BradH wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:39 pm
Lizardracing wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:28 pm
BradH wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:21 pm
I was expecting you to say $15/hr for saying "Would you like fries with that?"
I don't even bother ordering anymore. It doesn't matter when they put what they think I need in the bag anyway.
Ya' mean like yesterday where we ordered two (2) hash browns along w/ other breakfast stuff and ended up with two (2) apple pies, instead? My son heard me rant on that for a bit, especially cuz we didn't have time to go back to deal with it after finding the incorrect items.
Out racing one time and stopped at a fast food joint. one of our guys asked for biscuits and gravy. On down the road he opened the box and it was just gravy......no biscuit.
I mean Cmon man! how does one miss the fact that theres no damn biscuit in the box when the gravy was added?
Another story,
I took a part time job doing concessions for some extra racing money a few years ago. I'm 45 working with a bunch of 20 somethings.
My job this one particular night was running the registers taking orders and filling drinks. Now this register is just a big calculator that attached to server that does all the math for you and sits out a number so all you have to do is tap a button the number of times the request is asked for. 1 time for hotdog, 2 times for 2 dog etc.......Pretty mindless really.
One night during half time of a big conference game, hungry people standing in line 50 deep, the damn system goes down. I simply adapted and starting doing the math in my head based on the menu pricing board behind me and kept filling orders and counting change and double checking order fulfillment as others went into a panic attack and just stood there having no idea what to do without the computer telling them. At the end of the night I was reprimanded for it. I was told that's not how it was done. I told the manager if my cash numbers were off then I would quit, if they weren't, I might still quit be either way I wasn't signing the stupid paper.
My drawer was off a dollar on a $7500 dollar countdown after 3 hours. The largest drawer in the stadium that night because my line was the only one moving. The next largest drawer was about $500, all transactions stopped when the system went down because the employees are told to stop serving food regardless of the 65,000 people wanting food. We were supposed to turn them away instead.
I miscounted a $1 to someone. Opps. My bad. I quit.
The problem here is that low skilled workers aren't expected to use their brains. Therefore they don't, but the position still payed $10/hr so a HUGE net loss happened when the food spoiled, the cash wasn't flowing, and the fans were angry they couldn't get drinks and dogs and pop corn.
It's a real problem in American society to expect wages higher than the skills levels required. When Americans won't do it, China will and there goes the jobs.
