HAN-student carries off McStudy-grant
Telling your boss how he has to do his job, and subsequently receiving a heap of money; it is not the most common situation on the shop floor, but it is the pleasant reality for Rodney van Stijn from Tiel.
Free tuition fee
The twenty-two-year-old student Communication & Multimedia Design wrote an essay for his employer McDonald’s about motivating employees by putting them into teams and start a competition. The result: the hamburger-giant pays Rodney’s tuition fee for this year.
Competition
Of course Rodney, in his spare time floor manager at the establishment in Tiel, didn’t write the essay on his own initiative. He participated in a competition which stimulates talented employees to keep developing themselves and to do their bests. And so Rodney did.
Media-attention
Rodney received, just like 13 others, his prize, which was rewarded by the general director of McDonald’s Holland last month (see picture). ‘It is incredible how much attention was paid to this,’ Rodney laughs, as his story has been published in almost all regional media. ‘The amount of text-messages I got is huge! Everybody has read about me, somehow!’
Great fast food-chain, great future
What does this prize actually mean for him? Is it a dream coming true? ‘Haha, of course not, but is a welcome bonus!’ Does he himself a future in the fast food-chain? Rodney: ‘I don’t know yet, I am not really a carrier-planner. It is of course a great business, in which you can keep developing. We will see about it…’
