If yesterday's job opportunity wasn't your cup of hash brownies, then try this one on for size: assistant manager at McDonalds...in Guantanamo Bay.
The help wanted ad popped up recently at the McVirginia.com careers site featuring the Golden Arches, a headline "Find a Career (at) McDonald's" and this enticement: "Enjoy the perks." Like pipe-whipping detainees and super-sizing it!
It didn't specify salary but said, "Candidates must have restaurant management experience, possess a valid United States passport and be willing to relocate to Cuba." Other incentives include half your rent paid and, potentially, tax-free status for year-round residents. Apparently no special security clearances are necessary for the job that requires you to both live and work on the 45-square-mile base with 6,000 residents. Customers include sailors and their families, approximately 215 war-on-terror captives and their guards, as well as hundreds of Jamaican and Filipino guest workers.
The restaurant has been there since 1986 and is independently owned and operated by a McDonald's franchisee. Frozen fries and burgers arrive by barge from Florida. Early on, prison camp commanders said they allowed interrogators to bring Big Macs and fries as incentives for cooperation from prisoners. With the goal to empty the place, captives cleared by the courts and segregated in a special compound called Camp Iguana can get takeout orders, brought by guards.
In one noteworthy omission, the ad does not mention Guantanamo by name. The job listing states this restaurant is "located on the United States Naval base in Cuba, which is where this restaurant is located". How many people have applied so far? That's classified.
The help wanted ad popped up recently at the McVirginia.com careers site featuring the Golden Arches, a headline "Find a Career (at) McDonald's" and this enticement: "Enjoy the perks." Like pipe-whipping detainees and super-sizing it!It didn't specify salary but said, "Candidates must have restaurant management experience, possess a valid United States passport and be willing to relocate to Cuba." Other incentives include half your rent paid and, potentially, tax-free status for year-round residents. Apparently no special security clearances are necessary for the job that requires you to both live and work on the 45-square-mile base with 6,000 residents. Customers include sailors and their families, approximately 215 war-on-terror captives and their guards, as well as hundreds of Jamaican and Filipino guest workers.
The restaurant has been there since 1986 and is independently owned and operated by a McDonald's franchisee. Frozen fries and burgers arrive by barge from Florida. Early on, prison camp commanders said they allowed interrogators to bring Big Macs and fries as incentives for cooperation from prisoners. With the goal to empty the place, captives cleared by the courts and segregated in a special compound called Camp Iguana can get takeout orders, brought by guards.
In one noteworthy omission, the ad does not mention Guantanamo by name. The job listing states this restaurant is "located on the United States Naval base in Cuba, which is where this restaurant is located". How many people have applied so far? That's classified.
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