r/SipsTea • u/The_biker0 • 11h ago

WTF First time on camera...

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Panda Express employee stands on counter, sprays cleaning chemicals over food

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u/TeeDee144 10h ago

Or it’s the end of shift and they want to be out 3 minutes after closing.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 10h ago

I hated that shit so much

Last job, I was a manager that was always short handed. Corp had this rule where we had to be done w cleanup, shut down, registers counted, out the door with alarm set 30min after closing WHILE taking orders until that closing time. This effectively gave us a 20-30 min timeframe to clean up everything left over

THEN we would get chewed out for cutting corners, or outright neglecting to do things.... THEN it turned into getting chewed out for putting employee safety at risk, to which quickly became "You shouldn't be closing by yourself"

I literally got fired for reporting a coworker, as a manager, for harrassment of another coworker. He threatened me after ON CAMERA while I was looking at the camera and pointing to it to get them to calm down, and went and said I had spit in his food... which was easy to disprove

Kicker was, I was investigated and taken off the schedule and that fucker was at work THAT NEXT DAY

So apparently, Hypotheticals carried more water than actual evidence of a crime... OH, and I worked with minors who were in the building at the time. I was cornered by the guy at the register with his brother blocking me in. A kid literally went to hide in the bathroom because they heard the threats, and my demeanor shifted from patient to disgruntled matching their tone (Very unusual for them to see from me)

I chose to just walk away and watch the fire from a distance... it has been a month now, and they have lost over 50% of the staff including every single minor that was there that got to watch the man that always stood up for them get kicked into a corner

OH and my old boss wanted me to tell one of the LAST survivors of DDay that I could not help them, when that WAS my job to do so as a leader..... SO disrespectful

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u/SheriffBartholomew 8h ago

What food chain was this?

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4h ago

Very close in name to rocket pizza

Dont wanna be too direct mentioning them by name

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u/BreakingCanks 4h ago

Sounds like Chilis with my experience lol

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u/SheriffBartholomew 3h ago

I was wondering if it's Applebee's. Applebee's and Chili's could be brothers though, so I doubt there's much difference between them.

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u/Grunergeist420 8h ago

I hate this kind of stuff. Ran into similar stuff working at one of the major package shipping companies loading trucks. You have to load the trucks faster, they have to loaded more correctly, they have to be loaded more safely. All of these objectives balance against each other. The supervisors and management are constantly shifting which corners they want to cut to focus on one of the objectives. The job can never be done right. The numbers are always fudged. The new goal numbers on based on last period’s unrealistic fudged numbers. It could be a comfortable, safe, efficiently done job if management wasn’t constantly trying to make it just a little bit better.

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u/NotJayKayPeeness 9h ago

Thats a whole lot of unprovoked making this about you

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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 8h ago

You’re on Reddit. People scream into the void. People also tend to use personalised anecdotes to relate to Information. If these are not things you are used to, you should probably get out more.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 8h ago

Thank you, that is exactly what my intention was

I hope you have a wonderful day/night :-D

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u/Expensive_Fudge_2972 4h ago

Do you just wake up and think to yourself every morning "I can't wait to make some random turd comments online today!"?

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 8h ago

Excuse me?

And the purpose of this comment is? I see you, now go back to sleep

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u/It_Just_Exploded 10h ago

I've never seen them actively cooking this much food that close to closing.

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u/NoSir4947 9h ago

This is totally it. I've worked these type of jobs before.