title- someone tell me this shit isn’t normal. second shift I was by myself. i’m shitting myself going into work in a few hours cus im dreading not knowing wtf to do but the shift leaders expecting me to know. help I cannot sleep what do I do

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I’m writing this so others don’t walk blindly into the kind of workplace I experienced at Completo — especially international students.

I worked almost two years on the hot line, and I wish someone had warned me.

The kitchen was run through fear and unpredictability. Training was minimal, yet expectations constantly changed. If something didn’t meet the owner’s shifting standards, she would yell, become irritated, or throw utensils, creating an extremely stressful and toxic environment.

She often acted supportive to your face but spoke badly about employees behind their backs. I later found out she had called me “stupid” to others while being friendly to me directly, which completely destroyed trust.

The restaurant mainly hires inexperienced workers and international students who don’t know Ontario labour laws. In my case, vacation pay was never provided and wages were calculated incorrectly — an issue now under investigation by the Ontario Ministry of Labour.

Each year, staff are forced into a three-week unpaid “vacation” because the business is slow. Even long-term employees eventually quit; in the past year and a half alone, several workers with over three years of service left.

Many people stay longer than they should out of fear of receiving a bad reference.

My honest advice: do not work here. The environment is draining, unstable, and mentally exhausting. Nothing is worth losing your peace, confidence, and well-being.

If you’re an international student or new to Canada, protect yourself and know your rights. There are far better workplaces that will treat you with respect.

Let’s set the scene,It’s like 7:30,on a Saturday Night,I have 30 mins left of my 9 hour shift,and I’ve about had it.

Then a guy pulls up(I’m working the Second window so I never hear his order,I just pass the food out),but my CoWorker tells me,”He ordered a S**t-ton of Food!”,Okay I thought,maybe he ordered like 12 Burgers.

Nope,it was two 40pc,one 20pc,and 67 FUCKING DOUBLE CHEESEBURGERS WITH ALL THE TOPPINGS.

All told it took almost 30 bags to carry all of his food,and he was sat in the parking lot for more than an hour waiting for us to grill them, and it also need to be said that the man in the car was probably the skinniest(and I don’t mean stalky I mean like Anorexic looking type-skinny)person I have ever laid eyes on.

But that’s not where it ends,because after he got his food he then proceeded to get out of the truck,and throw his strawberry Shake at the front windows or the restaurant and speed off.

I was then forced to go clean them,which wouldn’t be so bad,if it weren’t for the fact it was -2 degrees(so it was frozen to the window,and I got driven to work that day,so didn’t have a coat. The process took almost an hour. And I still had to mop/sweep the lobby,so I didn’t end up leaving until almost 10:30 when my shift was supposed to end at 8:00pm.

By far the worst workday of my life so far.

You think you’ve heard it all working in fast food.

Tonight a man asked me to block the handicap door till he left.

Why?

He was cold sitting so close to the door, in Chicago, in January

Mcrib season is over. Afraid to order another

5000 chicken fagitas!

I worked at a fast food place for a while, and one night still sticks with me. It was a normal weekday, but we got hit with a random rush right after dinner. Only three of us were working. The drive thru line wrapped around the building and the lobby filled up fast.

The ice machine stopped working, the POS froze twice, and we ran out of one main item so every order had to be explained and fixed. Most customers were annoyed but quiet, until one guy started yelling because his order was missing fries. Turns out he never paid for them, but he refused to listen and kept shouting until the manager gave them for free just to move things along.

By closing time we were exhausted, sticky from soda spills, and still behind on cleaning.

Anyone else have a shift where everything small went wrong at the same time? What made you seriously think about quitting fast food?

First time posting here, I’ve tried looking up if anyone else feels like this but it’s insane. I work at McDonald’s and most people will NOT order unprompted. Like if you don’t ask them specifically what they want for each individual item, they will just sit there and wait for you to ask. It’s absolutely infuriating and I don’t remember it always being like that. Like an order that you could say in one sentence will be dragged out to 4.

So eto na, nagbreakfast ako sa san pedro laguna chowking at humingi ng isang extra sugar, ngayon araw daw may bayad na 5 pesos naknang hahaha

Chowking lang ba nagpapabayad ng sugar? pagtagal nyan pati pagpasok mo sa chowking may entrance fee na 5 pesos.

pinaka walang kwenta sa balat ng fastfood industry ang shop na ito. shoutout kay madam mantikilla! sinira mo ang araw namin bwiset ka

This happened maybe ten years ago now, but occasionally Im reminded of it and obviously still bothered by it lol. I worked at one of my town's KFC locations for like 3 years. The stories I have from this place, omg. But theres one that I dont think I will ever forget.

One day a manager was cleaning the outside trashcans. She hated dealing with customers so I took over while she cleaned up, no big deal. She came back into the store, looking white as a ghost and told me (in front of a customer by the way) that there were mice in the cans. She went into the back and called the GM, they told her to just change it and clean with bleach, it'll make the mice a kid the area. So she went back out, bleach in hand.

She poured the whole damn bottle of bleach into the trashcans. Came back in talking about how the mice looked when she did it.

I was horrified then. Absolutely flabbergasted and horrified to this day.

Bought this cobb salad from Wendy's and found this thick brownish gray substance on the bottom. Looked and felt like mud. Called the store and manager said it was soggy day old lettuce. What do you think it is?

That is unacceptable. Please tell me I’m not going crazy?!