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If you're saying your current job at fast food is rewarding, check back in a year with us. Or whenever you quit. Tyrannical managers, unrealistic metrics, no compassion for employees, all drain you quick at fast food. No vacation time, no sick time, yet you have to be ready to pick up a shift within hours.
Maybe you've got a good boss. I hope it works out. I work a desk job in IT and whole I don't see physical results, I'm much happier than working in the service industry. I couldn't make it work there.
Update 2: They called me an hour before my shift to cancel my shift. I can see why they have trouble finding workers.
Update: My start date coincided with the general manager's vacation. Things are very different when she's on. People who once adapted to the situation and communicated become little mind control ants doing whatever she said as she sits in the middle of the area barking out orders, sometimes incorrect ones. She started yelling at me that I needed to do the drinks while I take the drivethrough orders, despite the system actually being quite screwed up, me being new, and the soda machine malfunctioning so that you baically have to devote 12 seconds of dedicated time to each cup. It was not fun and I got obviously enough annoyed at her that she asked me if I were ok (read: submit to my abuse with good cheer and do not talk back.)
Actually answered the phone after my shift tonight because I expected to get fired, but it was a spam caller (thankfully?).
Still, I prefer this stupidity to my last job, and I think with our schedules, we're not on together too much.
I might be too proud now, but I would never take abuse from a supervisor/manager again. I quit my previous job after shabby treatment and was unemployed a few months in 2023. Luckily I had a safety net built up that allowed me to do it.
There's nothing more pathetic than a low level manager trying to flex what little authority they have to make themselves feel important. I'd laugh in their face and ignore them. They can fire me if it's that important. It never is. You won't get promoted or a raise that way. But in this economy I don't expect that anyway.
Good luck and protect your sanity!
I pretty much ignored them. They're welcome to fire me; their loss.
I've had retail jobs, so I know what you're talking about--mostly bullshit metrics that are rewarded at the cost of everything else... I'm not in love with anything else you mentioned either, but so far things are good at this particular place. It probably helps it's an entirely non-English crew and I speak the language.... but I'll keep you updated. I have heard about metrics, but I think it's something the manager has to deal with as much as anyone else, since they're working the window and register and the fry machine. Socially, it's not like there's this asshole whose ONLY job is to force you to improve your metric so they get a company vacation to Disney world at the end of the year.
Right before I left my old job, my boss was talking about a person he hired and it was clear she got hired because he thinks she likes him... in contrast, I had to answer NO questions about my fast food job other than my availability.