The cash registers (we have touch) are relatively easy to read. Although, the screen spazzes out sometimes, like one day I clicked a medium fry and it clicked a medium coffee. Then sometimes the screens freeze up. The small, medium, and large sweet/unsweet teas and coffees are all one dollar but there are two buttons for each. One button you press for the meal and one w/o the meal. If you press the on w/ the meal when there is no meal then the coffee/tea will be $1.49 instead of $1.00. I personally think there should only be one button for each as it would be less confusing. We have 4 managers that work in the store and all of them sit on their ass 99% of the time but yell at anyone else that isn’t constantly busting their ass. We constantly have customers coming in ordering medium meals and then after they pay for it they say that they should get a large fry and drink and that we’re wrong (scamming) and I cannot stand it. I am not stupid, I have straight As, go to school full time, and work 20+ hours a week. There’s not really a right thing to do in this situation, you will make somebody upset either way. All the managers and crew members make themselves drinks and food whenever they want (for free). Managers give their friends free meals. I have never witnessed a crew member doing so. Many crew members are constantly calling out but never get written up. I am usually scheduled for one day a week but get called in 5-6 days a week. The schedule is VERY unorganized.

The headsets for drive-thru are HORRIBLE, 70% of the time you can only hear bits and pieces of what the person is saying. I think our store could spark $100 for new headsets? The customer gets irritated with you over you not hearing them and you feel stupid. Also, the drive-thru is in the manager area and they are usually blasting music on their smartphone and having a conversation with someone and therefore you cannot hear your customer over the crappy headset. When you work drive-thru you have to take orders with the crappy headset, take money, and get the food/prepare the food. When you get a call you have to drop everything you’re doing. If the order is not up and someone else is behind them you have to park them. You are usually doing 3 things at once and listening to 3 people at once. The managers tell you to take the order off the screen due to time then yell at you because “you don’t have the right order ready” when you do. One time my manager made me ask the person in drive thru what is order was and it turned out I was right. The managers don’t let you do your job while you’re in drive thru because they are constantly yelling at you over nothing. I have to constantly have customers repeat their orders because I am only human and only have two ears, one mouth, and one brain to process things and the managers don’t give a shit and don’t just let you do your damn job.

With these demands McDonald’s would be better off hiring mutants who have more body parts to do more things. You’re supposed to have a runner but half the time they don’t give a shit and you have to get your own food prepared. We tend to have anywhere from 1-4 cars parked at once and ain’t nobody got time to remember which order belongs to which car. The whole time thing is too highly demanding. It isn’t fucking possible McDonald’s! We have a lot of people come in and order 10 mcdoubles or mcchickens or 10 desserts. We dread these people because it takes too much time. Families are the worst to serve, especially when they have little kids. Happy meals are a pain in the ass, toys usually aren’t stocked so we have to waste time looking for them, and when one order has so many orders it’s time consuming and just a pain in the ass to remember and satisfy. I work until close sometimes, I’ve arrived at work at 6am before, I work all weekend every weekend. I cannot stand people who order one order then say they’re done and add more because then we’ve got to go back and sometimes in drive thru we can’t until they reach our window which gets confusing and takes more time.

A lot of customers don’t understand that meals come in sizes and so do drinks. I work for a paycheck, experience, and the fact of I can’t work anywhere else because I’m so young. Finally, don’t look at me like I’m a dumbass because in a few years I’m going to be making $150,000+ a year and you’re still going to be a fatass eating at McDonald’s.

Nordstrom is so smoke & mirrors it is unbelievable. They dont pay you for non-sale hours you have to work a 1,000 hours before you are eligible for insurance and then after that you have to maintain your hours in addition you have to also maintain your hours to be eligible for insurance they will cancle if you go under a certain amount of hours so you can have it one month and not the next! God forbid you get sick because your insurance will be cancelled when you really need it!

This company is take , take take. worst benefits, horrible mangement and HR department, Horrible pay!Hands down the WORST company to work for toal cheaters!!!

Days, weeks, months went by and each and every one of the girls quit, one got married to a marine, the other got prego, the other found a job. by my first year we were down to 3 workers including the manager so by that time I was already experienced enough, summer came by and the manager hired a girl who was from a christian religion, not that i have anything against it but they are suppose to be “respectful” right.  A month later i told the manager if he could give a chance to my girlfriend and to just try her out to see if she could fit in, he said he would, weeks later he hired the girls brother, thats when shit got serious. not only did he not take my pettition serious he ignored it and went ahead and hired a 16 year old boy (minimum was 18). I decided it was ok watever, I trained him and thought him how to do things but he seemed kinda dumb and careless, he didnt even wanted to clean the lobby floor, or cut fresh fruit all he wanted was to be cashier. that pissed me off more because In here you dont have just one job, you have to do everything and keep it clean as well yet he did it with the most lazyness i have seen in a human being . A month later her sister quit because she got a $9/h job (we get payed she thought she was the shit so she quit. It didnt take long for the cousin to bump in and kept insisting the manager to hire him, he did. Not only did i had to deal with a kid now i had to deal with two ppl that didnt know the meaning of “clean”, Every time before their shift started they would come in and clock in, go to the back and eat eather pizza, ribs, burgers, tortas any fast food. then after finishing their lil meal chill for 30 min and began working, thats at least 1 free hour without working. it kept getting worse and a habit, it came down to giving away free yogurt in exchange for food, using their phone all the time, watching movies you name it it was like they came to kick it and get payed, I of course did the work they dudnt at first, then started not giving a flying fuck because the manager didnt eather, they eventually got mad at me and to just put the cherry on top, the sister that quit got fired from her other 9h job and came back begging the manager to hire her back, he did, now all that was left was for the dad and mom to be hired too!!!!!!!!.

i still work with them but now I dont give a shit if i get fired I dont prepare anything before I leave my shift I dont clean. They bitch because they are used to coming in and having everything clean and ready, now is not. This job came from being the perfect job where Team work was the base now it just became a war between them and me, and Im not the one whos going to lose!

This happened multiple times, and when i asked other experienced team members for help they would either ignore me or help me then report me! So the next week (after my training sessions were completed) i was only rostered 1 day on a Thurday for 3 hrs! Yeh like 3 hours is gonna get me enough money to fucken feed my broke ass. And the same thing happened, by now all the employees and managers hate me thinking im incompetent! And because the maccas i work at is in a real busy shopping centre, its overwhelming and i sorta feel intimidated by others.

My friends are always telling me, “dont feel intimidated, its only maccas, just quit your job” its easy for them to say, their rich! Anyways the same story repeated itself over the next couple of weeks and more and more employees and managers wanna start bitching about me and making fun of me! Once i served invalid burgers and i full got told off, well my appologies bitches, i wasnt told we’re not serving these burgers anymore! Do they just expect me to know what they took off the menu? And then many customers wouldnt come back for their orders and the stupid bitches that were bagging would pack the wrong order then tell the manager it was my fault for not telling them not to make the order when clearly its their fault for not serving the order immediately!!So i got told off by that manager! (oh yeh theres like 17 different managers and 8 different crew trainers who act like their all that, relax your balls bitches you fucken work at maccas) and i fucken havnt missed an arguement with any of them.

When im serving customers, they chuck the orders at me and tell me to hurry up and hand them out, RUDE MUCH! Then the customers go off at me for not getting the drinks, when theres like 5 girls who are suppose to get drinks but instead their playing on their phone or talking to each other! Then the manager wants to go off at me for that aswel. How many shifts do i get now???? 1 fucked up 3 hour shift! Then the managers wanna laugh at me for only having 3 hours! Oh yeh, and all they do is cuddle up in the office and talk about how funny their nights outs are and when should they do it again!!!! Lazy, immature,repulsive morons!And now there’s this new chick who gets so much more hours than me and mangnificently has not had any troubles with customers or the managers! And she’s friends with the trainer, so it was easy for her to learn because she has no fear that her trainer was gonna go off at her! And once i was serving drinks and the manager full observed my every move and when she thought i got the wrong order she went off at me and then i showed her the order then she appologised in the most unsincere way! Its so embarrasing going into work knowing im gonna get teased for not having any shifts, the fact that everyone bitches about me coz they’ve been working there for 2 years or more and they’re so experienced, the fact that i get blamed because other people arent doing their job right and the whole hierachy structure of the business makes people think that their all high and mghty! Fuck maccas, fuck the immature people who work there and fuck the work. Total harrassment.

Servers in WI make 2.33 an hour. And Applebees makes you claim all of your tips. My paychecks were 0.00 after taxes were taken out (talk about awful).

Wisconsin Rapids is a very small town. For some reason Applebees requires at least 7 servers every shift. Even on Sundays and Mondays, you would have a 4 table section. You might get sat 3 tables before you get sent home. (If your lucky you might leave with 20.00)

I was also on a weekly basis told that I could not pick up any hours or I would be in overtime. I never went over 20 hours a week (apparently 20 hours is overtime to Applebees)

Applebees does customer surveys. I never had a bad survey done on me. In fact I had about 3 surveys done on me a week saying how great of a job I had done! (Still I recieved minimum hours and still did not get to learn the bar)

Now lets talk about my coworkers. The full time servers and bartenders all had a certain look to them anyone couldn’t help but miss. Thin, tall, fake tans, lots of makeup (you get the point). They would stand around and flirt with the cooks during busy hours. Also texting or talking on cell phones in the dining room (yes talking!). This affected my tips because the guests could see these girls/boys standing around and they assumed I also did this.

3 months passed, I’m still serving. A new girl gets hired. The first day she worked she actually plugged her phone in so she could continue talking on it during her shift. I could not help notice her schedule was 35 hours. About 17 more hours than mine. Of course she is the typical full time look. Don t get me wrong she was a pretty girl, but her work ethic was terrible. After her 3rd day the manager asked her to get her bartending license so she could train in the bar.

I asked the manager (btw this was the General Manager) if I could also learn the bar. I already had my license. He then told me that I was too short to learn the bar! I am not joking. Yes I am only 4″10. But are you serious?

I starting looking for another job. Considering I was not making enough money to pay any of my bills.

Also, the proper uniform for Applebees Is black DRESS PANTS and a BLACK POLO. Weird how the girls were allowed to wear tight yoga pants and vneck shirts that showed the goodies. I soon found out why.. by seeing my General Manager out with one of these girls making out/touching each other.

Needless to say, I quit. I am a great worker. I hope people do not take this as I was being jealous. This was way beyond jealously. I am also a gorgous girl and i am an excellent employee. There was no reason why I should have not been offered full time.

Applebees sucks.

For $8 per hour I have been forced to:
-pick up vomit
-stay at work after being thrown up on
-clean poop off of walls
-get called multiple names by customers and still have to stay and be nice
-do hard labor until 1 in the morning
-get called a whore by a supervisor then have him threaten me to not tell anyone or he would lose his job
-have rumors spread about me (by supervisors)
-and now be unlawfully suspended from work

I am currently trying to find a way to take legal action against them unlawfully suspending me due to the fact that my waist line on my pants is made with elastic.

But the people who spread rumors and call me a whore because I won’t sleep with them (ahem my supervisor) don’t get in trouble for anything.

Never work for them.
The managers are incompetent 21 year olds who care more about sex than creating a healthy work environment.
The supervisors are immature and aren’t suited for their jobs.
And the janitors never do their jobs so you end up cleaning up smeared poop on the walls that they didn’t feel like cleaning up.

It is NOT WORTH THE MINIMUM WAGE!!!

The facts are that for the vast majority of paraprofessional positions, no education beyond a GED is required (and even that can be worked around by taking a “keys” test to see if you know the alphabet and can count from one to ten) and yet paraprofessionals essentially teach the classrooms.

I worked as a paraprofessional for one school where the teacher called in sick at least 4 times per week. Her job was to teach special edcucation students in grades 3-4. But she was never there. Reportedly, she was working on a Master’s degree, but she refused to meet with me to discuss anything, never left notes or lesson plans (but simply printed up worksheets from SuperTeacherWorksheets.com for everthing). The kids would bang their heads against walls, crawl under desks, ask about suicide and it was clear no one cared. The teacher was out 4 days per week, sometimes more. She would disappear for hours at a time when she was there, parents would come by for meetings that she simply blew off, and I was told by two assistant principals that if I wanted to keep my job there, I’d better learn how to keep the kids ore quiet and subdued in the classrooms and learn how to teach when she was out.

I asked pointedly if I was supposed to actually teach the classes in her absence, and they replied that it was so. So, I was supposed to teach her class, conduct her meetings, grade her papers, handle discipline, all the tie. But she got paid for work she wasn’t doing; and I barely earned ten dollars per hour after taxes and never earned more than fifty dollars per day. Nice.

Paraprofessionals must be able to and willing to do everything for the teacher, while the teachers are gone – and yet we get no benefits, less than a quarter of their salary, and have to do things they simply won’t do as well. I’ve also met other paraprofessionals who have admitted they have no GED and were only hired as interpreters at schools and that they have no idea how to grade papers or do anything else – but they have to do in order to stay where they are.

There is no future to any of the jobs. Each year you have to wait and see if your contract is renewed, and each school has a completely different culture, so you can’t predict what you’ll be expected to do – but usually you will be doing the teacher’s job for them every day of the week.

I have a BA, but cannot get a regular teaching job, because under No Child Left Behind, that degree and all the experience one could ever have, is not enough any longer. Now you must essentially have a Master’s degree as so many graduate level courses are required that it’d be required to go back to college for years – and even then 99% of all public schools are completely run by women. Men are not hired regardless of experience or ability (and if this is not so, as so many women claim, the proof is obviously there in the population). You can walk into any public school in America and see 2-3 men if you’re lucky.

So, it’s a thankless, very stressful job where you are expected to do and be everything to everyone or die trying, with men being in the tiniest of unwanted minority groups, with workers at McDonald’s making the same or more.

I got a very bad eye infection,so I went outta town to a doctor 1-5-13… then he sends me a phone text message,stating I’m off schedule until further notice 1-5-13.. OK so I texted him today 1-9-13, and he replied “no call no show means you quit…OK so fine… but out of all the other times I sent a note or my grandmother had told them why I was unable to work I didn’t get fired nor suspended… so why now?

OK, so here’s the true inside story about how fair it really is. There are 2 managers still there today that has been caught numerous times on camera,pictures on a cell phone,and their very own employees stealing food products from the truck and stealing money on a daily bases…. so why is it that I supposedly did a NCNS,I get fired and they keep their jobs… OK so heres a little information on the 2 of them.

One of them always promo a bunch of food off for her family and friends whenever she wants but if someone else got caught,they would get in trouble. She’s been caught NUMEROUS TIMES!!!!

OK,for the second manager, well get ready to throw-up… but to start it off, he been caught NUMEROUS TIMES stealing money,money,and more money… OK now get ready to throw-up… he really has a BAD HYGIENE PROBLEM …. he’s constantly sweating sweating and sweating.. I mean I even seen sweat drip in the tea bucket numerous times that people hadda drank out of. And he stinks no matter what.. maybe its the dope he be soon at home and at work… but is he fired??? Nope,still there. How about that. Oh,and just a few days ago he was caught coughing all over the foods. We had customers see and complained about it. So why does he still got his job….

I’ve had alot of jobs from straw hat warehouse worker(sweat shop), CNA( glorifed ass wiper), call center (nightmare),dental asst. (temper tantram denist),taco packer for frozen food factory(nightmare #2) to medical lab tube glue(weirdest). Anyway you get my point! hahaha

It toke me awhile to find out what I really like doing and with all these jobs I have found a career in the hotel business. I’m currently goin to school for hostipality mangement. Which will open up a whole new avenue for me then just front desk clerk/night audit. Don’t get me wrong the hotel has its moments of guest treating us like we are stupid, trying to scams us for frees rooms, domestic issues, hookers, drunks, back up toliets and gossip. What really makes this job shine above the rest is my boss who truely cares about his staff,easy to get along with staff(sometimes),career possibilites and interesting people.

I like the fact that there isn’t ever a dull moment.

First of all, I have been a manager for little under a year. And the mcDonalds i work at is located within a shopping centre, so for that im fortunate because i dont have to work late night shifts. I work 8 hour days, five days a week, just like everyone else in the country. Thougn unlike most people in the country, i do not get a break and i sure as hell dont recieve overtime. Even though on any given week i generally have to stay back for an extra 2 hours for complications that arise on shift. Such as the delivery truck being late, the computer crashing, cash not being right, etc.

Im basically here to tell you just how bad my job is and to have a nice big whinge. But i will admit however, my job does have its up side. I work with great people, people who bring happiness and joy to my day, people who work hard and help me out when its needed, people who encourage me to do better and to be myself, people who accept me for who i am. And I do receive a rather healthy income of $500 a week.

But thats the upside. Not much really.

So heres the lowdown. I am not entitled to a break. Everyday that I work I don’t get a break. I am expected to serve customers for all the 8 hours I work each day. I am expected and encouraged to put my own money into the tils if they are down. It is unacceptable to the others higher in the establishhment if I am to leave cash down for the day. I am expected to dish out my own hard earned cash to fix other people’s mistakes.

And cash is, on any given day, generally down $2 to $5 a day. But it is also common for it to be down $20 and up to $50 a day. Just earlier this week i put $35 of my own money into a til.

I deal with a tremendous amount of bullshit from customers every single day because of McDonalds’s flawed ‘customers are always right’ policy. I get verbally abused nearly everyday, I have to give out refunds and food to customers who I and everyone else i work with know are clearly lying. And the reason this is done? To prevent the store receiving a complaint. And if our store recieves a complaint, we are threatened and abused by our Area Consultant from head office.

Every week day we are down on crew. We generally have 3 crew out the front and 3 crew out the back. Plus there is the 2 managers. One manager does open (6am to 2pm) while the other does close, which is generally (11am to 7pm). So each manager is to struggle on there own for 5hours any given day. And our store generally receives 600 to 700 customers on any given weekday. So that’s generally 88 customers per crew person. Everyday we struggle. We struggle to move the lines, we struggle to have enough product up (fish, chicken and red meat products) to support the orders we receive.

And while we are getting smashed by these large influxes of customers we are expected to have the store sparkling clean. Which is impossible and never happens. We are expected to give 2part greetings and farewells to every customer. Even those who abuse us, fail to use everyday manners and are generally rude as all hell to us.
And to the store manager this is fine. Because she gives all the good crew the same days off that she has off, so we are stuck with the new crew, the slow crew, and the lazy crew members. But then she she’s on its a different story. She has the good crew on and she gets to have a nice, smooth shift.

Both i and my crew receive abuse, threats and the occasional death stare when we fail to give a customer there order in less than 5minutes. Even when these customers can clearly see that we are understaffed and that we are struggling severely.

But what I hate most about my job? The stress I receive every single day. The stress of dealing with a customer complaint. The stress when the crew and I struggle to keep up with the vast flow of orders and then are abused by the other managers because we are ‘too slow’. It’s no wonder every other manager in the store smokes.

And then to top that off, if I am the close manager, I have to count every till, and over $3000 worth of product in an hour. Then all this data is sent to head office via a computer program which is a long, slow and painful process. And we are given one crew person who is expected to clean all the equipment, clean the floors and prepare the store for the next day. And this crew person is expected to do most of this in that one hour period as well.

Also, we are not allowed to take our holidays when there are school holidays on. And our store manager is the one who generally tells us when to take our holidays. She has made me, and every other manager in the store take our holidays when we haven’t requested them, often she gives us a few days notice of our holidays, and we have no say in the matter. She also manipulates our Days In Lieu by often putting them on days that she has already given us off.

So thats my whinge. And it feels good to know that other people can know of my pain that i am condemned to everyday, other than my friends and family. So the moral of the story is: don’t work for McDonalds and sure as hell dont eat there. All those stories you hear are true.

The corporation is greedy. It makes its vast fortunes unethically and has standards that are all but impossible for its crew to achieve. We do not reiceve recognition or praise for those things that we do well in. We are doomed to suffer really. Which is why I plan to leave at the end of the year and start my life fresh.