Things I will not miss.

So last night I worked my last shift at McDonalds.

Things I will not miss about working in fast food.


1)    The screamers. Apparently It is hard to comprihend that our drivethru speakers work remarkably well, and screaming into them in broken fragments slows us down, not speeds us up. Ex. “GIVE…..ME…..TWO…..NUMBER….ONES…WITH”

      “Sir, sir please don’t yell, we can hear you just fine”

        “OK…..GIVE……ME…….TWO…”

         Here is a tip. Talk normal into the speaker, we can hear you just fine.

2)    The insults. People assume that if you work in fast food you must be idiots. Many times I was told by customers “Yeah, that’s why you work in fast food!” They didn’t quite get the fact I was going to college, and had a 4.0 in highschool. They got taint-burgers.

3)    The bringer-backers. Shut the hell up. I don’t care if you got pickles when you asked for no pickles. You have fingers. You can pick them off. You are paying less than $5 for your meal, you just voided your right to complain. We are getting paid crap, so we void our right to care about you or your food.

4)    The special orders. “Give me a quarter pounder no ketchup extra mustard with light onions and pickles add extra lettuce and can I only have one slice of cheese on that?”

       No. No you cannot. Order it normal like everyone else. You are not special, you are not cool. If you want anything different, go to Burger King asshole.

5)    The people who don’t know menus. Everytime somebody came through asking for a classic double with onion rings and a large Pepsi, I wanted to kick them in the face. It is not hard to know the menu items for the place you are at.
6)    The splitters. The people that cannot understand that if you are in a car with people, and you all order, you pass the money to the driver, who then distributes change. I got to the point one night where I quit letting people make separate orders in drivethrough. People who come through with 4 friends in the car, wanting 4 separate orders, well they had to think on their toes with the change for a chance.


There may be more to come as I get to them



Edited by Tae Kwon Do - 24 June 2006 at 1:51pm

that's all part of your job.. learn to deal with it, or quit.

Taco Guru 3.0 wrote: that's all part of your job.. learn to deal with it, or quit.

Not really, no.

And if you read carefully, I did quit. But not becuase of the idiot customers, I just found a better job.

GG.

Cedric wrote: How much did you make an hour over there?

$7.10 an hour. I would have asked for a raise more often but I only worked weekends.

It kind of IS your job to make special orders if asked to if you work in food services... Believe me, I know it's a pain in the butt. I've worked at a small restaurant for 2.5+ years, and special orders suck, but you have to do it.
The customer comes first. You're getting paid to satisfy them.

Nothing pisses me off more than "I want light batter on my fish & chips," or "I want half of my pizza with no cheese." There's no way to do 'light batter' and the cheese will flow across the pizza if there's none on one side.

Out of curiosity, where's your new job at TKD?

Last night was my for time working at Swiss Chalet. Holy crap working in a kitchen is hard. You have to know so much just to work a terrible job. It really surprised me. Damn the real world!

Edited by Hitman - 24 June 2006 at 2:26pm

Glad you're finally out of there. Working in fast food for too long does things to people.

Monk wrote: Then to just piss them off, I would tell them to pull up to the second window... We only had one window. OOh that guy was hella pissed.

hahahha

i never understood why people yell at/get pissed off/make fun of people that handle your food

The only difference I think I feel about people who work fast food, is that I think they have a crappy job. I know alot of them, so I know they're still cool people and such, I just would hate to have that job. I've managed to never work fast food/ in a grocery store/ retail.