The fast food industry

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-08-25 12:14pm

Tsyroc wrote: Mostly I worked as a cashier and the fry guy. The person who fried the chips, taco shells and the shells for the taco salads. We also used to cook the beans and the meat. From what my sister told me later on Taco Bell cut cost by trucking in a lot of pre-cooked stuff that only had to be warmed up (which is why the current meat looks more like a paste).

HA! I knew Taco Bell quality has dropped over the years, and I wasnt falling victim to nostalgia. The thing I hate the most is they put crappy quality tomatoes, and tiny amounts of cheese on the tacos. I remember getting a lot of cheese on a Taco Supreme.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-25 03:07pm

neoolong wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:
neoolong wrote: Uh, don't most places try to do that?
I think the same source also mentioned Starbucks employees being paid ludicrously low wages considered how much work they do.
Actually I worked at a Starbucks inside Barnes and Noble. It didn't seem that I was getting really low wages. I got book store wages though.

Did it say how much they get paid?

I don't recall any about that, but Starbucks employees IIRC work very, very hard and should be lucky if they have any spare time at all.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-08-25 05:16pm

Okay, I can only speak from my experience and that of my co-worker's, but when you have time to play "How long can you stand in the walk-in freezer," you don't have a tremendous amount of work.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-08-25 11:10pm

Taco Hell is the only place I have actually gotten food poisoning; spent a three-day weekend spewing from both ends so nedless to say, I steer clear now.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-08-26 12:17am

neoolong wrote:Okay, I can only speak from my experience and that of my co-worker's, but when you have time to play "How long can you stand in the walk-in freezer," you don't have a tremendous amount of work.

When I worked at Great America, we once got caught playing hockey with brooms and urinal pucks in the main receiving warehouse. Needless to say we didnt do that again.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-08-26 12:20am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
neoolong wrote:Okay, I can only speak from my experience and that of my co-worker's, but when you have time to play "How long can you stand in the walk-in freezer," you don't have a tremendous amount of work.
When I worked at Great America, we once got caught playing hockey with brooms and urinal pucks in the main receiving warehouse. Needless to say we didnt do that again.

Ah, the hijinks of dead end jobs.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-26 10:08am

neoolong wrote:Okay, I can only speak from my experience and that of my co-worker's, but when you have time to play "How long can you stand in the walk-in freezer," you don't have a tremendous amount of work.

???

From what I've read about Starbucks, I've thought that their clerks work from sunrise to sunset.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-08-26 11:08am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
neoolong wrote:Okay, I can only speak from my experience and that of my co-worker's, but when you have time to play "How long can you stand in the walk-in freezer," you don't have a tremendous amount of work.
???

From what I've read about Starbucks, I've thought that their clerks work from sunrise to sunset.

I'm pretty sure it's still an 8 hour shift. Though the morning shift starts pretty early, and the closing shift ends pretty late.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-08-26 11:44am

neoolong wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:
neoolong wrote:Okay, I can only speak from my experience and that of my co-worker's, but when you have time to play "How long can you stand in the walk-in freezer," you don't have a tremendous amount of work.
???

From what I've read about Starbucks, I've thought that their clerks work from sunrise to sunset.
I'm pretty sure it's still an 8 hour shift. Though the morning shift starts pretty early, and the closing shift ends pretty late.

My friends neice works at Starbucks, and like most places there are not that many full time workers. Most are part time working 4-5 hour shifts. This is for a couple of reasons. Many are students and cant work full time, and companies dont like to hire full time to cut down on benefits. Although from what I saw of her starting package it does seem like the offer some sort of benefits to part timers. Wages are pretty high too. She makes like 12 bucks an hour. Not bad for a college student.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-26 02:47pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:My friends neice works at Starbucks, and like most places there are not that many full time workers. Most are part time working 4-5 hour shifts. This is for a couple of reasons. Many are students and cant work full time, and companies dont like to hire full time to cut down on benefits. Although from what I saw of her starting package it does seem like the offer some sort of benefits to part timers. Wages are pretty high too. She makes like 12 bucks an hour. Not bad for a college student.

And all those years, I've thought that Starbucks clerks worked like slaves and barely were paid for it...

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-08-26 03:30pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote:My friends neice works at Starbucks, and like most places there are not that many full time workers. Most are part time working 4-5 hour shifts. This is for a couple of reasons. Many are students and cant work full time, and companies dont like to hire full time to cut down on benefits. Although from what I saw of her starting package it does seem like the offer some sort of benefits to part timers. Wages are pretty high too. She makes like 12 bucks an hour. Not bad for a college student.
And all those years, I've thought that Starbucks clerks worked like slaves and barely were paid for it...

We are barely paid for it. We just don't work like slaves. In fact, we hardly know the meaning of the word, work.