Like WTF!? "Starving? You can't afford 'good' food working here, but you can afford the food you're already making!"
Also, I worked in a lot of kitchens before and never once paid for a meal. "Damn son, didn't mean to put cheese on that! Guess I'll have to make another one."
Never pay a company for your food if you're the one making it.
Lol I remember my McDonalds managers ceremoniously ringing up their free meals and taking them out to the dining area like they were a fucking bishop performing the eucharist while we were in the back scarfing down hour old patties and smuggling out pound blocks of cheese to our friends.
smuggling out pound blocks of cheese to our friends.
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Fr tho I tried organizing a Little Caesar's about a decade ago with the IWW. I was young and had no idea how to counter kids barely out of highschool who only associated "union" with "civil union" as in "gay marriage". A spectacular failure which taught me many lessons in the use of language.
As admirable as what you did is, I'm not certain how well trying to unionize young people who will not likely be working at the business within one year out would be that successful. This also goes into these people not really wanting to rock the boat and the anti-union propaganda they have heard a lot of their lives.
Not sure, tbh some might be more likely to go in for a union if they aren't going to stick around as they are less likely to be bothered about the prospect of getting fired. Probably wouldn't want to pay union fees though so would need to be a free union. The real problem with that kind of work is how easy it is to replace people, especially in times of high unemployment.
they're basically making the free meals explicit. what else can they do, pay people more?
To me that's signalling that they're going after young/inexperienced labor. Guess they can't keep an employee longer than a month. I go about once a month to get a single bean burrito and it's always new people I've never seen, except for the manager of course.
a someone who would go after work for dinner 3-4 times a week last year, they knew me and would always hook me up and we would shoot the shit sometimes. they definitely were there 6+ months shockingly
(my new job and roomies make it so i get home at a normal time and my roomies cook alot so i thankfully dont so this anymore)
Not that this is shock, but a lot of the people who the "superiors" at these restaurants often go on power trips.
I remember that I worked at a Dairy Queen, where I was often given vague instructions about something and it was like playing a game of 20 Questions, meaning I would often misinterpret the directions.
There was also the expectation that a meal needed to be prepared within about two minutes. I was a bit slower, as I felt it was more important to do job fairly well, rather than rush through it.
Best part is, its $5/person. Have you seen how the prices have gone up??? Hope you like the dollar menu.
Personally no, but I only get a bean burrito. I'm not surprised though. Figured they'd have some shitty caveats.
I have worked at two fast food restaurants in my life.
At Subway, we got a six-inch sandwich and unlimited drinks free. At Dairy Queen, we got all purchases half-off, any food that sat sat around the kitchen for "too long" and unlimited free drinks.
I have never seen someplace outright offer free food.
Taco Bell is where truly desperate people work. Nearly everyone I know who has worked at one has been homeless before.
The only difference "free meals" have ever made to me is weather or not I let the manager see me eating. I probably ate $600 of organic frozen yogurt when I was working at the grocery store. They can shove their 10% employee discount up their ass.
Also, I worked in a lot of kitchens before and never once paid for a meal.
Sounds like you didn't have a manager breathing down your neck most of the time.
When I did, I made sure to rip lots of farts from the greasy food I just ate so they'd back off ;)
I didn't mean that literally, I meant when there's always a manager that has you in view and sometimes even a franchise owner who's at home watching you through the camera.
Many companies will make you pay for the food and if you steal it have you arrested. During my time working in fast food around one person per year got arrested for stealing food.
Dang, my manager was always more stoned than I was and would "accidentally" "burn" a pizza twice a day lmao
