Jeff Bezos has been criticized for recalling his first job at McDonald’s in a tweet with a photo of him eating a hamburger at the fast food chain.
“My first job. And it’s still the same great burger. Happy Sunday,” tweeted Sunday the founder of Amazon, the world’s second-richest person with an estimated net worth of $154 billion.
Bezos previously related to Cody Teets for his book Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald’s how he started working at McDonald’s when he was 16 in 1980.
“I was a barbecue cook and I never worked at the cash registers. The hardest thing was keeping up with everything during the rush,” she said.
“My McDonald’s manager was excellent. He had a bunch of teenagers working for him, and he kept us focused even while we were having fun.”
But Bezos’ journey through his memory was not well received by many Twitter users, who accused him of being a “fake member of the working class.”
“Jeff Bezos can end world hunger for 15 years and still be the 76th richest person on Earth,” Rafael Shimunov wrote in response to the Amazon chairman’s tweet.
“They don’t just want to f*ck the working class. They also want to pretend to be working class while f*cking working class. Jeff Bezos’s parents gave him $300,000 to found Amazon and become the world’s richest worker exploiter. Today’s equivalent is US$600,000,” he added.
“I had no idea Jeff Bezos’s first job was to bust the McDonald’s union,” Maura Quint wrote.
“You would think that wealth would give someone the opportunity to eat decent food,” said one Twitter user.
Another critic pointed to how Bezos came under fire earlier this year over reports that he was going to pay for the dismantling of a centuries-old bridge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, so his new megayacht could leave the shipyard where it is under construction.
The yacht was towed to another shipyard, with the bridge in place, earlier this month, where it is being completed.
“Don’t forget this man tried to get the Dutch government to dismantle a historic bridge so he could sail his $500 million mega yacht. To another dog with that bone of being a common man, Jeffrey,” said the reviewer.
Another user, João Zamith, tweeted: “Theory: if the things we can easily have leave us unsatisfied, it stands to reason that what really drives billionaires is social validation, not peer validation (because it comes with territory), but of the masses. They will destroy the world because they can never be great.”
“We should be concerned that the most ‘successful’ examples of capitalist achievement seem to desperately want to reclaim their humanity and nothing they try to do works at all,” added another reviewer.
“You have worms crawling through your brain if you seriously believe any rich person came out of nowhere,” another concluded.
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Jeff Bezos mocked for a tweet about his first job at McDonald’s