New Managers Stink.

J Mac 85 submitted 550 days ago

While it's considered cheap work, a job is a job, especially with the way things are going these days. I didn't have a pension plan or four figure income to lose, but after you work somewhere for a while, you get attached.

Last December, I applied at a local xxxxx. It took me a week to get into the rhythm of fast food labor again (I used to work at a McDonalds when I was 16) but for the most part, sandwich making wasn't that bad of a job. The managers were cool, most of my fellow employees (the ones who actually did their job) were nice, and I was able to sneak piping hot fries every so often. All was well and good until there was a shift in power. The store manager, a big guy who sold burned CD on the side, was transferred to a different county, and this annoying woman took his place. In my time there, I developed a good relationship with everyone there. I was liked, I was the best worker, and because of that I was allowed to do things my own way. But this new manager had this "do it my way" kinds of attitudes. She didn't care that I was at that restaurant longer than her, she felt that because she made a career out of fast food, that gave her ultimate knowledge of how to run things.

Anyway, I was closing like i always so, and once we turned off the intercom to stop taking orders, the guy I was working with and I went to work cleaning up. Wiping things down, cleaning dishes, sweeping, etc. I unplugged one of those meat freezers on wheels so I could move it to sweep under it. Then the manager comes in and starts yelling at me. Something about it having to be cold for the morning crew (by the way, morning crews at fast food places are the laziest people you'll ever meet). I explained to her I knew what I was doing. After we swept and moped, I'd plug it back in, like I've done since I worked there, and it would get cold again the eight or so hours between when we left, and the morning people came in. We got into an argument, and being accustomed to talking to the managers like they're people, I used some profanity as adjectives and adverbs. We dropped it, and I finished my job and went home.

I had some days off on the schedule, so I had a nice four day weekend. When I came back the following Monday, I was issued a pink slip for my termination. "Insubordination" it said. Figures, I get a new manager with a God complex, and I dare talk to her like she's a person. I was good to work there another year before some customer angered me to the point where I'd throw a Whopper at them. I like to be terminated with more pizazz.