Submitted 11 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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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.”
“Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”
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
“Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”
How is that a stupid question?
Because unless it’s a powdered mix thing, sour cream (and almost all dairy) in the US is refrigerated.
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.
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.
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
Food service is worse.
So many rules and you’re stressed out by management that feels 2 people can run an entire restaurant themselves.
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!
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
special case, Walmart is Cronenberg levels of body horror.
keep in mind, it gets worse the darker it is outside.
Can confirm, also partially explains my taste in art
Walmart gave me constant illness and depression, fast food has just given me grey hairs and chest pain
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.
Personally I found food service to be much worse.
Depends on what you’re selling, I guess
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.
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
What was strange about it?
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.
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?!
I’d rather work in customer service.
That’s just the Indian in you bro.
That’s racist!!!
Anyway, I thinking how I won’t have to deal with people who are not physically there.
Delphia@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.