Sunday, November 20, 2005

New Modeling Gig

Hmm--maybe I have a new career as a t-shirt model. Ok--so I am a case study over at a website run by a physician from the Cleveland Clinic but I will take what I can get.

This medical blog is actually quite interesting--check out this article on the strip search at McDonalds where staff actually strip-searched employees after a criminal caller posing as a police officer told them to. A Google search by investigators turned up the fact that this was not an isolated incident--it had been done before. Isn't this amazing? If someone called me and told me to do something like this, I would tell them to drop dead.

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"staff actually strip-searched employees after a criminal caller posing as a police officer told them to. A Google search by investigators turned up the fact that this was not an isolated incident--it had been done before. Isn't this amazing? "

I think it's a really neat reanactment of the Millgram Experiment.

12:33 PM, November 20, 2005  
Blogger Jeff Faria said...

Yes, you would have told them to drop dead. But then again you're coming from a very different place in life than your average McDonald's employee, who is there because they have far fewer options than you do. (Ever have a 'doctor' ask if you'd like fries with that?) One's situation in life tends to define self-esteeem, which is built up slowly and torn down quickly - I'm sure you're well aware of the dynamics here (though not all your readers will be).

Ironically, a lot of us saw a documentary on the Milgram Experiment on cable (History Channel I think) right around the time this incident happened. I fully accept the point of it, and would just as soon it was not re-enacted again.

6:26 PM, November 20, 2005  
Blogger Helen said...

Mr. Snitch,

I agree partially with what you say--but there was one employee who did walk away at the McDonald's fiasco. So it is possible that despite the "low self esteem" you feel that one would suffer working at McDonalds, it is possible to size up a situation and decide you will not participate.

I think bravery extends across many social barriers--I have seen McDonald's workers who would stand up to others and I have seen people in my field who would stand up for nothing.

6:42 PM, November 20, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. Snitch, I respectfully disagree with your assertion that self-esteem is defined by situation. Having known several Masters degree holders and a PHD that worked at McDonalds (really nice university towns tend to have them) I'd say that generalizing a lack of self worth as being a hallmark of fast food employment is disingenuous and somewhat insulting.

I could be biased, having worked there myself, back in the day.

You might also want to check this comprehensive article on the exact case Dr. Helen references. Note that the paticular event that the article focusses on was brought to an end by a 9-th grade dropout who was the store's night maintenance man.

8:52 PM, November 20, 2005  
Blogger Helen said...

Datarat,

Thanks for the full link to the story--it is really something. I realize that psychologists have found that people will do outrageous things when ordered by authorities but this was over the top. I also know a number of masters level (or higher) people who have worked at McDonalds. I recall having a number of these jobs as a teen and up through college--I barely did what they told me then--much less would I do it now.

9:20 PM, November 20, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That link brought up a difficult memory. I like to think I'm pretty smart and savvy, but when I was a senior (at a college in TN) I received a phone call from a man who said he'd gotten my name from the chapel -- I did a lot of work with the chapel and it didn't seem weird at all. He said he was trying to find a "big sister" for a 12-year-old girl who had recently moved from England to live with her elderly grandmother in the area, a friend of his. She was having trouble adjusting, etc. and the grandmother was worried about her. Would I be willing to spend an afternoon or two a week with her, take her to a movie, help her with her homework, etc. I'd been "highly recommended" as someone who might help. I was pretty flattered and said I might be able to. He started telling me all about this "girl" who had a troubled life, she acted out a lot, she needed discipline, etc. It quickly turned into him questioning me about whether I'd be willing to spank her with a hairbrush on her bare bottom. Later it turned out that another girl at my college had gotten a similar call -- they never figured out who it was. I share the story because this person "sounded right" to me at first -- totally plausible, and had the right "hook" -- and I think I probably stayed on the phone a lot longer than I would have because of that. Ugh.

1:15 PM, November 21, 2005  
Blogger Helen said...

To Sarah,

You bring up a good point--sometimes it is hard to know who you are talking with on the phone--especially if they tell you they got your name from a chapel. But at least you realized that this guy was a creep--it usually comes out sooner or later.

1:35 PM, November 21, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am sort of surprised I told that story on a blog. I think I've maybe told two people, ever.

9:43 PM, November 21, 2005  
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