On 05-21-09, ED HULETT said to JOHN MASSEY:


EH>> That is hilarious. You think working at Micky D's is hard work?


JM> I worked for Micky D's in '68-'69. Back when the Arches were part of the
JM> building.


EH>That's about when I was working for Puget Sound Vegetable Growers
EH>Association. Let me tell you, that is hard work. And dirty. It kept me off
EH>the streets and taught me a good work ethic, though.


JM> If this is Otto's best hard work story, it's clear he does not know what
JM> hard work is.


EH>And his silly claim that the rest of us couldn't handle that job is
EH>hilarious. I know of a couple elderly people who work for Micky D's and a
EH>young man with Downs Syndrome who works for Arby's. They all do rather
EH>well. Ed


I drive about 30 people who are mentally retarded to and from their day
programs, many of whom have Downs Syndrome.


All but six (who are so badly physically and mentally handicapped they
probably don't know the day of the week most of the time), work at some job or
other.


Several of them work at fast food outfits, one of which is Arby's, another
works at an Oscar's. One or two work at Burger King and McDonald's.


The one at Oscar's, I was recently told, has been there 14 years. Two at
Burger King I already knew had been there about 15 or 16 years.


Many of the people I transport work in settings for a program called `Partners
With Industry'. They are the ones who pack the small parts into the boxes that
go on store shelves for sale.


They put the screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc into the plastic bags for home
-assembly products that the buyer assembles when they take the product out of
the box.


I know people who have spent more time doing yard work for a living, than Otto
has ever spent `in' the Air Force, much less working at McDonald's!





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