Current and former Amazon fulfillment center associates talk everything from the perils of shipping kitty litter to sharing work space with artificial intelligence: "The robots will not stop for anything."
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While there’s virtually no end to the number of fast-food options for people seeking a quick meal, none have entered the public consciousness quite like McDonald’s. Originally a barbecue shop with a limited menu when it was founded by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in the 1940s, the Golden Arches have grown into a franchised behemoth with more than 38,000 locations worldwide.
Staffing those busy kitchens and registers are nearly 2 million McDonald s employees. To get a better idea of what many consider to be the most popular entry-level job in the nation staff members on the floor make an average of $10 an hour we asked several workers to share details of their experiences with errant ice cream machines, drive-through protocols, and special requests. Here’s what they had to say about life behind the counter.
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Like jazz, comic books are one of the true American art mediums. Dismissed as disposable reading for their first few decades in existence, they experienced a renaissance in the 1980s thanks to work like Frank Miller’s
Watchmen (1986). More recently, they’ve graduated to a place of modern mythology, providing the source material for movies and television shows that reap billions for parent companies like Marvel Studios at Disney and the Warner Bros.-owned DC Comics.
Telling a sequential story across panels and pages is the purview of the comics artist, who must be accomplished in everything from the human anatomy to perspective to lighting. Whether they’re working with a writer or generating their own material, comic book artists must be versatile.