Did five years in the Starbucks mines and another year on a pizza freighter. I’ll serve burgers before I fold a graphic tee. The solidarity during/after a rush forges comrades
I think the opposite for me mostly because rushes are really bad for ND people (at least for me anyway, dont want to speak for all of us, but Ive read that this is often true). Like I worked Burger King and it was constantly hell on me mentally.
Though I will say, I never worked the truly hellish retail jobs like Kohl’s or something. My retail job experience was two years at Hollywood Video, which had its badness but was a relatively chill job other than having to push the rental subscriptions. (Also a brief stint at a nonfranchise local toy store but I hardly count that).
Also worth noting though that the BK I worked at was a failing location with releativly few customers and even that was hell on me. I absolutely fucking hated it. It stressed me out so fucking much. Having to clean the dining room while the boss was counting down the drawer and there was only one person i kitchen and me out front. And then DING the drive through thingh goes off when im in the middle of wiping a table and it murdered my fucking head every time. Absolutely hellish environment for me.
I never had the option to work kitchen instead because the roles were strictly divided and I wasnt trained in it anyway. I probably would have preferred it.
Honestly if I could have just stood in ONE PLACE and just focused on JUST up front orders or JUST drive through it wouldnt be so bad. Drive through sucked for many reasons and you touched on some but it wouldnt have been so bad if i could have just focused on JUST that but i had to at MINIMUM run back and forth between drive through and front and bag all the orders, and thats when I didnt have to do extra stuff like cleaning dining room or trays. It was the juggling tasks that killed me more than anything.
Did five years in the Starbucks mines and another year on a pizza freighter. I’ll serve burgers before I fold a graphic tee. The solidarity during/after a rush forges comrades
I think the opposite for me mostly because rushes are really bad for ND people (at least for me anyway, dont want to speak for all of us, but Ive read that this is often true). Like I worked Burger King and it was constantly hell on me mentally.
Though I will say, I never worked the truly hellish retail jobs like Kohl’s or something. My retail job experience was two years at Hollywood Video, which had its badness but was a relatively chill job other than having to push the rental subscriptions. (Also a brief stint at a nonfranchise local toy store but I hardly count that).
Also worth noting though that the BK I worked at was a failing location with releativly few customers and even that was hell on me. I absolutely fucking hated it. It stressed me out so fucking much. Having to clean the dining room while the boss was counting down the drawer and there was only one person i kitchen and me out front. And then DING the drive through thingh goes off when im in the middle of wiping a table and it murdered my fucking head every time. Absolutely hellish environment for me.
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I never had the option to work kitchen instead because the roles were strictly divided and I wasnt trained in it anyway. I probably would have preferred it.
Honestly if I could have just stood in ONE PLACE and just focused on JUST up front orders or JUST drive through it wouldnt be so bad. Drive through sucked for many reasons and you touched on some but it wouldnt have been so bad if i could have just focused on JUST that but i had to at MINIMUM run back and forth between drive through and front and bag all the orders, and thats when I didnt have to do extra stuff like cleaning dining room or trays. It was the juggling tasks that killed me more than anything.
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Yeah the absolute fucking deathtrap the drivethrough timer had you in when you had to multitask was absolute hell.
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Second this. Making and serving food is good honest work, even if it’s capitalist slop
Yeah with commissions in the retail work I did it really pits the workers against each other. I was much happier on register shifts than floor shifts.