I'm gonna repost this here, since nobody will see it otherwise. Enjoy or (edit: if you're redditarded) downvote.

(edit: I see. This is probably one of 5 posts in this thread that aren't either "be a man and do the job!" or "no, you're a loser!" Downvote the complications!)

(edit: I take it back. I actually got upvotes on the old post, even though it was buried when I posted it. Sorry!)

As one who has worked the fryer, flipped the burgers, and run the drive through, I know exactly what you are talking about. Fast food jobs suck. And worse, they are supposed to suck. Why do you think the average person can buy such cheap food? Because all along the supply chain, the oligarchs running the fast food business squeeze pennies until they can serve food at a low price and still reap billions in profits. That's why brown nigger mexicans get pennies for plucking lettuce out of the ground, and why you're going to get paid a shit wage for standing around being stupid.

So you are underpaid, and overworked, isn't everyone? What is worse is the assembly line structure of fast food work, combined with the low standard of the product, which means you come into contact with the lowest forms of humanity, the fat, hungry average guy who wants his assembly line factory produced steaming pile of protein NOW, GOD DAMN IT!

Fast food workers are the people the lower classes get to yell at. The social humiliation of working there is the substance of your post here on reddit. You know people are going to snicker when they hear your line of work, because only losers work at McDonald's. By losers they mean teenagers, single parents, people of lower classes, foreign workers, colored people, and economic outcasts of every stripe, like the recently degreed. And they would be right, these are the people who work there, and these are the losers of society. And losers get treated like shit.

Have you noticed that many of these places talk up their uniforms. Subway even had advertisements about how spiffy their uniforms were. All fast food uniforms are the same. Unisex slacks, dark to mask grease stains. Dark unisex polo shirts with a collar and a splash of color just for the fuck of it, because working in fast food is fun. The uniform is not to honor the servers, it is to mark them out as servants who do the bidding of the middle and lower middle classes. "These are your slaves" says the uniform "kick 'em around a bit, if you want." And there is nobody who likes to kick a servant more than wage slaves frustrated with life. Go to a restaurant that is respectful of their servers, and you often find them dressed in their own clothes, or in a shirt and tie, with tips that underwrite a relationship of respect between servers and their customers. No tipping at McDonalds. It would interfere with the efficiency, and the wage controls.

People think the people who work at McDonald's are garbage, but it is THEY who are the garbage, because they permit a working culture as vapid and empty as this, just to line their own stomachs at the lowest prices. Same goes with the disrespect shown to Walmart workers. Perhaps if people respected these workers, the working conditions would change. Perhaps the humiliation is encouraged by the corporation, because it breaks the back of unions before they even begin. "I'm not important." In a way, it is feeding the consumer desire of the lower classes against itself to produce its own cycle of "justified" humiliation that keeps them down trodden; slaves driving slaves driving slaves.

(Did I mention that most service workers in mixed race areas are niggers, serving their white masters? "Niggers" because they are treated like niggers, like shit off the boots of whites who like their food FAST YOU FUCKING NIGGER. White liberals who say "African American" don't have the balls to recognise the system they really represent and support. Unemployment among niggers in Detroit is beyond Depression levels. Niggers are lucky to get a fast food job. Niggers are lucky to shine a White Man's shoes. Niggers better just be happy and sit there like a good nigger until the White Man's Economy says so. Nigger nigger nigger.)

You are trapped inside a bullshit situation. You were lied to all the way during college about your prospects by university marketing departments and professors who need warm bodies to pay tuition. Now that you've been excreted out of the intellectual ponzi scheme, you're stuck seeking menial labour inside The Machine, which has all the appearances of a scam invented to enrich the banker elite. Enjoy the warmth and glow of the Constitution as it burns during the Late Republic as fuel for expansion of the wolves. Your job at McDonald's will put you front row and center at the Poverty All-Stars Game. Take notes.

There are four solutions to your problem.

1. Take the first exit. Work at McDonald's until you find something better.

2. Game McDonalds. Become a manager, then regional manager. These fat fucks do nothing but fill forms and eat free hamburgers as they wander from store to store to make sure the teenagers, foreigners, and economic outcasts they lord over follow every rule like the marine corps. They make a reasonable living, and you get to laugh at losers all day, every day.

3. Destroy McDonald's from the inside. One of the greatest geniuses I ever met was this fellow who never worked a day, but convinced the management he was utterly indispensable to the business. He would come in on ANY shift. But while he was at work, he would do nothing but drive the management insane with his endless questions, prodding about procedure, complaints, jokes, you name it. He was a genius because he knew what he was doing. He was getting paid to do nothing while fucking the system.

4. Bunker down for the long haul. Cut own your expenses to the bone. Move into the cheapest apartment you can find. Stop drinking and doing drugs. If you're smart, you can survive working 2 or 3 days a week. Use the remainder of your time to write that book, make that film, or do the things you like to do.

edit: too much respect

edit: McDonald's exec tells it like it is

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z2ux/i_am_a_mcdonalds_key_executive_ama/c0f3gwv

You can get two slices of cheese, two patties, a bun, pickles, onions, and sauce for 99 cents.

Now think about the labor, electricity, fridges, etc. costs too.

Seems almost impossible that you get so much for little. How we can sell you all of that and still profit should speak for itself. Sure it's not a lot of profit per unit, but it adds up.

Impossible, unless you exploit people all along the way.

edit: From the mouth of a McDonald's exec

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z2ux/i_am_a_mcdonalds_key_executive_ama/c0f3nbh

Definitely the consistency between stores. You generally get the exact same item no matter where you order it from. You know what to expect every time. We are very strict about this and stores get in trouble for not following those rules.