Working in the fast food industry

Not too much - if you find you dislike it there, you can move on later.

Once you have a job, it's far easier to get another because you're already employed.

Only if you have to watch out for electric fence, avoid being crushed by 4 wheelers that accidentally turn turtle on you, worry about summer monsoon rains and their effects on boats, fix said boats, be concerned for bear, and deal with absolutely zero cell phone service.

I had to do that over the course of six years working on the mountain.

I can't really give good advice there, since the only similar place I've worked at is a Burger King, and I only worked there for a week and it didn't make much business anyway.

Working at Mc Donald's for about a year, I... Well, I hated my job. No sugar coating that. I did enjoy it in the beginning, but working under my sister(who was a manager) was a nightmare... Always having to work in her shadow because I was expected to be just as good as her(for reference, she was made a crew trainer in only a few months, and was a manager in training in less than a year). Besides that, coworkers are assholes, the customer is always right, especially when they're wrong(I think everyone who worked in the industry has heard that one), and all of my bosses either dealt pot, smoked pot, or both. It smelled like weed whenever I went to work.

Friend of mine started working at Mc D's towards the end of High School and he also liked it at first, but after a year or so hated it.

Ah, food industry. I heard that it's actually pretty tough job to get in.

Apparently you need English or Art related bachelor's degrees in order to qualify.

I worked at Mc Donald's when I was in high school for about two years. Depending on whether you work in the front or the kitchen, conditions will be different. Cashier you have to deal with customers, so I hope you like talking. Taking orders, getting shakes, cleaning, stocking, that's your job. If you work in the kitchen, it's going to be hot, the floors will be greaasy, it's going to smell, and by the end of the day you'll be greasy and smelly too. Take a shower after work and keep your uniform away from your nose when you get home.

Either way, you'll be standing the entire time, except for during your breaks. Get used to that and make sure you have some comfortable slip resistant shoes.

edited 7th Oct '14 10:42:01 AM by Parable

That was the worst thing, smelling like a grease pit after work. Echhhh. And that smell refuses to get out of your clothes.

Luckily, I work at a place where we don't use a lot of grease so worst case scenario I go home smelling vaguely of pizza

Orientation was yesterday. By "orientation", I mean having to sit in a tiny break room with five other people filling out forms for two hours.

Someone came in and asked how to turn on the alarm in the play land. Just what the hell are little kids doing in there that requires the alarm to go off?

Have you seen the things they find in those ball pits?

Balls.

Hairy balls.

Giant hairy balls.

Spiked giant hairy balls.

Spiked giant hairy balls OF DOOM!

Oh my God...XD

Thing is, the ball pit was removed YEARS ago. Which just raises further questions.

DEATHBALLS

'Hey, whose balls are these???'

First legit shift today. Trained for lobby work (I'm being trained behind the counter Thursday). The crew trainer had to ask me and this 14-year-old standard questions about why cleaning is necessary and crap. We got a pretty interesting one:

Crew Trainer: Okay, this is going to sound like a really dumb question, but I'm required to ask it. How do you take the cleaning towel out of the bucket.

(Me and 14 y/o give her WTF looks)

Crew Trainer: As long as you don't say that you take it out with your feet, it's good enough.

Crew trainer was really nice, though. The only other bad thing was that she thought the 14-year-old was doing all the work on the quizzes that went with the orientation videos (she was maybe watching us for two seconds). She then made me retake the quiz we just took (obviously a dumb idea), and I got a better score faster. The training system is bizarre.