People+Fast Food+Winter=Suck Monkey Balls

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She means 'work your ass off, I think.

Unless she's implying you should whore yourself out. In that case, buy a good pair of kneepads.
 
Dear Dark, don't worry. Some people look down on us convenience store/fast food employees but I see us as the first defense against disease. An ounce of quality food service is worth a pound of a doctor's cure.





I wouldn't say minority, but you're right, There are too many who do not belong in the industry. They are the ones with no respect for the products or customers.


Btw, almost 18 years for me in past food service jobs.
 
I actually did work a couple of nonfast food jobs for a period of time. I was bored to tears. At the time I needed the fast pace because I was so used to it. Now, I'm at the point that I've got it out of my system. In the past I'd always find reasons for staying longer. Now, I don't have any. I love working with my coworkers, they're a lot of fun. That's just not enough for me anymore. I am looking for another job, but jobs aren't that easy to come by in my area.
 
This has probably already been covered, but I really dont understand your attitude at all. You're bitching about how business slows down during the winter (this has been the opposite of what I know to be true) and subsequently losing hours you need to pay the bills, yet when you're busy enough to justify you being on the clock, you are angry that people dare order food on a cold day? You can't have it both ways.

I'm a pizza delivery driver, I'm out in the cold all fucking night. It was down to 20-something Saturday night and I was frolicking in it. I WAS GRATEFUL TO BE MAKING MONEY DESPITE THE COLD. Remember, this is GA, we see 20 degree weather a dozen times a year at most. I simply dont have enough warm clothes to layer to keep warm in that kind of weather. And it's hardly the sub-zero shit people up north have to deal with, but still, it was very unpleasant.

And you know waht I did after I got off work? I drove my ass to McD's and got me some cheeseburgers. And you mean to tell me that if that were you, you would be pissed off at me for DARING to bother you with the hassle of doing your job because it's a little cold outside? Fuck you, I was out in it all fucking night. You dont know shit about what these people were doing before they go to your window, and so when you act like they have no understanding of what its like to work in the cold, maybe you should give them the benefit of the doubt. Also, when tehy make comments about it getting cold, they are, what we in the business call "sympathizing" with you. At least I am when I say things like that. I truly feel for the people at the windows, I know it aint fun. But I do expect you to give me the benefit of the doubt, because that's the courtesy I extend to you.

Regardless, as someone in customer service who gets shit on regularly I sympathize with legitimate complaints, but the fact that you are simultaneously grateful to have your hours and then angry that you have to actually work during those hours (Do you want cold days off??? WTF do you expect?) doesn't impress me very much.
 
Well, see, this doesn't jive with the "I had to take a fast food job because I needed work and couldn't find anything better at the time" routine you laid out earlier. I can understand taking a crappy job to get by, but I don't understand why you wouldn't have started looking for something better immediately and bailed as soon as possible.

But fair enough. I wasn't trying to berate you.

If I were you, I'd take the anger you're experiencing and turn it into motivation to get a better job, file for FAFSA and go back to school. Then you can come back in a few years and whine about office politics instead of shitty soccer moms and minimum wage.
 
I work at a burger king, and im on drive thru all the time and i really don't have a problem with it. the only thing i can complain about is when the old people come through and order something completely different from what they want, or when someone comes through, orders a number 3 (triple whopper) and wants a number 4 (whopper jr.), that and the cold air. I like most of the people that i see come through because they are really nice and they usually just come through to say hey so, like i said, i really dont have much i can complain about.

But all i really have to say to you is stfu, put a jacket on, and mooch of your fiance like other women do.
 
Okay, let me put it in plain English because obviously my disclaimers don't do shit.

I am grateful for the business. It's just really fucking cold working window (oh, and I had a jacket on thank you very much) and I like everybody else like to bitch now and then. Dirtybird, there's sympathizing and then there's commenting on the obvious. Sympathizing would be a "Man, I'd hate to be in your shoes" or "You must be freezing" or something like that.

Jung, I worked fast food for four years got out for Shop N Save. Got back into it for McDs to get more hours. Moved to Jack in the Box when I moved and then quit there but didn't have another job just got sick of the bullshit and quit (stupid, I know but we all make mistakes). I was unemployed for a month before I got a job at Imos, but they only offered me about eight hours a week, so I had to keep looking. Taco Bell was the only one hiring at the time. I've been looking for other jobs but there's not a lot of businesses hiring in my area. I've started filling out the fafsa already.

And, I would never "mooch off my fiance." One, he doesn't make enough to pay all the bills. Until recently I was the breadwinner between the two of us. Two, I was raised to depend on myself. I could never be comfortable with the idea of him paying for everything.

I wasn't looking for advice or sympathy. I was simply venting. I obviously didn't express myself clearly enough, for which I apologize.
 
I work construction in the summer and fast food in the winter simply because I don't like dealing with computer problems all day even though I could make better money. You want to talk about being cold, try working outside in that shit all day. I understand the bitchy customers and I understand them wanting the orders right. Don't try to blame it all on the cooks though. When the person working the window screws up putting the order in and the food comes out wrong it's not always our faults.


She might have just been trying not to end a sentence with a preposition.....
 
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