Food, Drink & Dining Out Fast Food Jobs

[Quivorir]

I'd say most people who started their jobs working at one of the many fast food joints in their town.
I myself worked at KFC and have many stories, a lot of them disgusting, to share. Do you guys have any stories to share? I'll post mine every now and then when I think of them. THey range from getting food thrown at me, to seeing people sell chicken that was dropped on the floor, to getting fired for stealing about 20 slabs of drinks one drunken night.

Share your stories.

 

[class78]

I can name a few annoying things about them

 

[little graham]

I notice that most of the chicks who work there for to long get fat. I always wondered what the OH+S training at fast food restaurants were, the product is after all poison and should come with a HAZCHEM label. Doctors are blaming the obiecity and diabetes epidemic solely on fast food.

 

[SugarShane]

Doctors are blaming the obiecity and diabetes epidemic solely on fast food.

Seems legit.

 

[Speck]

Have a few from my KFC days, will share them a bit later.

Love how they say their chicken is always fresh bar the emergency stock when that emergency stock got used nearly every night I worked there.

 

[Poetic Justice]

I worked at HJ's... fun times always trying to invent new shit to make for breaks - like rolling the buns in sugar and deep frying (awesome donuts)... or trying to coat chicken pieces in breadcrumbs and frying it.

Many a stupid things were tried.

Loved it, I recall working like 30 odd hours a week in year 9 on top of school just to earn less than $200

 

[Kram]

to seeing people sell chicken that was dropped on the floor

My mate said he did that with a cooked one at Chicken Treat years ago, went to put it in the bin but the manager went "What are you doing?! Put that straight back!".

 

[Quivorir]

like rolling the buns in sugar and deep frying (awesome donuts

Yes!

 

[Smiling Buddha]

I'd be interested to see some stats on how many people have worked fast food for any given period of time. I'd be particularly interested to see the socioeconomic breakdown of those stats.

 

[Doss]

I never worked at one, but I might ask my brother for some stories.

He's 16 and has worked at KFC for around a year. I know he reckons he's cooked 2000 pieces of chicken in a night before.

 

[UmpiringFooty]

Have tried to get a job at any of the fast food places but the thing is they like the younger folk to work there. Which is a bit of a shame I guess.

 

[radiojake]

Worked at Hungry Jacks for about 9 months from late 1999 to mid 2000 -

The weirdest thing I remember was a drive-thru order that just wanted 5 or 6 Whopper patties - No bun, no salad, just half a dozen patties of meat...

I remember the manager doing the order and needing maybe a dozen or more wrappers to make sure the fat/grease didn't leak everywhere,.... which it surely would've eventually done anyway...

 

[Speck]

Have tried to get a job at any of the fast food places but the thing is they like the younger folk to work there. Which is a bit of a shame I guess.

Let me tell you that's a blessing in disguise. You walk out of the place feeling like you're drenched in grease, fat and oil. Plus the managers there are for the most part hopeless and have no idea how to manage people effectively.

They like the younger folk as it costs them sub $10 an hour.

 

[Confuscius]

I was working late one night as a fifteen year old when some bloke rocked up with a disgustingly smug smile on his face and a bag full of rubbish which he just dumped on the floor before leaving. Not sure what point he was trying to make but it took me an hour to clean it all up. Arseholes these days

 

[little graham]

Seems legit.

Cue Caesar saying i'm just frustrated at littering

 

[radiojake]

I was working late one night as a fifteen year old when some bloke rocked up with a disgustingly smug smile on his face and a bag full of rubbish which he just dumped on the floor before leaving. Not sure what point he was trying to make but it took me an hour to clean it all up. Arseholes these days

I hope it didn't take long for you to quit your shit job

 

[Hendersloane]

Worked at McDonald's for a few months after school. Owner and managers were all knobs and bullies.
One particular day I was pretty upset but still went in for my shift. During the lunchtime rush one of the managers came out to the counter to deal with a complaint from some guy who didn't get his drink. The guy pointed me out as the one who served him (I didn't, and told him so), manager told me to apologise and I refused so he started tearing strips off me in front of everyone. Still maintained it wasn't me who served the guy so the manager made me go to the office and watch the footage with him. It clearly showed it wasn't me. No apology from dickhead manager, I told him to get stuffed, left and never went back.
Still see him working in the drive thru sometimes when I drive past.

 

[Gough]

I worked in a Pizza Haven and managed to get my hand stuck in the dough roller. Twenty years later I still have three two inch scars down the middle three fingers on my left hand and arthritis in the cold weather. ]
My first job was in the Sizzler dish room, I was grandly titled a bus boy. Man that was a shit job.

 

[dales.girl38]

I think I have more horror stories from when I worked at Target for a month than the 2 years I worked at McDonalds. Children's wear at Christmas, it still haunts me.

 

[St 07]

Worked at maccas for 2 and a half years. Actually didn't mind it, and I had moved out so the pay was decent enough to cover the cost of living. (alot better than being an apprentice bricky)

Our store eventually went 24-hour, and in the second week a guy passed me a Budweiser through the drive-thru, so I took it to the back and drank it. A friendly indian bloke dobbed me in. The camera footage was quite embarassing though, with me looking around fairly stealthily while drinking it.

 

[Plugger35]

Never worked at a fast food chain but I worked at one of those confectionary stalls at the Perth Royal Show back in high school holidays with a mate of mine.

Dodgy as all hell, the manager was one of those old carny types that ran a few of these places at various shows around the country.

Part of our job was making the products which were all overpriced ripoffs, fairy floss which was just a bag of sugar that you'd spin into floss on a machine and cost SFA, "freshly made" Belgian cream waffles that came out of packets and fruit drinks that were made with powdered cordial and the bore water tap out the back.

We still did a roaring trade despite our shitty overpriced products, I guess most people expect to get ripped off at those places but I still felt kind of bad selling them.

 

[Speck]

I think I have more horror stories from when I worked at Target for a month than the 2 years I worked at McDonalds. Children's wear at Christmas, it still haunts me.

Care to explain? I'm curious.

 

[dales.girl38]

Care to explain? I'm curious.

Probably the most traumatic experience was having a woman scream at me because we'd sold out of baby santa rompers. As if I'd bought them all for my 200 babies that I like to dress up as Santa But folding up clothes/sorting out racks, only for children to go on a rampage and ruin it all, which their parents found 'cute', was frustrating for a 15 year old earning $8 an hour when my managers asked me why the place wasn't any tidier than when I'd started.

Oh, and the Christmas album on repeat. Every time I hear this song, a part of me dies inside.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Would never work in a fast-food place. My parents were trying to convince me to apply at them when I was looking for my first job but I just couldn't do it. Working in a shit place like that for even more shit money just didn't appeal to me at all. Got a job at a pub instead as a dishy. Love it, get paid pretty well, don't get covered in oil and grease, get to order nearly anything except steak for dinner when I work without paying for it, unlimited soft drink if you want it (It loses its appeal after a while, only get water now) and then get a knock-off after work. Still there after 2 years.

 

[Dazb86]

I never worked in a chain store.

I did work as a pizza delivery driver for a local shop for about a year though.

Good times.

Got flashed a few times, Got given a gram of bud as a tip once, delivered to all sorts of weirdos, delivered to a midget house party (They gave me shit for being tall (How's the air up there etc)), saw peoples hearts break as they dropped their pizzas at the door etc.

I really liked the job. I'd go in most days hungover and seeing people with sheer joy every time I made a delivery always cheered me up.

Also, Dem outlandish tips from drunks.