POLL: Have you worked in the fast food industry?

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Wingznut
You guys who have never worked fast food are spoiled. You'll never appreciate a good job, if you've never worked in the fast food industry.

I picked blueberries for two seasons, I think that rates below fast food.

🙂

Viper GTS

Hmmm.... That's a tough one. I picked strawberries for a few seasons. The thing is, if you got up a 3:00 am and didn't feel like going out, you didn't have to. (At least, not with the gig I had.)

Did you get paid by the flat?

Paid by the bucket, I made about $45 a week. Of course when you're 12 that seems like a lot, & it was a hell of a lot more than my friends made on their paper routes.

Viper GTS

 

[poopaskoopa]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Wingznut
You guys who have never worked fast food are spoiled. You'll never appreciate a good job, if you've never worked in the fast food industry.

I picked blueberries for two seasons, I think that rates below fast food.

🙂

Viper GTS

Hmmm.... That's a tough one. I picked strawberries for a few seasons. The thing is, if you got up a 3:00 am and didn't feel like going out, you didn't have to. (At least, not with the gig I had.)

Did you get paid by the flat?

Paid by the bucket, I made about $45 a week. Of course when you're 12 that seems like a lot, & it was a hell of a lot more than my friends made on their paper routes.

Viper GTS

I was paid by the bucket as well(blueberries). I averaged $14 a day. $3.50 per bucket. One day, I lost one of my tickets, and I was only paid $10.50 that day. 🙁

I tried to get a job with fast food joints after that, but none of them were hiring(me, anyway). But later I got a job working for a video game store, so that was awesome for a 16-yr old kid. So I've never worked in the fast food industry, but I'd rather do that than pick berries for $14 a day. In fact, I'd clean toilets for $5.15/hr before I go back out there picking those fvcking berries with those old toothless hags and thugs.

 

[Wingznut]

I don't think pizza should be in the same catagory as Burger King/McDonalds/Taco Bell. I've worked at a pizza place, and it wasn't a bad job at all.

 

[DainBramaged]

Former Papa John's Pizza Driver

 

[NetGuySC]

I used to be a chicken slinger at a gas and go for about 4 months at Myrtle Beach, SC. I also had to drive an hour one way to get there

Former Pizza Hut asst manager
Former Dominos driver
Former Dunkin DoNuts baker
was hired as assistant manager at McDonalds but I lost my driver license the next day because I did not pay a $15 late fee on a traffic ticket.

I am currently overseeing a department that makes Hamburger and Hot Dog buns at the rate of 80 packs a minute (Merita)

so I guess that the food industry is most of my life so far as pathetic as that sounds 🙂

current weight 190lbs 🙂

 

[FuZoR]

i was close on filling out a mcdonalds job app when i was 17... but seeing myself in a mcdonalds getup and frying stuff scared me away from it... so i just went to the next best crappy job... RETAIL.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Former Papa John's Pizza Driver

That's what I did... Pizza driver.

Actually liked it quite a bit. It was sweet having tips in my pocket every night. Always had spending money on hand.

 

[BornStar]

I was a sandwich artist for Subway for about 5 months my senior year. I hated that job so much. The hours were terrible and I always smelled horrible when I got home. I can't step foot in Subway any more for that very reason.

 

[bunker]

I worked in the kitchen of a bar/restaurant that served mostly pizza.

 

[caitlion]

i worked at eegees for about a month.

(only the people in tucson will know what eegees is though...)

basically a sub place 🙂

 

[Flyermax2k3]

I was a manager at a restaurant not on your list for a year and a half. Not a bad experience in my book. The pay and benefits were great and I loved working with the people I worked with (the Mexicans were a riot). I'd go back if it wouldn't, in fact, be a step backwards for me.

 

[Supermercado]

I work at Papa John's between semesters of school, but that's not really what I'd call a fast food place. It's been mentioned, and it's not a bad job (I drive). Best job I've had, actually (worked at Kmart, a bookstore, and a video store, in addition to a paper route when I was 14 or 15).

 

[Yossarian]

worked at McDonald's for a month. the first day I did nothing but make fries. I told the boss, you know I can really handle more than this 😉 robble robble. so they put me at the "window", which is the front counter.

 

[matt426malm]

I put in a lot of hours at my college's cafeteria, simmilar to working fast food. Pay SUCKS but if I make a certain amount 1200 I get an extra 800 for student-worker scholarship.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Jack In The Box and Whataburger veterans sign in!!!

 

[bo0]

I use to deliver pizza for dominos in a bad neighborhood. I hated that job! and it was scary delivering there. 2 delivery guys from our store got jumped by thieves for their money and pizza. That was the worst 4months on work i ever did, having to look over your shoulders everytime you get out of your car.

 

[Bryophyte]

I worked for KFC for a week back when it was called Kentucky Fried Chicken. I didn't make it through the "trial" period because I kept asking why we didn't have soap at the hand washing sink in the kitchen. I was told to go wash in the bathroom if I wanted soap (like after handling raw chicken.) Nasty.

 

[ProviaFan]

No, I have not worked in the fast food industry, and I do not want to do so in the future (if I did, that would probably forever cure me of the urge to eat at a fast food place ever again).