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  telecasterplayer at 02:11 PM JST - 21st May

  mcdonalds japan must be pretty confident it can squeeze the money out of its managers, it's also predicting a high net profit estimate according to another jt story.

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  notimpressed at 03:09 PM JST - 21st May

  Noone gets overtime pay here, even if, as it says there, that you are entitled to it, Japanese people are generally ignorant of thier own rights, and even if they did know, would never dare to stir the pot by asking for what is rightfuly theirs.

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  pathat at 03:14 PM JST - 21st May

  It seems as if McDonald`s Japan is daring its managers to take up the torch in new litigation where the other guy left off.

  September 25: McD Japan district manager to store manager: Here you are, the same pay for the same incredible number of hours worked as last month. But not to worry, we are paying you for overtime now.

  Store Manager: But I wanted a human life!

  District Manager: O.K., go work somewhere else. There is a want ad on the Yoshinoya door across the street, or you can make more per hour for the night shift down the road at 7-11. But if you keep your mouth shut and become a good company drone again, I will let you in to see the private viewing of the McD porn vid filmed a couple of months ago.

  Store Manager: Will you be serving some freebies like ￥100 cheeseburgers pulled out of the trash?

  District Manager: You bet.

  Store Manager: O.K., I give up. It looks like McD for life for me.

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  Altria at 03:19 PM JST - 21st May

  I predict a McFlurry of resignation notices. That company needs a good McShakeup.

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  Sarge at 03:23 PM JST - 21st May

  "is 900 yen an hour PAY?"

  Hey, that's what I pay my 'baiters! And they're happy with it! 'course they don't work too hard, either...

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  capone at 04:41 PM JST - 21st May

  noborito: not my problem if the wage sucks...but not paying people for time worked is worse than underpaying them...anyway, 9 bucks an hour (US$) ain't bad for a guy who wears a paper hat

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  capone at 04:43 PM JST - 21st May

  this also probably makes McD a decent stock buy...after all, keeping all the money is a good way to stay profitable

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  thedeath at 05:46 PM JST - 21st May

  the problem is the working culture here doesn't look at employee as human.

  you are just a working machine!!!

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  LFRAgain at 05:55 PM JST - 21st May

  Oh...my...god. What a sham. So, in order to make up the difference, managers have to work overtime? And if they don't want to work overtime, they have to accept what amounts to a pay cut? Un-frickin'-believeable.

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  romulus3 at 09:30 PM JST - 21st May

  overtime pay as opposed to the previous "free food" policy?

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  usaexpat at 11:34 PM JST - 21st May

  So they actually get jack sh*t right? McDonalds like Walmart et al should be boycotted for human rights violations.

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  paolo27th at 12:14 AM JST - 22nd May

  So do you guys mean that keeping some non-specified charity type "allowance" (probably amounting to out of date Big Macs) is more worthy than being paid the overtime the company actually owes them? Very interesting... and let's not even talk about the fact that these people have no control over their working hours and that is one of the reasons why the Tokyo District Court favoured their case over McD's.

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  motytrah at 05:26 AM JST - 22nd May

  The managers in Japan seem under paid anyway you slice it. In the US, a McD's manager US would make 30-40% more.

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  LFRAgain at 11:40 AM JST - 22nd May

  So do you guys mean that keeping some non-specified charity type "allowance" is more worthy than... No. We mean that McDonald's has found a way to screw their managers either way. The non-specified "allowance" is in all likelihood the bi-annual bonus that most salaried workers in Japan get - one at mid year, one at the end of the year.

  Mickey D's Japan, instead of paying their employees for working extra hours, in effect punished their managers for taking their case to court by effectively cutting their annual bonuses, forcing them to work overtime to make up the resultant drop in pay that never would have occurred if the complaint hadn't been brought to trial. Insidious and immoral to the extreme.

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  Altria at 11:56 AM JST - 22nd May

  McDonalds had people at the intersection outside my station yesterday, handing out free iced coffees to passersby.

  Were they pushing a new blend of coffee, or trying for some positive PR to cancel out their horrible treatment of managers?

  I took one anyway.

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