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Seems like smoking weed by the dumpster is a universal theme. I've done that at many jobs.
Oh yeah, Subway, Del Taco, and a west coast pizza chain called Round Table Pizza.
Subway was OK, but it was in a gas station, so I worked alone most of the time, and it was tough to make the sandwiches, stock the line, and do prep for the next day all by myself. My boss was a piece of shit who wouldn't let me close the store until 10pm, but wouldn't pay me beyond 10pm either. Many nights I was stuck there until 11pm or later doing the prep for the next day and cleaning up.
Del Taco was an alright job, but I was the only gringo in the place, so I had to learn a reasonable amount of spanish in a hurry. I worked the grill and fryer area so I got burned up pretty good, tons of burn scars from dealing with the hot grease and the grill. Shitty job all around but the people were good and the managers were cool, so I stuck it out for a while.
Round Table Pizza was a good gig. I was a senior in high school and joining the Marine Corps after graduation, so I didn't have too many cares in the world outside of ensuring I passed my classes with a 2.0 GPA. I still chat with some of the people I knew working there and that was in 1999-2000. Good times, great place to work, but the dinner rush was always pretty hectic. This was the first job where I got a raise as well, went from the minimum which was $5.15 to something like $6.50 because I was the "closer" most evenings.
i haven't gone to a round table in a while, but i remember their pizza being pretty decent. they used to load on the toppings.
my first job was at a little caesars pizza which i did for 2 years, not exactly fast food but when we did hot n ready 5 dollar days its was basically fast food with how much business we got.
I enjoyed it, i always laughed though at customers who would complain to us about taking their business elsewhere. I was always like why would i give a shit, i make minimum wage, this isnt commission and i dont own stock. I doubt our manager even really cares, we go through managers like we go through toppings around here, this is cheap ass little caesars.
Worked at a KFC for years. Hated it. Worst job ever and I've worked at a call center before too.
Worked as a delivery driver at Pizza Hut for a year. Poor management and bad coworkers made it an annoying job, but it wasn't the worst by any means. I work at a Roundtable Pizza place right now, we just opened this week but it's a hundred times better.
No, but our family owned a pizza joint for many years. Had it's advantages and disadvantages
Father worked me like a rented mule... but all the free food and beer ya want..(we had draft beer) THE END.Go on ...
The right call center is an AWESOME job.
If you say so. I didn't mind it, the fast food job was worse for what it's worth. Call centers can suck the soul out of you though.
I say so.
I worked in a call center a very long time ago, was promoted several times until I managed several departments.
The product the center supported crashed and was mostly abandoned, and the call center was stuck in a terrible corner near heating vents, with no natural light. In time (cutting out a long complicated story here) the company ended up investing a ton of money into revitalizing the product, which included quadrupling the number of people in the call center. We rented an entire other floor, and people on the phones had all the desks at the windows all the way around the building.
Each desk had a little lamp. We were a 24-7 facility, and we didn't run the neons at night, because those are soul crushing. I used to pop by late some nights to see how everyone was doing, and remembering the hell corner they used to be in, it was awesome to see them at their own softly lit cubicles looking out sixteenth floor windows over Montreal. Our staff was super happy.
It's worth mentioning we didn't take inbound calls. We were email customer service and we made outbound calls when necessary, and I encouraged they do it often because it's so effective. Fun fact: When you ask a customer when he wants you to call him, and you call him at that time right down to the minute having already investigated his issue and providing solutions, your call is a hundred times as likely to be pleasant as one where he calls you and has to hold. You get more happy customers and a relaxed staff.
Delivered pizzas. Was a pretty good gig.
I used to work for Nielsen Media Research (like half my highschool did, almost literally). The first death threat I ever received in my life was from a guy who was very displeased with us calling him at home.
I didn't understand the hate. Yes, we were calling people at home, but we weren't trying to sell them anything. We were offering them the chance to help dictate tv ratings and get paid like a buck (actually literally) to do it.
We didn't do surprise calls.
We were mostly emails, and if a situation was particularly complicated or sensitive, our next email would include a request to call.
This issue might be more easily resolved with a phone call, would you mind if we called you? If you'd like a call, when exactly would be best for you?
If they emailed back requesting a call, the ticket would be updated and a call scheduled in the system, which would be assigned an hour in advance.
Or, and this happened most of the time, the client would reply "fuck yes, now please" and we would call back immediately.