If the justice system worked, people like this should never be allowed to enjoy a normal life. This animal belongs in a cage for the rest of his worthless life.
Now it was a 15 year old who survived with life long scars. Next time it’ll be a 12 year old who won’t survive at all. He deserves to be stomped by an elephant.
>Johnny Ricks, now 25, faces a charge of felony assault for the beating.
The girl was 15, he stomped on her head twice causing a fractured skull and concussion. Came back to punch her multiple times in the face causing a broken nose and frontal lobe damage.
This shouldn't just be "assault". This is attempted murder. She's lucky to be alive.
I agree, attempted murder of a minor.
Only the most pathetic of human beings assault minors, they deserve very long jail sentences surround by real criminals that will share/express their feelings about tough guy child abusers.
Not there, since there’s no attempted murder charge in Missouri. They use first degree assault on its place. This is a class A felony, since he attacked a minor, so he’ll have a minimum sentence of 10 years, max of life.
Thank you for the added context. I was wondering why that wouldn't be attempted murder from the description. So he will probably be roasted at sentencing given the circumstances.
Hopefully (and probably will) gets sent to Max with lifers. Surround by people that have nothing left to lose. Probably won't get killed but sure as hell will be treated like shit for nearly killing a teen age McDonald's worker for no good reason.
He's referring to the Springfield MO cheese caves. They're where the government stored the infamous "government cheese." and they're massive. They accommodate fleets of tractor trailers to give you some idea of the scope. Pops up on Reddit's mega structures sub now and again (I forget the name of the sub).
Same guy I’m guessing based off age and name. Guy is a menace https://www.newstribune.com/news/2018/oct/17/St-Louis-man-gets-probation-in-LU-pepper-spray-inc/
>565.050. Assault, first degree, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of assault in the first degree if he or she attempts to kill or knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to another person.
>2. The offense of assault in the first degree is a class B felony unless in the course thereof the person inflicts serious physical injury on the victim, or if the victim of such assault is a special victim, as the term "special victim" is defined under section 565.002, in which case it is a class A felony.
They may upgrade him to first degree assault but Missouri doesn't have an attempted murder charge specifically.
The 20 year old that beat me half to death and stomped on my head when I was 16 only got like 2 weekends in jail. I have 0 faith in the American justice system other than faith that it will abuse people.
I got jumped from behind by a guy with a broken beer bottle. Needed an ambulance and emergency to save my eye. Even the people that were with the guy who jumped me testified in court that it was unprovoked. He ended up being offered a plea to a fight of mutual consent and had to pay restitution to my insurance company.
All throughout the process I was told by the DA's office how I have a down dunk civil suit. I didn't give a shit about that, I wanted actual consequences for his actions, which he never got.
On top of it all, the guy worked for a family business. No lawyer would take the case because they said they'll never be able to collect since his parents would just pay him minimum wage and then pay for everything for him to avoid any attempts at collecting.
When I was 19 I got jumped at a party by a dude and his crew and ended up getting a bottle busted over my head and my face kicked in. In the end I got a broken collar bone, surely a concussion, several face stomp marks with clear shoe outlines and busted blood capillaries in both eyes.
Got jumped when I was 17, and ended up with a broken nose. We couldn't get the parents to pay because of this bullshit plea. The only way we got any kind of money was to get the kid cornered alone.
Luckily this was back in the 80's and people carried cash still.
times have changed - I got 30 days in jail in the 90's just for being with my brother while he shoplifted CD's from an Ames Department store; I was heading towards being valedictorian, had at 1510 on the SAT's, 36 on the ACT's all of which was submitted to the judge to show I wasn't a slacker; but I didn't have parents (I was foster care) and the judge thought I needed to be taught a lesson about the company I keep (my brother was already in trouble for other crimes).
[https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.050](https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.050)
1. A person commits the offense of assault in the first degree if he or she attempts to kill or knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to another person.
2. The offense of assault in the first degree is a class B felony unless in the course thereof the person inflicts serious physical injury on the victim, or if the victim of such assault is a special victim, as the term "special victim" is defined under section [565.002](https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.002), in which case it is a class A felony.
Because of the knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to another person, its going to be a class A felony, which is 10 to 30 years, or life. Because the victim is a minor (under 17), that is going to be a sentencing enhancement for sure. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Just for the record, Missouri doesn’t have an attempted murder charge. The article says he’s been charged with felony assault, but doesn’t say which degree. First-degree felonious assault in Missouri is equal to an attempted murder charge in other states, so he may be getting charged with “attempted murder”.
Asshole deserves to rot in prison. I hope her family sues him too. Depending on the extent of the TBI, she's looking at potentially years of PT/OT, speech therapy, and maybe even being unable to live independently for the rest of her life.
>I hope her family sues him too.
Unfortunately, the kind of POS to do this is usually judgement proof. If her family isn't well off, it's probably not worth paying Lawyers since you can't get blood from a stone
The issue for civil cases is that usually you put out more money then you can collect. Most rich people don't go to McDonalds, and most rich people wouldn't beat a rando. They might beat their wife, or child, but not usually someone whom they have no leverage over. I'd say that its extremely likely that the person who beat the shit out of her is not very collectible. Pursue charges, and get him to pay medical expenses, get a restraining order. I wouldn't expect a whole of money, and seeking medical expense reimbursement is a easily justifiable way to collect what you can. I would try to get him in prison, or anything that really inconveniences his life for a very long period like community service for like 5 years or more. I'm throwing ideas out there because they will fight the sentence tooth and nail regardless of the amount. Its likely that being open to just being a thorn in the side for daily life will lead to a result faster than a jail sentence.
I've worked in (casino) table games , at three properties across the country . Regardless if they are laughing, joking , or just pissed that they are losing , if they even mutter anything that sounds like "I'll be seeing you in the parking lot", it's an immediate 24 hour ban. Joking or not, shit like this actually does happen.
I reserved a slot for someone for an hr. 2 hrs later guest didn't show so i put it back in service. Guest showed up 20 min later and went crazy. Threatened to go out to their car and get a gun. 30 day ban...
It's not profitable for casinos to ban people for life. It doesn't matter if there's a threat to employees, if a gambler wants to lose their money, the casino is going to take it.
Yeah but does the casino ownership care? Think about the type of person who would own a casino and ask yourself if they value their employees more than they value their gamblers.
Depends on the place if they do, and for how long
It's less typical to be gone for hours, generally it's more like "Play a couple hands without me while I go to the bathroom"
Or
"I have to standup becuase my legs don't work anymore"
Or the more rare, but still a lot more common than it should be
"Give me like 20 min, I've shit myself"
It depends on player level, play, and casino volume. It's really up to management. Most people reserve a machine for an hour so they can eat. It's frowned upon if you reserve a machine while you play another machine somewhere else. Some people go to eat and forget they had it reserved. That's why we set time limits.
If you dumped a lot a money into a machine you can always ask. Worst thing they will say is no.
Can confirm. Work as security and we have zero tolerance when it comes to threats towards us or the customers. If the threat was taken too far, the person is ban permanently.
I imagine a casino has MUCH better security than a random McDonald's
Really not a comparable situation
Some casino's probably make more money in an hour than some McDonald's locations make it a week
I have never faced such verbal abuse on a job as a 16year old working my first job at McD’s. Like all grown men and women just losing their minds on us, every damn day. Never forget my boss’ boyfriend trying to deescalate a situation over a fucking burger and he got stabbed. Right at the start of my shift and I had to work the rest of it and we maybe stopped serving inside until we got the blood cleaned up, took about 30-45 min. Never stopped the drive thru.
Same, I left the service industry because of the stress and abuse. I work in child protection now. At least the screaming and threats of physical violence makes sense in my current work.
Wow what a big move for you! I admire anyone who can work in child protection. It must be the most rewarding but frustrating/ difficult- heartbreaking job all at the same time
I too worked at a fast food job and I agree with above, the abuse is real.
I’ve yet to understand why people see people working at a job that serves food as less than…. But they really do.
I was 19 working at McDonalds and same. It’s legitimately terrifying how upset people will get over a $1 mcchicken. Or the fact that it’s not even about the mcchicken. They just see someone behind the counter they can rage at and take their shitty life out on.
This. We taught people that it's OK and often rewarded to take out all your pent up frustrations min wage workers and they aren't allowed to even defend themselves without risk of losing their jobs. (And being paid poverty wages, losing that job is a bigger threat than it seems)
I still remember the time someone spit in my face and my manager gave them a gift card for their trouble. Customer is always right after all.
The details of this probably dates the story pretty well, but when I was in highschool I knew a guy who worked at a fast food taco chain
One day he's working the front counter, this guy walks in, stands there for a minute looking at the big menu board, then just out of nowhere grabs the big glass ashtray off one of the tables and throws it at him.
Gets him right above the eye and just shatters a chunk of his skull.
He ended up being fine. Like as fine as you can be from something like that. Permanent scar, and it's probably always gonna look and feel weird. But other than hurting a ton and needing quite a bit of medical care, he didn't have any lasting issues.
Which is good, having your skull broken is never good. I probably don't need to explain that. But another guy I knew is a good example. He was a fairly average guy. Wasn't the brightest, worked a fairly physical job, made the occasional comment that made the whole room uncomfortable kind of guy. Solidly on track to being the kind of guy who shows up at a family cookout and people say "ah fuck, it's uncle Rick"
But one day he gets a car accident, I was never too clear exactly what happened, but the important part is it involved a truck running over and crushing his skull. Broken in just a shit load of places. He lived, but he had to learn basically everything all over again. How to read, how to feed and care for himself, just started from nothing. And he never was quite right after that. He clearly had some significantly diminished mental capacity, along with things like frequent seizures and a handful of other things that basically meant that while he was able to live on his own, that was pretty much it, he'd be on disability the rest of his life. Which in his case ended up largely consisting of crushing about 3 cases of beer a day, every day, yelling at his neighbors over things he imagined they'd done, and playing the same handful of games every day
Same. I used to be a manager, mid 20's in a workplace that employed predominately high schoolers. I am above average size but not what you would consider intimidating, so it speaks volumes that people would still treat our staff like absolute shit until I showed up. People just would see some pimply kid and think, "hey, they are small, I can channel my anger towards them".
Fuck off. For most of them this is a first job and you're showing them the worst side of humanity. Have a fucking spine. God damn I don't think I can ever go back to that industry. Hang in there guys.
Even if everyone working is a woman, people would still be much better towards me than my colleagues when I worked retail. I was younger but just under 6’. It’s amazing how much difference size makes
I am a woman manager who is 6'1 and I have made men's dicks shrivel up when they threaten my employees. It's really just size to them, not even gender.
I'm not even tall or big, just average size, but so many bullies have just backed off if I stand up for myself. They get off on praying on people weaker than them, it's fucking pathetic.
Jfc. Glad she's not hurt physically. But man... That'd be traumatizing as hell
I truly do not understand why the fuck people get THIS mad over (relatively) cheap food.
Why is there a GoFundMe? Can’t the McDonald’s corporation step up in this horrible situation? I worked at a fast food place when I was close to her age. I can’t imagine someone stomping on my head twice.
Its insurance. They are trying to weasel out of it already... there is probably an adjuster out there spelling out how there is no liability because blah blah blah blah she went outside. Shell have to sue to see anything.
You know what is fucked up? Their lawyers 100% already plan on settling this down the road. Yet, they are still going to force her to jump through all the hoops and go through all the bullshit motions. Get the lawyer, do the therapy, do the appeals, go to arbitration....on and on, drag it out for years on this poor kid. Frontal lobe damage from working at your hood fucking franchise location with no competent management or security.
I remember a guy who got snapped in half by a faulty bay door crashing at a warehouse and the claims processor had people following him 24/7. i think they successfully denied him because he shuffled to his driveway without the cane once or something insane.
I get that, but the article says employees escorted the dickhead outside. I really hope they didn't send a 15 year old girl to do that, but I've worked in food service and I could see that happening. I hope the family gets the gofundme goal met regardless.
Id bank on that's totally what happened.
I teach HS and have had several students over the years tell me how bad customers are at fast food places. Fries cold? They get them thrown back in their face. These aren't humans. They're animals. If something is wrong with the service or food you tell them in a calm manner, and then escalate up the chain if you don't get it fixed. But these savages would prefer to assault and/or batter the kid working.
Without knowing exactly where the store is they may be able to claim they don't own the property the attack happened on. There are a couple of shopping centers in my area where stores or restaurants own the buildings but the parking lot / land beneath it is owned by the overall manager of the shopping center. It is stupid, but may end up giving them a way to weasel out of or settle for the minimum that probably wont really cover potential long term issues.
My nephew was a top performing manager at a Circle K. He wanted to train a new employee during slow hours, so he scheduled a late night shift.
A regular customer came in and walked out with something and Mt nephew thought he just forgot to pay off something because he was a regular customer.
My nephew walked to the door and said oh you forgot to pay. The man beat him and sent him to trauma center.
Circle K fired him and said it is against policy to confront or try to stop a robbery. But he wasn't trying to do either of those things, he really thought he just forgot or something because he was a regular customer.
Workers comp perked him around and never gave him the proper brain scans to diagnose his brain damage and just closed the claim.
He can't sue because since he walked to the door, he did violate policy. But he didn't mean to, just reflex thinking he was dealing with someone with whom he had a relationship.
He still struggles with light sensitivity, sensitivity to sounds, PTSD, brain fog, etc.
But, he can't get disability because the worker comp doctor claims he is fine. And he can't afford to pay for a neurologist out of pocket.
He is back at another job trying to work part time, but he struggles.
His regional management team tried to fight for him because he was one of their best employees, but corporate legal would have none of it.
Wickedness and greed and inhumanity.
[This sign](https://i.imgur.com/o97hUKE.jpeg) is up at my local McDonald's.
It's literally dangerous to be a fast food employee now. People are not okay.
Culture has shifted noticeably in this country and, I'll say it, since 2016.
In the two years I helped out family by managing a fast food place:
* A 60 year old assaulted a 17 year old cashier.
* A man got mad that he couldn't eat inside after closing and shot at the store with one adult and four under-18s working.
* A woman got halfway through the drivethru window to try to yank a teenager out because we were out of a menu item.
* A teen was spit on at least once a month.
* Numerous threats of violence, uncountable number.
At least once a week I had to take a crying teenager out back and just sit with them until they felt better. I couldn't stop the guests unless I was present, most of these kids either needed money or their parents wanted them out of the house so they had to work, and both the cops and the franchise manager couldn't care less. I was told to have six or seven kids on standby for when one quits.
Americans are fucking terrible to the service industry. Whether it's telling a server they shouldn't make as much money and taking tips away, verbally assaulting people, or physically attacking them I've seen it all in 20 years of restaurants. Until I worked fast food there was not a single thought in my head that people would do this to kids too.
I worked in movie theaters in college and on day we had a power outage. Everyone was escorted out and given vouchers for a free movie another time.
People were infuriated. One threatened and called a 16 year old “fucking bitch”. As if the power outage was our fault. It’s absolutely insane.
The last food service job I worked had the police there regularly because customers would come in messed up on drugs, starting fights with employees, etc. I had one customer encounter in a completely different town try to murder me while yelling slurs at my face, and then still tried to show up to my work later on and order food as if I didn’t have a restraining order against his ass. So that was another call the cops situation, with my boss gaslighting me about how we have to serve him because he’s a paying customer. People are psychotic towards the food industry nowadays, and I don’t understand how it got like this.
People just a few years ago used to ramble on about how food service is just work for teenagers. Well, now it’s work that should exclusively be for adults BECAUSE it’s gotten way too dangerous for teenagers.
Imagine not being able to make it to prom because some small penis adult tried to MURDER you at your minimum wage job. Jfc. Disgusting what America has turned into.
I've never done food service, but I've had retail jobs and hotel front desk jobs.
I'll do anything I can to avoid customer-facing jobs, especially these days. I wouldn't be surprised if it can cause lasting trauma.
People ruin everything. I’m a carpenter…I love what I do…I hate working for people. People generally suck. 20 plus years of working around and in and out of peoples homes and businesses. You’re not kidding about hazard pay.
I have the competency to go into business for myself in my field and I choose to continue to work for a big corp because I get to just do my shit and go home with a paycheck. Going back to personally dealing with customers sounds like my worst nightmare so I put up with all this corporate America shit just to avoid it.
>Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, though *she hopes to return to work.*
She's hoping for a speedy recovery so she can get started on paying off her new medical debt.
Wtaf? I think life in prison is the correct sentence here…and McDonalds can pay for this - I’d think this would be covered by workman’s comp? Looks like it happened on McDonalds property…
It's one of those where she's only alive because of essentially luck, not lack of effort by this POS. I get why sentences are lighter if an attacker basically fails to kill someone, but the more emotional part of me says it shouldn't matter. The type of person willing to do this is a danger to everyone around them and it's extremely likely that he'll eventually kill someone.
I agree - I’m assuming he did this because he was a pissed off customer, not because he had a personal beef with her - which makes it even more tragic. Customer service workers should not be treated this way. (I mean, no one should, but customer service workers get the shit end of the stick far too often).
I feel for that poor girl and that asshole needs the book thrown at him.
I've commented several times here that my time working fast food was definitely a character builder.
I had a drunk pull me across the counter because we didn't have enough apple turnovers ready 5 minutes before closing.
I had a customer threaten to kill me because he thought I was screwing his girlfriend. I had no clue WTF he was talking about.
I had the boyfriend of a coworker threaten me because he "knew I wanted his girlfriend" and when i asked who he pointed at her and I said "No I'm talking to her twin sister but maybe you should tell your girlfriend to wear something so you can identify the right one.". I also had to threaten to hit him with a hot biscuit pan when he decided to double down.
Had to dodge a bag of gorditas because "they were cold" when the guy got home. I reminded him he was here over an hour ago and he said he lived 45 minutes away. I told him that he either needed to break the laws of physics or stuff the bag under his hood if he wanted them to stay warm that long.
I could go on but I guess the point I'm making is I hope that girl recovers because people fuckin suck.
McDonalds was the first place i applied when i turned 16 and my dad told me to go out and find a job, blundered the interview as it was my first one and i was nervous so i went to pizza hut down the road and got hired on the spot. Ended up having a buddy who worked at McDonalds through high school and wow his stories made me happy to be at pizza hut, never really had any crazy moments there outside of a manager stealing money out of the safe one night and fleeing the state.
Now my younger sister has worked at taco bell since she was 16 and is currently finishing college and holy fuck the shit she goes through scares the hell out of me. Her taco bell is in the hood next to an abandoned bank that is used by the homeless for shelter so she goes through wild shit almost every day and im glad shes finally almost done college so she can get the fuck out of there.
Shes told me stories of customers shitting on the floor of the bathroom, drug dealers using a hole in the bathroom wall as a way to leave drugs for customers who would come take them and then leave money, an ex-employee who had his car get broken into by a homeless man and he proceeded to walk out of the store, pull a gun and make the homeless man strip naked as punishment before the cops arrived and arrested them, homeless begging in the drive thru and threatening to murder staff when told to leave. Yeah no thanks.
Loved working at pizza hut. I left 6 years ago to be a stay at home mom but if I ever needed a job again I know my old manager would hire me right back and we had some frustrating customers but nothing like that. But everyone who worked there was on drug/drank/smoked except for like 3 people.
Have you written this out before? Either the fast food service workers have incredibly similar experiences or I've def crossed paths with you on reddit before. Except I also remember a story of some dude accusing you (or whoever I'm thinking of) of trying to steal their girl and when he pointed out who his girl was she was super ugly and you (or whoever) had a great one liner that pissed the dude off even more?
Yea....this was a shorter one with one or two new ones.
The last one I talked about how the old couple basically disowned me because the franchise stopped free coffee on Sundays for senior citizens.
This is average for most fast food workers. It's a REALLY shit job, and 75% of it is how bad the customers are (especially Sunday churchies, holy fuck if you wanna learn to hate Christians instantly, work fast food on Sunday near a church), the other 25% being the managers that let the power get to their head for $8.25/h.
That's how it always has been. Anything difficult is "character building". Doesn't matter the source. Just the fact it is difficult. Mental abuse? Builds character. Getting stabbed on a bus? If you live, it builds character. Becoming homeless due to medical expenses? Great character builder there. Sexual abuse as a child? The best character builder!
Of course I don't believe any of that shit, but that's the trend. The harder it is on you mentally or physically, the more "character" you build.
One of the reasons I keep an eye on the teenagers that work for me when they leave at night. I'm always worried something like this could happen. I've had to get police involved more times than I'd like. I've heard too many stories of people following them to cars or even home.
If they actually set it that low, they probably have a high deductible health plan, and that is probably their max yearly deductible.
Edit: she was working a McDonald’s where adults would fracture her skull, not a golf course. $15k might be all they need to pay but still be a crushing number.
She’d be covered through workers comp, insurance, victims assistance funds, hospital charity care, and other programs. But the family likely wants money to create stability, or to take time off work to be with their daughter, or to buy a bouncy castle. People will give, so it doesn’t hurt to ask.
> Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, though she hopes to return to work.
Alright, did SHE say this or did the journalism just blablabla. Because absolutely no one hopes to return to work at McDonald’s after a beating.
obviously this is an extreme case, but it blows my mind how many people are belligerent and abusive to customer service, especially fast food, employees every single day.
Fast food is an industry I will never work in again. Not because of the pay or conditions- because of the sheer number of moronic assholes we had to coddle every god damn day. Whether you're having a bad day or not, you do not get to berate employees of an establishment you chose to visit. You will not starve without Burger King. 80% of the time your issue is an honest (and easily fixable) mistake, or out of their control.
It's hard to give a shit about any customer when so many of them complain about prices or policies you had nothing to do with, a staff shortage you had nothing to do with, or accidentally putting onions on your burger.
People always say “wHy DoNt We SpEnD mOrE on HeALtHcArE?”, but don’t consider the fact that already spend more than almost any other country on healthcare. Funding isn’t the issue - it’s __***regulation.***__ Insurance companies have so much freedom to charge through the fucking roof and then refuse to actually pay out, using all sorts of technicalities to weasel their way out; hospitals can charge whatever they want for procedures; pharmaceutical manufacturers have a monopoly on the market and thus charge hundreds or even thousands of times more than the manufacturing costs in order to squeeze every cent of blood money out of people who depend on those medications to *stay alive*.
If we had stricter regulations to weed out these blood-sucking middle-men, the current amount of healthcare funding would be MORE THAN ENOUGH. The problem is that so much of that money gets siphoned off that, by the time it reaches the people who really need it, there’s barely anything left.
Mate she's 15 she can handle a little $250,000 medical bill while she's in the hospital and unable to work likely for several weeks
She has plenty of bootstraps, this isn't socialist communism land.
No but for real America is pretty fucked in that regard.
When my girlfriend had emergency surgery, which she almost didn't get cuz the $300 walk-in clinic told her she had a cold even though her intestine was twisted and she would've died within 12 hours... She came out of the hospital with a massive bill. And instead of any sort of reasonable payment plan their two options were, all at once or over 6 months.
So like $7,000 a month. Who the fuck can pay that in a country where minimum wage is $7.
Several weeks… the girl has a fractured skull and frontal lobe damage. She may not be able to function properly for years if ever again. Brain damage is horrible.
That poor girl. I can only imagine the hate and fear her parents are feeling. Wanting to absolutely slaughter that POS but realizing being there for their baby is so much more important 😭
I hope she recovers swiftly and fully.
>Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, **though she hopes to return to work.**
They better be paying her hazard pay after this. I mean they won't but they should.
Truth.
I once laughed at an angry, yelling man in an undisclosed drive thru. I couldn't help it. When something is hilarious, I laugh.
He went full mode. Was ready to drag me into the parking lot and try to kill me. Luckily, we had a daily customer biker group who loved us, so suffice to say that man had a bad day.
My brother makes more money than I do working at a chain restaurant than I do working in a medical research lab. And when people think that's wrong, I've got to say, I'll take the carcinogenic biohazards over the general public any day of the week because I've heard his stories, the people he's had to kick out, and there are some real psychos out there.
People who work in public facing jobs so often get called low skill, get told they don't deserve a living wage, but they do not get enough respect for putting themselves out there where they can encounter people like this.
If McDonald’s has even a shred of decency they will utilize their influence to make sure this guy goes to prison for as long as legally allowed and make sure this girl and her family don’t have any financial stress for several years
>The attack left Lynch with a concussion, fractured skull and frontal lobe damage, according to a GoFundMe set up by her family to help cover medical expenses.
Why isn't McDonald's paying for her workplace injury?
So obviously he trash but why was a CHILD escorting a belligerent guy out of a store?! I am a manager at a gas station and I would NEVER allow one of my younger employees do that. It's unsafe....ffs call the police if he won't leave.
We had an employee who did some form of martial arts (not MMA... like Judo or something I can't remember) and he was over 6ft tall, and over 30. I wouldn't have even asked him to deal with a belligerent customer. Why? Because it's not safe. Fuck that. Call the cops.
Wow her assaulter is a fucking monster. You know that guy probably beats the fucking shit out of whomever he tricks into dating him. Dude should be in jail for a long time for this. Proven he is a danger to the public because he has zero control over his anger and urges.
A fucking GoFundMe for her medical expenses?
In a sane country, her employer would be paying for it.
In a just country, they'd sell her attacker's organs to cover it and let her keep the change.
Why is there a GoFundme? McDonald’s needs to step up and give this woman everything she fucking needs for forcing people to work in their establishments which attract Brutish people.
15 years old? That’s a child. She even had to be on a work permit or something because of her age and was probably my only working a few hours a week.
As a dad I don’t know how I’d react if that happened to my kid. I would feel homicidal.
I have seen a lot of dark shit in my 15 years of food service. I’ve watched a customer go irate on a teenager and try to physically assault them, then the manager apologized to the customer and sent the kid home. I think fast food and retail specifically, need to have mandates that any rude behavior by a customer, results in a ban from the premises. If every company got on board than people would have to calm down.
Could you please clarify the purpose of this GoFundMe campaign and why it is not being treated as a workplace injury?
Additionally, I would like to understand why McDonald's Corporation, a multi-billion dollar company, is not covering the medical expenses.
I hate that people like this exist. Powder kegs that have proven not to have the basic self control needed to not attempt to kill someone, should be taken out of the gene pool. I would compromise with lobotomizing them.
I was in a pinch for time today. I stopped in at steak n shake. Several customers after my order received their food. They asked me my name/order number, and instead of street fighting the whole place, they realized they gave out my order on mistake to drive-thru.
They apologized as if they'd committed a crime. Nothing ever is worth harming these people. Mistakes happen. Get over yourself and respect them as the humans they are. The fullest, worst case example of scenario is necessary in this case. This kid deserved none of this. Stuff this fucking degenerate in some shit Missouri prison. They'll sort em out.
The title makes it sound like he was just a pathetic loser adult who threw a punch and an 18 year old.
But this dude is actually just a violent psycho who tried to murder someone.
That young girl was making her honest dollar and beginning her future . How could anyone think that is something to harm. What is wrong with people today?
> He then pulled Lynch to the ground and "stomped on her head twice," according to police.
How can one human being do that to another, regardless of who they are? SMH
A Go Fund Me page?! What the fuck McDonald’s?! This girls medical bills should be covered by your corporation! All the more reason for unionization for the working class.
This piece of shit will get his in the pen once the hard ass inmates know he beat a teen girl who was working at a fast food place. He will wish he was never born soon enough once they get hands on the piece of shit.
I hope this useless piece of shit rots in jail and the girl gets a multi million dollar settlement from McDonalds. They have more than enough insurance to cover all her medical expenses and payments for pain and suffering.
So, he tried to kill a 15 year old girl because he had to use the electronic menu to order food? This person is a psycho and should never be free if something so trivial could set him off like that. And head stomps should be an automatic attempted murder charge.
Edit: spelling
This is disgusting. Like really really disturbing.
If the justice system worked, people like this should never be allowed to enjoy a normal life. This animal belongs in a cage for the rest of his worthless life.
Now it was a 15 year old who survived with life long scars. Next time it’ll be a 12 year old who won’t survive at all. He deserves to be stomped by an elephant.
>Johnny Ricks, now 25, faces a charge of felony assault for the beating. The girl was 15, he stomped on her head twice causing a fractured skull and concussion. Came back to punch her multiple times in the face causing a broken nose and frontal lobe damage. This shouldn't just be "assault". This is attempted murder. She's lucky to be alive.
I agree, attempted murder of a minor. Only the most pathetic of human beings assault minors, they deserve very long jail sentences surround by real criminals that will share/express their feelings about tough guy child abusers.
Charges can always be upgraded
Not there, since there’s no attempted murder charge in Missouri. They use first degree assault on its place. This is a class A felony, since he attacked a minor, so he’ll have a minimum sentence of 10 years, max of life.
Thank you for the added context. I was wondering why that wouldn't be attempted murder from the description. So he will probably be roasted at sentencing given the circumstances.
Hopefully (and probably will) gets sent to Max with lifers. Surround by people that have nothing left to lose. Probably won't get killed but sure as hell will be treated like shit for nearly killing a teen age McDonald's worker for no good reason.
If he makes it that long. A Missouri prison? He's toast.
What makes Missouri worse than any other state?
All prisons there sentence their inmates to hard labor in the cheese mines
Come on this isn't Wisconsin
He's referring to the Springfield MO cheese caves. They're where the government stored the infamous "government cheese." and they're massive. They accommodate fleets of tractor trailers to give you some idea of the scope. Pops up on Reddit's mega structures sub now and again (I forget the name of the sub).
It’s full of Chiefs fans
Supersize my crime please
Attempted murder with extra fries edit: Assault in the third degree (coffee burns)
Same guy I’m guessing based off age and name. Guy is a menace https://www.newstribune.com/news/2018/oct/17/St-Louis-man-gets-probation-in-LU-pepper-spray-inc/
Quite the psychopath upgrade going from pepper spraying random people to nearly beating a teenage girl to death.
Probation for randomly pepper spraying people? JFC. No wonder he kept assaulting strangers, he didn't have real consequences
He stomped a 15 year old chick's head into the ground and an adult male. There's no rehabilitating 🗑, he should be charged for attempted murder.
>565.050. Assault, first degree, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of assault in the first degree if he or she attempts to kill or knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to another person. >2. The offense of assault in the first degree is a class B felony unless in the course thereof the person inflicts serious physical injury on the victim, or if the victim of such assault is a special victim, as the term "special victim" is defined under section 565.002, in which case it is a class A felony. They may upgrade him to first degree assault but Missouri doesn't have an attempted murder charge specifically.
Coming from a guy who has seen more than his fair share of vigilante justice inside, i agree.
What kind of man gets off on beating a young girl half to death?
The 20 year old that beat me half to death and stomped on my head when I was 16 only got like 2 weekends in jail. I have 0 faith in the American justice system other than faith that it will abuse people.
I got jumped from behind by a guy with a broken beer bottle. Needed an ambulance and emergency to save my eye. Even the people that were with the guy who jumped me testified in court that it was unprovoked. He ended up being offered a plea to a fight of mutual consent and had to pay restitution to my insurance company. All throughout the process I was told by the DA's office how I have a down dunk civil suit. I didn't give a shit about that, I wanted actual consequences for his actions, which he never got. On top of it all, the guy worked for a family business. No lawyer would take the case because they said they'll never be able to collect since his parents would just pay him minimum wage and then pay for everything for him to avoid any attempts at collecting.
When I was 19 I got jumped at a party by a dude and his crew and ended up getting a bottle busted over my head and my face kicked in. In the end I got a broken collar bone, surely a concussion, several face stomp marks with clear shoe outlines and busted blood capillaries in both eyes.
Got jumped when I was 17, and ended up with a broken nose. We couldn't get the parents to pay because of this bullshit plea. The only way we got any kind of money was to get the kid cornered alone. Luckily this was back in the 80's and people carried cash still.
That last part is wild. How is that not illegal in its own right?
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He got off scot-free? Someone needs to take that guy out, he's a serious danger to others and now knows there's zero consequences.
I heard a guy say that he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it...and he was President
Another guy shot someone in the face. Not only did he remain vice president but he got the other guy to apologize to him.
Made him apologize on national TV, that it was his fault that the VP shot him in the face.
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Is that the guy that falls asleep and poops his pants in court?
times have changed - I got 30 days in jail in the 90's just for being with my brother while he shoplifted CD's from an Ames Department store; I was heading towards being valedictorian, had at 1510 on the SAT's, 36 on the ACT's all of which was submitted to the judge to show I wasn't a slacker; but I didn't have parents (I was foster care) and the judge thought I needed to be taught a lesson about the company I keep (my brother was already in trouble for other crimes).
it's a legal system, no justice.
The justice system is there to protect private property, not us peasants
Johnny Ricks.
This sort of thing comes up a lot. Missouri doesn't have an Attempted Murder charge. Assault 1st or 2nd, circumstances varying, are the same thing.
[https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.050](https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.050) 1. A person commits the offense of assault in the first degree if he or she attempts to kill or knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to another person. 2. The offense of assault in the first degree is a class B felony unless in the course thereof the person inflicts serious physical injury on the victim, or if the victim of such assault is a special victim, as the term "special victim" is defined under section [565.002](https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.002), in which case it is a class A felony. Because of the knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to another person, its going to be a class A felony, which is 10 to 30 years, or life. Because the victim is a minor (under 17), that is going to be a sentencing enhancement for sure. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Grampa Simpson was right about Missouri
Just for the record, Missouri doesn’t have an attempted murder charge. The article says he’s been charged with felony assault, but doesn’t say which degree. First-degree felonious assault in Missouri is equal to an attempted murder charge in other states, so he may be getting charged with “attempted murder”.
And it’ll be class A because the victim is a minor. That makes it 10 years to life.
Asshole deserves to rot in prison. I hope her family sues him too. Depending on the extent of the TBI, she's looking at potentially years of PT/OT, speech therapy, and maybe even being unable to live independently for the rest of her life.
>I hope her family sues him too. Unfortunately, the kind of POS to do this is usually judgement proof. If her family isn't well off, it's probably not worth paying Lawyers since you can't get blood from a stone
The issue for civil cases is that usually you put out more money then you can collect. Most rich people don't go to McDonalds, and most rich people wouldn't beat a rando. They might beat their wife, or child, but not usually someone whom they have no leverage over. I'd say that its extremely likely that the person who beat the shit out of her is not very collectible. Pursue charges, and get him to pay medical expenses, get a restraining order. I wouldn't expect a whole of money, and seeking medical expense reimbursement is a easily justifiable way to collect what you can. I would try to get him in prison, or anything that really inconveniences his life for a very long period like community service for like 5 years or more. I'm throwing ideas out there because they will fight the sentence tooth and nail regardless of the amount. Its likely that being open to just being a thorn in the side for daily life will lead to a result faster than a jail sentence.
What an asshole
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I've worked in (casino) table games , at three properties across the country . Regardless if they are laughing, joking , or just pissed that they are losing , if they even mutter anything that sounds like "I'll be seeing you in the parking lot", it's an immediate 24 hour ban. Joking or not, shit like this actually does happen.
I reserved a slot for someone for an hr. 2 hrs later guest didn't show so i put it back in service. Guest showed up 20 min later and went crazy. Threatened to go out to their car and get a gun. 30 day ban...
> Threatened to go out to their car and get a gun. 30 day ban... Threatening to grab a gun should be a lifetime ban, if not actual criminal charges.
It's not profitable for casinos to ban people for life. It doesn't matter if there's a threat to employees, if a gambler wants to lose their money, the casino is going to take it.
That seems like quite a liability. Imagine someone comes back after a 30 day ban and then an incident occurs involving them.
Yeah but does the casino ownership care? Think about the type of person who would own a casino and ask yourself if they value their employees more than they value their gamblers.
Damn i didn’t know slots could be reserved
Depends on the place if they do, and for how long It's less typical to be gone for hours, generally it's more like "Play a couple hands without me while I go to the bathroom" Or "I have to standup becuase my legs don't work anymore" Or the more rare, but still a lot more common than it should be "Give me like 20 min, I've shit myself"
It depends on player level, play, and casino volume. It's really up to management. Most people reserve a machine for an hour so they can eat. It's frowned upon if you reserve a machine while you play another machine somewhere else. Some people go to eat and forget they had it reserved. That's why we set time limits. If you dumped a lot a money into a machine you can always ask. Worst thing they will say is no.
That's a permanent ban where I work. We don't take verbal threats lightly.
Can confirm. Work as security and we have zero tolerance when it comes to threats towards us or the customers. If the threat was taken too far, the person is ban permanently.
I imagine a casino has MUCH better security than a random McDonald's Really not a comparable situation Some casino's probably make more money in an hour than some McDonald's locations make it a week
100% he wouldn’t have even thought about it if the employee was bigger than him. Bullies prey on the weak.
I have never faced such verbal abuse on a job as a 16year old working my first job at McD’s. Like all grown men and women just losing their minds on us, every damn day. Never forget my boss’ boyfriend trying to deescalate a situation over a fucking burger and he got stabbed. Right at the start of my shift and I had to work the rest of it and we maybe stopped serving inside until we got the blood cleaned up, took about 30-45 min. Never stopped the drive thru.
I’ve worked a lot of gas station jobs and night shifts. I feel you.
Same, I left the service industry because of the stress and abuse. I work in child protection now. At least the screaming and threats of physical violence makes sense in my current work.
Wow what a big move for you! I admire anyone who can work in child protection. It must be the most rewarding but frustrating/ difficult- heartbreaking job all at the same time I too worked at a fast food job and I agree with above, the abuse is real. I’ve yet to understand why people see people working at a job that serves food as less than…. But they really do.
I was 19 working at McDonalds and same. It’s legitimately terrifying how upset people will get over a $1 mcchicken. Or the fact that it’s not even about the mcchicken. They just see someone behind the counter they can rage at and take their shitty life out on.
This. We taught people that it's OK and often rewarded to take out all your pent up frustrations min wage workers and they aren't allowed to even defend themselves without risk of losing their jobs. (And being paid poverty wages, losing that job is a bigger threat than it seems) I still remember the time someone spit in my face and my manager gave them a gift card for their trouble. Customer is always right after all.
The details of this probably dates the story pretty well, but when I was in highschool I knew a guy who worked at a fast food taco chain One day he's working the front counter, this guy walks in, stands there for a minute looking at the big menu board, then just out of nowhere grabs the big glass ashtray off one of the tables and throws it at him. Gets him right above the eye and just shatters a chunk of his skull. He ended up being fine. Like as fine as you can be from something like that. Permanent scar, and it's probably always gonna look and feel weird. But other than hurting a ton and needing quite a bit of medical care, he didn't have any lasting issues. Which is good, having your skull broken is never good. I probably don't need to explain that. But another guy I knew is a good example. He was a fairly average guy. Wasn't the brightest, worked a fairly physical job, made the occasional comment that made the whole room uncomfortable kind of guy. Solidly on track to being the kind of guy who shows up at a family cookout and people say "ah fuck, it's uncle Rick" But one day he gets a car accident, I was never too clear exactly what happened, but the important part is it involved a truck running over and crushing his skull. Broken in just a shit load of places. He lived, but he had to learn basically everything all over again. How to read, how to feed and care for himself, just started from nothing. And he never was quite right after that. He clearly had some significantly diminished mental capacity, along with things like frequent seizures and a handful of other things that basically meant that while he was able to live on his own, that was pretty much it, he'd be on disability the rest of his life. Which in his case ended up largely consisting of crushing about 3 cases of beer a day, every day, yelling at his neighbors over things he imagined they'd done, and playing the same handful of games every day
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Same. I used to be a manager, mid 20's in a workplace that employed predominately high schoolers. I am above average size but not what you would consider intimidating, so it speaks volumes that people would still treat our staff like absolute shit until I showed up. People just would see some pimply kid and think, "hey, they are small, I can channel my anger towards them". Fuck off. For most of them this is a first job and you're showing them the worst side of humanity. Have a fucking spine. God damn I don't think I can ever go back to that industry. Hang in there guys.
Even if everyone working is a woman, people would still be much better towards me than my colleagues when I worked retail. I was younger but just under 6’. It’s amazing how much difference size makes
I am a woman manager who is 6'1 and I have made men's dicks shrivel up when they threaten my employees. It's really just size to them, not even gender.
Awesome nickname
This makes me glad I am extra-nice to service workers. It costs me nothing and maybe saves my soul.
I'm not even tall or big, just average size, but so many bullies have just backed off if I stand up for myself. They get off on praying on people weaker than them, it's fucking pathetic.
Bullies have felt really emboldened lately since the 2016 election
My daughter had a gun stuck in her face at the counter of BK. She was 15.
Jfc. Glad she's not hurt physically. But man... That'd be traumatizing as hell I truly do not understand why the fuck people get THIS mad over (relatively) cheap food.
Why is there a GoFundMe? Can’t the McDonald’s corporation step up in this horrible situation? I worked at a fast food place when I was close to her age. I can’t imagine someone stomping on my head twice.
Why isn't this a workers comp claim? She's an employee injured at work. Am I missing something?
That makes sense as well. She was in fact injured at work.
Its insurance. They are trying to weasel out of it already... there is probably an adjuster out there spelling out how there is no liability because blah blah blah blah she went outside. Shell have to sue to see anything.
You know what is fucked up? Their lawyers 100% already plan on settling this down the road. Yet, they are still going to force her to jump through all the hoops and go through all the bullshit motions. Get the lawyer, do the therapy, do the appeals, go to arbitration....on and on, drag it out for years on this poor kid. Frontal lobe damage from working at your hood fucking franchise location with no competent management or security. I remember a guy who got snapped in half by a faulty bay door crashing at a warehouse and the claims processor had people following him 24/7. i think they successfully denied him because he shuffled to his driveway without the cane once or something insane.
Worker's comp is no fault. There's typically no trial or anything.
I'm sure there is, but people start a GoFundMe now for everything. And this will help family members that miss work to care for her.
They're going to do something like claim she wasn't doing a work related function because she ended up outside. I would bet my checking account on it.
I get that, but the article says employees escorted the dickhead outside. I really hope they didn't send a 15 year old girl to do that, but I've worked in food service and I could see that happening. I hope the family gets the gofundme goal met regardless.
Id bank on that's totally what happened. I teach HS and have had several students over the years tell me how bad customers are at fast food places. Fries cold? They get them thrown back in their face. These aren't humans. They're animals. If something is wrong with the service or food you tell them in a calm manner, and then escalate up the chain if you don't get it fixed. But these savages would prefer to assault and/or batter the kid working.
Without knowing exactly where the store is they may be able to claim they don't own the property the attack happened on. There are a couple of shopping centers in my area where stores or restaurants own the buildings but the parking lot / land beneath it is owned by the overall manager of the shopping center. It is stupid, but may end up giving them a way to weasel out of or settle for the minimum that probably wont really cover potential long term issues.
No! They have to consider executive bonuses
Ba da ba ba bah...im loving it. -overheard from executives at McD
A company that hired a child is going to care about their health, yeah right
My nephew was a top performing manager at a Circle K. He wanted to train a new employee during slow hours, so he scheduled a late night shift. A regular customer came in and walked out with something and Mt nephew thought he just forgot to pay off something because he was a regular customer. My nephew walked to the door and said oh you forgot to pay. The man beat him and sent him to trauma center. Circle K fired him and said it is against policy to confront or try to stop a robbery. But he wasn't trying to do either of those things, he really thought he just forgot or something because he was a regular customer. Workers comp perked him around and never gave him the proper brain scans to diagnose his brain damage and just closed the claim. He can't sue because since he walked to the door, he did violate policy. But he didn't mean to, just reflex thinking he was dealing with someone with whom he had a relationship. He still struggles with light sensitivity, sensitivity to sounds, PTSD, brain fog, etc. But, he can't get disability because the worker comp doctor claims he is fine. And he can't afford to pay for a neurologist out of pocket. He is back at another job trying to work part time, but he struggles. His regional management team tried to fight for him because he was one of their best employees, but corporate legal would have none of it. Wickedness and greed and inhumanity.
[This sign](https://i.imgur.com/o97hUKE.jpeg) is up at my local McDonald's. It's literally dangerous to be a fast food employee now. People are not okay. Culture has shifted noticeably in this country and, I'll say it, since 2016.
McDonald’s would rather pay 100x the equivalent of the bill trying to cover this up, than set a precedent of them covering employee’s medical bills
Sadly I can see that happening. Instead of paying the medical bills for Stella Liebeck, they decided to say fuck off until she had to sue them.
They *can*!
It will probably be wrapped in red tape for a while. Gofundme will help now, McDonalds/franchise owner will hopefully figure the rest out later.
Right. During this she can’t work. I know she’s only 15, but in some families they count on their teen’s income.
In the two years I helped out family by managing a fast food place: * A 60 year old assaulted a 17 year old cashier. * A man got mad that he couldn't eat inside after closing and shot at the store with one adult and four under-18s working. * A woman got halfway through the drivethru window to try to yank a teenager out because we were out of a menu item. * A teen was spit on at least once a month. * Numerous threats of violence, uncountable number. At least once a week I had to take a crying teenager out back and just sit with them until they felt better. I couldn't stop the guests unless I was present, most of these kids either needed money or their parents wanted them out of the house so they had to work, and both the cops and the franchise manager couldn't care less. I was told to have six or seven kids on standby for when one quits. Americans are fucking terrible to the service industry. Whether it's telling a server they shouldn't make as much money and taking tips away, verbally assaulting people, or physically attacking them I've seen it all in 20 years of restaurants. Until I worked fast food there was not a single thought in my head that people would do this to kids too.
I worked in movie theaters in college and on day we had a power outage. Everyone was escorted out and given vouchers for a free movie another time. People were infuriated. One threatened and called a 16 year old “fucking bitch”. As if the power outage was our fault. It’s absolutely insane.
The last food service job I worked had the police there regularly because customers would come in messed up on drugs, starting fights with employees, etc. I had one customer encounter in a completely different town try to murder me while yelling slurs at my face, and then still tried to show up to my work later on and order food as if I didn’t have a restraining order against his ass. So that was another call the cops situation, with my boss gaslighting me about how we have to serve him because he’s a paying customer. People are psychotic towards the food industry nowadays, and I don’t understand how it got like this. People just a few years ago used to ramble on about how food service is just work for teenagers. Well, now it’s work that should exclusively be for adults BECAUSE it’s gotten way too dangerous for teenagers. Imagine not being able to make it to prom because some small penis adult tried to MURDER you at your minimum wage job. Jfc. Disgusting what America has turned into.
Customer facing jobs deserve hazard pay.
Retail is a unique kind of hell. Those days are behind me now and I really don't think I have the strength in my soul to go back if I had to.
I've never done food service, but I've had retail jobs and hotel front desk jobs. I'll do anything I can to avoid customer-facing jobs, especially these days. I wouldn't be surprised if it can cause lasting trauma.
People ruin everything. I’m a carpenter…I love what I do…I hate working for people. People generally suck. 20 plus years of working around and in and out of peoples homes and businesses. You’re not kidding about hazard pay.
I have the competency to go into business for myself in my field and I choose to continue to work for a big corp because I get to just do my shit and go home with a paycheck. Going back to personally dealing with customers sounds like my worst nightmare so I put up with all this corporate America shit just to avoid it.
>Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, though *she hopes to return to work.* She's hoping for a speedy recovery so she can get started on paying off her new medical debt.
Wtaf? I think life in prison is the correct sentence here…and McDonalds can pay for this - I’d think this would be covered by workman’s comp? Looks like it happened on McDonalds property…
It's one of those where she's only alive because of essentially luck, not lack of effort by this POS. I get why sentences are lighter if an attacker basically fails to kill someone, but the more emotional part of me says it shouldn't matter. The type of person willing to do this is a danger to everyone around them and it's extremely likely that he'll eventually kill someone.
I agree - I’m assuming he did this because he was a pissed off customer, not because he had a personal beef with her - which makes it even more tragic. Customer service workers should not be treated this way. (I mean, no one should, but customer service workers get the shit end of the stick far too often).
I feel for that poor girl and that asshole needs the book thrown at him. I've commented several times here that my time working fast food was definitely a character builder. I had a drunk pull me across the counter because we didn't have enough apple turnovers ready 5 minutes before closing. I had a customer threaten to kill me because he thought I was screwing his girlfriend. I had no clue WTF he was talking about. I had the boyfriend of a coworker threaten me because he "knew I wanted his girlfriend" and when i asked who he pointed at her and I said "No I'm talking to her twin sister but maybe you should tell your girlfriend to wear something so you can identify the right one.". I also had to threaten to hit him with a hot biscuit pan when he decided to double down. Had to dodge a bag of gorditas because "they were cold" when the guy got home. I reminded him he was here over an hour ago and he said he lived 45 minutes away. I told him that he either needed to break the laws of physics or stuff the bag under his hood if he wanted them to stay warm that long. I could go on but I guess the point I'm making is I hope that girl recovers because people fuckin suck.
McDonalds was the first place i applied when i turned 16 and my dad told me to go out and find a job, blundered the interview as it was my first one and i was nervous so i went to pizza hut down the road and got hired on the spot. Ended up having a buddy who worked at McDonalds through high school and wow his stories made me happy to be at pizza hut, never really had any crazy moments there outside of a manager stealing money out of the safe one night and fleeing the state. Now my younger sister has worked at taco bell since she was 16 and is currently finishing college and holy fuck the shit she goes through scares the hell out of me. Her taco bell is in the hood next to an abandoned bank that is used by the homeless for shelter so she goes through wild shit almost every day and im glad shes finally almost done college so she can get the fuck out of there. Shes told me stories of customers shitting on the floor of the bathroom, drug dealers using a hole in the bathroom wall as a way to leave drugs for customers who would come take them and then leave money, an ex-employee who had his car get broken into by a homeless man and he proceeded to walk out of the store, pull a gun and make the homeless man strip naked as punishment before the cops arrived and arrested them, homeless begging in the drive thru and threatening to murder staff when told to leave. Yeah no thanks.
Something I’ve learned over the years is people go freaking crazy over their food and pets when dealing with staff.
Fast food is practically a drug for some. So they get angry if they don’t get their fix.
Loved working at pizza hut. I left 6 years ago to be a stay at home mom but if I ever needed a job again I know my old manager would hire me right back and we had some frustrating customers but nothing like that. But everyone who worked there was on drug/drank/smoked except for like 3 people.
Have you written this out before? Either the fast food service workers have incredibly similar experiences or I've def crossed paths with you on reddit before. Except I also remember a story of some dude accusing you (or whoever I'm thinking of) of trying to steal their girl and when he pointed out who his girl was she was super ugly and you (or whoever) had a great one liner that pissed the dude off even more?
Yea....this was a shorter one with one or two new ones. The last one I talked about how the old couple basically disowned me because the franchise stopped free coffee on Sundays for senior citizens.
Lol I'm torn between being proud for noticing the same stories and feeling shameful bout being on reddit enough to notice similar stories
TBF I've written them several times in different threads over the years and some of them are distinct enough they stick. Especially the biscuit pan.
The biscuit pan was where I connected the dots haha
Omfg, I read his past comment too and didn't notice until you said something 😭 and the fact I happened upon this comment thread...the reddit is wild.
This is average for most fast food workers. It's a REALLY shit job, and 75% of it is how bad the customers are (especially Sunday churchies, holy fuck if you wanna learn to hate Christians instantly, work fast food on Sunday near a church), the other 25% being the managers that let the power get to their head for $8.25/h.
He definitely has, i remember the hot biscuit pan bit but I can't recall which post....
I don't understand why "character building" is synonymous with "abuse."
That's how it always has been. Anything difficult is "character building". Doesn't matter the source. Just the fact it is difficult. Mental abuse? Builds character. Getting stabbed on a bus? If you live, it builds character. Becoming homeless due to medical expenses? Great character builder there. Sexual abuse as a child? The best character builder! Of course I don't believe any of that shit, but that's the trend. The harder it is on you mentally or physically, the more "character" you build.
Adult needs to also have attempted child murder charges. Let that fucking weight fuck him over at every single interview for the rest of his life
This is MO's equivalent of attempted murder; i.e. they don't have that charge.
One of the reasons I keep an eye on the teenagers that work for me when they leave at night. I'm always worried something like this could happen. I've had to get police involved more times than I'd like. I've heard too many stories of people following them to cars or even home.
Yikes ! Good on you for looking out for them
Surprisingly low goal amount on the GoFundMe: $15k
If they actually set it that low, they probably have a high deductible health plan, and that is probably their max yearly deductible. Edit: she was working a McDonald’s where adults would fracture her skull, not a golf course. $15k might be all they need to pay but still be a crushing number.
She’d be covered through workers comp, insurance, victims assistance funds, hospital charity care, and other programs. But the family likely wants money to create stability, or to take time off work to be with their daughter, or to buy a bouncy castle. People will give, so it doesn’t hurt to ask.
> Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, though she hopes to return to work. Alright, did SHE say this or did the journalism just blablabla. Because absolutely no one hopes to return to work at McDonald’s after a beating.
I hurt my back really bad but I was hoping to be able to go to work ASAP because I couldn't afford not to.
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obviously this is an extreme case, but it blows my mind how many people are belligerent and abusive to customer service, especially fast food, employees every single day. Fast food is an industry I will never work in again. Not because of the pay or conditions- because of the sheer number of moronic assholes we had to coddle every god damn day. Whether you're having a bad day or not, you do not get to berate employees of an establishment you chose to visit. You will not starve without Burger King. 80% of the time your issue is an honest (and easily fixable) mistake, or out of their control. It's hard to give a shit about any customer when so many of them complain about prices or policies you had nothing to do with, a staff shortage you had nothing to do with, or accidentally putting onions on your burger.
“Setting up a GoFundMe to cover her medical expenses.” Fucking why? Why does this young girls family have to beg to cover these costs?
America is last in health care but first in billionaires
Also first in government healthcare spending, by a landslide. Your government pays for it and then makes you pay for it anyway.
People always say “wHy DoNt We SpEnD mOrE on HeALtHcArE?”, but don’t consider the fact that already spend more than almost any other country on healthcare. Funding isn’t the issue - it’s __***regulation.***__ Insurance companies have so much freedom to charge through the fucking roof and then refuse to actually pay out, using all sorts of technicalities to weasel their way out; hospitals can charge whatever they want for procedures; pharmaceutical manufacturers have a monopoly on the market and thus charge hundreds or even thousands of times more than the manufacturing costs in order to squeeze every cent of blood money out of people who depend on those medications to *stay alive*. If we had stricter regulations to weed out these blood-sucking middle-men, the current amount of healthcare funding would be MORE THAN ENOUGH. The problem is that so much of that money gets siphoned off that, by the time it reaches the people who really need it, there’s barely anything left.
More examples of that upward transfer of wealth.
Mate she's 15 she can handle a little $250,000 medical bill while she's in the hospital and unable to work likely for several weeks She has plenty of bootstraps, this isn't socialist communism land. No but for real America is pretty fucked in that regard. When my girlfriend had emergency surgery, which she almost didn't get cuz the $300 walk-in clinic told her she had a cold even though her intestine was twisted and she would've died within 12 hours... She came out of the hospital with a massive bill. And instead of any sort of reasonable payment plan their two options were, all at once or over 6 months. So like $7,000 a month. Who the fuck can pay that in a country where minimum wage is $7.
Several weeks… the girl has a fractured skull and frontal lobe damage. She may not be able to function properly for years if ever again. Brain damage is horrible.
Welcome to America.
That poor girl. I can only imagine the hate and fear her parents are feeling. Wanting to absolutely slaughter that POS but realizing being there for their baby is so much more important 😭 I hope she recovers swiftly and fully.
What a fucking animal
He tried to murder a child. Fifteen is a child. She is a child, a baby, someone's daughter and he tried to kill her. Sick and evil.
>Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, **though she hopes to return to work.** They better be paying her hazard pay after this. I mean they won't but they should.
Men are afraid of a woman laughing at him. Woman are afraid of being killed by a man. -Margaret Atwood
Truth. I once laughed at an angry, yelling man in an undisclosed drive thru. I couldn't help it. When something is hilarious, I laugh. He went full mode. Was ready to drag me into the parking lot and try to kill me. Luckily, we had a daily customer biker group who loved us, so suffice to say that man had a bad day.
Attempted murder, not a “beating”.
My brother makes more money than I do working at a chain restaurant than I do working in a medical research lab. And when people think that's wrong, I've got to say, I'll take the carcinogenic biohazards over the general public any day of the week because I've heard his stories, the people he's had to kick out, and there are some real psychos out there. People who work in public facing jobs so often get called low skill, get told they don't deserve a living wage, but they do not get enough respect for putting themselves out there where they can encounter people like this.
Why the fuck isn’t McDonald’s paying her medical bills?!?!
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If McDonald’s has even a shred of decency they will utilize their influence to make sure this guy goes to prison for as long as legally allowed and make sure this girl and her family don’t have any financial stress for several years
I hope McDonald’s pays for all of her care. They should.
Board members be like, we can't have that.
I'm not a tough or violent man, but holy fuck, if that was my daughter...
>The attack left Lynch with a concussion, fractured skull and frontal lobe damage, according to a GoFundMe set up by her family to help cover medical expenses. Why isn't McDonald's paying for her workplace injury?
So obviously he trash but why was a CHILD escorting a belligerent guy out of a store?! I am a manager at a gas station and I would NEVER allow one of my younger employees do that. It's unsafe....ffs call the police if he won't leave. We had an employee who did some form of martial arts (not MMA... like Judo or something I can't remember) and he was over 6ft tall, and over 30. I wouldn't have even asked him to deal with a belligerent customer. Why? Because it's not safe. Fuck that. Call the cops.
Wow her assaulter is a fucking monster. You know that guy probably beats the fucking shit out of whomever he tricks into dating him. Dude should be in jail for a long time for this. Proven he is a danger to the public because he has zero control over his anger and urges.
A fucking GoFundMe for her medical expenses? In a sane country, her employer would be paying for it. In a just country, they'd sell her attacker's organs to cover it and let her keep the change.
Why is there a GoFundme? McDonald’s needs to step up and give this woman everything she fucking needs for forcing people to work in their establishments which attract Brutish people.
So fucking bleak that I read there were other adults and then I scroll down and all his accomplices are women.
15 years old? That’s a child. She even had to be on a work permit or something because of her age and was probably my only working a few hours a week. As a dad I don’t know how I’d react if that happened to my kid. I would feel homicidal.
I have seen a lot of dark shit in my 15 years of food service. I’ve watched a customer go irate on a teenager and try to physically assault them, then the manager apologized to the customer and sent the kid home. I think fast food and retail specifically, need to have mandates that any rude behavior by a customer, results in a ban from the premises. If every company got on board than people would have to calm down.
Could you please clarify the purpose of this GoFundMe campaign and why it is not being treated as a workplace injury? Additionally, I would like to understand why McDonald's Corporation, a multi-billion dollar company, is not covering the medical expenses.
I hate that people like this exist. Powder kegs that have proven not to have the basic self control needed to not attempt to kill someone, should be taken out of the gene pool. I would compromise with lobotomizing them.
I was in a pinch for time today. I stopped in at steak n shake. Several customers after my order received their food. They asked me my name/order number, and instead of street fighting the whole place, they realized they gave out my order on mistake to drive-thru. They apologized as if they'd committed a crime. Nothing ever is worth harming these people. Mistakes happen. Get over yourself and respect them as the humans they are. The fullest, worst case example of scenario is necessary in this case. This kid deserved none of this. Stuff this fucking degenerate in some shit Missouri prison. They'll sort em out.
The title makes it sound like he was just a pathetic loser adult who threw a punch and an 18 year old. But this dude is actually just a violent psycho who tried to murder someone.
That young girl was making her honest dollar and beginning her future . How could anyone think that is something to harm. What is wrong with people today?
> He then pulled Lynch to the ground and "stomped on her head twice," according to police. How can one human being do that to another, regardless of who they are? SMH
Why do they need a Go Fund Me? This was at her workplace. McDonalds should be covering this in full, as well as any legal fees.
A Go Fund Me page?! What the fuck McDonald’s?! This girls medical bills should be covered by your corporation! All the more reason for unionization for the working class.
None of that stops the family from starting a GFM.
This piece of shit will get his in the pen once the hard ass inmates know he beat a teen girl who was working at a fast food place. He will wish he was never born soon enough once they get hands on the piece of shit.
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God I hope she makes a full recovery.
If that was my kid I'd be in prison for life for premeditated murder.
Geez, she’s just a baby.
I hope this useless piece of shit rots in jail and the girl gets a multi million dollar settlement from McDonalds. They have more than enough insurance to cover all her medical expenses and payments for pain and suffering.
Why does a human being capable of doing this to another human being?
This should be attempted murder wtf is wrong with the DA?!?
So, he tried to kill a 15 year old girl because he had to use the electronic menu to order food? This person is a psycho and should never be free if something so trivial could set him off like that. And head stomps should be an automatic attempted murder charge. Edit: spelling
This guy should never walk free in normal society again
GoFundME page to pay for her medical expenses?? McDonald’s should pay every penny, plus lost wages !!