Word: mcdonaldization
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...probably the tallest office building in the world built on the profits from hamburgers. But that is not all. When the executives of McDonald's Corp. abandoned their Chicago Loop offices for a new eight-story building in suburban Oak Brook, they also left behind their traditional concepts of office layout. As a result, McDonald's Oak Brook headquarters, opened last March, has a minimum of interior doors and walls, no offices in the usual sense, and what may well be the only waterbed in the world of big business...
...most of McDonald's headquarters employees, 400 in all, adjusted quickly to the wide-open spaces. Now, says Market Research Coordinator Judy Stezowski, "You always know what's going on. You hear everything." The turnover rate among secretaries and clerical help has dropped in some departments from 100% each year at the old Loop offices to about 25% at the new Oak Brook base. Executives also feel that productivity...
...McDonald's Lenny, while lacking in the sleekness one expects from the suggestion that he is a big-time pimp, is still quite good. There is one particularly fine interplay between Lenny, Ruth, their dialogue, and a pair of inanimate objects (a glass and an ashtray) which illustrates Pinter's capacity to utilize all the elements of production at his disposal. Lenny suddenly, and inexplicably, becomes insistent upon removing a glass he had given Ruth. "I'll take it," he demands, and she replies: "If you take it...I'll take you." The effect of this first sensual suggestion...
Roger Thompson--one of Twiggy's hair stylists--came on stage next to perform. He was followed by Joe McDonald, a black man who started out as a shampooer and is now manager of the Madison Avenue Sassoon Salon...
...Pomeroy team was less excited as the four sat in McDonald's contemplating their Big Macs. Sally Surgoner, the captain, was bitter over advice she had received during a call from Sen. Edmund Muskie, who is rumored to be seeking Nixon...