Board 8 > I have newfound respect for fast food employees

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I've got a ton of debt and decided to try Dave Ramsey's approach to getting out of it. I got a job at McDonald's and have worked two shifts there.

They've had me clean the grill for the last two days. I'm having the hardest time doing it, since there are all of these nooks and crannies you need to scrape out, and it takes muscles I haven't really used in a very long time since my primary job is office work.

Everybody else there, it's no big thing. They step in and know exactly what they're doing around a machine that can probably cook them if they're not careful. I'm being showed up with basic machine maintenance by people young enough to be my kids.

They're also able to stand for long periods without any obvious signs of distress. I, on the other hand, feel like my back is going to give out if my feet don't go first. (I bought shoe inserts for the feet, but they don't seem to be helping.)

Yes, I can push buttons to cook the meat, and I can flip the burgers over and today I even helped to assemble a few of the sandwiches. I'm just not very good at a lot of the little things. I don't know how long I am for the fast food business, but I do know that those kids put in a lot of work.

Our 24 hour middle of the night jack in the box employees here are amazing people. Sometimes theres like 2 people in the entire restaurant running a very busy drive through all on their own, they are making drinks, taking orders, and passing stuff through the window among other things all at once. Its amazing multitasking(And talking with confusing people ordering all at once) and they do it flawlessly.

With all our local McDonald's offering mobile order and encouraging screen-based ordering they are all running with minimal staff as well.

(The way McDonald's uses those screens is absolutely evil, they have more than cut in half the number of employees working at once).

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Uglyface2 posted...

I've got a ton of debt and decided to try Dave Ramsey's approach to getting out of it.

Well there's your first problem.

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Cushioned socks help too . Sometimes I wear 2 pairs of them

Wal-Mart has a dr. Scholls machine that checks your feet and weight distribution and recommends a specific shoe insert for you

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I know you maybe didn't mean it like this but did you really think fast food workers weren't working their asses off? I mean, shit, I would not last a week - people who have the stomach for that job are just better people than I am

I spent a decade in fast food positions before landing my office job. It's something I recommend everyone go through for exactly this reason. It helps to be empathetic as a customer and to understand just how malleable someone has to be to thrive in that environment.

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Uglyface2 posted...

I've got a ton of debt and decided to try Dave Ramsey's approach to getting out of it

Nice dude! I got out of 30k and bought my first and second house in the same year, it's definitely a great method.

and yeah, fast food or any low paying job is the hardest work you will ever do

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Paratroopa1 posted...

I know you maybe didn't mean it like this but did you really think fast food workers weren't working their asses off? I mean, shit, I would not last a week - people who have the stomach for that job are just better people than I am

I had no idea. Customers only ever see the front end. When I was doing low wage jobs, either they weren't this demanding or I don't remember them being like this.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

I spent a decade in fast food positions before landing my office job. It's something I recommend everyone go through for exactly this reason. It helps to be empathetic as a customer and to understand just how malleable someone has to be to thrive in that environment.

Lesson learned, believe me.