Can’t ask them to stop, cus they will simply Dublin down the pun
Pun 10/10, execution 6/10
“You can’t even ask them to drop the puns—their response will just be Dublin down”
For the uninitiated, what does Dublin have to do with chickens? I searched but I just got restaurants from Ireland.
Dublin was the location of the KFC she applied to in the picture
“Dublin down” sounds like “doubling down”. That’s the pun.
Which was also a KFC sandwich.
Explaining the joke is fun!
I did not know that. Thank you for explaining!
I got the “doubling down” part, but hadn’t seen that the screenshot was about a Dublin location until another user pointed it out.
Also, what skills does a fast food chain need?
Could be a corporate job
Someone has to keep the peasants in line
*pheasants
Pretty unprofessional for a corporate job to respond like this.
Pretty unprofessional for any job
Corporate jobs are not the rainman montage, it’s the Step brothers montage.
You can get rejected if you’re not child labour. They want their workers cheap and children are cheap.
Also if you seem too knowledgeable on pesky things like labor rights.
KFC uses commercial pressure cookers. You can blow up a kitchen if you aren’t careful around those things. Fast food doesn’t look like it requires skills because they have managed to bring an assembly line to the kitchen. It does require a certain amount of spatial awareness, and the ability to switch tasks rapidly.
At least they got a rejection
Success kid?
Funny meta social media posts? Fine. Whatever.
But this is honestly just insulting and unprofessional.
I’m sure they get some applications from people who genuinely need that job, and then they’d get sent that rejection…
It has bad management decision written all over it. Some idiot in the hierarchy thinks they are being cute and ‘relatable’ in their own words I’m sure.
Did they just tell you that you’re not good enough to put chicken in bucket?
KFC is franchised and there are lots of corporate roles. Could be one of those.
Guarantee that’s what this is for. No restaurant manager would bother denying with outright denying an application, yet alone sending a rejection email.
It may be a lack of spatial awareness. They use commercial pressure cookers. If you aren’t careful with those things you can blow up the kitchen.
I wish brands would stop trying to be funny
I support people having fun at work and think it should happen more.
On social media? Fine, whatever. In rejection emails? …that’s not really something you get and have a laugh at.
I understand your take. I feel like “professionalism” at all is just a lie we tell ourselves, and I don’t personally value the overall purpose of it.
I’d prefer people have fun at work.
It has a purpose in situations like this, which have to be handled with tact.
I’m with you for everything else though, the issue is really highlighted by people writing casual emails and sending them professional-ized by ChatGPT, and the receiver passing through ChatGPT to make them more clear. It’s like we want to make things more difficult.
Oh I like people having fun at work as well, what I don’t like is corporate communications trying to weirdly mimic people having fun at work. Maybe I’m just too cynical, but I often find these jokey comms to be souless and artificial and almost never feel like they’re genuinely having fun
If I got something like this after applying to a fast food place there’s a non-zero chance I kill myself.
Wtf do you mean I don’t have the skills? What skills?
KFC in particular uses commercial pressure cookers, or at least they originally did I haven’t worked there since before they were called KFC. Those things are dangerous, and if you didn’t appear to have a decent amount of spatial awareness, I wouldn’t hire you at my store, cause an accident with one of those pressure cookers could end in an explosion.
They didn’t want to employ the “spiceslag?!” Disappointing KFC!
You should apply to a Brawndo job
“You don’t have what plants crave at this time.”
Reply with bah, humbug!
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That’s not how a professional company rejects an applicant. Judging by this grammarless email (and this email alone), it sounds like you may have dodged a bullet. I am sorry that you’ve been rejected, though. That’s never a fun experience, and their lack of compassion in their “cute” (but actually rather insulting) email is incomprehensible. Just because they didn’t see you a a secret recipe, doesn’t mean you’re not. KFC has gone down hill more than almost any other chain in terms of flavor and quality, and their email here is a testament to their decision-making skills they seem to still be lacking.
E: autocorrect and my own mistakes.
KFC USA always sucked. They have much more variety and quality in other countries. Speaking from experience.
