...and that's why work makes me INSANE!!!! (Long)

[Jr.]

Okay this was inspired by Lovley saying she works in a drama filled Dairy Queen. I couldn't hold it in any longer so here I go again.

Feel free for you working stiffs to tell any work stories that you have beared witness to. Or perhaps any moments you've witnessed of employees at places you visit. (sorry, I just want to be able to include those who aren't old enough for jobs yet.)

You want to talk about drama?! OH GOD!!! I work at a McDonalds that must have hidden cameras in it, because my store could have its own reality show. It's that bizarre. I have never seen such a large lineup of freaks before in my life. And then there's the customers! LOL! I'll get to them in a minute!!

If you work at a fast food chain you should know that basically they're all the same. They make you want to kill yourself. I tried to escape from McDonalds one tiome and I thgouht I was successful. I left there for nearly 2 years before I found myself flipping burgers again!!

I work with a pretty diverse crowd. We have about 10 blacks, 9 whites, 2 hispanics, and 2 sisters that moved from the phillipines. I work with one of them and she's pretty cool actually. She's really quiet, but she told me that she watches SK when she spied one of my mangas in my coat pocket. She also graduated high school and she's only 16. Anyway, we have a lesbian and a couple guys who haven't come out, but they aren't fooling anybody. ^^;

Now, I can't say I've seen it all, because everytime I say that, god shows me up by turning the bizarre even more bizarre. We get the people coming in freshly drunk, hungover, high, crying because their baby's daddy beat them this morning. Just about anything you can imagine has been done to this place. I'm sorry if I have offended anyone with this post so far, but it's about to go downhill from here.

The managers. Well, I'm related to two of them so I'm actually pretty well off. My sister-in-law makes the schedule so getting a day off is usually no problem. My brother-in-law is hilarious!! We go on all day about how much this place sucks and we spend the other half quoting Monty Python movies!! When we aren't talking about that stuff we talk about anime and video games. He's currently renting the Evangelion series from Netflix and he's been telling me abouit them. the other two managers. One of them is a nazi that has actually made about half the employees cry because of her remarks. The other guy is a hispanic guy who doesn't have the english language down yet. When he gets worked up, his english gets mixed with spanish and he starts babbling nonsense.

What a long rant.

The customers. Where do I start. I will try to condense this as best I can, but we have the whole asylum to thank for our revenues. I mean they let the nut house doors open at 6am in Akron, OH!! We have a guy who not only can't construct coherent sentences, but he also likes to wander around the parking lot wetting hinmself. I'm not making this up!! We have people who claim they were just here and they ordered a big mac and didn't get sauce on it so they want it replaced. That would be a convincing story if the time wasn't 9:30am and we don't serve lunch until 10:30am. How did you get a big mac before we started serving them?? It gets better!! My manager brother could write a book on the stuff he has witnessed in the bathroom. Everything from the guy wetting himself in the bathroom (The toilet is 5 feet away!!!). One time he found a man in the mens restroom without a shirt on. the shirt was on the sink. He looks to my brother and says "Sorry, I was just doing a little play acting." @_@

One time he found three, yes THREE men in the men's restroom stall, yes we only have one stall, eating soup! I repeat, I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!!! He found three guys eating one can of chunky soup. All he did was turn around and leave the restroom. After about 2 hrs. of laughing uncontrollably he told me what happened.

So that is what I go to every morning! I didn't even get to the upper management! That is another story for another time!!

[resurie]

Ahahahahaha XD And I thought my country was messed up. What kind of McDonalds is this Jr.? XD I just can't imagine things like that happening. XD

Since I'm too young to work...(well, here you work at whatever age you want, I just don't want to XD I'm not social enough. ) But I have seen some weird things...

Where shall I start? Oh! Well, this doesn't have to do with the fast food place, but my friends' jokes. XD

You see, my friends did this 'scavenger hunt' (Spelling?), they weren't looking for anything, they were doing messed up things, when I asked them about it, they said "Well, we're looking for things to do." o_0

Anyhoo~ one guy put powder on his nose (it was supposed to be 'cocaine') and he went up to the Burger King counter and started acting like a junkie. XD

One last thing...you see...here...

Is it normal for rap music to be playing in McDonalds? XD

[Jr.]

It gets really insane behind the counter resurie. If you hang around a fast food place long enough you're bound to see or hear something strange.

I've worked at two different McDonalds and the second one is by far the strangest place I have ever worked.

I worked at a factory in between. I had some fun there. It was an aluminum extrusion plant (I'm not gonna explain it. It has nothing to do with this story anyway).

One day our foreman was taking a well deserved day off and left his newly appointed assisstant foreman in charge. Some one brought in fireworks (umm we get bored. ^^; ) and they were messing around with them.

We have a forklift truck that does all the heavy lifting for us and it is powered by a propane tank. Well, if you don't fasten the tank properly then the propane can leak, and due to first hand experience, this can be bad if you smoke!!!

Well, one guy was changing the tank and didn't fasten it properly. He of course was smoking and BLAM! Huge firey burst and I'm suprised that he didn't die from the explosion. In fact, the moron was still trying to fix the tank. Well, after coating the factory in fire extinguisher, we go homr for the night.

Next morning, the suits (upper management. Our job is very dirty having to work with graphite which is like pencil lead. The suits wear suits and look very out of place) are here as well as a very displeased foreman. The suits look around and find remains of fireworks all over the place. Their story is that the fireworks caused the fire and we got totally rippped by our foreman. That day totally sucked. I didn't even mess with the fireworks. We spent the rest of the day mopping up the dust from the extinguisher though.

[s91/S-chan/DoomStick]

Those reminds me of a store my mom worked at. 0.o

It is the only food store in my town, the first manager actually knew how to order to feed the whole town.

My mom originally got a job there in produce, but the produce manager was caught stealing steaks and fired so for about a half a year it was just her with help now and then. Then one day, two more people were hired on one as manager whom couldn’t order or tell what a rotten tomato was. The other well… just couldn’t tell what non expired food was.

So anyway, a call was made to us with the one woman imitating the Manager’s voice and things were said. Soon after maybe a few months, later my mom quit.

(all that happened when I was about 6 so I don’t really rember the details and explaining them would take all night XD)

Six months later, she came back working as a stocker. The first manager of the store quit about a year later, and the assistant manager became the head manager hiring another woman on as his assistant manager.

Little conflicts here and there for a few years, and I even thought about making an armature video during the summer because of the soap orpa like ness to the store.

Recently, a new meat man was hired... on let’s see…everyone says he’s a preacher but he’s cheating on his wife, stealing meat and not to mention driving off customers to the point where they’d rather drive out of town just to get food.

Any who, my mom knew about the racket (food stealing ect.) that had been going on for years, and was one time even told by a local police man that the owner of the store was wanting to catch the people stealing and to tell him if she had proof.

Anyway My mom quit last April, due to all the crazy junk happening there and even told the owner everything that was going on but he flat out ignored her.

Now the manager is begging her to come over Sunday and help him fix up the store, paying her out his pocket.

Since my mom quit, the store has lost a good 3rd of it’s employees and money.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention half of the store staff is on crack.

Am I being evil to find that funny? XD

[Lord Cyber]

I worked at a McDonalds my last year of college.

One of my friends there was assistant manager and at second window. This is about 10pm where all the young ones are working and the store manager is no where to be found.

Two of the kiddies are starting to get into a fight back in grill and my friend Brian opens the window to hand out the food, and as clear as day in the background you hear: "OH YEAH. WELL F*** YOU!"

Brian paused for a moment but kept a smile on his face while saying, "Thank you. Please come again." before closing the window on the confused consumers.

I think my defining moment at McDonalds was:
"As openers, we need you to show up 15 minutes before 5am to do a security check of the parking lot."

"So I get paid for that?"

"Nope. You can't get paid until you punch in at 5, because your shift is from 5 to 10...but you have to come in at 4:45am to do the security check...it's policy."

My other defining moment would be:
"Since you've done such a great job, Dave, you get a quarter raise this year."

"That's it. A quarter...?"

"Look on the bright side, Dave...you were the only one to get a quarter raise this year...some people got dimes and most didn't get anything..."

"....."

Needless to say McDonalds didn't last very long...with both my fiance and I working there, we were still losing a hundred dollars a month because of rent, utilities and food...

insert happy ending
After running out of cash...moving back to my Mom's house in Michigan...and away from the East-Coast Economy...I now work for a totally cool and stable multi- million dollar christian company. I have received two raises and a massive bonus within the year that I've been here, and I have a refridgerator in my cubicle. I can come and go as I please, as long as I get in my eight hours a day. I have a key to the building I work in, and a security code. The pay is hideously low for someone in my field, but the respect and flexibility I receive more than make up for it.

So if any of you guys have your CCNA, CCDA, or CCIE, we're hiring right now at our Granger and Indianapolis offices.

moral of the story
Move away from the East coast...

[Saturn]

Lord said:

moral of the story
Move away from the East coast...

You only worked in NY state, not the entire east coast...

I always had to deal with the stupid customers at McDonalds from "do I get <insert item here> free if I order <insert some random item>". Normally I would work drive-thru and was really rare for me to be on front counter, but one afternoon I was on front counter and one guy came up to me and said "I always enjoy coming here and seeing you"....huh....I just ignored him and he said that I should say thank you to a compliment like that...no...I don't think so...

However, for during those times of annoyances when you work with customers and just stupid fellow employees I found a wonderful site that made me laugh many times. I present to you: www.customerssuck.com

[Jr.]

I have indeed found my happy place!!!! Thanks Saturn. XD

I was a witness to an actual fight between employees that both worked in the grill. The strory of how they fought is kinda boring since they were both morons, but we got to close the store for two hours since they both left after talking to the police (the manager called them) and we only had three people left on the clock including himself. One moron of a customer comes up to my brother the manager and asks him if we're hiring. XD

The manager says, "Screw this! I'm not running the store with only three people!" and orders the girl who is left with us to lock the doors until more peoiple show up for their shifts. So at least I got a nice two hour break on the clock.

I loved your defining moments LC. You must have worked at my store. I have heard those lines exactly as you wrote them. I'm an opener and I mostly work in the grill. This is due to the fact that we constantly are changing our staff because they either get pregnant or arrested. Or just decide to disappear and never comeback. One guy left on his break and we never saw him again. I have trained at least a dozen people on the grill. One of them got fired after the fight because he was a part of it, and there are only teo of them left. One of them is moving so he will be the first person to leave the store on his own accord and not be fired.

And after the fight which was between a white and a black guy, the white guy decided to sue the owner for discrimination because he was fired. .....ummm hey buddy, "YOU WERE BOTH FIRED!!!!!"

I nearly witnessed a fight today between two guys in the grill! I was lucky to stay in drive thru cashier. I love that position because nobody bothers me there.

The almost an official woman story prompted me to write yes we get plenty of people who come in and go through the drive-thru that leave you wondering exactly what they are. A man or a woman. One homeless guy came in with a guitar and put on a show in the lobby. He was escorted out by police a while later. Man was I relieved. HE SUCKED!!! XD

[Headphones]

This very short story i will tell you is sick so please skip this if you are grossed out easily and mildly........welll here goes...


My family and i go to Shop Rite as usual, every Sunday. We shopped around for awhile, at one point i got seperated from my parents < thank god cuz if they saw what i saw i might've gotten a lecture....>

So i go around nd see the frozen food section, this isnt the fridge kinda of frozen food distribution...it looked more like a sneezeguard kinda distribution thingy....anyway i looked around and saw this man.

He was your typical gangster look alike. But. THIS GUY REALLY NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT MANNERS!! i ll tell you what he did but please dont get grossed out......

"drrrr-ip drrr-ip" I heard. This wasnt comin from anyone's mouth....this was comin from somthin else...
thats when i saw him. The dude i saw earlier was right at the frozen food section and pulled up his fly ....okay thats enough info right... Well after that i looked at him...
Then he looked at me and said, " whatcha lookin at did-sh--!!!" I looked at him for 1 minute.... i swear i saw his eyes bulging....i ran away. He didnt chase me but went the other way.
I came back to the frozen food section.......GROSS......i was right that man put A LOT of URINE on the HOT POCKETS......
Well the funny thing is i caught up with my parents, and thats when my dad said, "Who wants Hot Pockets for lunch this week?" i almost barfed that second........i held it in.....but that whole day everyone looked at me like i went mad......welll yes i did go mad.....then a month passed and i forgot about it.........i m going mad now as i write.....AIGH!!!

[s91/S-chan/DoomStick]

OMG that's gross... Now I don't think I'll ever beable to eat a hot pocket or any frozen food for that matter. XD

[jacob]

i don't have a job yet (too young) but when i get one i guess i would become insane too ;D

[Pinkechidna]

Well I've got a story, not a terribly interesting one though.

I work at a daycare. This was in the summer, and the children were having water play day. Anyway, one of the kids (about 18 months old, I think) get squirted with water. She apparently hates water because she immediately starts screaming at the top of her lungs. One of the teachers hands her to me and tells me to take her inside. No problem, I don't mind doing that. When I get in there I realize that the mother did not put a towel in her child's swim bag. So here I am, with a wet, screaming, 18 month old clinging to me looking in every cabinet for a clean towel. It was at that moment that I found out that swim diapers are not meant for heavy-duty useage. She had crapped. And it was a mighty crap. And then I learned the second lesson of the day, don't wear white capri pants to work at a daycare. It didn't so much bother me that it was on my pants is the fact that it was coming out and wouldn't stop. Keep in mind that this baby is wet, so the poo is wet too. So, I grab the nearest towel, take off her swimsuit and procede to change her diaper. Thankfully, was able to use my hand to stop it from getting everywhere, and the mother had packed lots of extra diapers. So I got the diaper changed, put her in some dry clothes, and set her on the cot with her blanket beacuse nap time was next. Unfortunately, they wanted me to work at the front desk later in the day, (I'm a floater, I do lots of different things), so I began to furiously scrub away at my pants. Thankfully, poop is one of the easiest stains to remove from pants. It came off so easily, I was surprised! I used some soap, disinfect, and perfume to get rid of/disguise the smell. I greeted the teachers who came in, and went about my day a little wiser about daycare wardrobe.

[Jr.]

umm that's SOO gross! Suddenly my job just doesn't seem that bad anymore!! ;D Thanks pink!

I would have probably have thrown up if I was in your position since I have a terribly weak stomach!

Oh yeah, I would have been swearing A LOT by that point as well!! XD

[Pinkechidna]

Lol, I love my job, but there are some downsides. I've been bitten, peed on, pooped on, porjectile vomited on, spit-up on, had large placstic blocks thrown at my head, had to call the mothers of two little girls and tell them that another boy in their class pulled out his winky on them, and some other stuff I can't remember.