CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Bob Pisani share their opinions on posts on McDonald's employee website which "bashes" fast food. 
 
 "We have offered the McResource program to help our valued McDonald's employees with work and life guidance created by independent third party experts. A combination of factors has led us to re-evaluate, and we've directed the vendor to take down the website. Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary," McComb said in a statement. 
 
 "None of this helps our McDonald's team members. We'll continue to provide service to them through an internal telephone help line, which is how the majority of employees access the McResource services." 
 
 
 
 The site now reads: 
 
 "We'll Be Back Soon! 
 
 "We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made." 
 
 The fast-food advice is the latest blunder involving the site during the last few months. 
 
 In November, the company detailed tipping advice for workers, many of whom make around minimum wage. It listed pricey suggestions for tipping au pairs, personal fitness trainers and pool cleaners from etiquette maven Emily Post—advice it removed after a CNBC inquiry. 
 
 (Read more: McDonald's out-of-touch tipping advice) 
 
 
 
 McDonald's also received negative media coverage after it advised employees to get out of holiday debt by returning unopened purchases and after it published a budget guide that included no money for heat and $20 a month for health care. 
 
 
 
 (Read more: Restaurants' big bet to get you to spend more) 
 
 CORRECTION: The earlier report about the employee website was Monday. 

 We'll Be Back Soon! 
 
 We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made. 

 Story highlights McResource Line's latest embarrassment: Advice that fast food can be unhealthy 
 
 McDonald's shuts down the site for "maintenance" 
 
 In July, a McResource budget-planning guide was ridiculed for being out of touch 
 
 Site has also advised employees on how much to tip a housekeeper or a pool cleaner 
 
 It seems that McDonald's has finally realized how tone-deaf its internal employee resource website was. It has shut it down. 
 
 The final straw? A tip on the site to employees to avoid McDonald's fare. 
 
 A graphic on the site shows a meal with a cheeseburger, fries and drink under the caption "Unhealthy choice." Next to it is a picture of a sub, a salad and water under the caption "Healthier choice." 
 
 The latest embarrassment is among a string that's cropped up since the McResource Line website went live. 
 
 A McResource budget-planning guide for its employees was ridiculed in July for being out of touch. 
 
 "For starters, it didn't account for food and gasoline," CNNMoney reported. "The second line on the sample budget leaves room for income from a second job, which many called an admission by the fast food giant that its workers can't live on its wages alone." 
 
 And then earlier this month, NBC News reported that the site offered a guide on how much one should tip a pool cleaner, housekeeper, and even an au pair. 
 
 The only problem: The University of California Berkeley Labor Center and University of Illinois released a study in October that said 52% of families of fast food workers receive assistance from a public program like Medicaid, food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. 
 
 The fast food giant found itself again having to deflect unwanted attention from its internal site this week after CNBC reported that McResource ostensibly advises McDonald's employees to not eat at McDonald's. 
 
 "Fast foods are quick, reasonably priced, and readily available alternatives to home cooking. While convenient and economical for a busy lifestyle, fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put people at risk for becoming overweight." 
 
 Visitors to McResource Line on Wednesday were greeted with this statement: "We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made." 
 
 McDonald's confirmed the site had been taken down in a statement posted on its website. "A combination of factors has led us to re-evaluate and we've directed the vendor to take down the website. Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary. None of this helps our McDonald's team members." 
 
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– The much-maligned McDonald's employee resource website was shut down yesterday, after weathering a series of bad press over the tone-deaf advice it has handed out. This is, of course, the site that advised its workers to sell their stuff for extra cash, remember to tip the pool boy and au pair, and steer clear of fast food when possible. In the latter two instances, McDonald's attempted to defend itself in part by saying a third-party vendor provided the content to the McResource Line website. Visits to the website as of yesterday returned this message: "We'll Be Back Soon! We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made." Well, maybe not "soon." McDonald's confirmed to CNN that it had taken down the website. Per a rep: "Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary. None of this helps our McDonald's team members." CNBC reports that team members looking for help can still access it via a phone hotline. (Click to read about another big McDonald's flop: Mighty Wings.)