I guess he thinks he’s one upping Harris or something? Weird.
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…
It common practice to curate your resume to the job you’re applying for, you can smell the bullshit drifting off this one
i don’t think that lard ass will fit on the changing table in the restroom.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He also couldn’t get hired at McDonalds for real.
They don’t hire convicted felons IIRC.
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.
Did McDonald’s corporate agree to this political stunt? Or was it just one specific location that agreed for him to come in?
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.
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.
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?
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.
It was entirely staged. Apologies in advance for the Reddit link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g88apd/it_was_all_staged_trump_did_not_work_mcdonalds/
Of course. They’re all staged. His barbershop bullshit last week was the same thing.
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.
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.
One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s, so that’s quite a lot.
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.
