McDonalds Turn Young pettioners away.

Pollycat

hollydays wrote: »

I was fairly happy with the ops account of what happened, and clearly it was correct.
This is the " Vent board".
This is exactly what this board is for.

I agree.
But it doesn't (and shouldn't) stop other posters commenting, asking questions or even disagreeing.

JamoLew

Ectophile wrote: »

I am really not shocked or surprised that the staff didn't go along with the BBC's media stunt.


The staff there would not have been expecting a camera crew to turn up. They would have not been given any information with which to respond to any claims put to them, but anything they said could be filmed and put on national television.


Realistically, the only option they had was to ask the BBC to leave, while they had time to think about what to do next. I would expect the staff at any large company to have done much the same in that situation.



The television companies should have stopped that sort of doorstepping years ago. It's just bad journalism, designed to make whoever they are filming look bad. If you say something you didn't intend to, you look bad. If you don't know the answers to their questions, you look bad, and if you chuck the TV crew out, you look bad.

Maybe the quality of the "journalism" will improve once the over 75s are paying the licence fee as well and the BBC will be able to improve content and standards with the extra revenue

onwards&upwards

JamoLew wrote: »

Maybe the quality of the "journalism" will improve once the over 75s are paying the licence fee as well and the BBC will be able to improve content and standards with the extra revenue

They won’t have any extra revenue, they will have substantially less.

The government used to fund the free licences for over 75s, not the BBC, but has withdrawn that benefit. The BBC is now cutting its budget to keep funding for those on pension credit.

Paul_DNAP

JamoLew wrote: »

Maybe the quality of the "journalism" will improve once the over 75s are paying the licence fee as well and the BBC will be able to improve content and standards with the extra revenue

That will not be extra revenue for the BBC, currently the UK government is paying the TVL for all the over 75s to the BBC, in the future the government will stop paying for them, and gave the BBC the choice of either having a massive funding cut or being the bad santa that started charging the over 75s directly for theit telly.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Don't forget that this BBC through is tax collecting affiliates prosecute the most vulnerable females in the UK for none payment of the TV Tax


Scrap the Regressive TV Tax

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

onwards&upwards wrote: »

It’s the head office of a massive business that sells to families primarily and has had lots of controversies in its history (mclibel, supersize me, recent strikes over Union bans).

I would definitely expect the staff working there to have a better idea of how to handle camera crews, petitions, protesters etc.

I saw a bit of the programme, it looked like Burger King responded a lot better, so it wasn’t impossible!

Don't forget that this organisation also sent a camera crew in a helicopter above Mr Richards house, how do you expect the company to respond?

Pennywise

Ectophile wrote: »

The television companies should have stopped that sort of doorstepping years ago. It's just bad journalism.

It's the BEEB, you can't expect any better from them. They like to portray themselves as something special, but in reality, they're just as bad as all the other gutter journalists.

Pennywise

onwards&upwards wrote: »

It’s the head office of a massive business that sells to families primarily and has had lots of controversies in its history (mclibel, supersize me, recent strikes over Union bans).

I would definitely expect the staff working there to have a better idea of how to handle camera crews, petitions, protesters etc.

I saw a bit of the programme, it looked like Burger King responded a lot better, so it wasn’t impossible!

The way any organisation reacts to any event is dependent upon the staff involved on the day. If, for whatever reason, there were no PR/marketing staff in the building, then who else will know how to deal with it. Do you think the filing clerk or accountant have any training in dealing with the media? Maybe Burger King's marketing manager was in their building on the day they were visited and had a better idea of how to deal with it?

Perhaps the Beeb should have made an appointment with the right people to avoid such a fiasco. If they didn't, it just makes them look stupid and enflames the suggestion that they went without notice in the hope of making McD's look bad. For all we know, the Beeb may have known that the McD marketing/PR dept were engaged elsewhere that day and did it deliberately.

sheramber

Two young girls aged 7 and 9 went along with the BBC to hand in a petition to McDonalds.

Correction, two young girls and their parents went along with the BBC to hand in a petition toMcDonalds.

onwards&upwards

Pennywise wrote: »

The way any organisation reacts to any event is dependent upon the staff involved on the day. If, for whatever reason, there were no PR/marketing staff in the building, then who else will know how to deal with it. Do you think the filing clerk or accountant have any training in dealing with the media? Maybe Burger King's marketing manager was in their building on the day they were visited and had a better idea of how to deal with it?

Perhaps the Beeb should have made an appointment with the right people to avoid such a fiasco. If they didn't, it just makes them look stupid and enflames the suggestion that they went without notice in the hope of making McD's look bad. For all we know, the Beeb may have known that the McD marketing/PR dept were engaged elsewhere that day and did it deliberately.

I worked there as a teenager, when supersize me came out we got sent posters and leaflets telling us how to respond if a customer talked to us about it.