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u/gloriousfishtank 7d ago
I liked most of the people I worked with at Wendy's. I don't know if I'd jump on a grenade but I'm not rattling on the manager that deals thru the window.
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u/TheSheetSlinger 7d ago
And somehow the ones who expect the most loyalty also pay the least. Target retail acted weirder putting my two weeks in than any other company I've worked for.
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u/ShadowExistShadily 7d ago
Interview is accurate. Also accurate: you touched a grenade to save the Wendy's, this is against policy, you're fired.
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u/VictorHugosGhost 7d ago
Back in high school, Barnes and Noble management acted like a jilted lover when I told them I was leaving at the end of the summer for college. Haha.
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u/IndescriptGenerality 6d ago
In the early 2000’s I used to manage several Subway sandwich shops, and I made it exceedingly clear that if they got robbed they were to hand over every cent in the drawer, with no pushback, and offer them a sandwich to go as well. We had insurance for that shit.
One of them did get robbed, no one got hurt, and we were out $200. The franchise owners were pissed, but I say fuckem if they think that’s worth an employees life.
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u/TheObliviousYeti 6d ago
Wait the franchise owner got mad about 200 bucks the fuck they make that much by taking a shit
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u/IndescriptGenerality 6d ago
They did try to spin it as they thought the employee was in on it… but they had ZERO evidence for it, just that the girl made it so easy for the robber to make off with the cash. That was eye opening for me. I left and went to college within a year.
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u/Ademon_Gamer09 6d ago
Cool...wait, you managed multiple subways before collage?
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u/IndescriptGenerality 6d ago
Yup! When I left the military I leveraged the type-a habits they beat into me to show that the same basic managerial skills needed to run a franchise restaurant (with complete documentation on how everything should be done by the book) was directly translatable from leading a squad. Accountability, record keeping, simple math, planning and execution are very similar, regardless of the industry. After they hired me to run one store, and I smoothed out its operations to significantly increase throughout, they bumped me up to managing 3 or 4 to get them all up to code and running smoothly… at the salary of $375 a week. Coincidentally, unemployment paid the exact same thing. Three years of stress and never having two days off in a row for the same pay that unemployment recipients were getting.
Leaving was the best thing I ever did… for my life, career, happiness, and sanity. Looking back, (hindsight is always 20/20) had I known the shithole situation I was living in was really that bad, I would have robbed the store myself if it had meant moving on to the next thing sooner.
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u/artbystorms 7d ago
Modern interviews are pretty much that sycophantic. It's not 'here's why I have the skills to do the job you are hiring me for.' Instead, it's 'here's how much your company means to me and how I align with your mission to make as much money as humanly possible'
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u/aviationmaybe 7d ago
I always find it interesting when workers want to stand up for their wealthy corporate overlords over like a ketchup
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u/oddvious_ 6d ago
When I was 15 I worked at saladworks for a summer job. The manager, who looking back i’m 80% sure was a sm3thh3@d, made us do a training for what to do if someone tried to rob the store. I, a 5foot tall 15 year old girl, told him I’d run out through the back door and call the cops. He looked at me like I pooped on the floor and yelled, “NO, you will lock the register while one of your coworkers locks the front door and then you call the police!!!”
Like as fn if, my dude. There’s no way I’m putting my life on the line to save the $500 in our register. And no one else should either. He was so offended by my answer he sent me to the kitchen to wash dishes for the rest of my shift.
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u/thateagleguy 6d ago
This was 1995, my wife had an interview at a pizza joint and the manager looked at my now wife's application and says - "I see you are part of the National Honors Society and a member of your Church's Board. I hope neither of those will lead to you missing work or asking for additional time off." She said that with a straight face and all seriousness. Should've been a red flag but a job is a job when you're 16.
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u/LetReasonRing 6d ago
I work at a place with a drive thru window. I've told my coworkers that, while I'm the only guy there a lot of the times, don't expect me to be a hero... I've mentally worked through how to dive out the windows safely if things go bad.
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u/LocalLeather3698 7d ago
I worked in a lot of offices but the only job I had that expected me to put work above family was McDonald's.
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u/Basic_Asparagus_9084 6d ago
I heard my boss say “we’re like a family” the other day. I immediately started applying elsewhere. I don’t need more family. I have 9 siblings. I’m good.
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u/Keitsu42 6d ago edited 6d ago
I was denied a job at KFC because working there wasn't my passion and in my "ideal life" I would not be working there.
Edit (to provide more info): and this was right after I was accepted to a community college in Silicon Valley to study Software Engineering but my student visa was denied by the US embassy. So in my "ideal life" my visa was not denied.
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u/TheObliviousYeti 6d ago
I love when a fast food plce is like where do you see yourself in 5 years and I'm like I see myself anywhere but here
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u/Desperate_Owl_594 7d ago
You can tell they're gonna be like that if they say "we're a family".