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Taco Bell Manager in a mall food court [0800] - Wake up, shower, eat breakfast. [0830] - Ride my bike to work since I lived close to the mall. [0850] - Unlock t
by mrradd 9y ago
Taco Bell Manager in a mall food court
[0800] - Wake up, shower, eat breakfast.
[0830] - Ride my bike to work since I lived close to the mall.
[0850] - Unlock the store, turn on lights, turn on re-thermalizer, groan about how crappy the night shift cleaned.
[0915] - Wonder why I still work at Taco Bell. Drop the previous days's, along with fresh, beef/chicken/steak in the re-thermalizer to be ready to serve at 1000.
[0920] - Run through the food/supplies to make sure we have enough for the day.
[0930] - Another crew member shows up (usually someone I like since I make the schedules), I delegate work for them to do.
[0935] - Prepare the cash drawers and do the morning count of the safe.
[9050] - Stare at the wall of my office wondering why I still work at Taco Bell.
[1000] - Open up the store and feed whomever eats Taco Bell for breakfast...
[1130] - Swap out food line (replace stuff that will be 'unservable' in about an hour). A couple more crewmembers show up for lunch rush.
[1200] - LUNCH RUSH/Deal with really crappy customers which make me wonder why I still work at Taco Bell.
[1500] - Lunch Rush ends. Another manager shows up, and we do the change of shift stuff.
[1600] - I finally get to take a break.
[1700] - Clock out. Find out my bike is stolen. Walk home.
[1800] - Eat some food, play video games.
[0000] - Go to bed.
I'm no longer a Taco Bell manager. Now I am a software dev like many of you. I just thought I'd share since there was a lack of fast food in this post.
- elbrian 9y agoI'd be interested in hearing more about your journey from fast food to software development. Grats on the life change!
- mrradd 9y agoAt the time I programmed as a hobbyist to try and better myself--I wasn't always just playing video games after work. Eventually I got an office job as a temp doing data entry. I came to dislike my single task I was given, so I did what any lazy programmer would do and automated it. Eventually I was found sleeping at my desk while the program was running, and was reported to the boss. When I went to the boss's office to be reprimanded he instead referred me to the head of IT who then offered me a job as a programmer. That was about 5 years ago.