It's kinda rude to show up right before a store or a restaurant closes and demand to be served. I work in a restaurant and you have to be shitting me to think you'll get seated at 11:50 when we close at 12:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. You unnecessarily hold up the people who happened to put long shifts in for the day. You don't necessarily give them ANY incentive for staying late just to serve your lazy ass. They've already been there for hours upon hours and probably have even more work to do before they go home for the night... Do you think they're going to stay ever farther past closing time for you?
Go to Perkins or some 24/hr place if you want food that badly and stop unecessarily holding the employees up. You're just being rude.
a disagree, a sit down resturant maybe but a fast food place or ice cream store shouldn't
The other day I went with a friend of mine to get an ice cream cone from Baskin Robbins. The store said it closed at 6 pm and we arrived at 5:50.
This was on Saturday and while I admit my Saturday nights aren't the most exciting now that I am 32 years old and a daddy of two, that was obviously not going to be the case for the two teenage girls running the place because....they had already locked the door!
I was there before the door was supposed to be locked. They just waved and smiled and said sorry. I pointed at their store clock and it said 5:50 and the schedule on the glass showed that they close at 6:00 pm.
I let it go and just went to Albertson's and bought some regular ice cream to take home but those girls were rude because I was in before the lock. I was clearly there before the closing time of the store.
Thankyou. I was hoping you'd ask. The two girls were hired to do a job. They didn't do it. They WEREN'T worth what they were being paid.
I've worked in food service. My dad even used to own a restaurant. I know how hard the job can be but there's a reason why food service is often a point of entry for so many into the workforce. It's not a hard job to learn. It's the kind of job that attracts an extremely wide cross-section of society. Some people are very good workers and some aren't even worth minimum wage. It's just that simple.
well what about people that ARNT teenagers? should they be protected by minimum wage?
you know what? lets not hijack the thread... make a new one if you want to debate the merits of minimum wage and why YOU think they should be repealed...
Oh feel free to talk about minimum wage. People will still chime in with bad customer service stories and opinions as they see fit.
In actuality I only started a thread with this title because of the announcement in future hardware about in before the lock posts. It just inspired me I suppose.
I am glad/sad to see that this closing before the close trend is so common. As was mentioned by several others, when I worked closings, I knew that the time of "closing" was for customers coming in, and not for me going home.
Speaking of closings, I have to nominate myself for worst job ever to have to close. I know that this is quite a statement, but no one has even had trouble dealing with customers and closing until you have worked at.....Disneyland. (Yep I can sew your name on some damn ears)
The park begins announcing closing and making purchases for about 45 minutes before it will close. Then you still have everyone deciding they want to buy something at the last minute and generally not wanting to leave. Eventually they all get herded up to Main Street about 30 minutes after the park has closed and they might get done with them....well god knows....
After the store is closed and the customers left (30-45 minutes after close) you still had to clean and stock the store from last minute purchases (Disneyland must ALWAYS have everything 100% presentable) and then wait for your drawer to get counted out.
After all this, you would walk up your drawer cash (they carried it in merchandise bags) and go to the dressing areas.
Disney is absolutely paranoid about their uniforms and their appearance. So you don't get to take them home. They clean them there and you check them in and out. You have to go back, change out of your uniform, turn it in, walk to the employee gate and then finally...clock out.
Then you get to walk through the equally huge employee parking lot. (Nowadays it is not on site at Disney, you have to park and take a tram into the employee area) Get in your car, wade through the exiting traffic and finally go home.
All that said Disney was still a kick butt company to work for and I enjoyed their repeated attempts to lure me there full time. (I was in college) Their full-time leads could count money faster than anything I had ever seen. (They were as fast as machines I swear)
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Originally posted by ShawnPatrickJoyce
Employee's Perspective
It's kinda rude to show up right before a store or a restaurant closes and demand to be served. I work in a restaurant and you have to be shitting me to think you'll get seated at 11:50 when we close at 12:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. You unnecessarily hold up the people who happened to put long shifts in for the day. You don't necessarily give them ANY incentive for staying late just to serve your lazy ass. They've already been there for hours upon hours and probably have even more work to do before they go home for the night... Do you think they're going to stay ever farther past closing time for you?
Go to Perkins or some 24/hr place if you want food that badly and stop unecessarily holding the employees up. You're just being rude.
a disagree, a sit down resturant maybe but a fast food place or ice cream store shouldn't
Originally posted by trumptman
The other day I went with a friend of mine to get an ice cream cone from Baskin Robbins. The store said it closed at 6 pm and we arrived at 5:50.
This was on Saturday and while I admit my Saturday nights aren't the most exciting now that I am 32 years old and a daddy of two, that was obviously not going to be the case for the two teenage girls running the place because....they had already locked the door!
I was there before the door was supposed to be locked. They just waved and smiled and said sorry. I pointed at their store clock and it said 5:50 and the schedule on the glass showed that they close at 6:00 pm.
I let it go and just went to Albertson's and bought some regular ice cream to take home but those girls were rude because I was in before the lock. I was clearly there before the closing time of the store.
This is why I'm opposed to minimum wage laws.
Originally posted by zaphod_beeblebrox
This is why I'm opposed to minimum wage laws.
um care to explain?
Originally posted by Paul
um care to explain?
Thankyou. I was hoping you'd ask. The two girls were hired to do a job. They didn't do it. They WEREN'T worth what they were being paid.
I've worked in food service. My dad even used to own a restaurant. I know how hard the job can be but there's a reason why food service is often a point of entry for so many into the workforce. It's not a hard job to learn. It's the kind of job that attracts an extremely wide cross-section of society. Some people are very good workers and some aren't even worth minimum wage. It's just that simple.
you know what? lets not hijack the thread... make a new one if you want to debate the merits of minimum wage and why YOU think they should be repealed...
In actuality
I am glad/sad to see that this closing before the close trend is so common. As was mentioned by several others, when I worked closings, I knew that the time of "closing" was for customers coming in, and not for me going home.
Speaking of closings, I have to nominate myself for worst job ever to have to close. I know that this is quite a statement, but no one has even had trouble dealing with customers and closing until you have worked at.....Disneyland. (Yep I can sew your name on some damn ears)
The park begins announcing closing and making purchases for about 45 minutes before it will close. Then you still have everyone deciding they want to buy something at the last minute and generally not wanting to leave. Eventually they all get herded up to Main Street about 30 minutes after the park has closed and they might get done with them....well god knows....
After the store is closed and the customers left (30-45 minutes after close) you still had to clean and stock the store from last minute purchases (Disneyland must ALWAYS have everything 100% presentable) and then wait for your drawer to get counted out.
After all this, you would walk up your drawer cash (they carried it in merchandise bags) and go to the dressing areas.
Disney is absolutely paranoid about their uniforms and their appearance. So you don't get to take them home. They clean them there and you check them in and out. You have to go back, change out of your uniform, turn it in, walk to the employee gate and then finally...clock out.
Then you get to walk through the equally huge employee parking lot. (Nowadays it is not on site at Disney, you have to park and take a tram into the employee area) Get in your car, wade through the exiting traffic and finally go home.
All that said Disney was still a kick butt company to work for and I enjoyed their repeated attempts to lure me there full time. (I was in college) Their full-time leads could count money faster than anything I had ever seen. (They were as fast as machines I swear)
Nick