having your university GPA and fraternity / sorority house. That’s stuff you put in because you just graduated and have no experience in the workforce. It would look extremely amateurish and hurt your ability to get a job at a law firm. Not a lawyer, just know what you don’t put in a resume.

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      Yeah, the last business got the resume with all the shine for the one pager but still got the stories from the convenience store and the short order line.

      Who the fuck puts EVERY job on the resume? Does he think he’d get elected if he talked up his Steaks?

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      When you get a degree you have hit the resume reset button. Only relevant experience from that point forward.

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      It is totally common to drop jobs from your C.V (or resumé I guess), many people, me included, put together a special CV when a job is particularly interesting. Mostly choosing which old job gets more description and which gets less, and which old job doesn’t get on the list.

      I wouldn’t add a fast food job I needed to go through school if I applied for a high level job either.

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      Absolutely. I only keep a few recent ones, more for the skills/responsibilies they demonstrate.

      If someone wants to know what I was doing at 18, get myspace or something lol

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      No, it’s not uncommon. You trim a good resume down for the most relevant experience. You could maybe leave it on for the teamwork aspect, but she’s probably had better examples since then. I’d bet $5 her first legal aid or whatever resume mentioned it, but not as it’s own line item.

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      Yes, I only list my computer science related jobs. No one cares that I worked in a grocery store, the student center and even burger King while I was in high school or college. I don’t bother listing high school under education.

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      Yeah, it is common to drop high school and college jobs unless it is relevant to the job you’re applying for OR it is your first job out of college and want to emphasize your work effort.

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    He’s really fixated on the Harris/McDonald’s thing. I honestly think with his cognitive decline, he can’t comfortably conceive something he loves and something he hates overlapping like this. I know that sounds insane, but let’s remember who we’re talking about.

    He mentions it all the time.

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      I’m also expecting him to start talking about Biden’s dick, given how much he desperately wants Biden back as his opponent along with constantly talking about people’s “schlongs”.

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    “So why do you think you would be a good fit for a vice president?”

    “Well, I worked in McDonald’s three decades ago so…”

    Because sane people definitely put a McDonald’s job from their youth in their political career resume

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    Opinion: The race isn’t actually close, Harris has basically already won, but they’re cooking the books for ratings.

    Edit: Not sure why I’m being downvoted. I’m not saying the election is fixed or that you shouldn’t vote, for the love of God don’t repeat the mistake douchebags who thought “Hillary’s gonna win, so I won’t vote” made but… I figured her victory was a foregone conclusion.

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      Harris won for sure. They just need to make the rest of these idiots believe there was a REAL election, because the shadow swamps need to really make it believable.

      You’re the real hero here.

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    Yeah, they should have pulled Bush out of retirement and paraded him around. Have him tell people to vote a certain way based on their skin color. Way less desperate.

    Of course, Bush ACTUALLY retired and doesn’t seem as thirsty for the limelight as other ex-presidents.

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    Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald’s, in large part because the job wasn’t listed on her later resume for a legal job.

    This man doesn’t know how resumes or jobs work.

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    A group of Republicans and conservatives who have consistently opposed Trump, called the Lincoln Project, also added, “Good practice for his next job in the prison kitchen.”

    Well, dayam.

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    Did McDonald’s corporate agree to this political stunt? Or was it just one specific location that agreed for him to come in?

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      One specific franchise location and they were closed to customers during the visit with the staged customers all vetted by USSS and having gone through a rehearsal ahead of time to practice what they were going to do.

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          trump is dying, and it was his last wish to see where the hamberders come from.

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          More like that time Michael Jackson paid to have a grocery store shut down for the day and filled with his friends and family as customers just so he could feel what it’s like to be a normal person.

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            Did he have some kind of people phobia? Why not just go to a grocery store?

            I already know your going to say “but it’s MJ!?!” but honestly if he wore a baja jacket and some sweat pants with some tennis shoes or some beat up shower flat sandals. Everyone would just assumed he was another weirdo and advert their eyes. Then he would get the true shopping experience haha

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              People would have recognized him. Plus he wanted to peruse the aisles and check things out, not hide away. He wouldn’t have known how to dart in and out, that was the point.

              Also people didn’t have cell phones in the 80s (I think that’s when he did it). Would have been a payphone.

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              A regular place would have soon been swarming with crazy fans had MJ showed up even unannounced.

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                Not if he pulled up in like a Subaru and did like 15 to 20 minutes of shopping. By the time they realized who he was and started dialing their friends on their flip phones he could be out the door with his frozen pizza, dunkaroos and mango juice.

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                  I mean he wanted to experience shopping, not dart in for a quick grab of things for the night. You also underestimate how word would spread even back then.

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    I feel bad for the workers there. You see so many examples in the past of people meeting the President in “normal” situations and how it’s an experience of a lifetime to remember. I guess this still will be something to remember, but not in the way others have been.

    “I once helped this old guy through a shift in fast food.”

    “Yeah, how was that?”

    “Terrible. He couldn’t understand basic stuff like cooking fries. I had to help him do everything. Oh, he was a former President too.”

    I doubt even a few years ago when Carter was still building houses for people, no one had to walk him through stuff even more complex than cooking fries. Granted he’s had experience working for decades. Can you imagine Trump with a hammer or a power tool?

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      Totally. He’s mocking them on a number of different levels, and it’s extra fucked up:

      • he’s been wealthy his entire life and never worked a job
      • he’s doing this to mock Harris
      • it’s not an actual representation of all the bullshit and hard work the people working there have to deal with
      • it’s a campaign stunt
      • he’s probably never even ordered in an actual McDonald’s before
      • he has absolutely no clue what those people get paid
      • those workers won’t even be eligible for the “no tax on tips” bullshit he’s trying to win people over with

      There’s like a dozen more I could pick out, but these are just the most egregious.

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        it’s not an actual representation of all the bullshit and hard work the people working there have to deal with

        This is the one thing from the list I think many* people don’t understand. Unless you’ve worked in some sort of retail environment, it’s hard to relate to the shitshow they can be.

        *I say many because I have no idea how many people have had a touch of the wonderful world of retail. Maybe a lot have, and some people just are assholes anyway afterwards.

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          If you’ve ever seen someone like a reality TV personality or aging pop star try to start a restaurant, this is that exact same thing. There’s always some SUPER awkward PR footage of these folks working someone else’s job at this new business and trying to show they understand it. They have zero fucking clue. Most recent I can think of was the Eminem fried chicken restaurant he started. So bad.

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              There are 15,000 McDonald’s in the US and turnover is pretty high. It’s an old stat but I don’t expect it’s changed much over time.

              My husband and MIL both worked there so it tracks with my family members at least!

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              Over half will. Of those, some will overlook it focusing instead on the perceived intent (“he’s trying to be like one of us”). The rest will vote for someone else.

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      I’d love to see Trump use a power tool. As soon as he scratches his head with a nailgun all our problems will be over.