To me the worse job is to be the one telling people “your insurance will not cover you” despair anger disbelief denial cries and shouts. They had to replace the glass doors for acrylic and the desk for metal ones. Some people gets fucking mad. I was only the IT guy but daaayuuummm that shit looked rough…
i work in fast food and its the worst i hate it so muchhhhhh im desperatly looking for a new job now hahah
The food service was fucking awful, but I actually had a net good experience in retail. They were both relatively small stores, but the food service one was in a populated city with a toxic crew, and the retail store was in a small town with a chill crew.
Frontline tech support is a serbian film
Come And See.
I worked both. Distant stare
Ah… miss those times I see?
Extreme horror: food service-retail hybrid jobs, like the grocery store delis, meat counters, bakeries, etc.
I’d rather do heavy labor. As long as I don’t have to work in shifts.
FWIW, if one’s foodservice experience is bartending, you are given significantly more license to stand your ground and kick people out. Legally defensible license to do so. I genuinely enjoyed bartending most of the time, especially when it wasn’t a high-volume place.
When it’s at a bar/grill restaurant, if you and the cook don’t run tag-team being bad-cop on every table that gets weird to spare the server staff, you’re doing it wrong. You are a weapon to be wielded. A 6-top often loves the suggestion that someone not getting a tip is a mutual villain making drama and that the server is the only person making magic happen against all odds. It’s theater, right? You provide dinner and a show.
I have worked in food service and retail and to tell the truth I would choose “picking up shit with a shovel” over either any day of the week. Wouldn’t even blink, give me the fucking shovel no problem boss
When I worked retail, that also included cleaning the bathrooms (who needs janitors when you have minimum wage kids!), so I got the worst of all worlds. And I’d still much prefer that over doing call center work every again.
(lifeless voice) “Thank you for choosing AT&T”
Worse, it was AOL.
I’d sooner chew my pinky finger off than ever work in food service again. I’m dead serious.
Dead. Fucking. Serious.
My first job was in food service so I figured, ok, this is what working is like. Never again.
For me food service was worse because it was harder to get breaks. In retail I could just tell bad customers “I’ll check the warehouse”, and then never return. But at the restaurant I couldn’t opt out of bad customers.
You have way more chances to get back at shitty customers doing food service.
Get a cunty customer and you just smile a little too large, be a little too eager to fix their issue and let your eyes glint just a little. Then fix their issue exactly what they asked for with nothing wrong with it and untampered with. When you return to the table put a little too much emphasis on “Enjoy” when you give it to them.
They will spend the entire meal trying to figure out what you did or call the manager over and make a big scene about how you did something but cant point out what. Ruin my night, I’ll ruin yours.
Or you could also just actually fuck with their food ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
10+ years and I only ever did it to one person, but that racist piece of shit 100% deserved it.
That’s risky (criminal level risky)
Right so in the jumpscare genre you use psychological trick, and in the psych horror genre you use jumpscares on shoplifters and bad customers who can wait an extra minute for their help.
You don’t have to jump out on them, though. One time I had this guy SCREAMING about his order when there was a huge line and he was like #3, yeah? Well he was there for about an hour and while he was ranting at 300Db about how I never do my job yards yadda I had a colleague go get his fridge. He was waiting for that hour impatiently and I kept reassuring my team this would be worth the wait.
Anyhow he goes and gets someone to fetch their supervisor so I walk up once I’d been called.
WHERE IS MY ORDER IVE BEEN HERE FOR 2 HOURS‽‽
sir by my account, you’ve been leaning on it for the last 45 minutes. Your order is already completed in the system and the invoice is printed and on top of the box, do you need help loading it or finding anything else today?
He just screams like Tarzan and starts to push it outside. 5 minutes later quietly shows back up in my now-much-shorter line and sheepishly asks for help loading it.
TLDR: I also like to play ‘ruin my night, I ruin yours.’
I bet that the question depends more on management than the customers or type of work.
Like a good manager that doesn’t take shit from customers will be way better than the ones that bend over backwards for any complaint.
Same thing for the ones who are chill as long as things are getting done vs the one that is more interested in seeing the illusion of work being done even if things are neglected (because all their attention is making sure people look busy rather than really understanding the work to evaluate results).
The quality of management is near universal, that’s the problem. They don’t pay enough to keep good people
I heard some pretty stupid shit working retail.
“Where can I find the crunchy ice cream?”
“Uh… Like, the Nestle Crunch bar ice creams?”
“No, it was just plain vanilla ice cream. But crunchy.”
“Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”
“If this is only 2% milk, what is the other 98%?”
Looking at a collection of LOTR books shortly after the first Peter Jackson film released
“Wow! How do they already have 3 books of just 1 movie?”
Did you ever find out what the first person was looking for? Is crunchy vanilla an actual thing or did they just want ice cream with larger ice crystals?
Lemme at the guy about the milk, lemme at him, I wanna explain some shit to that guy, hey guy how much fuckin time you got pal, I wanna tell you about how cows work
I wanna know how cows work
The 2% refers to the amount of fat in the milk. Whole milk is usually something like 3-4%. So 2% milk actually is the “other 98% of the milk” since they skimmed half the fat off. Milkfat is actually not bad for you either*, vitamin d is fat-soluble and taking the extra milkfat out can make it harder for you body to absorb it.
Fat is also flavor, and when it comes to something like yogurt you have to put something else in so it won’t taste like shit. That something is usually sugar. For the same flavor yogurt its usually at least double the amount in the fat free variety. And it still tastes like shit if you ask me.
*the dose is the poison, if you eat nothing but cheese you will die of congestive heart failure
IME customers fucking hate it when you infodump on them when they ask questions like this
No, I know how milk works, I wanna know how cows work
Oh, cows are quite simple. They eat silage and turn it into milk, beef, methane, and more cows. Male cows don’t produce milk. Steers turn all the silage they eat into beef. Bulls turn 1% of what they eat into cum and the rest is used to produce pure, unadulterated rage.
I wish to know more about silage
It’s like a fermented mash of grain and grass. It’s a good way to turn corn into better feed. Unfortunately that’s as much as your getting out of me while I’m hung over.
Aw yeah, that’s the stuff
TBH like a half of those questions is something I could ask when I was younger, and the other half might have been asked by my friends when they were high. I hope I didn’t upset the retail workers too much…
Its less upsetting and more baffeling
Like I’m not mad, usually confused and intrigued by the question.
Unless you’re being a dick about it.
If this is only 2% milk, what is the other 98%?
Reminds me of 10% free
“Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”
How is that a stupid question?
https://www.finefoodgroup.com/tool/en/products/cheese-and-sour-cream/che/sour-cream-uht/cd04a
Because unless it’s a powdered mix thing, sour cream (and almost all dairy) in the US is refrigerated for food safety. They were not looking for a powder or mix.
It’s just UHT. UHT dairy is very much legal in the US. And does not have to be refrigerated. It often is, because unrefrigerated milk makes US consumers uneasy. But it doesn’t have to be.
I am aware that it’s less common than it is in Europe. But it’s not an unreasonable question.
Every question is unreasonable if you hate people.
I’ve done both, and I’d say food service is generally worse. Neither are as bad as being on an assembly line, I can tell you that much.
I worked in retail for 3 years, I lasted a single night working at a warehouse
Fast food service: Covered in grease AND dealing with customer’s bullshit.
Now that is shocking to hear. You do not have to deal with the whims of the general public. One would imagine anything would be better.
You still gotta deal with the most absolutely bored co-workers who are so disillusioned they create petty drama to fill their days. The 60 year old lady with a mullet who has been working the job outta high school is going to set an absolutely unmatchable pace for zero reason other than to give their ego a pat on the back, and not give two shits for the problems that pace might create when the shit they send down the line starts to inevitably back up.
All while doing absolutely back breaking and fatigue inducing actions for long periods while operating machinery that will dismember you before you even notice something is wrong. Your mind is so bored by the repetitive tasks it erodes at caution though, so good luck not messing up.
Imagine a never ending machine of molten plastic parts that burn you just a little bit every time you grab one, not enough to be damaging but enough to be uncomfortable, now imagine that machine controls your life for 8 hours with two 15 min breaks and one 30 min break for lunch/dinner.
The machine will speed up when production needs to be up and you have to keep up, you miss two pieces and you are put to the side and someone else will take over, you do it two or three times and you go home without a paycheck.
I’ll take a screaming Karen every time over that fucking piece of shit Greek God punishment type Job
You just reminded me of my short bastard super from one of my old jobs. They put me on the prep deck to get all the wash process water off the parts with compressed air before they go into the paint booth. One day they bump the line up to something like 14 feet per minute and tell me that I should stop the line if I need more time for quality reasons. So I stop the line because water is still seeping out. Fucking Mike whips in there with his private forklift and goes “hey why the fucks the line stopped” and hits the go button. A couple back and forths at shift meetings and I give up, because they’ve got me working 5 or 6 10s and I have lost the ability to give a damn. So now the paint is fouling on every fourth part, and when the facility manager comes round bitching about our reworks guess who gets thrown under the bus?
God I hate manufacturing
I just got out of a plastics welder job for Schutz tanks, “Greek Punishment ass job” is a very accurate descriptor.
I believe Sisiphean is the word
Yeah, but I found their original in the last paragraph funnier. Still misquoted that too though, so fair criticism.
Reminded me of What Remains Of Edith Finch, it has a segment working on a line cutting fish heads off. Grab fish, put in guillotine, cut, next, over and over. The monotony and pointlessness of it, and what it does to the psyche.
What were the plastic parts it was making
Probably some piece of the Death Star or something.
Car bumper parts
