I doubt it is mandatory you put the burger pin on your hat so if you feel that way then don't wear the pin.
I think you should stop working there! Being a vegetarian myself, I can't handle that place. Ugh. D:
It's ok to wear it...it's a pin. It's made out of metal or plastic.. They're not giving you a piece of veal to pin on your smock.(Besides, I seriously doubt there's much real meat, if any in a Mcdonalds hamburger.)
I am trying to figure out the hypocrisy of working @ McDonald's to begin with. If you think killing animals and eating meat is wrong, why are you taking $$ from the sale of it?? You selling burgers @ McDonald's is responsible for the slaughter of way more cows than I will probably eat all year long??
I am a conservative Baptist and I don't drink alcohol. Your job would be like me working for a beer distributor.
If you are selling the beef, what difference does it make whether or not your wear a burger-shaped pin???
I don't mean to be insulting, just trying to get you to see how ironically hypocritical it is. I have a feeling every die-hard veggietarian out there has something like this in their closet as well--you can't get away from the use of animals and animal products. The funny thing is, the cows are still being made into patties; you guys just aren't getting to enjoy their juicy goodness!
Until you can get another job that doesn't go against your beliefs; you are currently an employee of Mcdonalds and even though you are a vegeterian being loyal to your job doesn't mean you stand for nothing; it just means that you are a good employee.
Once you leave the job you put on other clothes and don't endorse eating meat but while you are on Mcdonalds hours you need to be an employee; and that may include somethings you don't neccessarily want to do.
Good luck, in what ever you decide to do and I hope you get a job that is condusive to what you believe in as soon as you are old enough to work elsewhere.
Let me get this straight. 1) You work at a hamburger place. 2) You're concerned about wearing a pin that represents a hamburger.
You're worrying yourself over the small, insignificant details and by working there you've come to terms with the larger aspect of cooking meat, wearing a uniform that represents cooking meet, helping to enable people to eat meat, etc.
Now as far as the pin goes....if it's optional to wear it then don't wear it. If it's not then wear it. It's not a big deal compared to everything else you've compromised your principles over.
Accept the pin but don't wear it. I would also consider a change in jobs.
if it's company policy to wear it, then you ave to unless y a willing to look for another job.
Wow, a vegetarian working for the vegan "great satan" Mcdonald's and getting an award for being good at it. !! I think you've just elevated the definition of hypocrisy to a higher level. You already know what Mcdonald's serves so why work there? The only place that hires 16 year olds? So you put money before principle? Am not being insulting. But for the life of me, I cannot understand eaither your logic or your lack of principles. The only excuse I can think of is that you are only 16 and don't know any better.
when you agreed to work for mcdonalds, you accepted the terms and conditions of that employer. and you should do everything in your power to represent that employer, reguardless of personal beliefs. but if you cannot perform this job to the best of your mental and physicial ability. then you should seriously consider seeking employment elsewhere.
but consider this: in order for man to survive, something must die for us to live (this wheather it be plant, or animal). for i am not a strict vegetarian, so i guess i am an ocassional meat eating vegetarian, per occasion.
i think that it kinda comes with the job, you know? do you HAVE to wear it? is it like part of you uniform? if you have to then you have to, but if you dont have to, and you feel uncomfortable, dont wear it. i totally know what you mean about the job, i have to get a job, i turn 16 in january, so i am gonna start looking, baby sitting's just not cuttin it, lol. but yeah, i am gonna try to get a job somewere else, but if i cant i'm gonna loo at burger king (closer to my house) you have to do what you have to do.
you are working at a burger joint and get sick when you see burgers?
Ok as for the pin, unless you like to eat pins dont worry about it. Its just part of your uniform. It doesnt represent you nor will it make you seem "less" vegetarian than you are.
Look at all these people calling a 16 year old who's had the gumption to go out and get what employment she could a hypocrite and unprincipled.
Rest assured, if you'd said 'I need a job but I'm not taking the only available one, because it's at McDonalds', most of those same people would be singing a different tune, probably calling you a typical work-shy veggie or some such nonsense.
It's a fortunate person who can choose where they work; people who say they'd never do your job are either lucky or being supported by somebody else.
As for the pin, if you don't have to wear it and you don't want to, don't.
EDIT** exsft A strange muddle of a message, but I’ll answer it.
When, as I have, you have been called a hypocrite on this forum for accepting life-saving medicine because that medicine had inevitably been tested on animals, you really see the cries of hypocrite on here for what they are – bullying. And when the victim of that bullying, by adults, is a 16-year-old kid it’s particularly nauseating.
Far from teaching her to avoid responsibility, I have applauded her for taking some responsibility. My first job as a 16-year-old vegetarian was at a Little Chef restaurant, not famous for its vegetarian cuisine (this was before McDonalds came to Britain). I didn’t then and don’t now see it as an act of hypocrisy, I saw it as earning my own spending money rather than relying on my parents to give me handouts they could ill afford.
As for all your ranting about should McDonalds change its menu to accommodate her, what on earth has that got to do with anything I said? You are doing your usual stereotyping. I don’t know why she finds wearing a pin such a problem, and I only answered this question because I saw a group of adults bullying a child. If an omni was working on a farm and was sickened by all the vegetables, and if in that unlikely event s/he came on here and asked for advice, I would say if it’s really a matter of your health, leave; if it’s a job you hate but you continue to do because you need to work, good on you.
Calling me a hypocrite for something I haven't said, but that you assume I'd say, in a situation which hasn't arisen ? - you may just have elevated the definition of stupidity to a higher level.
And try as you might, you will not find any lectures on the ‘wonderful world of vegetarianism’ or animal cruelty from me on this board.
I notice that none of the omnivores who usually haunt this board and delight in calling hypocrisy have joined you in calling this girl a hypocrite. Why do you suppose that is? I suspect it’s because they either agree that she's shown initiative in getting and doing well at a job, or else, much as they enjoy taunting veg*ns, they draw the line at bullying a child.
No need to welcome me to the real world, I’ve lived here a long time. Don’t play your ‘I’m an adult with a wealth of experience’ card with me, it may (or may not) work on the kids, but it doesn’t impress me.
I would not wear it.
Ya know what? Just because you have seen negative responses to vegetarian-related questions, don't assume that's what you'll get. You're just inviting them when you make comments like that. I'm afraid you just learn to expect them on here.. The small percentage of jerks who reply that way is just that... a small percentage... consider the source, and ignore them.
As for the pin... just remember that the pin represents your performance... not a burger. But... If you feel sick when you see a burger, why on earth would you work in a place known for their burgers?? The pin is fine... but working there... doesn't make much sense, considering how the sight of a burger makes you feel. I would consider looking around for another part time job in a non food-related business. I find it hard to believe that a MacDonald's is the ONLY place that hires 16-yr. olds. I'd investigate a little more.. I bet you could find something else. Just hold onto your present job, and look around some more. Good Luck. Don't forget... that pin only represents your good work... wear it proudly.
(To clarify my opinnion: I see nothing wrong with where you're working, even though you are vegetarian. You took the responsibility of getting a job, that's something to be proud of. I only suggested you try to find something else because of how being around burgers made you feel.)
Its a pin to wear in your hat dear. No body is asking you to eat a burger (although even if they did I reckon you would be safe.
McDonalds burgers dont have much actual beef in them!) And I dont think the pin will be made out of beef.
Its an award so you did something to deserve it. Well done. II would say its up to you whether you display your award or put it in a drawer at home
Well done also for getting off your butt and working for a living.
It′s just a pin, a piece of metal, do what you have to do, it′s no big deal. And don't listen to those calling you hypocrite, you don't always get to choose where to work, especially when you need the money, and it's not like you're eating the hamburgers!
To be honest i see wearing the badge as a tiny detail compared to actually working there. You are earning your way at 16, congratulations - you've a head start over 90% of 16 year olds.
Plase make you own choices and do what feels comfortable.
I'm sure you'll be out of there as soon as you feel able.
And, without being patronising, 16 is quite young to fully understand "cause and effect" and the complete picture - Again, not being patronising, its just a fact. I'm sure once you form a view on the whole meat process and where profits are spent you will make your own choices on where to work. Lets face it, many adults on here don't see the connection between animals and meat so its a big leap to expect you to fully cope with rejecting the meat world.
Best of luck with the veggie choice, make sure you keep it healthy and balanced.
just for a laugh: The first company i set up was at 16 and it invovled casting garden ornaments of dwarfs / pixies etc, we sold them door to door, we had really naff "certificates" that showed proof of adoption ( stupid eh ? ) - they were really bright and horrible - see, we all do things we shoudn't !!
You aren't eating it, and an animal has not died to make it, I am sure the badge itself is vegetarian.
Look, you're sixteen and, like you said, you're only working there because they'll hire someone your age. Just take it, don't sweat it too much. Don't let other people judge you about it.
In a couple of years you'll be so long gone from McDonalds that you won't even think of this little conflict.
it depends if you feel comfortable wearing it. personally i would never work any where like that or wear the pin coz its helping the meat industry get money to kill more animals but i get why your doing it. i just wouldn't
Just tell everyone it's a veggie burger.lol. If it makes you uncomfortable just don't wear it.