McDonald’s in the US is so desperate for staff it’s begun running advertising in-store to find new recruits. The poster ads feature 12 one-dollar US bills and extol that that’s now the starting rate for any new burger flipper. However, the ads, that sprung up in restaurants last Thursday, quickly attracted the ire of social media users who believed 12 bucks an hour was “insulting”. One showed a pile of McDonald’s nuggets, with the same “now starting at” and “an hour” above and below the food. The restaurants head office in Chicago has been actively petitioning franchisees to boost pay to workers too.