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weather1man
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Fast food jobs suck... don't ever do it... it's a AS nightmare. I have had a job at onefor the past year and it's truly an Aspie nightmare. They pulled me aside telling me that if I didn't become my friendly to customers then I'd be fired. I don't make enough eye contact, I don't smile enough, I am not a good enough NT. Plus I get bullied by several guys there and of course they don't get in trouble for it. it's BS man, plus everyone violates my personal space. It's not that big of a deal but it does get tiresome from time to time. I guess it's a good learning experience.
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Aaron_Mason
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I refused to work at a fast food chain. Absolutely refused. I heard stories of how anal they were.
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hartzofspace
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I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. 
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weather1man
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. |
what happened?
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Brittany2907
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While i've never worked at a fast-food joint...my cousin [who is NT] worked at one last year. He nick-named it the "hell-hole". 
From what he described it to be like, I don't think I'll be applying for a job in one EVER.
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I will NEVER do it. I have anxiety problems, difficulty with crowds, I can't handle noise, I'm scared of cooking with frying things (and would probably be sick if I saw the amount of fat added to some of those places), and I just can't deal with all the people asking stuff of me that I couldn't deliver (plus what would happen if I had a meltdown?)
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That is why I work in Casual Dining, same sensory overload, but pays better. For some reason, maybe it is the placid decorations that keep me at Cracker Barrel without freaking out too much.
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Brittany2907
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. |
Before I found out how horrible these places are to work at...I applied for a job at one. I didn't even make it to the interview.
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hartzofspace
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| weather1man wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. |
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I kept getting confused about things, and easily distracted by my co-workers and the customers. Co-workers would try small talk while I was working, and I couldn't juggle small talk and work, like NTs can. Of course, they fired me because they gave the stock excuse, "It just wasn't working out." 
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weather1man
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | weather1man wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. |
what happened? |
I kept getting confused about things, and easily distracted by my co-workers and the customers. Co-workers would try small talk while I was working, and I couldn't juggle small talk and work, like NTs can. Of course, they fired me because they gave the stock excuse, "It just wasn't working out." |
Aww, I'm sorry. I feel your pain, I'm surprised I've made it a year myself. I made so many mistakes myself, I got laughed at pretty badly. I did deserve it as I was truly an idiot at stuff but I learned and now I just need to be more friendly which I can do. I'm impressed that I now can have 10 people in line, do their orders, help a new person with theirs, and get the customers drink within 3 minutes. Speed isn't my issue but it's hard, I like small talk though when there are no customers. Otherwise it'd be boring although the gossip gets a bit old.
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hartzofspace
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Glad to hear that your job is working out! You can inspire other aspies!
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| weather1man wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | weather1man wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. |
what happened? |
I kept getting confused about things, and easily distracted by my co-workers and the customers. Co-workers would try small talk while I was working, and I couldn't juggle small talk and work, like NTs can. Of course, they fired me because they gave the stock excuse, "It just wasn't working out." |
Aww, I'm sorry. I feel your pain, I'm surprised I've made it a year myself. I made so many mistakes myself, I got laughed at pretty badly. I did deserve it as I was truly an idiot at stuff but I learned and now I just need to be more friendly which I can do. I'm impressed that I now can have 10 people in line, do their orders, help a new person with theirs, and get the customers drink within 3 minutes. Speed isn't my issue but it's hard, I like small talk though when there are no customers. Otherwise it'd be boring although the gossip gets a bit old. |
I'm surprised I am still there when I told one kid that he would look like a good actor for the Omen. I had to apologize. This is among a couple other things I had to go to the manager's office for.
When I bussed, some evil paranoid waitress decided to persuade a guest to write me off for taking a tip. Thankfully my wallet was empty and I was free to go.
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| matrix wrote: | | weather1man wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | weather1man wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | I once tried to work at a fast food joint. I didn't last three days. |
what happened? |
I kept getting confused about things, and easily distracted by my co-workers and the customers. Co-workers would try small talk while I was working, and I couldn't juggle small talk and work, like NTs can. Of course, they fired me because they gave the stock excuse, "It just wasn't working out." |
Aww, I'm sorry. I feel your pain, I'm surprised I've made it a year myself. I made so many mistakes myself, I got laughed at pretty badly. I did deserve it as I was truly an idiot at stuff but I learned and now I just need to be more friendly which I can do. I'm impressed that I now can have 10 people in line, do their orders, help a new person with theirs, and get the customers drink within 3 minutes. Speed isn't my issue but it's hard, I like small talk though when there are no customers. Otherwise it'd be boring although the gossip gets a bit old. |
I'm surprised I am still there when I told one kid that he would look like a good actor for the Omen. I had to apologize. This is among a couple other things I had to go to the manager's office for.
When I bussed, some evil paranoid waitress decided to persuade a guest to write me off for taking a tip. Thankfully my wallet was empty and I was free to go. |
That's a problem that I ran into in other jobs, too. Co-workers trumping up lies about me because they didn't understand me. 
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MartyMoose
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: Fast Food jobs sucks man |
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| weather1man wrote: | | Fast food jobs suck... don't ever do it... it's a AS nightmare. I have had a job at onefor the past year and it's truly an Aspie nightmare. They pulled me aside telling me that if I didn't become my friendly to customers then I'd be fired. I don't make enough eye contact, I don't smile enough, I am not a good enough NT. Plus I get bullied by several guys there and of course they don't get in trouble for it. it's BS man, plus everyone violates my personal space. It's not that big of a deal but it does get tiresome from time to time. I guess it's a good learning experience. |
LOL I know how you feel I got fired after a month and they wouldn't give me a reason. I was mad at first then I was relieved |
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I work in food service, I never smile or make eye contact, and my manager's don't even care enough to notice. Once in a while they joke about my lack of smiling, but other than that they do not care. I guess I'm lucky.
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