• Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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    Once at a Waffle House in Florida I had a waitress that said she gets to work whatever shift she wants now because she did overnights for more than twenty years.

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    Did five years in the Starbucks mines and another year on a pizza freighter. I’ll serve burgers before I fold a graphic tee. The solidarity during/after a rush forges comrades

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      I think the opposite for me mostly because rushes are really bad for ND people (at least for me anyway, dont want to speak for all of us, but Ive read that this is often true). Like I worked Burger King and it was constantly hell on me mentally.

      Though I will say, I never worked the truly hellish retail jobs like Kohl’s or something. My retail job experience was two years at Hollywood Video, which had its badness but was a relatively chill job other than having to push the rental subscriptions. (Also a brief stint at a nonfranchise local toy store but I hardly count that).

      Also worth noting though that the BK I worked at was a failing location with releativly few customers and even that was hell on me. I absolutely fucking hated it. It stressed me out so fucking much. Having to clean the dining room while the boss was counting down the drawer and there was only one person i kitchen and me out front. And then DING the drive through thingh goes off when im in the middle of wiping a table and it murdered my fucking head every time. Absolutely hellish environment for me.

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          I never had the option to work kitchen instead because the roles were strictly divided and I wasnt trained in it anyway. I probably would have preferred it.

          Honestly if I could have just stood in ONE PLACE and just focused on JUST up front orders or JUST drive through it wouldnt be so bad. Drive through sucked for many reasons and you touched on some but it wouldnt have been so bad if i could have just focused on JUST that but i had to at MINIMUM run back and forth between drive through and front and bag all the orders, and thats when I didnt have to do extra stuff like cleaning dining room or trays. It was the juggling tasks that killed me more than anything.

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    Working retail is 1000% easier than working food service. Especially if the food service is anything that runs at night/weekends/holidays.

    You will never ever get me to work food service ever again.

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        Feel like the average retail worker does not experience that though

        Average food service is probably way more intense than average retail

        Edit: actually, I’m Canadian so the average American retail worker probably does have a way worse experience than up here, I’m so sorry💀

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          the average retail worker does not experience that though

          I’ve never been shot at but knives are common as is people shoving you out of the way for liquor.

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        I’m not competing, sorry if it came off that way! I mean this for me obviously, I’m comparing my experience with my experience. They’re both shit but oh my god I will take going back to retail over food service, I genuinely think I would do something to myself.

        …I did not like food service

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    Depends on boss and your own temperament. I’ve had shitty bosses as a line cook and as retail store manager - out of the two I’d pick a shitty retail boss. Shitty kitchen bosses get in your face and shit too much.

    Solidarity on the line is way stronger and if bosses push too hard we can just do a line smoke break until they cool off. That was always cool

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    Working in kitchens was probably the most degrading shit I’ve ever done. Couldn’t cope without cigs and alcohol, and my anxiety was still dialed up to 11 pretty much constantly. Pay was absolutely abysmal too. Bad times.

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    I worked at Sports Authority for a year before they imploded

    Was decent going for the most part

    Only problem was people thinking that I liked sports enough to follow them

    The only sports I pay attention to are my beloved Green Bay Packers and even then, I’m not the sort of weirdo who pays attention to things like rosters and games and seasons

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    Retail sucks ass. I always felt like food service would have to be better but I never got into it. I did a bunch of hospitality shit tho namely lifeguarding and roller coaster operation and scare acting both for a big Six Flags park and would not recommend either 😵

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    Would rather continue to live off disability than work either ever again lol. Unless I can get back into working with kids or maybe some sort of like entry level office thing I’m probably just going to keep subsisting on the government’s teat. Maybe theres some other low impact thing that ND people can actually do out there. But only working with kids gets my passion and drive going anyway so.

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      Would rather continue to live off disability than work either ever again lol.

      same, even though I haven’t managed to get on disability yet (will find out by early next year). I am never working a dog-shit job again. I would rather be completely homeless and destitute.

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    I never went into retail, but my wife did and now works at a grocery. I did work sales, then Starbucks followed by a brief stint at a French cafe before moving more into academia. While both suck, I think the main takeaway for me has been that the things people do to bathrooms will haunt me for the rest of my life.

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    I preferred food service. I enjoyed keeping up with orders and it’s nice to feed people.

    Retail is just droning lights and pacing. It is so boring and unengaging.