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Post by angryfan on Jan 4, 2009 5:03:26 GMT -5
no I'm not. I'm tired of these so called "workers" being upset. Really. once you get a REAL job. THEN you can get upset at stuff. Anyone who works at a food service job should REALLY look at what they have done with their lives. You don't like the job? THen find something else. I don't think you can. Anyone who works a so called "Real" job as a food server just failed at life. Now that's just my opinion. Sorry but that's just what I belive! One wonders what would happen to you if all the food service people and general blue collar workers happened to disappear. We bag your groceries, fix your cars, prep your food. With out us, the system BREAKS DOWN. Agreed. Look, I work security, one of the most made fun of jobs out there, and it pisses me off. I've heard everything from "you just think you're a cop, don't you?", which I usually respond to with "I was a cop, for years, and it turned me into a burned out drunk who never slept, so screw off", to "man, it must be nice to do nothing for a living". Here's the simple truth for anone that doesn't get it. I currently have a crew of nine, five of us either have a college degree or are finishing one, but there simply are few jobs in the area. The company I do security for, the local phone company, laid off 400 people in a single day not two years ago, and hasn't stopped since. Many of those laid off were the ones who would walk past my desk on a regular basis and make some snide comment about how "uneducated" I was, when in fact I had a higher education than most of them. Yet, because they made more, they were somehow better people. Most of us working the crap jobs would love to do something more, but in many cases there's simply not much out there that doesn't specifically deman experience with the job as being a requirement for getting it. By that standard, most will e ineligible. Here's the skinny on "a good government job" like my cop years and "stupid rent-a-cop" jobs like I have now (to use phrasing I have heard over the years). As a cop, I topped out at a whopping, holy-crap that's amazing and totally worth the potential of getting shot and killed or sued, amount of $13 an hour. For that wage, I had to wade through mountains of politics, backstabbing, lies, and hostility from people who did not know me, only the clothes I wore to work. Now, for $11 an hour, I get the cracks about "wannabe" and "where's your whistle", drunks puking on the building and demanding I give them cigarettes then taking a leak on the sidewalk, and general BS about the job itself. Yet, in all that, no one has threatened to kill me, sue me, or ever thrown a brick at me. So, both jobs have their crap moments, both don't pay well, but one is "respectable" and a "real" job, while the other is a joke, apparently.
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Post by longdogga on Jan 4, 2009 6:25:21 GMT -5
i work two jobs, one i work 40 hours a week at a pizza joint and the other i wrap myself in abostos and run into burning buildings i just hate the fact that the one that is awesome isn't the visiable one. i hate my service job but ill be damned if i dont get paid more then my my mates big sister who has a damn accounting degree
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 4, 2009 6:49:03 GMT -5
no I'm not. I'm tired of these so called "workers" being upset. Really. once you get a REAL job. THEN you can get upset at stuff. Anyone who works at a food service job should REALLY look at what they have done with their lives. You don't like the job? THen find something else. I don't think you can. Anyone who works a so called "Real" job as a food server just failed at life. Now that's just my opinion. Sorry but that's just what I belive! One wonders what would happen to you if all the food service people and general blue collar workers happened to disappear. We bag your groceries, fix your cars, prep your food. With out us, the system BREAKS DOWN. We work in the hotels. I've got sympathy for food service workers. We get it bad at hotels. Guy walking in: "I'd like a room." Me: "What type of room?" Guy: "Cheapest one you've got, and I've got a dog is that a problem?" (Never mind the sign on the door that says NO PETS, and the sign at the desk that says NO PETS) Me: "Sorry sir, we don't allow pets." Guy: "But he's just a small dog, very well behaved and you won't even know he's there." Me: "It's not just the noise a dog would make, it's also that we could have someone in the hotel with allergies, or the next person that stays in the room may have allergies." Guy: "But you won't know he's there." Me: "I'm sorry I can't allow it. Here are some hotels that do allow pets." Guy: "What the f*** kind of hotel off the interstate doesn't allow pets.?" Storms off One of the things you learn while working at a hotel, is that every dog is little and extremely well behaved. Guy: "Do you have any rooms left?" Me: "We are completely booked up." Guy: "What the f*** is going on in this town to cause the hotel to be booked?" Walks out Person standing directly behind them: "Do you have any rooms left?"
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 4, 2009 14:45:34 GMT -5
Thanks for all the responses and support, guys. I was having a bad day when I made this thread and it's just nice to hear some support from people with similar experiences. A few jerks here and there and all. And as for the "real job" thing, I'm about to start my fourth semester in college, so really I'm just working at Chick Fill A to help out with rent and whatnot.
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Post by Mac on Jan 4, 2009 14:51:47 GMT -5
Thanks for all the responses and support, guys. I was having a bad day when I made this thread and it's just nice to hear some support from people with similar experiences. A few jerks here and there and all. And as for the "real job" thing, I'm about to start my fourth semester in college, so really I'm just working at Chick Fill A to help out with rent and whatnot. You must be popular in school... At college one of my buddies was a night manager at McDonalds, used to bring home quite the bounty in extra food.
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 4, 2009 14:57:24 GMT -5
Thanks for all the responses and support, guys. I was having a bad day when I made this thread and it's just nice to hear some support from people with similar experiences. A few jerks here and there and all. And as for the "real job" thing, I'm about to start my fourth semester in college, so really I'm just working at Chick Fill A to help out with rent and whatnot. You must be popular in school... At college one of my buddies was a night manager at McDonalds, used to bring home quite the bounty in extra food. Officially, we're not allowed to bring food home, and I am an upstanding employee with no idea what your talking about, sir. Unofficially, my friends all f***ing love me. ;D
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Post by Aaron E. Dangerously on Jan 4, 2009 15:15:42 GMT -5
I just hate it when people are dumb. I'm serious. I work at my college's Game Room, where you can rent movie and board games and shit. We stop checking out movies 3 days before winter break, because all movies are due after two days, so for all movies to be turned in on time, that's when we'd have to close. We only stay open to check in movies. SO MANY PEOPLE ASK TO CHECK OUT MOVIES DURING THIS PERIOD. And it's not like we expect them to know, so we put up signs EVERYWHERE. Bulletin boards, on doors, and all across the very shelves where the movies are! A girl comes in, sits down and starts looking for a movie. I don't tell her that we're not checking out movies anymore, because I didn't want to jump to conclusions She comes up to me and asks for 4 movies. Me: Sorry, we're not checking out movies until after break. She: Seriously? Me (self): YES SERIOUSLY YOU DUMBASS! Me: Yeah. She: Wow. That sucks. Me: Yep. Also, I REALLY hate being asked if people can have their late fees erased. And it's not just my friends. It's like random people who I don't even know, and who can't be bothered to return their copy of What Happens in Vegas that's 5 days overdue. It's just... frustrating. But pays good. And for bonuses, we get big bags of candy!
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Post by the threadkiller on Jan 4, 2009 17:13:50 GMT -5
Man, I have worked retail (Disney Store) food service (Billy Bob's Pizza, aka Chuckie Cheese) and supermarket (Kroger). I totally empathize with everyone in here. And yes, they are definitely real jobs. For most of us, we work those jobs while in school to do something better, at least in my experience. And if not, that's great too, somebody has to do those kinds of jobs or they wouldn't get done. Fortunately, I think I'm done with that kind of work as I am graduating pretty soon, but I always try to imagine what it's like to work at all those places and act as gracious as possible.
On a side note, if I see a server get yelled at by a table, but they have been pretty good to my table, I tend to tip way more than I usually would.
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 7, 2009 4:41:49 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I had to bump this thread in light of what happened today at work. Lady approaching counter with older man, speaking to me: Are ya'll closed? Me: No. Man with her: Are ya'll open? ....... IF WE'RE NOT CLOSED, WHAT OTHER f***ING OPTION IS THERE?! Also, we keep our napkins right next to the cash register in plain view where the customers can just take them, and some lady asked me where the napkins were today.
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Post by The Line on Jan 7, 2009 4:53:11 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I had to bump this thread in light of what happened today at work. Lady approaching counter with older man, speaking to me: Are ya'll closed? Me: No. Man with her: Are ya'll open? ....... IF WE'RE NOT CLOSED, WHAT OTHER snorkING OPTION IS THERE?! Also, we keep our napkins right next to the cash register in plain view where the customers can just take them, and some lady asked me where the napkins were today. Oh god, I get customers like that everyday. We have 2 main sections in our place; The cash register and the sandwhich cart. Unless we are extremely dead, the procedure is to pay for the sandwhich first at the register, and then bring the reciept to whomever is wokring sandwhiches, and we'll make your sandwhich. Now, this might sound somewhat confusing, but it really isn't, considering on the wall right by the sandwhich cart, there is a HUGE f***ING SIGN that says "please order sandwhiches at the cash register. thank you." Yet, everyday, we get at least 1 or 2 people in the short time I'm there asking "where do I order a sandwhich at?". Its gotten to the point where I get really sarcastic and say "we should really put up a sign or something." Sadly my sarcasm is lost. Itwouldn't be so bad, but the sign is directly below the menu! Meaning that anyone who reads the menu has a 99% of seeing this sign, if they decided to spend the extra second to pay attention. Reading signs seems to be a big problem with our customers. We have "We do not accept debit or credit" posted in at least two places, yet people still always try and pay with it(I've had the same person try to pay twice in the same week with their debit card). The best is above the register we have a HUGE sign that says "PAY HERE" and a foot or two down, there is a similar sign that says "PICK UP ORDER HERE", which is where peole pick up their coffee drinks. Yet at least 5% of the customers wander around like blind mice looking for their drinks when it comes time.
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Post by Shane Douglas on Jan 7, 2009 9:29:36 GMT -5
Cant say that ive ever worked in the food service sector, but I know a couple of weeks back I went into the Irish version of MacDonalds (Supermacs) at 2:30am, and to be honest I have never heard such abuse from drunks to the staff. Actually made me sick to my stomach the abuse that was hurled at them by ignorant drunks.
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 7, 2009 11:48:00 GMT -5
arrrrrgh, i hated working in food services. i worked at dairy queen for five whole months, so not too many stories there (they only gave me six hours a week, broken up into two three hour shifts) but then i worked at tim hortons for ten months.
the amount of stupidity from that place still haunts me to this day. working 7am-3pm (4 pm about three days a week) i got all the bitchy people that had to have their coffee or they'd go postal. on my first day there this one guy walked up with a mug and just stared at me, expecting me to know what he wanted. ON MY FIRST DAY.
then theres the deaf guy that threw coffee on me because i didn't know sign language.
the guy that told me how much he could ejaculate....
the other guy that yelled at me for not making his coffee fast enough because i had a migraine and wasn't allowed to go home (apparently, bad posture, half closed eyes and shuffling your feet across the floor aren't good enough signs to warn people you aren't in a good mood.)
then there's the assholes who order these huge orders through the drive-thru (like, $40 orders) and then get pissy its not ready when they reach the window two seconds later.
i don't know about other drive thru places, but are you timed? at tim's, we had 25 seconds to make their order, and had to answer them three seconds after they drove about to the speaker.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 7, 2009 11:52:24 GMT -5
arrrrrgh, i hated working in food services. i worked at dairy queen for five whole months, so not too many stories there (they only gave me six hours a week, broken up into two three hour shifts) but then i worked at tim hortons for ten months. the amount of stupidity from that place still haunts me to this day. working 7am-3pm (4 pm about three days a week) i got all the bitchy people that had to have their coffee or they'd go postal. on my first day there this one guy walked up with a mug and just stared at me, expecting me to know what he wanted. ON MY FIRST DAY. then theres the deaf guy that threw coffee on me because i didn't know sign language. the guy that told me how much he could ejaculate.... the other guy that yelled at me for not making his coffee fast enough because i had a migraine and wasn't allowed to go home (apparently, bad posture, half closed eyes and shuffling your feet across the floor aren't good enough signs to warn people you aren't in a good mood.) then there's the assholes who order these huge orders through the drive-thru (like, $40 orders) and then get pissy its not ready when they reach the window two seconds later. i don't know about other drive thru places, but are you timed? at tim's, we had 25 seconds to make their order, and had to answer them three seconds after they drove about to the speaker. Yeah, Taco Bell was timed. I don't remember the exact time we were supposed to get the order out, but we had to answer pretty much exactly when we heard the beep in our ear. And get to the window ASAP when the car drives up to it. Pretty standard stuff really. But some people were real assholes about driving up our time. We'd give them the food during a busy time and they'd stay at the window for at least another minute or two. Not even necessarily checking their food. They'd just be talking on their phone or some shit. If you need to check your food/talk on your phone/not drive/whatever...there's a PARKING LOT for that.
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 7, 2009 11:56:35 GMT -5
oh! i also had a guy come in and told me all about his divorce!
he left his wife of 35 years to hook up with this 20 year old. he couldn't figure out why his (soon to be) ex wife wanted a divorce.
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Post by Annette on Jan 7, 2009 13:51:11 GMT -5
I'm a very lucky girl - I've been at my job for over a year and don't have a single horror story. I work at a small theater that shows plays, musicals, comedians, kid's shows, etc. I serve food at the concession stand and clean up the place after we're done. Even when we're slammed at concessions, we NEVER get a complaint. I actually prefer it when we're slammed because when the intermission is almost over, people usually just say "Keep the change!" if it's under $3ish because they'd rather get back to their seats than wait for money back.
Never a dull moment though -like the time we had a drunk moron who tried to pick a fight in the middle of a packed house during a MMA cage match (think about 300ish people, 75% of whom are involved in martial arts or MMA to some extent) or the time we had to deal with a crazy groupie/stalker of a Christian singer who kept trying to get in for free because she was "friends" with the guy.
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