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Originally Posted by Vanessa
(Post 10132329)
I'm so glad i don't work in a fast food anymore. It canbe quite dangerous sometimes.
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Yeah I did a brief stint in fast food ... one of the shift managers (of which there were like a dozen of) was assaulted within a few days of my starting there which was a huge red flag.. then a completely different person threatened her in the shop a few days later and called her back on the store phone to say they would come back and slit her throat... I was there when she received the call, it was straight out of crazy town... I thought she had heard a family member had died at first because she just wailed and wailed uncontrollably. She had a bit of a melt-down and didn't come into work for about a week with no phone call.
I have had friends who have told me crazy stories like this before... I thought they just kept "interesting" company or some other factor, but I wouldn't say it was an unsafe area, but the population is dense there... I didn't stay much longer than that... I have a husband in law enforcement and we worry enough about safety.
I have a renewed respect for people who work those jobs. I think they work much harder than most people for what they are paid. I never understood why there was security presence in some fast food joints, but I get it now... easy to get an order wrong and to make mistakes and certain customers will come in with low tolerance and anger issues to begin with... doesn't help the situation when the employees are underpaid and working crazy hours just to make ends meet. I don't think it helps either that many people take themselves too seriously as it is and have to make an example out of every policy or other people when something goes wrong with an order or we feel "slighted" by bad customer service. It can really top off a people in terms of stress... |
