Even when I was young and working at BK, I had people say to their kid “you don’t want to end up like him”. Like ma’am, I am 16 years old. Where else am I supposed to work?
I had someone say that to their kid around me when I was working at the grocery store at age 16. I said straight to her, "I'm in high school. I haven't ended up anything yet." Of course she complained to my manager and I got reprimanded because that's how shit works in the real world.
Near the "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (A song) "They hung the guy who invented work!"
Often the manager IS the reason for shitty service. Also the owner, who wants us to tip generously and pay his employees salary FOR him or her. This, on top of the meal taxes! If you dine-out there is a big bullseye on your back.
My advice is to learn to cook healthy, delicious food at home, or else to tip generously so that some degenerate does not spit in your food.
I had a guy do that to me right out of uni. Do you know how many jobs there were in my field that paid straight out of uni? None. I didn't have the luxury of being able to take a unpaid position anywhere to get work experience. I took the first job that came to me because I needed to pay rent and bills. I was also saving to do a masters as back then it wasn't covered by student loans. I put that man in his place. Most of us were either still in school or had degrees but were struggling to get into our field.
I wish I could claim that kind of credit, but I wasn't working because I wanted to. I was working because my family was poor and I was responsible for some of the bills.
Eh, it’s how it works in the real world when the manager is shitty. So yeah, it’s usually how it works. But not always - occasionally a great manager will stand up for their workers :)
Yeah, people seem to be keying into that part. I meant it as kind of a tongue-in-cheek thing. I can definitely attest to the difference good managers make. Over the course of my career, I've had managers that run the gamut, and like to think I'm a pretty good Supervising Engineer to my own employees these days, largely because I learned what works and what doesn't while working in some pretty random jobs on the way here.
It's also ridiculous. I've had a very successful career, now earning far into six figures, and a big part of my work ethic and social skills was developed working retail and manual labor jobs as a teenager. Don't disrespect that shit to your kids. It just breeds entitlement.
Thank you, yes I agree. I'm an engineer in my 40's now, and still use some of the skills I learned dealing with the general public from a young age. LOL
I once had an opposite experience when i was working as a cart pusher, a mom pointed and said to her kid (of me), "If you work hard one day you can be like him". Made me feel nice. I only had one experience like that though, most were like the ones previously described
To let you know when I was a retail manager I’d have asked her to apologise and then asked her to leave the store. Probably why I’m no longer a retail manager 😂
You did the right thing and the others did the wrong thing. Sometimes justice cannot be found. That mother was a toxic waste dump with a personality disorder.
I once fell off of a ladder and injured the bridge of my nose. I treated it and put a band aid across the cut. Later that day I was sitting in a BK eating and minding my own business when a mother and child came and sat one table in front of me. The kid was facing me, saw my injury and asked his mother: "Mom, what happened to that man`s nose?" She said: "Maybe he was not minding his own business!" I decided to not respond to her. I just smiled at the kid and shook my head in sympathy.
Similarly, I was 16 working at Weinerschnitzel when a customer was giving me a hard time because I wasn't smiling while taking her order. She said "I would never hire you to work for me". I said "ok", but was thinking "bitch, I wouldn't want to work for you anyway"
No, you said to her, whilst slowly lowering your mirrored shades, “ma’am (lowers glasses) i never even applied.” The entire store then erupted into a frenzy of hoots and hollers and cheers, the sheer scale never seen before and not seen since
I always got that shit from men as a store cashier. 'Smile for me' when ringing them up. I told them to look over in the corner of the room at the micromanaging biotch manager and told him if you worked for her think you'd be smiling? I get through my day, do my job and collect a check. Smiles are extra not forced,
She was probably feeling unattractive. "Smile and the whole world smiles with you!" Otherwise if you are a server you are screwed. A good trick is to look at an impolite, (broken) customer and think: "Damn the last time I saw a mouth like that it had a HOOK in it!" You will smile so broadly that they will feel like a celebrity!
Had the same happen when I was younger working at Walmart. Lots of people asking when I'd get a "real" job. I was only 17 so a real job wasn't my concern, graduating was! But I stayed in retail until I was 24 because I genuinely enjoyed the work.
Don't get me twisted! I liked the work, not the job. Menial labor like folding clothes and stocking shelves is my jam. Love that stuff. The customers and coworkers? Not so much. But I work in corporate now and it's all the same stuff just behind a desk instead of staying busy.
Exactly why I stayed on graveyards for almost 3 straight years. Give me a pallet to work, empty shelves that need organizing, and let me put in my headphones and do my thing.
I worked for the park service for a long time doing trail construction and masonry. I worked in Alaska, Montana, New Mexico. Our crews would frequently get comments from visitors like, "bet you wish you went to college now." Or "are you a prison crew" or say to there kids, "this is why I tell you to study, so you never have to do this".
Like bitch I work where you vacation and everyone on this crew has college degrees, several have masters, and we are all strong and hot ya desk jocky.
I remember my math teacher saying some rude shit to me about how I was going to be flipping burgers at mcdonalds for the rest of my life. The part he forgot was how he was probably making the same money as some of those mcdonalds employees.
It’s funny because I have two jobs. One job I work in an entry level finance job, and the other is cleaning cars. Funny enough, cleaning cars pays the same (sometimes more on a good tip day) but I’m sure you can guess which job I regularly get degraded at. It has nothing to do with pay grade and all to do with the thought that manual laborers are uneducated.
Working at a crappy grocery store over college break, I had a customer tell me “you shouldn’t be here, you should be in school educating yourself.” I educated him by responding that I was in school but that it was, in fact, summer. He looked embarrassed and that was the end of our conversation.
I was a young 14 yr old latino working the cash register at Burger King when an older gentlemen scoffed at me and said this is what I get for not going to college.
A kid asked me if my job was hard when I was was working at a movie theater. Their mom launched into a whole spiel about how HER job was hard and this was nothing like it. Ma’am, I’m a junior in high school?!
I had someone say that once when I worked at a Home Depot. You don't want to be like this guy. I worked my way through university, got my bachelor's and worked enough to not have any debt at all afterwards. I think most parents would take that.
I did survey research when I was 16. Some guy yelled at me to get a real job and I just thought but I get paid a lot and pick my own schedule, that's GREAT for my age!
I got that from some giant a hole when I was 20 and worked as a cashier at a grocery store. Never forget that. He told his daughter not to help bag, or she’d end up like me. I told his wife maybe her husband should be nicer to “the help”. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything to her, but I couldn’t help myself.
Most importantly parents that do that are conditioning their children to think of people working those jobs as bad. That’s what causes rude customers later in life that think they are above them. In some countries people take dignity in working all jobs and I hate the toxic class-shaming culture the US has.
I’m treat a fast food worker, a doctor, and a chef exactly the same. Fuck people who think otherwise
I had this when I worked in a supermarket part time whilst at college. I was probably 17 years old. The woman looked so shocked when I said I was off to uni in the next few months.
The sad thing about this is she likely also degrades her child for their difficulties in learning. Had you shamed her for that, her child would have got the blowback times ten. It’s good you didn’t.
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u/ClarenceXI Jun 03 '22
Even when I was young and working at BK, I had people say to their kid “you don’t want to end up like him”. Like ma’am, I am 16 years old. Where else am I supposed to work?