The aristocratic elegance of the 1990s McDonald’s manager

Oct 17, 2025 · 1:18 PM UTC

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we used to be a proper country
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Unironically correct
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They used to give employees white gold and diamond jewelry
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We have lost so much.
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SO MUCH
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Back when being a McDonald’s manager was a respectable job.
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Back when Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark
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The 90s were so good the McDonalds managers dressed like Wall Street bankers. We used to be a country.
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McDowells did it first
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Let’s bring back this class @McDonalds
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no one is running the McDonald’s like her
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Women today can’t pull that off
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A woman of culture
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Would you like a Burger King or a Burger Emperor
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I work in that kingdom as a teen in the mid-90s
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wtf
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This is such a fit
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Is that a Harry Potter jacket?
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want
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And their golden nuggets
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Imagine walking into a McDonalds in the 90s, while smoking a cigarette, ashing it into a Golden Arches stamped tin ashtray, admiring the Moonman advertisements festooning the store, and ordering an Arch Deluxe that the manager personally makes wearing this attire. How far we’ve fallen as a society…
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"Successful men want to marry a sophisticated woman with a good job, not some McDonald's employee!" The McDonald's employee:
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I can’t tell what’s worse. Watching everything die in your lifetime or growing up not even getting to experience what was once there
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That is a Hamburger University graduate if I've ever seen one.
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America is going back to the 90's and no one can stop us.
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When I was still a little boy I remember the adults talking about jobs at grocery stores as respectable wages for upstarts. I lived in an upper-middle class neighborhood in San Diego, with a lot of lower classes mixed in harmoniously. Shit changed badly.
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She runs that McDonalds like it’s the British East India Company
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Class was valued, shame culture existed and appearing nice, whether for McDonald’s or the White House, was a cherished practice.
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She looks like a half-vulcan character in a Star Trek movie from a better time.
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Then the recession happened, and it never really ended for normal people
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Billy showing this to E
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In was too young to remember when McDonalds managers were apparently dripped out of their minds
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There's a broader point to be made about how these corps created such a chasm between the every day employees and corporate that there is no leadership pipeline. True across many industries.
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