How accurate is this?

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• SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve done both, and I’d say food service is generally worse. Neither are as bad as being on an assembly line, I can tell you that much.

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  • sep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now that is shocking to hear. You do not have to deal with the whims of the general public. One would imagine anything would be better.

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imagine a never ending machine of molten plastic parts that burn you just a little bit every time you grab one, not enough to be damaging but enough to be uncomfortable, now imagine that machine controls your life for 8 hours with two 15 min breaks and one 30 min break for lunch/dinner.

      The machine will speed up when production needs to be up and you have to keep up, you miss two pieces and you are put to the side and someone else will take over, you do it two or three times and you go home without a paycheck.

      I’ll take a screaming Karen every time over that fucking piece of shit Job

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    • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You still gotta deal with the most absolutely bored co-workers who are so disillusioned they create petty drama to fill their days. The 60 year old lady with a mullet who has been working the job outta high school is going to set an absolutely unmatchable pace for zero reason other than to give their ego a pat on the back, and not give two shits for the problems that pace might create when the shit they send down the line starts to inevitably back up.

      All while doing absolutely back breaking and fatigue inducing actions for long periods while operating machinery that will dismember you before you even notice something is wrong. Your mind is so bored by the repetitive tasks it erodes at caution though, so good luck not messing up.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I worked in retail for 3 years, I lasted a single night working at a warehouse

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fast food service: Covered in grease AND dealing with customer’s bullshit.

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You have way more chances to get back at shitty customers doing food service.

  Get a cunty customer and you just smile a little too large, be a little too eager to fix their issue and let your eyes glint just a little. Then fix their issue exactly what they asked for with nothing wrong with it and untampered with. When you return to the table put a little too much emphasis on “Enjoy” when you give it to them.

  They will spend the entire meal trying to figure out what you did or call the manager over and make a big scene about how you did something but cant point out what. Ruin my night, I’ll ruin yours.

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  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right so in the jumpscare genre you use psychological trick, and in the psych horror genre you use jumpscares on shoplifters and bad customers who can wait an extra minute for their help.

    You don’t have to jump out on them, though. One time I had this guy SCREAMING about his order when there was a huge line and he was like #3, yeah? Well he was there for about an hour and while he was ranting at 300Db about how I never do my job yards yadda I had a colleague go get his fridge. He was waiting for that hour impatiently and I kept reassuring my team this would be worth the wait.

    Anyhow he goes and gets someone to fetch their supervisor so I walk up once I’d been called.

    WHERE IS MY ORDER IVE BEEN HERE FOR 2 HOURS‽‽

    sir by my account, you’ve been leaning on it for the last 45 minutes. Your order is already completed in the system and the invoice is printed and on top of the box, do you need help loading it or finding anything else today?

    He just screams like Tarzan and starts to push it outside. 5 minutes later quietly shows back up in my now-much-shorter line and sheepishly asks for help loading it.

    TLDR: I also like to play ‘ruin my night, I ruin yours.’

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or you could also just actually fuck with their food ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    10+ years and I only ever did it to one person, but that racist piece of shit 100% deserved it.

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s risky (criminal level risky)

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I heard some pretty stupid shit working retail.

  “Where can I find the crunchy ice cream?”

  “Uh… Like, the Nestle Crunch bar ice creams?”

  “No, it was just plain vanilla ice cream. But crunchy.”

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  “Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemme at the guy about the milk, lemme at him, I wanna explain some shit to that guy, hey guy how much fuckin time you got pal, I wanna tell you about how cows work

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    • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wanna know how cows work

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If this is only 2% milk, what is the other 98%?

    Reminds me of 10% free

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  • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”

    How is that a stupid question?

    www.finefoodgroup.com/tool/en/products/…/cd04a

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because unless it’s a powdered mix thing, sour cream (and almost all dairy) in the US is refrigerated.

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  • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TBH like a half of those questions is something I could ask when I was younger, and the other half might have been asked by my friends when they were high. I hope I didn’t upset the retail workers too much…

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  • splashgarden@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you ever find out what the first person was looking for? Is crunchy vanilla an actual thing or did they just want ice cream with larger ice crystals?

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Likely not real ice cream, but the cheaper (and more common) ice milk - it has a lower fat content, so more water, and in certain conditions ice crystals do form into small chunks.

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Food service is worse.

  So many rules and you’re stressed out by management that feels 2 people can run an entire restaurant themselves.

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  • KaRunChiy@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Am in management, let me tell you, we fill out all those positions. My boss returns the schedule to me with 1/3rd the number of people i put on it. It's a nightmare

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    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m also in management, and, yeah. Trying to get everything done with such little labour is a nightmare and I end up picking up all the extra work. I don’t want my staff to have to stay late so I do. I’m yet to leave work on time.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Two people? What do you need two people for? You make the food and then you give it to the customer, it’s not rocket surgery! Now get to it you lazy bum!

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    • coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Love your additude. These fast food bumbs need to be taught their place.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  special case, Walmart is Cronenberg levels of body horror.

  1000002973

  keep in mind, it gets worse the darker it is outside.

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Personally I found food service to be much worse.

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  • coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The customers can be so rude in fast food.

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• Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends on what you’re selling, I guess

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  • proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah this is what I was thinking too. I worked for a mom and pop hobbyist store, and Starbucks. Obviously Starbucks was worse. But would it be worse than, say, a mall clothing store or Target or Walmart? Not sure.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My wife did both in a Californian suburb and this is accurate in that retail will make you lose faith in humanity while waiting tables is actually kinda fun but very tiring.

  In her case, it wasn’t the Karens but rather the amount of terrible parenting she would witness. One kid shamelessly stole thousands of dollars of Pokemon cards, get caught, and the mother took his side and blamed the store (?!). Plus, so many kids just left there like it’s a fucking daycare, too. Touching and messing up stuff. My wife was working alone most of the time, too!

  Not to mention, no chair, no real breaks, minimum pay, and so on. At least with food service, good places have tips and you get to bring home food. If you sell alcohol, it’s extremely lucrative in states that don’t dock your pay. An occasional jump scare is worth making more than an average college grad, and one of her friends opened a sushi place and gives us a discount. Food service is cool.

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• 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me retail was terrible, fast food was a special type of hell. But working as a busser was far and away the worst and strangest work experience I’ve ever had

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  • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What was strange about it?

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    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nasty customers leaving messy tables. Host/server breathing down your neck to bus their section yesterday. Dishwasher disappeared so they need you to pitch in at the dish sink. The bin behind the bar is overflowing.

      Where were you?!

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    • 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Everything those other fellows mentioned, plus great stuff like: the manager making me shave my facial hair off before allowing me to work; getting put on overnight shifts back to back even though they knew I was a student and had classes; staff expecting me to know everything about the table numbers and layout on my first day and getting pissed when I didn’t; also the amazing capitalist culture of Trying Super Hard So I’ll Be A Line Chef/Mgr One Day and all that comes with it.

      I quit after two days and never looked back.

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• GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FWIW, if one’s foodservice experience is bartending, you are given significantly more license to stand your ground and kick people out. Legally defensible license to do so. I genuinely enjoyed bartending most of the time, especially when it wasn’t a high-volume place.

  When it’s at a bar/grill restaurant, if you and the cook don’t run tag-team being bad-cop on every table that gets weird to spare the server staff, you’re doing it wrong. You are a weapon to be wielded. A 6-top often loves the suggestion that someone not getting a tip is a mutual villain making drama and that the server is the only person making magic happen against all odds. It’s theater, right? You provide dinner and a show.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d sooner chew my pinky finger off than ever work in food service again. I’m dead serious.

  Dead. Fucking. Serious.

  My first job was in food service so I figured, ok, this is what working is like. Never again.

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me food service was worse because it was harder to get breaks. In retail I could just tell bad customers “I’ll check the warehouse”, and then never return. But at the restaurant I couldn’t opt out of bad customers.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet that the question depends more on management than the customers or type of work.

  Like a good manager that doesn’t take shit from customers will be way better than the ones that bend over backwards for any complaint.

  Same thing for the ones who are chill as long as things are getting done vs the one that is more interested in seeing the illusion of work being done even if things are neglected (because all their attention is making sure people look busy rather than really understanding the work to evaluate results).

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  • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The quality of management is near universal, that’s the problem. They don’t pay enough to keep good people

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• KaRunChiy@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Walmart gave me constant illness and depression, fast food has just given me grey hairs and chest pain

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  • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which one do you prefer?

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    • KaRunChiy@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neither

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have worked in food service and retail and to tell the truth I would I would choose “picking up shit with a shovel” over either any day of the week. Wouldn’t even blink, give me the fucking shovel no problem boss

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I worked retail, that also included cleaning the bathrooms (who needs janitors when you have minimum wage kids!), so I got the worst of all worlds. And I’d still much prefer that over doing call center work every again.

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      (lifeless voice) Thank you for choosing AT&T

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can confirm, also partially explains my taste in art

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• S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To me the worse job is to be the one telling people “your insurance will not cover you” despair anger disbelief denial cries and shouts. They had to replace the glass doors for acrylic and the desk for metal ones. Some people gets fucking mad. I was only the IT guy but daaayuuummm that shit looked rough…

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• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I worked both. Distant stare

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  • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah… miss those times I see?

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather work in customer service.

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  • hexabs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s just the Indian in you bro.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s racist!!!

      Anyway, I thinking how I won’t have to deal with people who are not physically there.

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• ilovefruits@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i work in fast food and its the worst i hate it so muchhhhhh im desperatly looking for a new job now hahah

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• nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The food service was fucking awful, but I actually had a net good experience in retail. They were both relatively small stores, but the food service one was in a populated city with a toxic crew, and the retail store was in a small town with a chill crew.

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• splashgarden@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Extreme horror: food service-retail hybrid jobs, like the grocery store delis, meat counters, bakeries, etc.

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• Scrunge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather do heavy labor. As long as I don’t have to work in shifts.

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