A Digg user claims to have gotten in contact with Joanna via her Myspace (before it was made private) and had a conversation with her about her poor attitude. She says it was all just a lark:

it is a joke. it was meant for JUST mcdonalds employees who could relate..not actually for customers to read..

Dylan pointed out how the story had swept around the internet, hitting Fark and Digg and innumerable blogs and message boards. He suggested some sort of retraction if she wanted to preserve her job security. Joanna responded:

lmao damage control? why bother? i really dont care ..how you figure im doing damage control? you’re one person .. idk what fark . com is or any of those other sites.. i aint post them there so thats on whoever did it ;]

Ouch, Drew Curtis is going to be so pissed. Full convo inside.

—————– Original Message —————–
From: Dylan
Date: Aug 8, 2006 11:16 PM

hey is that ur blog about working at mcdonalds? i wanted to ask if you dont like working there why dont u get another job? i worked at place that had a lot of customers that were assholes to me and 1) i didnt do shit to them 2) i just quit and found ajob where i didnt have to put up with customers? and 3 ) for the love of god dont spit n peoples food thats just disgusting

—————– Original Message —————–
From: *`Anna`*
Date: Aug 9, 2006 1:18 AM

ok first of all… its supposed to be a joke..yes.. joke j-o-k-e.. comprende?? and 2nd of all it says NOWHERE on the list about spitting in food. thanks.

—————– Original Message —————–
From: Dylan
Date: Aug 8, 2006 11:30 PM

hey wasnt bein mean about it and i didnt see anywhere on there that seemed like a joke and it mentioned doing “unmentionable” things to the food which doesnt leave much up to the imagination

—————– Original Message —————–
From: *`Anna`*
Date: Aug 9, 2006 1:46 AM

it is a joke. it was meant for JUST mcdonalds employees who could relate..not actually for customers to read..

—————– Original Message —————–
From: Dylan
Date: Aug 8, 2006 11:50 PM

Either way it ended up on the frontpage of Fark.com with the headline “A McDonald’s employee has some McRules for you” It has 428 comments about it, the story is reposted on so many differnet blog sites all across the internet and I can’t even remember how many times I’ve come across this story in the past hour. So doing damage control now? Are you going to lose your job or anything?

—————– Original Message —————–
From: Dylan
Date: Aug 8, 2006 11:56 PM

Just searched for it and it’s on Digg.com with 20 diggs ( basically how many people vote for your story ) you may want to put online a blog or somethign a retraction and make sure it gets out that it was a joke, because honestly if it gets on the frontpage of digg.com you are likely to lose quit a bit. Digg has millions of viewers everyday and everytime theres a story about somehting illegal on there or something similar to this theres always a followup story the next week about somehting happening.

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lmao damage control? why bother? i really dont care ..how you figure im doing damage control? you’re one person .. idk what fark . com is or any of those other sites.. i aint post them there so thats on whoever did it ;]

(Thanks to Paul!)

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