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To me the worse job is to be the one telling people "your insurance will not cover you" despair anger disbelief denial cries and shouts. They had to replace the glass doors for acrylic and the desk for metal ones. Some people gets fucking mad. I was only the IT guy but daaayuuummm that shit looked rough...
I worked both. Distant stare
Ah.. miss those times I see?
i work in fast food and its the worst i hate it so muchhhhhh im desperatly looking for a new job now hahah
The food service was fucking awful, but I actually had a net good experience in retail. They were both relatively small stores, but the food service one was in a populated city with a toxic crew, and the retail store was in a small town with a chill crew.
Extreme horror: food service-retail hybrid jobs, like the grocery store delis, meat counters, bakeries, etc.
I'd rather do heavy labor. As long as I don't have to work in shifts.
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.
I worked in retail for 3 years, I lasted a single night working at a warehouse
Fast food service: Covered in grease AND dealing with customer's bullshit.
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 Greek God punishment type Job
You just reminded me of my short bastard super from one of my old jobs. They put me on the prep deck to get all the wash process water off the parts with compressed air before they go into the paint booth. One day they bump the line up to something like 14 feet per minute and tell me that I should stop the line if I need more time for quality reasons. So I stop the line because water is still seeping out. Fucking Mike whips in there with his private forklift and goes "hey why the fucks the line stopped" and hits the go button. A couple back and forths at shift meetings and I give up, because they've got me working 5 or 6 10s and I have lost the ability to give a damn. So now the paint is fouling on every fourth part, and when the facility manager comes round bitching about our reworks guess who gets thrown under the bus?
God I hate manufacturing
You still gotta deal with the most absolutely bored co-workers who are so disillusioned they create petty drama to fill their days. The 60 year old lady with a mullet who has been working the job outta high school is going to set an absolutely unmatchable pace for zero reason other than to give their ego a pat on the back, and not give two shits for the problems that pace might create when the shit they send down the line starts to inevitably back up.
All while doing absolutely back breaking and fatigue inducing actions for long periods while operating machinery that will dismember you before you even notice something is wrong. Your mind is so bored by the repetitive tasks it erodes at caution though, so good luck not messing up.
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.
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?"
"If this is only 2% milk, what is the other 98%?"
Looking at a collection of LOTR books shortly after the first Peter Jackson film released
"Wow! How do they already have 3 books of just 1 movie?"
Did you ever find out what the first person was looking for? Is crunchy vanilla an actual thing or did they just want ice cream with larger ice crystals?
Likely not real ice cream, but the cheaper (and more common) ice milk - it has a lower fat content, so more water, and in certain conditions ice crystals do form into small chunks.
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
I wanna know how cows work
The 2% refers to the amount of fat in the milk. Whole milk is usually something like 3-4%. So 2% milk actually is the "other 98% of the milk" since they skimmed half the fat off. Milkfat is actually not bad for you either*, vitamin d is fat-soluble and taking the extra milkfat out can make it harder for you body to absorb it.
Fat is also flavor, and when it comes to something like yogurt you have to put something else in so it won't taste like shit. That something is usually sugar. For the same flavor yogurt its usually at least double the amount in the fat free variety. And it still tastes like shit if you ask me.
*the dose is the poison, if you eat nothing but cheese you will die of congestive heart failure
IME customers fucking hate it when you infodump on them when they ask questions like this
No, I know how milk works, I wanna know how cows work
Oh, cows are quite simple. They eat silage and turn it into milk, beef, methane, and more cows. Male cows don't produce milk. Steers turn all the silage they eat into beef. Bulls turn 1% of what they eat into cum and the rest is used to produce pure, unadulterated rage.
I wish to know more about silage
It's like a fermented mash of grain and grass. It's a good way to turn corn into better feed. Unfortunately that's as much as your getting out of me while I'm hung over.
Aw yeah, that's the stuff
Food service is worse.
So many rules and you're stressed out by management that feels 2 people can run an entire restaurant themselves.
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
Corporate retail was worse. I had like 30 minutes of assigned work a day, and for the other 7.5 hours I had to pretend to be busy. It was awful.
I did get really good at balancing stuff on my fingertips, though. And I had the location and price of every item in the store memorized.
Food service was harder work, but shifts went by much faster. I mostly washed dishes and did prep, but subbed for wait staff when needed, and all of it was better than retail. Plus, everyone was high or drunk and management didn't give a shit.
special case, Walmart is Cronenberg levels of body horror.
keep in mind, it gets worse the darker it is outside.
Personally I found food service to be much worse.
The customers can be so rude in fast food.
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.
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