u/Pure-Faithlessness64

Hi! Several months ago, my Wendy’s location and the others in its franchise have gotten phone lockers. When I saw this, I breathed a sigh of relief believing that we’d finally keep the whole crew locked into their work.

Unfortunately, we never actually used the phone locker and people were still on their phones. I’m often an order taker, and there have been points in time where I’d take the order, make the drinks, cash out the car, put meat down, make the sandwich, make the fries, and coordinate all of it— all because everyone (including managers) was on their phone in the back. I’d have to apologize to the customers for taking longer on their orders because the rest of the crew abandoned ship because TikTok was more appealing. I wish we’d use the lockers more often, or at least crack down on phone usage.

Does anyone else have phone lockers at work? Do they actually get use?

I (21M) have this issue with allowing others to help me. Because of this, I lie to everyone about my situation. It’s usually better than it is. And if I talk about problems, I end up blaming everyone else. I don’t know why I’m like this, just that I am. How do I stop myself from lying to therapists? An idea that I have is diary entries that I share with my therapist. Maybe I won’t embellish the truth to something that cannot respond to me.

If you’re investigating someone that you’re interested in, what job screams the biggest “nope” you’ve ever seen?

Unless you have a disability to where speaking is difficult for you, please for the love of god, don’t skip our speakers. Here’s why:

1. Many places don’t have cameras by the windows that crew can monitor. If we’re slow, we likely won’t see you for a while since we typically do busy work in the back.
2. We may confuse you for someone else. Especially if you skip the speaker during a rush, we will probably try to make you pay for someone else’s order at first. Also, once we check you in, you’re technically the last order in line, so now you have to wait for everyone to find your order on their screen and make it.
3. At my location, I sometimes take payments while taking orders on the speaker. If you pull through to the window while someone else is at the speaker, one of you is going on hold, and it’ll probably be the person who skipped the speaker. Don’t make us take two orders simultaneously. Try having two different conversations with people. You’ll hate it.

If one more customer trauma dumps to me, goes on another rant about how things used to be, or goes on a political rant to me, I’m going to crash out.

I don’t know if anyone else has this problem in fast food, but I feel like my general manager started getting careless around me

At my store, my general manager doesn’t like scheduling anyone for clopens. Nobody gets scheduled for those. Except for me. I just got scheduled another one. 4th time this year.

On one of the opens that I had, my general manager scheduled one person short so I had to go at breakneck speeds to put the truck order away and do all of the morning tasks.

I had to teach myself how to close grill since not a single manager actually knows how. I’ve been promised a promotion for the past several month, but my training hasn’t even started. I did fine because I texted an off-shift grill closer before I started.

When I’m the only one doing side tasks, my general manager just gives the other side tasks to me. When I open with her, I feel like I have to race to get her typical tasks and my job done.

I don’t see her do any of that stuff to anyone else. Does she just trust me too much? Has anyone else had this problem?

I (21M) am about to graduate to start teaching high school ELA. Would anyone have any advice for me? How would you start if you could do it again?

Some other questions for fellow ELA teachers:

- What books do you enjoy teaching the most? What books did students really gel with?
- How do you prefer teaching writing assignments? Do you typically have to go back to material that you consider to be “elementary or middle school stuff?”
- Have you found an appropriate workload for homework? I don’t want to overwhelm students, but I also want to give them homework.

A fast food location isn’t responsible for another location’s mistake! I see a lot of customers come in and ask us to replace food that they got at a different location. I’ve even seen some customers ask us to replace fries that were from a different fast food chain entirely :)

If we didn’t make it, we aren’t responsible for it!

I (21M) am in college and work at a fast food place as a crew member. I’ve been around for like 5-6 years and I’m not technically allowed to be a manager at the place I work at because have limited availability during the school semester (even though I get 38-40 hours a week). I also just don’t want to be a manager because my time in fast food is very finite.

I’m generally well-liked by management and district management for never slacking and being knowledgeable about nearly everything in the store, but there are a lot of days when I’m running around doing all of the busy work and everyone else is just chatting in the back or on their phones. If it’s the morning, I’m overwhelmed by the fact that so much needs done but I’m the only one doing it. If it’s the evening, I’m trying to pre-close positions, some that aren’t even mine, just so we can get out faster.

Management does nothing about them for whatever reason. They might see me doing everything and think that whatever is left will get handled by me eventually, but I’m aggressively type A. I like everything being as completed as possible, and it’s difficult to be around for every customer and do everything. I wish other people would engage in some busy work. I feel like closing, and opening by proxy, would be easier if nobody let messes or dishes build up throughout the day.

I want to ask some people to chip in, but I technically don’t have the authority to do that. Managers of fast food chains, what’s the best way to go about this?

I (21M) have this weird relationship with most of my friends where I put in a lot more heavy-lifting for some reason. I always text first, ask to make plans first, check on their mental health, etc., but they pretty much never do the same for me. I don’t remember the last time someone texted me out of the blue and asked how my day was. I don’t remember the last time someone asked me if I needed someone, even when they knew I was struggling. I don’t get any of the happy birthday posts or the surprise birthday gifts, even when I set aside money for nice gifts for my friends. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. I get ghosted, ignored, and asked for loans over and over again. I’m there but never the first choice. I’m useful but never important. Why do I feel like nobody gives a shit about me?

Could still work with you or be a past coworker you don’t work with.

“Thank you for choosing Wendy’s, what can I get started for you?”

“Can I get a 10-piece meal with a coke?”

“Absolutely, would you like any sauce with that?”

“Hmmmm… how about some Chick-Fil-A sauce?”

I give up on humanity lmao