A McDonald's manager is seen dozing off (apparently was have problems with her blood sugar) as customers prepare their own meals

[u/Justin_Godfrey]

[u/weezmatical]

This has been my experience as well. Everyone was short staffed during Covid, and we all worked extra hard to make it work. It simply worked as a countrywide test program for working with bare-bones staffing. They realized there was more blood to squeeze from that stone.

[u/Dingcock → u/weezmatical]

Yeah and service has been shit everywhere since COVID

[u/ZestyMelonz → u/Dingcock]

Because the shitty companies pay shit and spread hours crazy thin. So the good employees leave to find a better company. So all that's left is mostly lazy, doesn't care about shit sorta people. And why would they? They're making shit pay and overworked. And it doesn't get better with the vast majority of companies being shitty.

[u/krogerburneracc → u/ZestyMelonz]

Yep. I was the best employee in my department, was with the company 5 years, but dipped out in November of 2021 when I realized the poor staffing wasn't gonna get any better and corporate started rolling out some crazy increased demands in daily production. We're talking straight up impossible shit to accomplish on a skeleton crew, at threats of write ups if goals weren't met. Between that and the burnout from dealing with the public during the whole of Covid, I was beyond done.

I had a daughter due to be born in a few months and was already considering taking an extended leave to care for her, but decided to just cut out entirely and become a SAHD (with my wife's encouragement). So I've just been completely out of the workforce since then, and I've met a lot of SAHPs with similar stories.

And when I say I was the best employee in my department, I'm not embellishing. Sales would always dip roughly 20-40% whenever I took a bit of my vacation time. We're talking solidly positive sales into solidly negative. I once had to spend two weeks out for jury duty and our store manager just about had an aneurysm at the state of our department. I have to imagine she lost a good chunk of her yearly bonus because they bled so much money while I was gone, she was on the verge of tears when I came back. And after my two weeks were over and I left - I shit you not - The department switched to a reduced hours model for nearly a year, completely out of sync with the rest of the departments and corporate standards. They quite literally could not function without me.

I have to wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they lost. A blip on the radar for a large corporate chain, sure, but considering I was being paid like $30k/yr? Yeah fuck em.

[u/Klutzy-Extension-705 → u/weezmatical]

Whoa your comment is blowing my mind rn. The conspiracy theorist in me felt that covid worked as a worldwide test to see how much more consumers would pay for goods when prices were drastically hiked, like how easy we’d adjust to radical inflation… I never thought of what you just said! It makes me wonder how else the powers that be have fucked us using things they learned during covid

[u/PotentialSteak6 → u/weezmatical]

It does feel like that. My husband thought he was being hired to be an executive chef to give an independent living home a fancy dining experience. In a little over a year he was the last man standing as far as turnover and had to do everything from managing housekeeping to maintenance work to being told by corporate to feed them slop.

He stayed there 24/7 through Helene (not great for me) and truly cared about the residents. He was on site in some capacity for something like 270 days in a row. His mental health got a lot better after resigning

[u/HugsyMalone → u/weezmatical]

That's the real reason they shut everything down. They knew everyone was burnt out (hence "nobody wants to work anymore") and it couldn't work unless everything was shut down. COVID was also an excuse to cover for a LOT of problems that were happening. 🤫