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[–] 96 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Can't ask them to stop, cus they will simply Dublin down the pun

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Pun 10/10, execution 6/10

    “You can’t even ask them to drop the puns—their response will just be Dublin down”

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For the uninitiated, what does Dublin have to do with chickens? I searched but I just got restaurants from Ireland.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    "Dublin down" sounds like "doubling down". That's the pun.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Funny meta social media posts? Fine. Whatever.

    But this is honestly just insulting and unprofessional.

    I’m sure they get some applications from people who genuinely need that job, and then they’d get sent that rejection…

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    At least they got a rejection

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Also, what skills does a fast food chain need?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    KFC uses commercial pressure cookers. You can blow up a kitchen if you aren't careful around those things. Fast food doesn't look like it requires skills because they have managed to bring an assembly line to the kitchen. It does require a certain amount of spatial awareness, and the ability to switch tasks rapidly.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did they just tell you that you're not good enough to put chicken in bucket?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wish brands would stop trying to be funny

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I support people having fun at work and think it should happen more.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On social media? Fine, whatever. In rejection emails? …that’s not really something you get and have a laugh at.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I understand your take. I feel like "professionalism" at all is just a lie we tell ourselves, and I don't personally value the overall purpose of it.

    I'd prefer people have fun at work.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    It has a purpose in situations like this, which have to be handled with tact.

    I’m with you for everything else though, the issue is really highlighted by people writing casual emails and sending them professional-ized by ChatGPT, and the receiver passing through ChatGPT to make them more clear. It’s like we want to make things more difficult.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Oh I like people having fun at work as well, what I don't like is corporate communications trying to weirdly mimic people having fun at work. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I often find these jokey comms to be souless and artificial and almost never feel like they're genuinely having fun

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If I got something like this after applying to a fast food place there's a non-zero chance I kill myself.

    Wtf do you mean I don't have the skills? What skills?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    KFC in particular uses commercial pressure cookers, or at least they originally did I haven't worked there since before they were called KFC. Those things are dangerous, and if you didn't appear to have a decent amount of spatial awareness, I wouldn't hire you at my store, cause an accident with one of those pressure cookers could end in an explosion.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Things might have changed since the 90s, however I worked at multiple KFCs and the intelligence level of the people they hired to run these things was pretty damn low. In fact, at one store most of the cooks were stoned every single shift. Nobody got seriously hurt.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I mean... Getting stoned is arguably better than my experience with fine dining where almost everyone was either stoned and drunk, or on meth... Except for dishie. That dude had EVERYTHING available. He was kinda like Dopey from The 7 Dwarves. Always had an arm out and a leg up to try new drugs. I will admit that dishie was always a reliable source for LSD and X, so there is that going for the madlad.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    They didn't want to employ the "spiceslag?!" Disappointing KFC!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You should apply to a Brawndo job

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    That's not how a professional company rejects an applicant. Judging by this grammarless email (and this email alone), it sounds like you may have dodged a bullet. I am sorry that you've been rejected, though. That's never a fun experience, and their lack of compassion in their "cute" (but actually rather insulting) email is incomprehensible. Just because they didn't see you a a secret recipe, doesn't mean you're not. KFC has gone down hill more than almost any other chain in terms of flavor and quality, and their email here is a testament to their decision-making skills they seem to still be lacking.

    E: autocorrect and my own mistakes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I was no-contacted by Wendy's and McDonald's, and Carl's Jr told me i lived too far away for them to hire me and it to make sense.

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    [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Reply with bah, humbug!

    👻

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  • [+] -1 points 2 years ago
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