Working in the fast food industry

As someone who's been in that kind of job for the past year, I have to say, this is the most accurate portrayal of it that I've ever seen.

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I work at a snack bar, but I don't get it.

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I think you made a spelling mistake in the thread title.

It's spelt H-E-L-L.

That was bizarre. And sadly, my time in the fast food industry was worse then that.

“I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I’m glad it exists; I just don’t ever want to get stuck in it."

What'd you have to deal with in your experience?

@Wheezy: How is working at a snack bar?

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Really bitchy manager who was incredibly TMI about her sex life, yelled her head off all the time, abused a few employees and even assaulted one and got away with it everytime, despite how many times she was reported to her superiors for the abusing and assaulting.

edited 9th Jun '13 7:21:46 PM by DamascaRamza

“I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I’m glad it exists; I just don’t ever want to get stuck in it."

I work in the industry and the funny thing is, if I had to pick someone from that video whose position I best fit, I'd be the King Wendy's guy.

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I don't know if that video has made me want to try a fast food job or avoid it like the plague.

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My first job was with Del Taco when I was 16, worked it up until I enlisted at 19 and left as a shift leader. Wasn't so bad. The job was shitty and the company was shitty, but the people were fun. A bunch of them were people I went to high school with, and having money as a teenager was tits.

I kind of regret not getting a job in my teens thanks to the lack of sweet, sweet moolah.

I'm just a lucky bastard that I got a job in my field as my first job during University.

...Lucky may be selling myself short a bit considering they want me back next year as far as I can tell, but I still think there was a huge portion of dumb luck involved in my hiring.

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I feel like the people you end up working with can either make or break the job in a field like this. Some days, like yesterday for me, you get a whole bunch of people who can be pretty chill but actually do their jobs and actually make you not mind how long you're there for. Sometimes there's always that one prick who pisses you off to no end. Sometimes the people you're with just do what they do, no conversation or nothin'.

...and then sometimes, you're on with an idiot who's too 'shroomed up to do his job right, so you end up having to stay for several hours after you were scheduled to leave in order to pick up his slack =_=

Nice! I doubt I'll have that kind of luck, considering my fields (psychology and music)

edited 10th Jun '13 12:41:41 PM by 0dd1

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I'll make sure my first job won't be in that industry, hehehe.

edited 13th Jun '13 8:28:00 AM by Boxen

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Eh, you'd be surprised, but IT is so broad a field it's arguably much, much easier to find something in the field to do, yeah.

At least with regards to music, because my knowledge of the actual jobs available within psychology is rather thin, have you ever considered or looked at engineering roles?

It's in the right field and it's pretty fun work, from my experience with it. Sure, it's not actually playing music which is obviously what most would rather do, but it gets your foot in the door.

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I'm just going to admit that whenever anyone says "I'm never getting a fast food job EVER" I immediately judge them as being more entitled than they should be. Working in fast food is not that bad if you know what you're getting into and you need some cash, experience, or both. It toughens you up. And it's practically unavoidable.

Now, if someone says "I'm never getting a fast food job AGAIN", they probably have an interesting, if mortifying story behind it. And even if they don't, at least they actually tried it out for a while before judging it.

I'd rather work retail than fast food, does that make me a bad person?

Shit, I know someone who makes a better living from being a shift manager at mcdonalds than I do working almost full time at an office supply store. A job is a job and what you make of it.

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A friend of mine makes more working at a mobile phone store than I've ever made in any of my jobs.

I'd honestly prefer not to work in fast food either if only because I hate working with food period.

But if you gotta' do it, you gotta' do it.

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edited 14th Jun '13 1:22:14 PM by 0dd1

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My first job was the reception desk for my college dorm. I loved it.

My second job was as a "student worker" (lower than a part-timer) in one of the college's cafeterias. It got better in the second semester, when I didn't put all of my regular shifts on the same day.

Now I work in retail (my first "real" job, not gotten with student status), with many of my shifts in the snack bar. The snack bar is the worst part of it. Worse than the cafeteria stuff, because I have to handle everything at once, completely alone. Unless somebody has a complaint, when they probably go yell at a manager instead of speaking to me rationally.

Now that I've gotten in trouble for a few problem areas and I'm no longer the newest snack bar person, things are getting better, but the "things are getting better" period was also when my most direct boss was on a two week vacation.

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I've done fast food and waiting tables, and I've got to say, fast food is better.

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I've been working in a certain "fancy" fast food chain for almost 2 years now (Don't wanna say the name just in case it can be traced back to me, but it rhymes with "Pantera" ). I think my soul is just about depleted.

I hate that place so much. I hate that we have to put on airs and pretend like we're not the fast food place we actually are, I hate how all the rules are set by asses in Corporate who have never set foot in our store and don't know what we deal with, I hate having to kiss the customer's ass no matter how awful they are, I hate the aggressive homogenous nature of the place, I hate that it's one of the most profitable restaurant chains in the country but it slashes raises and benefits more and more every year, and I hate that we get paid barely above minimum wage for a job that has caused everyone here so much stress and aggravation that just about everyone has broke down crying at least once. I hate that there is absolutely no significant down time except for holidays, and I hate that we're not allowed anymore to actually let customers know that we're closing or even that we're closed.

I'm taking a vacation in July (admittedly vacation pay is one of the few tiny crumbs they throw at us) and after that I'm gonna finally start looking for another job. A lot of people have left in the past year and actually found jobs with a lot more pay but an order of magnitude less stress and aggravation. And I've worked plenty other jobs before this that had their stressful moments, but there were still more than enough enjoyable aspects that made it worth it. This one though, there's just nothing left anymore. Anything and everything that has been enjoyable has been nixed by corporate, and they have the gall to claim that they (ugh) care. I don't know if I'll completely get out of the food or retail industry, but I'm just at a breaking point with this place.

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I suppose I'm kinda cheating calling my place fast food, since we technically are a dine-in place, but we have strict set times for all the food to be out by, and it's not exactly quality food that we make. Plus, the other two places the umbrella company owns are both fast food, so, yeah.

That is, unfortunately, the reality of working in a customer service position. You never truly know how awful people are until you're on the other side of the counter.

Although that one thing, "I hate that we're not allowed anymore to actually let customers know that we're closing or even that we're closed"...that seems really stupid.

edited 15th Jun '13 1:35:55 AM by 0dd1

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To answer a question asked a while ago, the snack bar isn't bad.

Even though it's part-time, you still get insurance and benefits, and there's an actual policy against the managers being dicks to you or firing you for trivial bullshit. Why? Because Ikea. If you have to work for any big box store, I'd suggest that one.

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I heard good things aboht Costco too, that its one of the few big chains that believes employees are human beings.

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@Leradny: How does not wanting to work in a terrible environment for minimum wage make someone entitled? And I disagree with the idea that fast food "isn't that bad." I've worked at three fast food places, in America, and two in Italy, and they were all soul-sucking experiences.

... There's a place called "Of the Taco?" Really?

Though, I suppose this shouldn't surprise me, since I regularly eat at a place called "Panera Bread" (Bread Bread)

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I just got a job at McDonald's. Should I be scared?

I don’t even know anymore.