Kevin Federline’s Nationwide Commercial Offending Fast Food Employees

In a recent visit to People’s Magazine’s website, there was an article talking about how fast food workers are furious over a Super Bowl commercial of Nationwide Insurance depicting a fast food job as "dead end". Truth be told, those jobs don’t pay very well but hell, they work their butts off for their money and get no tips.

The commercial starts off with Kevin Federline rapping in his music video with women all around him and wearing a fur coat and bling bling. Then suddenly we transition into a fast food place with Federline looking back at his moment of glory. For those who don’t know about the Britney-Federline story, Federline started out as Britney’s backup dancer and they both fell in love starting a bitter romance. Federline explodes into this amateur rap star with five minutes of fame in the spotlight. With the new commercial of this negative stereotype, could this be Federline’s desperate attempt to becoming famous since his ex-partner won’t be his money tree?

Stereotypes are what people make them out to be. And some take it as humor while others are very offending by them. I worked at McDonald’s for….one weekend….I hated it, and that’s why I respect those workers. They deal with unappreciative customers, run back and forth and when lunchtime comes, oh boy!

Me, I’m taking both sides as you guys can tell. I feel these workers should at least take the Britney-Federline breakup into consideration and just laugh. Yes, it’s offensive, but let’s face it, Federline probably couldn’t even keep up with a fast-paced working environment.

I asked a fellow forum member what he thought about the commercial and the hype it’s been causing and he said, ‘Working in the fast food industry is a dead end job, but they are there to serve people. Somebody has to start somewhere in life to get the training they need for other jobs in their future careers.’

Very true. At one point I wanted to get into hotel/restaurant management back in high school and my guidance counselor advised me to start working at a restaurant, including fast food just to see the basics. When I worked at McDonald’s, I shook my head "No" and took up a different career choice. With that being said, let the humor of this commercial depict Federline’s future downfalls. This party animal, free-loading moocher will be lucky to even last a day in the fast food world.