Karma and the service industry...

[mato]

***NOT MEANT TO BE FUNNY***

A few days ago I was out dropping job applications at popular fast food joints. As I was doing this I started thinking (:eek: I know!) and well the largest cause of death in this country is heart disease, obesity is the leading cause of heart disease and fast food is the leading cause of obesity (over simplification I know but stay with me). On one hand serving the people gives them emidiate satisfaction, on the other the emidiate satisfaction can result in death if continued. The same is true of cigerettes and alchohol and there are appropriate laws and judicial rulings in place on those. That got lead to this thought, is it genocide that is being perputrated by this astablishment? A leading killer in america is obesity and related diseases. Would I be supporting a genocide by participating in this service industry? Are there karmic reprocusions to serving burgers and fries of death to people who will most likely die from heart disease or worse? Does what go around come around when considering this and could this be the cause of so much misery and strife in america?

[Danustouch]

Hmmm..you know...some people i've spoken to in the service industry think that serving up burgers to people *IS* their karma :D

[mato]

Originally posted by Danustouch
Hmmm..you know...some people i've spoken to in the service industry think that serving up burgers to people *IS* their karma :D

:rotfl:

self sustaining karmic punishment?

[Earthcup]

Don't believe in karma, just a basic energy exchange aka you get what you give.

I used to work at Mickey D's and my biggest problem wasn't with the food but the fact that they treat their employees like crap!

People make they're own eating choices, if they want junk food they'll get it somewhere.

However hiring people off the street at the same wage as a shift manager who's worked there over a year is simply wrong. Being anti-union is wrong. Hiring crappy workers, keeping stealing employees and firing good workers when they complain is wrong.

I found another part time job, the pay wasn't worth the hassle.