You ever worked in fast food?

[b i o n i c]

i never did one of those jobs, but i delivered pizza for a few weeks and worked in retail... yeah i ALWAYS sympathize with those kids. i actually sympathize with the girls a little more for some reason

Originally Posted by Kid Presentable

Teaching your (the general you, not yours specifically, Robert) kids that they can be considered trash by others is a good way of stripping them of entitlement though.

i think doing the jobs i really hated was good for me, as much as i never want to do them again. i think it was a good way to learn some humility and the value of money. also i think its a good way for them to see what they might have to do if they don't make something of themselves.

i took a year off from college to work because i enjoyed the money, but when i got to see how hard the mexicans i worked with had it, i went back to school with the quickness and not only did i do a double course load to graduate on time, i got really good grades. perspective.

you have people, if they were rich, would buy their kid a bmw as a first car and you have people like me who would do no such a thing. i dont care how much money i have, my kids arent getting more than the equivalent of a honda civic when the time comes.

[Planetary]

Originally Posted by b i o n i c

i actually sympathize with the girls a little more for some reason

must be the smaller brains

[Audio.]

fuck.

I need to find a part time job then.

[Dorothy Wood]

I was always too much of a snob and a shy person to work in food service. I worked in Parks and Recreation, where you hardly had to deal with the public at all...just pick up their garbage occasionally. I got to ride around in a golf cart, which rules when you're 15 years old, and use a metal detector. woo!

minuses:
working at 7 a.m.

maggots

getting hit on by 30-something-year-old umpires who think you're in college (or so they say)



anyway, anybody that I ever knew that worked at McDonalds actually had a pretty good time they said.

[Nuzzolese]

Low-wage jobs in highly corporate companies teach the worst lessons, I think.

They don't encourage innovation or originality, because all decisions come from above and you're not supposed to change anything, even if it makes things better. You're taught to do the minimum and shut up.

You're not encouraged to work harder because in the places I worked, managers were brought in from outside, hardly ever promoted from within. They like keeping people at minimum wage without benefits because it's cheaper. We were treated like we didn't matter, and very little was expected from us.

You're taught to be wasteful. The donut shop where I worked, we weren't allowed to take home any food at the end of the day. It wasn't stale, it just wasn't fresh enough to sell by their standards. We had to throw it all away. We couldn't even toss it outside for birds. The bookstore threw away tons of paperbacks weekly because that was cheaper than mailing them back to a publisher, and we couldn't donate them anywhere. They didn't even recycle old newspapers and magazines. All into the trash.

Yes, it teaches humility and the value of money because of how tiring it is to earn so little. But, as far as work ethics? It's the worst!

[Kid Presentable]

Originally Posted by Nuzzolese

Low-wage jobs in highly corporate companies teach the worst lessons, I think.

They don't encourage innovation or originality, because all decisions come from above and you're not supposed to change anything, even if it makes things better. You're taught to do the minimum and shut up.

You're not encouraged to work harder because in the places I worked, managers were brought in from outside, hardly ever promoted from within. They like keeping people at minimum wage without benefits because it's cheaper. We were treated like we didn't matter, and very little was expected from us.

You're taught to be wasteful. The donut shop where I worked, we weren't allowed to take home any food at the end of the day. It wasn't stale, it just wasn't fresh enough to sell by their standards. We had to throw it all away. We couldn't even toss it outside for birds. The bookstore threw away tons of paperbacks weekly because that was cheaper than mailing them back to a publisher, and we couldn't donate them anywhere. They didn't even recycle old newspapers and magazines. All into the trash.

Yes, it teaches humility and the value of money because of how tiring it is to earn so little. But, as far as work ethics? It's the worst!

You learn how they do things, and you learn whether or not that is how you want to do things.

[checkyourprez]

Originally Posted by Planetary

must be the smaller brains

haha. good burn.

[Bob]

i worked in the food stands at an amusement park, which was kind of like fast food, but even easier because each stand had a pretty limited menu so the work was extra simple; there really wasn't much to keep track of.

it actually wasn't that bad of a job. as long as you actually worked hard and took your shit seriously the bosses stayed off your back for the most part, they were only pricks to the lazy kids (and there were a lot of them)

[Helvete]

Never have, refused to. First job when I left school which is probably similar was working in a supermarket. Started off as random bakery asshole then went on to baking, it's not so bad telling people I was a baker when I left school.

[Echewta]

I worked in a video store for a few years. That was interesting...

[b i o n i c]

i worked at a video store too and that was THE best college job ever. the whole store was run by teenagers and early20somethings. our manager looked like scott baio and was completely stuck in the 80s.. he wore beat up white high tops and had that feathered style everyone used to rock.. he was also a coke head - the first coke head i ever knew. i felt bad for the guy. all the employees would take home movies and never return them. everynight after work was a party... *sigh*