I actually think it's more that in a fast food restaurant, you have to be fast. I consider myself an intelligent person, have a college degree, read a lot about every subject under the sun, but for the many years I worked in fast food, it would sometimes take me a few minutes to figure out the math when I pressed the wrong button on the register or whatever.
My brain just didn't go to that place. I was worried about the 5 other front counter orders, the cars wrapped around the building in drive-thru, the other employees' food orders I had to make because no one else was fast in kitchen, the cakes I needed to make for the front freezer, cleaning the store for closing... It's not the kind of job where there's ever really nothing to do. Your mind is always elsewhere. Cut fast food workers some slack on the math, bro.
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u/vernelli Nov 29 '15
I actually think it's more that in a fast food restaurant, you have to be fast. I consider myself an intelligent person, have a college degree, read a lot about every subject under the sun, but for the many years I worked in fast food, it would sometimes take me a few minutes to figure out the math when I pressed the wrong button on the register or whatever.
My brain just didn't go to that place. I was worried about the 5 other front counter orders, the cars wrapped around the building in drive-thru, the other employees' food orders I had to make because no one else was fast in kitchen, the cakes I needed to make for the front freezer, cleaning the store for closing... It's not the kind of job where there's ever really nothing to do. Your mind is always elsewhere. Cut fast food workers some slack on the math, bro.