whales-are-assholes

I literally just finished my ON shift at my local Maccas, (to quote Abe from The Walking Dead) we were up shit creek with our mouths open.

We had a ON no-show, and the one guy who came in to cover was an absolute fucking idiot. He had everyone pissed off a quarter way through the shift.

Taking over half an hour to fill shake and sundae. Stacked the bun crates to an almost impossible, dangerous height.

While waiting for buns to toast or steam, he'd pick out the 10:1/4:1 patties (hamburger/cheese burger, quarter pounded patties respectively) from the UHC trays and put the fucking condiments onto them - all the while I'm fucking initiating and doing the exact same thing, so he'd end up scraping the shit off the patties and whatever.

Since they've started advertising the crispy/angus clubhouses on TV, every day feels like a friday/saturday night.

I was 4 orders deep at one point. It's 1:30am, I hadn't even begun pulling apart the line (didn't manage to even clean the line till 2:30am) and he's in wash up. I yell out for him to come help. No response. I yell again. No response. A third time. Finally.

He says he'll help out. All good. Puts his gloves on, then spots a co-worker whom had just come in to the counter. That fucker walks straight past me, and goes to the counter to talk to him.

I was livid. I'm generally one of the only cogs in the wheel during ON shifts that wont be rebuked by the ON manager if I swear or yell near the counter - depending who them customer is.

I went at him. I tore him a new god damn asshole.

It gets better. I tell him to jump on initiator (bun toasting, condiments etc) and help me out while I did the nuggets/patties/wrapping ETc.

The dickhead puts the buns in, waits till they pop out at the bottom of the toaster then walks off back to dish.

How, as someone with 5 years ON management experience, have you not killed a fellow co-worker for being utterly stupid?

I work overnights in Back of House for a McDonalds, and I agree wholeheartedly that continuous flow of solid banter can make an ON shift so much more fun. Also, working mostly weeknights, it's generally only my ON manager and myself - so being able to have a solid connection between the two of us is a must - but obviously it can't always be like that.

I've had a couple of managers where they'd ask me to do something, I'd say yes, and that was practically the extent of our dialogue throughout the night.

My last manager and I clicked on so many levels. From humour to music to just general shooting the shit whilst we had that much needed cigarette before we did food safety at 4am for breakfast.

Well, anyone worth their salt knows exactly where Allen Jones can fucking stick his fist.

Utterly savage. We just use our iPods and a Bluetooth speaker. ;)

Why?

The AMA? I'm curious too.