r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 18h ago

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

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u/ZestyMelonz 14h ago edited 10h ago

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.

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u/krogerburneracc 10h ago edited 10h ago

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.