It is hard to offend me as nothing is shocking anymore. Blessed are offensive moments because moments when I am outraged by something usually puts me in my most creative state.

I like how McDonalds told its employees to just get food stamps

How many employees does McDonald's "the corporation" have?

I'm talking about the employees that work for wages, the ones creating value.

...and they work for franchisees. What does "McDonald's" have to do with telling anyone to go get food stamps?

McDonald's employees work for McDonalds. Talk about a tautology lol.

No, most "McDonald's" employees work for <insert legal name for Joe Schmuckatelly's restaurants, inc>, notably the ones who command wages low enough that they might need food stamps. McDonald's the corporation is in the business of supplying those franchises with hamburgers (if they can truly be called that) and the like, as well as cost sharing on starting up, national and local advertising and the like, and anything else involved in a contract between a franchisor and a franchisee in exchange for franchise fees and royalties. McDonald's the corporation employs people like accountants, truck drivers, marketing teams, and anything remotely close to running a business.

Put another way: I don't work for General (government) Motors, I work for a dealer who has paid the franchising fees to GM. GM isn't even remotely responsible for the wages I command, my actual employer is. Are we the local face of GM in our community? Sure. Are we actually GM? No.

So next time I go to McDonalds the person who works for the franchise that I'm at isn't a McDonalds employee? People who work there are non-McDonalds employees that coincidentally work at a McDonalds location doing McDonald things....they must just really love those McDonald uniforms to go out and procure them on their own and make those McDoubles for whomever it is they make them for (that isn't a owner within the McDonalds organization).

I understand how franchising works...that is between one manager and another...between two members of the owning class.

McDonalds are franchise based, as are many places like Subway, they are still McDonald's employees but the locations are operated independently. Santara explained it better