Yeah before I had to move back in with my parents (which only happened cause freaking job cut my hours to almost nothing)
I DID quit and got a job elsewhere. I worked at Wendy's for a bit, and they were SO FREAKING AWFUL
I got so legitimately angry I came home throwing things at the walls.
- [+] SPOILER
- Day 1) Don't touch anything, just sit in the lobby doing compliance on their laptop which actually has nothing to do with how they run the kitchen at all. In fact, I got bullied for trying to follow the rules I was told to on compliances (things like cleaning the lobby in a sanitary way, cause they rather just lazily slap it with a dry rag)
Day 2) Same as day 1 except the compliance site bugged out, so they threw me at the front registers where I would be trained by Mary.
Mary didn't train me. She told me to fetch her drinks, sauces, fries or whatever she said she needed. Giving me no ability to think or learn, just fetching.
Day 3) On the registers by myself now. No training. Asking a lot of questions and pulling a lot of hair out because everyone keeps treating me like I'm stupid, like how the fuck do I not know the ingredients to all the salads and whatnot.
Day 4) Get tossed onto the drive thru cash window already even though I am still so rough on the registers! This is when things get bad
cause from here on out, my job is to
- be at the window as soon as a car arrives to accept their payments.
- heat the buns and tortillas and bring them to the front
- bake the potatoes, make sure to turn them half way through, then bring them to the front in a container when done.
- prep bacon, cook it, and don't fxing burn it or you'll get scolded. Line the 4 bacon trays on a shelf to let them cool, draining the grease as well. Then put them in a container and set them on a heating thing to keep warm, or take them up front.
- clean the dishes. 100% of the time the bacon dishes are in there, and bacon is always running low, so I better fxing clean those first, AND the containers to take everything up front in.
- Fry and grill all the chicken. Don't freaking burn it!
- Make chili. BETTER REMEMBER ALL THE INGREDIENTS YOU NEVER LEARNED HORFHORFHORF
- Make lemonade. This one wasn't so bad cause I mean they just get this inedible, almost solid block of lemon juice from a container in the freezer, and mix it with water, then store it.
- Make sure there are no boxes blocking the fire exit in the back. Every bloody second they are chucking boxes there even when the boxes are blocking me from getting out of the drive thru window area. So this is a task I put on myself without being told, cause omg the fire marshal would be all over their butts for it!
OK so take all this, and cram it into like a minute, and one person, and the span of the entire kitchen, and everyone is asking this all at once. Get the potatoes, get the buns, where's the bacon, why the dishes piling up.
well I dunno it's not like I HAVE CONSTANT CUSTOMERS TO TAKE CARE OF OR THEY'LL DRIVE AWAY
Then they'd mock me and harass and bully me.
SO I never came back, didn't even call, cause I wanted to see how badly they'd fall apart without someone to do all that, and how much they should have appreciated me. v 3v
And they really did fall apart for a while
I have a similar story for the other job I tried to work that was semi-auto a car wash.
And that is why I work at Kmart despite how much it makes me cry. Because it is still the best job around here