Maybe the customer identified as male and wanted the toy for themselves?

And if the franchise has policies against gendering toys?

Simple solution.

Put a Ken toy in the box.

Some McDs will sell just the toys. Ita been a bit since I bought one but they are probably like $2 for a toy only. Also you will have to wait while the employee tries to figure out where the hidden menu button is that has "Toy only."

I think it may actually be company policy not to do do this, at least for some time. Because they don't want to get in trouble for assuming.

Found the future engineer

Oh, so you're one of those customers.

Then don't follow them. This is my number one gripe since moving to the US, if company policies are stupid, you don't follow them, whereas in the US, it's too bad since it's company policy.

I know it's due to more fear of being fired, but still, it's so annoying to be in a situation where neither of us wants to follow the policies and yet you're enforcing them.

You didn't need the "in this economy" part tbh

Back when I was a kid, they'd judge your kid and give you whatever they thought corresponded to the kid's genitalia. Even when I heard my mother ask for a car toy I'd end up with a Barbie.

Being constantly disappointed by Barbie toys may have been my first hint I wasn't a girl.

no

say which toy you want or gtfo

I agree, I just have a friend who has 4000 hours on CK2 and 3 and... it's troubling. I'll hop on discord with her and get lots of out of context comments involving incest, lol.

Different for each person. Very early if indoctrinated, like religion or peer culture. Some catch it when they transition to working life or overall success and catch the I got mine disease. I'd say it grows fairly early, teens at the latest, and solidifies early 20s. The I got mine crowd can happen late, like 30-40.

Why is a policy mandating that kids get to choose which toy they get instead of it being chosen based on what's between their legs a bad thing?

I think @Zier meant sth else wuth 'boy toy' lol

That was me, too. I ended up just tossing this whole gender concept out.

I have to say, the hot wheels were hot wheels and the Barbies were ugly statues. One was superior.

Boys can like barbies too. We can acknowledge that gender stereotyping kid's interests was wrong, while acknowledging that their interests don't always define their gender.

I would say what I want, but I would get banned because the mods are prejudiced against the nature of my mental illness which directly impacts the content of of character. I love all of you. I'll just sit on this park bench and cry because I'm an inferior that cannot play by the rules. That's the nature of being schizoaffective. I am capricious af, and thus in social media, I am subhuman to most people by default.

The customers behind certainly enjoyed waiting while she was needlessly making a scene by intentionally pretending to misunderstand a perfectly valid request that didn’t fit into her puny world picture. Pathetic.

We all know that this is a made-up conversation which could have taken place only in the twisted mind of some rich feminist goodperson but not in reality. Why would she risk her job over such bullshit, she’s there to make money and not to educate people.

Or someone who has some experience with what little boys usually like to play with

No shit, my boy wanted a Barbie when he was little, so he had a Barbie. He also had Legos, and played with blocks, board games and eventually video games. Let kids play with whatever the fuck they want to, they are exploring.

it's funny you assumed the worker was a woman even tho there's no indication of that in the post

hey so why are you in this sublemmy again? didn't you read the rules in the sidebar? take your bigoted bullshit elsewhere. you sound like exactly the worst kind of boss to work for. All Capitalists Are Bastards

ah yes, the notoriously closed-minded worldview of... supporting feminism and trans rights 🧐

Careful, peasant. Remember where the money in your account is coming from. At least I treat my people well and pay fair wages (as long as they do as I demand of course).

The fact that a tiny fraction of people are trans doesn’t mean that, in general, boys can’t be expected to behave like boys.

lmao

also joke's on you i'm unemployed 😎

Now thats a shizo post

Yes, but I didn't like Barbie toys. That was my first hint I didn't fit into the gender box that had been prepared for me. I'm not going to retcon my experiences at the age of 4 to fit into a modern concept of how I should have figured out my gender.

I have to say, the hot wheels were hot wheels and the Barbies were ugly statues. One was superior.

Exactly. Moving parts vs a hunk of plastic to toss in a drawer.

Okay, so are you petit-bourgeoisie or a straw-boss?

Imagine being so lonely, weak, and friendless, that you try to bully strangers on the internet. Like be for real bro.

Hmm. Yeah, I think you're right. If I share this with friends online anywhere else I'll leave it out.

They are metal, Barbies are plastic. They are the same temperature, but feel cooler.

As a trans woman that played with Barbie's in secret as a kid....

We can acknowledge that stereotyping toys is dumb, while also acknowledging that kids like me knew those stereotypes, and did it anyways not knowing why.

It's great to point out its stupid. But is comes really fucking close to denying trans people the signs they were trans young, even we didn't even know it.

If they could cool down they’d just be wheels

I mean it's a surefire way to get my, but ymmv

Thanks for putting that into words. It felt like I was being told "um, actually, have you considered that disliking Barbie isn't tied to being a boy?" (with an undercurrent of "this reason for thinking you might be trans is invalid".)

I strongly suspect that wasn't the intent of the commenter, they were trying to encourage inclusivity. It just fell flat.

This right TF here. He-Man, She-Ra, G.I.-Joe and My Little Pony were all part of the same universe when they were toys on my floor.

SimCity 2000.

Uh your money comes from your workers.

You might want to be careful. The guillotine is always an option.

You spend lots of time playing with little boys, then?

Thank you for explaining my experiences at age 4. Here I thought that was when I started figuring out I wasn't a girl but I was clearly wrong and it took you opening my eyes 30 years later. I'm not transgender after all. I can't point to anything in my DNA that makes me trans, therefore I must just be play acting my gender. I was a girl that didn't like Barbie and everything else has been a lie fed to me by the woke liberalism of the 90s. /sarcasm

It's not the policy, it's knowing when to enforce it and when to treat it as guidance.

Or architect.