I worked at Mcdonalds in 1971- 1973. It was my first real job. Had a lot of fun too. Things were different back then. Most of the crew were aged 16 or 17. We took pride in our work even though we were not paid much. I think min. wage was $1.65 an hour then. Times have changed.
Funny thing is - this video is right on the money! I worked at McDonald's in the mid 70's and it was a remarkable learning experience. I still draw on the knowledge. I had a great time, made great friends, worked hard... and got paid for it... and nothing anyone says here can change that.
This commercial was aimed at High School kids. McDonalds was a place they could work and earn money before they went to college or got drafted into Vietnam.
I love this commercial. I wish more young people would take their education as serious as the way this commercial describes the benefits of working at McDonalds.
I give props to working at McD's as a teenager in the 80's. It did teach me about responsibly and good work ethics. And also showed me that most of my managers smoked pot. And were willing to share. :)
McDonalds use to be a very high caliber establishment. They had a rule of not hiring young women because they did not want their restuarants to be hang outs for teanagers looking to pick up girls, etc. I remember when they looked like the architecture shown here. Nice memories.
Well, I guess back then that working the counter at McDonalds was preferable to being drafted and sent over to Vietnam, although not by a large margin.
@fastold I'm not a manager but I've been working there for over five years and I've seen busloads of kids go through ours and they would trash the place. We also get some rude SOBs that some through the drive-thru. THAT is the sole reason why I chose to never become a manager, lol. You guys deserve way more credit then the shit you put up with each and every day.
@anniem63 Historically, it's what made McDonald's what it is today. They were moving away from their loud teen customers and instead focusing on families, so they got rid of roller-skating babes and hired clean-cut young men to provide a better image for a family-friendly establishment. Smart move for the time, although yes, sexist by today's standards. But it was the 1950's, so it's understandable.
@Chas0967 I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. So many people I've met seem to equate gloved hands with "clean". Having worked fast food for 8+ years I know for fact this is often not the case.
@VirgilB01 I'm aware of what a franchise agreement usually includes. The place I used to work was recently bought out. The agreement the new owners signed pretty much indemnifies corporate HQ of nearly all liability. Should anything go wrong it will be the franchise owners who are on the hook.
My dad worked there in his very early 20's. He would never let us eat at ANY McDonald's and would never tell us why. I've since learned why from another source but my dad still won't say it. People from his day didn't speak about such things.
I don't know about that Jikk; McDonald's today is nothing like what it was back then. The people back then were so much more professional than what they are now.
@26aowens See, when we did drive thru we would have to be cleaning out the oil vats etc and scrubbing them at the same time as listening out for customers on the headset. Then if one came you had to take their order right away on the headset while running to the window on the other side of the store, all the while trying to remember their exact order so you could put it through the till when you got there.
@VirgilB01 600k is being mighty generous. That would get you a very small location, something strip mall sized at the biggest. Even a relatively modest stand-alone store (25-30 person lobby capacity) would run $1.5 million and up. The very large stores such as those by interstates easily run in the double digit millions. I was just curious about franchising in general and looked all this stuff up on various corporate websites a few years back.
@centoguzzi Today that same job pays around $7.50 per hour and what do you get today.When I was 19 in 1979 and if I could have gotten a job at $7.50 per hour that would be big bucks then.
@VirgilB01 Bare-hand contact is still allowed in places. The restaurant I used to work at in Bell County, Texas, for example only went to gloves to due customer complaints. According to local health code, bare hand contact is A-OK so long as you have a minimum of hourly hand washing. Frankly I'd rather have my food made by someone who has washed their hands recently that someone who has been wearing the same pair of gloves all day.
also, this could be off a copy of a program that only exist in black and white (the color copy long since destroyed). some TV stations and archives in the 1960s could only afford B&W recorders and/or archived programs transmitted in color in B&W
..Well, the kinescope copies were KEPT in black and white anyway, this ad may very well have been filmed in color, as many that I recall seeing in color back then are now played in b&w (we got a color RCA in '60!). I remember those birch beer barrels vividly @ McD's. & what about those prices! -cheeseburger 25c, fries 10c, it's like out of the twilite zone! Thanks!
My guess is, In 1966 most of television went from Black and White to Color. When 1967 came around the unused black and white film was only going to be thrown away so it was available for next to nothing. Ray Kroc had just bought out the McDonald Brothers for 1 million dollars each, after taxes. He was way over his head in debt and this was probably the only film he could afford. Good investment, he ended up buying a baseball team, the Padres.
I would like to know what happened to the actors of this commercial. Too bad you can't wiki what happened to them after this, like you can with the actors in old movies.
One of my other videos is for the morning coffee mug, 1976. That was about the time women started to work there, I think. It was also about the same time the hamburger stands were replaced with restaurants. The newspaper wanted ads used to have two sections. Jobs for women and jobs for men.
@VirgilB01 That's generally true of any restaurant. The one I worked for was self-insured even before the franchise buyout. Corporate took any kind of slip-up involving food safety very seriously for obvious reasons. So far as I'm aware that is S.O.P for the industry. I'm not even aware of "Whoopsie!" insurance even being available.
It's 1967. Look at the cars in the parking lot. Until 1966 most television shows were still filmed in black and white, less expensive. There was a loss of quality when this video was uploaded. On my original version it is easier to read 1967.
It seemed to me 1966-67 was when McDonalds began their national tv ad campaigns, one of the first "fast food" franchises to do so. Virtually all commericals were black and white then, even after the network shows themselves had all gone to color.
Very specifically the voice-over narration mentions hiring "thousands of clean-cut young MEN" -- because as late as this, company policy was that McDonald's did not hire girls or women to work in its restaurants.
It sure aint an easy job. You'd start an 8 hour shift and be told to take your 45min break right away so you'd work 7hrs15min straight. You're not allowed to stop working even for a second, the kitchen's like an oven, you have to ask permission to have water or go ot the toilet, you have to serve and prepare waiting meals at the same time, you have to carry and wash big metal vats of scalding oil in a chest high sink using bare hands and no soap while taking orders for drive thru...fun!
@beatlesXXXluver101 also, it probably happened kind of like vhs to dvd or dvd to blue-ray. Color was there but, it took some time to get everybody switched over? Though LINYVideo's reason is probably correct.
It's 1967. Like he said the cars aren't fifties and besides if you look at it again you can plainly tell it says 1967. Besides, "McDonalds Is Your Kind Of Place" wasn't around in the 1950s. In 1964 they had the McDouble burger. Does anyone know if that evolved into the Big Mac? The Big Mac didn't debut until 1975 and it was about 75 cents and cheeseburgers were about 40 cents then.
Ray Kroc was obsessed with cleanliness. By 1960's standards McDonald's was a sterile environment. Notice the person handling the money does not touch the food. Before 1965 coins were silver and filthy.
I was a vegetarian for 10 years, fish only. Nothing gives you the energy a hamburger can. The human body needs fat, in moderation. There is nutritional information available at McDonalds regarding the fat content of the food. As for the recession, a Deli sandwich costs 10 dollars, a McDonalds hamburger costs 1 dollar.
Even with the war in Nam going on, back then we didn't have schools on lock down, students carrying weapons to school, schools providing day care for pregnant teens and teens even had self respect. Looks odd watching it today but back then we never had a worry that a 14 year old would pull a gun on you.
First McDonald's Executive:At McDonald's, the only brown we serve is MEAT! Second McDonald Executive: We just spent 5 million dollars to redesign our restaurants for the 1970's! Take a look! First McDonald's Executive: OH MY GOD! THE WHOLE STORE IS BROWN! Who's Brilliant Idea Was This?!! Second McDonald's Executive: Brown is Ray Kroc's favorite color.
Sad, that's how people should act in the workplace. I'd be willing to bet that if they acted all polite like that they'd be made fun of at any McDonalds today.
Not gonna lie, I used to work on Halifax and now I work in McDonalds and it is so much more fun! Fair enough it's crap pay but for a student is dead on!
It used to be that the job listings in the newspaper were segregated. Jobs for men and jobs for women. The coffee cup commercial I posted shows an effort to promote the employment of women during the 1970's. It is hard to believe that there was a policy among all the franchises in the 1950's-1960's to hire only white employees. You have no evidence to back up that claim.
There is more to red meat than protein. It has vitamins, minerals and the human body's ability to efficiently absorb the nutrition it provides. One staple of my diet was chunk light tuna, plain, on rye bread. Delicious, I could inhale that sandwich. A great source of protein. Also pineapple chunks wrapped in raw spinach was a favorite. My cholesterol was in the 90's but I was always tired and my fingernails were not growing properly. I don't eat a lot of red meat, once in a while.
Mcdonald would be an awesome place if all the food they sold would be organic. They should think about it. Food is important and people will pay up for it.
I will be conciliatory and say that I should have written that nothing gives ME energy like a hamburger. It is obvious that YOU don't get energy from red meat. In the old days, football players would eat raw meat before a game. I wouldn't advise doing that because cooking meat kills bacteria.
Low wages? The cost of living was alot lower then. You could by a pair of highest quality english shoes for $65.00. The same pair today will cost you over $900.00.
@ShadyKaracter To "call" in the South means "to visit"..... Ever heard Kenny Rogers song "Coward of the County"? "The Gatlin boys came a calling"........
Back then jobs were segregated. This was before the Civil Rights Amendment. I posted a 1974 coffee mug commercial. That was the introduction of women into the McDonald's workforce.
Amazing how things change in 43 years. Notice in '67 how they show all the McD's employees are males. Nowadays, women and girls make up about 70% of all McDonald's employees, including upper management. I can understand why that is nowadays; McD's pays low wages, even to low level managers. But what I cannot understand is how come males could multi-task in fast food back in '67, but now it's females who can multi-task and males can't? Something is wrong with America.
Back then you probably could make some kind of a living by working as a McDonald's employee. Unfortunately salaries and minimum wages for these positions have not kept up with the cost-of-living. Now you'd be considered 1 of the working poor.
I can't speak for all Americans but I work 80 hours a week, could lose a few pounds though. Apples are a great food to eat if you don't have time to cook. McDonalds includes apples in the kids meal with the three McNuggets small fries and milk. Not a horribly fattening meal. People decide to buy their kid Big Mac's supersized, then its McDonalds fault when the child becomes overweight. I think it is illegal for them to deny a sale of food to anybody, even if they know its too much for a meal.
The fingernails were the only visible problem. I don't know exactly what caused it but they are fine now. Calcium deficient? I used to eat imitation soy burgers also. They were OK if you drowned them in BBQ sauce, ketchup of mixed them into pasta. Spaghetti and meatballs with soy burger meatballs.
Before civil rights the American workplace was very sexist. The newspaper help wanted ads were segregated into two sections, jobs for men and jobs for women.
@mssorby Meh, only worked there a couple of months before I got a proper job where I didn't get forced to do 4 hours overtime without a break for £4 ($6) an hour.
I worked at Mcdonalds in 1971- 1973. It was my first real job. Had a lot of fun too. Things were different back then. Most of the crew were aged 16 or 17. We took pride in our work even though we were not paid much. I think min. wage was $1.65 an hour then. Times have changed.
Funny thing is - this video is right on the money! I worked at McDonald's in the mid 70's and it was a remarkable learning experience. I still draw on the knowledge. I had a great time, made great friends, worked hard... and got paid for it... and nothing anyone says here can change that.
This commercial was aimed at High School kids. McDonalds was a place they could work and earn money before they went to college or got drafted into Vietnam.
So kind of this responsible company to care so much for their employees... but thanks for uploading, I could watch for hours these old comercials :)
My nephew works at a local McDonald's part time during High School. He's part of a good, hard working crew.
I love this commercial. I wish more young people would take their education as serious as the way this commercial describes the benefits of working at McDonalds.
Whatever did these young do with themselves before there was a McDonald's to work for? It makes you wonder.
I give props to working at McD's as a teenager in the 80's. It did teach me about responsibly and good work ethics. And also showed me that most of my managers smoked pot. And were willing to share. :)
McDonalds use to be a very high caliber establishment. They had a rule of not hiring young women because they did not want their restuarants to be hang outs for teanagers looking to pick up girls, etc. I remember when they looked like the architecture shown here. Nice memories.
Well, I guess back then that working the counter at McDonalds was preferable to being drafted and sent over to Vietnam, although not by a large margin.
@fastold I'm not a manager but I've been working there for over five years and I've seen busloads of kids go through ours and they would trash the place. We also get some rude SOBs that some through the drive-thru. THAT is the sole reason why I chose to never become a manager, lol. You guys deserve way more credit then the shit you put up with each and every day.
1967, look at the cars in the parking lot.
@anniem63 Historically, it's what made McDonald's what it is today. They were moving away from their loud teen customers and instead focusing on families, so they got rid of roller-skating babes and hired clean-cut young men to provide a better image for a family-friendly establishment. Smart move for the time, although yes, sexist by today's standards. But it was the 1950's, so it's understandable.
@Chas0967
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. So many people I've met seem to equate gloved hands with "clean". Having worked fast food for 8+ years I know for fact this is often not the case.
@VirgilB01
I'm aware of what a franchise agreement usually includes. The place I used to work was recently bought out. The agreement the new owners signed pretty much indemnifies corporate HQ of nearly all liability. Should anything go wrong it will be the franchise owners who are on the hook.
Delicious, all you have to do is look at the menu and you will love it on every bite.
@ShadyKaracter Back then "calling" meant visiting. It means the same thing as "please come again."
My dad worked there in his very early 20's. He would never let us eat at ANY McDonald's and would never tell us why. I've since learned why from another source but my dad still won't say it. People from his day didn't speak about such things.
I don't know about that Jikk; McDonald's today is nothing like what it was back then. The people back then were so much more professional than what they are now.
@26aowens See, when we did drive thru we would have to be cleaning out the oil vats etc and scrubbing them at the same time as listening out for customers on the headset. Then if one came you had to take their order right away on the headset while running to the window on the other side of the store, all the while trying to remember their exact order so you could put it through the till when you got there.
@VirgilB01
600k is being mighty generous. That would get you a very small location, something strip mall sized at the biggest. Even a relatively modest stand-alone store (25-30 person lobby capacity) would run $1.5 million and up. The very large stores such as those by interstates easily run in the double digit millions.
I was just curious about franchising in general and looked all this stuff up on various corporate websites a few years back.
Wow, 1967 is SO ancient!
And I was born in 1971, too!:(
@centoguzzi Today that same job pays around $7.50 per hour and what do you get today.When I was 19 in 1979 and if I could have gotten a job at $7.50 per hour that
would be big bucks then.
@VirgilB01
Bare-hand contact is still allowed in places. The restaurant I used to work at in Bell County, Texas, for example only went to gloves to due customer complaints.
According to local health code, bare hand contact is A-OK so long as you have a minimum of hourly hand washing.
Frankly I'd rather have my food made by someone who has washed their hands recently that someone who has been wearing the same pair of gloves all day.
We've come a long way from "Can I help you, Sir/Ma'am" to "What is you want?"
also, this could be off a copy of a program that only exist in black and white (the color copy long since destroyed). some TV stations and archives in the 1960s could only afford B&W recorders and/or archived programs transmitted in color in B&W
..Well, the kinescope copies were KEPT in black and white anyway, this ad may very well have been filmed in color, as many that I recall seeing in color back then are now played in b&w (we got a color RCA in '60!). I remember those birch beer barrels vividly @ McD's. & what about those prices! -cheeseburger 25c, fries 10c, it's like out of the twilite zone! Thanks!
My guess is, In 1966 most of television went from Black and White to Color. When 1967 came around the unused black and white film was only going to be thrown away so it was available for next to nothing. Ray Kroc had just bought out the McDonald Brothers for 1 million dollars each, after taxes. He was way over his head in debt and this was probably the only film he could afford. Good investment, he ended up buying a baseball team, the Padres.
I would like to know what happened to the actors of this commercial. Too bad you can't wiki what happened to them after this, like you can with the actors in old movies.
Actually, this makes me wanna go work there now.
One of my other videos is for the morning coffee mug, 1976. That was about the time women started to work there, I think. It was also about the same time the hamburger stands were replaced with restaurants. The newspaper wanted ads used to have two sections. Jobs for women and jobs for men.
@VirgilB01
That's generally true of any restaurant. The one I worked for was self-insured even before the franchise buyout. Corporate took any kind of slip-up involving food safety very seriously for obvious reasons.
So far as I'm aware that is S.O.P for the industry. I'm not even aware of "Whoopsie!" insurance even being available.
It's 1967. Look at the cars in the parking lot. Until 1966 most television shows were still filmed in black and white, less expensive. There was a loss of quality when this video was uploaded. On my original version it is easier to read 1967.
LOLOLOOL i giggled through this whole video...nowadays the mcworkforce is so different lol
It seemed to me 1966-67 was when McDonalds began their national tv ad campaigns, one of the first "fast food" franchises to do so. Virtually all commericals were black and white then, even after the network shows themselves had all gone to color.
In 1967 I was a KFC kitchen worker...I had parent's that instilled a work ethic that served me well through life...Good luck :)
I agree, the year is 1957.
Very specifically the voice-over narration mentions hiring "thousands of clean-cut young MEN" -- because as late as this, company policy was that McDonald's did not hire girls or women to work in its restaurants.
have you ever worked at mcdonalds before??
i worked at mcdonalds for like 4 years in the 2000s. it's not something i want to do again.
Damn never seen this McDonald’s commercial before it’s in black and white
@fastold yw! I wish I could find another job...I'm sick of all the bullcrap I put up with each and every day. And good luck!
It sure aint an easy job. You'd start an 8 hour shift and be told to take your 45min break right away so you'd work 7hrs15min straight. You're not allowed to stop working even for a second, the kitchen's like an oven, you have to ask permission to have water or go ot the toilet, you have to serve and prepare waiting meals at the same time, you have to carry and wash big metal vats of scalding oil in a chest high sink using bare hands and no soap while taking orders for drive thru...fun!
i thought mcdonalds employees hated their lives
@beatlesXXXluver101 also, it probably happened kind of like vhs to dvd or dvd to blue-ray. Color was there but, it took some time to get everybody switched over? Though LINYVideo's reason is probably correct.
It's 1967. Like he said the cars aren't fifties and besides if you look at it again you can plainly tell it says 1967. Besides, "McDonalds Is Your Kind Of Place" wasn't around in the 1950s. In 1964 they had the McDouble burger. Does anyone know if that evolved into the Big Mac? The Big Mac didn't debut until 1975 and it was about 75 cents and cheeseburgers were about 40 cents then.
You don't know that. All jokes aside, these guys really lived back then. Odds are they probably did.
The price of gasoline in 1967 was 25 cents a gallon.
Ray Kroc was obsessed with cleanliness. By 1960's standards McDonald's was a sterile environment. Notice the person handling the money does not touch the food. Before 1965 coins were silver and filthy.
@centoguzzi 1.65?
have you worked at mcdonalds??
those guys are hott!!! i wouldnt hate working at mcdonalds as much as i do if i got to work with one of those "strapping young men" ;D
this was part of my dads childhood
The people at McDonalds I used to work at learn that you can get away with sexual harassment and labor laws can be ignored.
"Thank you ma'am, please call again." They don't really say that anymore do they......
Wow! Only men worked at Mcdonalds in the 60's? That crazy. Boy times have changes.
1967? The copyright at the end looks like it says 1957. In 67 they would have likely shot ads in color.
woow it meant something back then to work in McDonalds and people back then were decent people
I was a vegetarian for 10 years, fish only. Nothing gives you the energy a hamburger can. The human body needs fat, in moderation. There is nutritional information available at McDonalds regarding the fat content of the food. As for the recession, a Deli sandwich costs 10 dollars, a McDonalds hamburger costs 1 dollar.
Even with the war in Nam going on, back then we didn't have schools on lock down, students carrying weapons to school, schools providing day care for pregnant teens and teens even had self respect. Looks odd watching it today but back then we never had a worry that a 14 year old would pull a gun on you.
Back then, working a McDonalds wasn't a "degrading" job or one that high school drop outs went for.
My dad worked at McDonald's when he was 16 or 17!
This was back in the day when McDonald's hired only males. Seriously.
First McDonald's Executive:At McDonald's, the only brown we serve is MEAT! Second McDonald Executive: We just spent 5 million dollars to redesign our restaurants for the 1970's! Take a look! First McDonald's Executive: OH MY GOD! THE WHOLE STORE IS BROWN! Who's Brilliant Idea Was This?!! Second McDonald's Executive: Brown is Ray Kroc's favorite color.
Sad, that's how people should act in the workplace.
I'd be willing to bet that if they acted all polite like that they'd be made fun of at any McDonalds today.
Not gonna lie, I used to work on Halifax and now I work in McDonalds and it is so much more fun! Fair enough it's crap pay but for a student is dead on!
It used to be that the job listings in the newspaper were segregated. Jobs for men and jobs for women. The coffee cup commercial I posted shows an effort to promote the employment of women during the 1970's. It is hard to believe that there was a policy among all the franchises in the 1950's-1960's to hire only white employees. You have no evidence to back up that claim.
they could make this into a commercial for the army by replacing every time they say 'mcdonalds' with the words 'army' or 'USA'
There is more to red meat than protein. It has vitamins, minerals and the human body's ability to efficiently absorb the nutrition it provides. One staple of my diet was chunk light tuna, plain, on rye bread. Delicious, I could inhale that sandwich. A great source of protein. Also pineapple chunks wrapped in raw spinach was a favorite. My cholesterol was in the 90's but I was always tired and my fingernails were not growing properly. I don't eat a lot of red meat, once in a while.
@peterkis75
I hope you own a franchise someday.
Ray Kroc modeled McDonalds operations after the US Army
Mcdonald would be an awesome place if all the food they sold would be organic. They should think about it. Food is important and people will pay up for it.
I will be conciliatory and say that I should have written that nothing gives ME energy like a hamburger. It is obvious that YOU don't get energy from red meat. In the old days, football players would eat raw meat before a game. I wouldn't advise doing that because cooking meat kills bacteria.
Low wages? The cost of living was alot lower then. You could by a pair of highest quality english shoes for $65.00.
The same pair today will cost you over $900.00.
@ShadyKaracter To "call" in the South means "to visit"..... Ever heard Kenny Rogers song "Coward of the County"? "The Gatlin boys came a calling"........
Back then jobs were segregated. This was before the Civil Rights Amendment. I posted a 1974 coffee mug commercial. That was the introduction of women into the McDonald's workforce.
$1.65 is equivalent to $ 7.00 today.
Amazing how things change in 43 years. Notice in '67 how they show all the McD's employees are males. Nowadays, women and girls make up about 70% of all McDonald's employees, including upper management. I can understand why that is nowadays; McD's pays low wages, even to low level managers. But what I cannot understand is how come males could multi-task in fast food back in '67, but now it's females who can multi-task and males can't? Something is wrong with America.
can say, and remember how burgers used to be like 80 or so cents? what happened to that? :[
Back then you probably could make some kind of a living by working as a McDonald's employee. Unfortunately salaries and minimum wages for these positions have not kept up with the cost-of-living. Now you'd be considered 1 of the working poor.
Translation: "No hippies allowed".
I can't speak for all Americans but I work 80 hours a week, could lose a few pounds though. Apples are a great food to eat if you don't have time to cook. McDonalds includes apples in the kids meal with the three McNuggets small fries and milk. Not a horribly fattening meal. People decide to buy their kid Big Mac's supersized, then its McDonalds fault when the child becomes overweight. I think it is illegal for them to deny a sale of food to anybody, even if they know its too much for a meal.
Not gonna lie, i love working in McDona
Wonder if he still sports the same waistline if he does!
@GarBagePaiLkidS1 This doesn't surprise me as the dress code that had been established with good reason is never enforced!
These where the guys who Didn't go to Vietnam
Isn't that Johny Bravo?
bet, that guy is still working at mcdonalds ........today
@exbronco1980 why would you work at mcdonalds for 4 years
wow if i knew working at mc donalds would be so educational i would have told my son to quit bio med and just work at mc donalds
they served root beer!?!?!?! man times have changed
they weren't joining the army they were just working at mcdonalds, its their kinda place? not today!
The fingernails were the only visible problem. I don't know exactly what caused it but they are fine now. Calcium deficient? I used to eat imitation soy burgers also. They were OK if you drowned them in BBQ sauce, ketchup of mixed them into pasta. Spaghetti and meatballs with soy burger meatballs.
Before civil rights the American workplace was very sexist. The newspaper help wanted ads were segregated into two sections, jobs for men and jobs for women.
You'll do fine, I know these things :) !
Back then jobs lead to jobs no matter what you do.Not so anymore.
"without them, there would be no McDonalds"
AHA! SO NOW WE KNOW WHOSE TO BLAME!!!!
WELL, if you were 18 in 1967, you could either work at McDonalds, or go to Vietnam !
@foxchemdry they did that back then too !
@mssorby Meh, only worked there a couple of months before I got a proper job where I didn't get forced to do 4 hours overtime without a break for £4 ($6) an hour.