Current Events > Could you ever imagine going back to working in fast food, or retail?

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assuming that most of you here prob. have worked these jobs before in your life, maybe you still do, idk

Fuck no

It stressful to me I hate interacting with people idc about

Id only do it if being homeless was the alternative. Other than that, fucking never again. Even without the karen customers it is such an insane sweatshop environment.

Retail can be very stall, but it's a paycheck if you need one.
Fast food, I've never done that, and would avoid it.

But I don't mind working around food which I do now.
Service industry people are a different breed.

SiO4 posted...

Retail can be very stall, but it's a paycheck if you need one.
Fast food, I've never done that, and would avoid it.

But I don't mind working around food which I do now.
Service industry people are a different breed.

what is very stall? and, what do you mean service industry people are a different breed? lots of different people and personalities work in that field

EmilyTheCEman posted...

Id only do it if being homeless was the alternative. Other than that, fucking never again. Even without the karen customers it is such an insane sweatshop environment.

This - when I worked at Best Buy there werent slow days because if it was slow the manager would just pull me aside to yell about how I should be trying to lure people in from other departments and upsell harder

Fuck retail. Office life for me.

If I had to, yes. I've had first hand experience with being homeless and, while yes retail sucks, it doesn't suck enough to choose not having a roof over my head to avoid it.

CedarPointcp posted...

what is very stall? and, what do you mean service industry people are a different breed? lots of different people and personalities work in that field

Use your intuition, it's a typo for Stale.

And yes, service industry people in my experience have a different sense of drive.
They kind of thrive on the adrenalin until their shift is over. And know they need each other.

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I can imagine it fine. I just wouldn't do it.

Between corporate nonsense rules and greed it's just a miserable experience not worth the money.

Anyone who has worked fast food (and retail too, probably) is probably familiar with how any given chain and location is designed for so many staff members to work to operate smoothly, yet there never are that many for one reason or another. So everyone ends up doing the work of 2 or even 3 people for the pay of 1. That's one example.

ragnarokius posted...

I can imagine it fine. I just wouldn't do it.

Between corporate nonsense rules and greed it's just a miserable experience not worth the money.

Anyone who has worked fast food (and retail too, probably) is probably familiar with how any given chain and location is designed for so many staff members to work to operate smoothly, yet there never are that many for one reason or another. So everyone ends up doing the work of 2 or even 3 people for the pay of 1. That's one example.

what is most of the corporate nonsense you're talking about? i really dislike how all the big places have all those computer learning programs that take up so much time and are common sense

No way Id ever go back to that. If I genuinely couldnt find any other kind of work Id just retire.

I worked at a retail pharmacy for four years. That was enough for me.

Naw

CedarPointcp posted...

what is most of the corporate nonsense you're talking about? i really dislike how all the big places have all those computer learning programs that take up so much time and are common sense

Getting written up for being a literal minute or two late, even though the hiring process said you were fine to clock in 7 minutes early or late, and you explained your babysitting situation at hire.. getting written up for missing when a baby has the audacity to be born on a day other than the due date you requested off.

Getting "written up" in general. Shit like that.

I'm not doing "hourly" again, at least not until I'm 67 and it's insulin money.

I have stress dreama about it

It wasnt actually that bad where i worked - inflexible and sales goals were annoying, but i didnt mind it

I think it would just be the sense of defeat to backslide so far after working very hard to get a good office job

Yes I could
if I were to some reason get fired and it was the only place to call back
But I would leave as soon as something else came along
my power-tripping middle manager would be seething

Never have and I hope I never do. I give my thanks to to anybody would works retail, fast food, or just service in general. They typically have the the least pay, are overworked, and very much unappreciated.

I worked the grill at McDonalds many years ago. As long as I don't have to deal with customers I'd be cool with it

I will never work retail again but I would work in a vegan fast food place.

Coming back? I am still in it.

I work in an Amazon warehouse so...yeah