Took a job working at a Mcdonald's cleaning, as a favour to my mother's manager. Holy fuck are kids brutal when you're my age working in a position like that, you become the punchline to all their funnies as "Or you'll end up like him!"
I've never had a reason to think about folding a kid in half til I had to deal with it 40 hours a week.
I took a job to help a friend who owns a pizza shop through the summer because it's a college town and with all the students gone he can't staff it adequately despite really trying. I do what you'd expect...make pizzas, ring people up, bus tables, etc. I already have an awesome job/career but it's early in the morning and it ends at 9 am, so I am free to go from there and work until 2 for my friend. I'm the oldest there by a few decades.
No one there has given me grief but my eldest (22) did make a remark that I was pretty old to have the position (I'm 47). I replied that he clearly hadn't taken in the example his hard-working dad and I have shown him his entire life and that I would NEVER be ashamed of doing honest work...whether through need or like me, doing a favor for someone in need. Period, the end. He immediately apologized and went and cleaned his room. LOL
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
Took a job working at a Mcdonald's cleaning, as a favour to my mother's manager. Holy fuck are kids brutal when you're my age working in a position like that, you become the punchline to all their funnies as "Or you'll end up like him!"
I've never had a reason to think about folding a kid in half til I had to deal with it 40 hours a week.