apuszczalowski
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no one forced them to take that job, if they don't care about it don't take it... "not paying me enough" isn't really a good reason to act like an a$$hole when the job description they agreed to is being followed. If people are asked to do things that aren't in their job description, "not paying me enough" can be a valid excuse... but I'm pretty sure the Fast Food Cashier job description has something to the effect of being polite, friendly, accomodating, and always making the customer feel welcome.
There are some that are just @ssholes all the time and then I would agree. But the crap that some of these employees have to go through, they don't pay you enough to have to put up with what some customers and employees put you through. I worked at a KFC from when i was 15 - 19 as a "cook". At the time I had to pay for gas and insurance on my vehicle, plus anything else I wanted, while in Highschool so I worked 40 hour weeks (or close to 40 hour weeks) along with the other cooks. To get the extra hours though, I needed to learn the front counter and work the register, and you can't imagine what some people put you through up there. I had one customer order 2 of the family meals, customer took them and was fine. He came back 20 minutes later irrate at me for not including paper plates and plastic utensils. He demanded free food and when i said I couldn't do that, but I would be happy to give him plates and forks (something they will give out for free IF YOU ASK) he said that wasn't good enough and he should be compensated for his "troubles" and that I should have known that by ordering all that food, he was having a family get together at a local park, and that the kids were all complaining vcause they were hungry and he couldn't serve them food without plates and forks. I told him only a manager could give him free food, and that the manager was not in and had left for the day. He demanded to speak to someone at that moment so I went to the back and gave him the managers home phone number. He then asked to use our phone to call him and I told him to find the payphone down the street, cause its against store policy to allow a customer in the back. He stormed out and I received a call from the manager saying to give him what he wanted becuase if he complained to head office, thats what they would do, So I packed it up ready to go for when he came in. He demanded that i apologise to him, and I told him I did nothing wrong, he said I did and that obviously the manager agrees because he got what he wanted, and I told him I followed store policy. He told me then he would report me and my attitude to the manager the next day and have me fired. i told him good luck, I look forward to it. I kept my cool and laughed it all off while he was becoming irrate because under $7 an hour is not worth it in my opinion to get worked up about something like that, when most of the other female employees that did that job would have been brought to tears in that situation.
When it came to the minimum wage jobs that I have had, I always did my best and what was asked of me, but I never went over and beyond, and never took things personally or cared much about the job because it was just that, a minimum wage job that was to earn me some extra spending money.
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All good and well, but it still doesn't mean the miserable behavior should be tolerated by management.
Oh, I know what you mean, by my thinking was that they can go ahead and fire me, they don't pay me enough to care more about the job, especially when up here, they can pay you less then minimum wage before you turn 16 under "student minimum wage" for doing the same job as everyone else
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Thanks LB. I have a burr in my saddle about something and actually thought about making it an (OT) post earlier.
Cranberry juice that is labeled "CRANBERRY" complete with full-color pictures of red, juicy CRANBERRIES -- that is actually cranberry juice, apple juice and grape juice and whatever other kind of juice they decide to put in it. How is that even legal?
Oh man don't even get me started. The curmudgeonness will flow from me like a fountain of chocolate, or something.
Read the label closely, most of those are labeled Cranberry Cocktail. Also too, i think there is only a certain percentage that they need to have for it to be classified as a juice
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Complain about anything you want. 1 complaint, 20 complaints, who cares? No one is really listening anyways.
My complaint for this week...
Fast food workers who are miserable beyond belief while on the job. If you hate your job that much, do something about it to better yourself in life. Go back to school or do whatever is needed to find a better job. In the meantime, if you continue to stay in your current position, suck it up and put on a happy face. :D
They don't pay enough for someone to care about their job. Sometimes the reason why people are at that job 2 ar because A. they are too young to get anything better at the moment and don't have parents that are willing to just give them money so they can do things like go out or hang with friends or B. they are currently in school trying to get a better career and thats the only job they can get thats flexible enough to work around their schedule.
I know, I have been both A & B
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Well, despite all the negativity, it was fun. Sure, there was no defense, some rink attendant timed the speed skating with Ruff's Breitling, and Miller looked surprisingly human on the shootout, but who cares! it was fun. I had an enjoyable 2 hours.
Some people would rather watch their president speak for 2 hours about the state of the Nation I guess
I watched most of the young stars game and had it on while grouting a tile floor, but I caught the final shootout with Miller. The annoucers said it and you could see, they all went blocker side to beat him.
As for all the people bashing the All-Star game, I'm sure you all want to see them giving 110% out there and playing like it was game 7 of the cup (until a Sabres gets hurt), but its just a fun game and break for these guys, and something different for the fans. The NHL thiks fans only want to see goals so they love this because its always high scoring. Its just something fun for the fans and players, don't take it so seriously
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want to beat miller, go bloker side
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Wow, didn't someone call the Pyatt goal earlier, I'm getting a bad feeling this game is decided by a Rory Fitzpatrick play (probably a goal)
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Or atleast change it from Healthy to Healthier
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OTOH, one thing i will complain about is the number of leafs fans in our building. I understand the idea of selling your tickets to a few games to help pay for the other 35+ games you will actually attend - but there were WAAAAAAAY too many Leafs fans in the crowd tonight. Too many ugly, obnoxious, classless Canuckleheads in the crowd = hearing Ryan Miller get taunted and hear the "Goodbye" song against us in our own building. No matter how you spin it or whatever comeback you've got, we shouldn't EVER hear that in HSBC. And kudos to the 14-15,000+ Sabres fans in attendance - you let a much smaller leafs contingency make more noise than you. :doh: I know the Sabres didn't give us much to cheer about tonight, but make some noise, throw a beer on a Leafs fan, push him down a flight of stairs, something (EDIT: obviously I am just kidding - don't really act like Philly fans. ;) )
Thats what made the game the worst for me, watching all those Leafs fans and hearing chants for them louder then Sabres fans. We go after "caniacs" for having Sabres fans buy out their building, yet we let Leafs fans take over ours. Really hypocritical and rather embarrassing for Sabres fans. I hate the fans that would rather "turn a profit" on their tickets, You helped turn HSBC arena into ACC South.
It's crazy to get panicky after the first regulation loss of the year, but as others have pointed out, there are some trends to worry about, not the least of which is injuries to key players. But turnovers as well. I really think Lindy is going to eventually have to pull this team back from pond hockey and get back to the basics.
Thats the problem, although the record showed Buffalo as the best team, they really weren't. Too many games were going to OT and Shootouts. The team didn't seem to play during the first couple periods of games and only turned it on in the end. There were very few games were they looked like a dominant team that deserved to be the best in the league. Its not like last year where th Sens at the start of the year were no doubt the best team in the league. Although maybe this is good and Buffalo won't end up like the Sens of last year
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thats true too, you do find that alot of the "daytimers" at those places are oldeer woman, most are just there to suppliment their partners income and earn some extra money for themselves and their family. Alot of them were house wifes who know have children old enough to not require a parent to supervise them and they want to get out of the house to do something. The night shifts are usually the younger kids running the place because they were in class during the day