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My fast food job has recently hired a few people, about 4 or so. Well half of them quit within the first week.
Management in those places is usually terrible and they put unrealistic expectations on their employees, so of course they're going to leave. Theres no point in being in a low paying place like that if no one's going to treat you right.
its called high turnover
corporations expect that shit and dont give a fuck
Most people take bottom feeder jobs to get through school or just until a real job comes up.
I never thought about it like this. Good point.
My manager acts like we owe him loyalty. (Idk about others, but he treats ME like shit)
A girl quit recently after working here for a year and he got pissy about it.
Well, it is fast food, so I think it's relatively normal to just up and quit. In the late 80's I was a biscuit Baker at Popeye's Fried Chicken. Baking biscuits all day in a little glass box was awful.
"Baking biscuits all day in a little glass box"
Sorry, but picturing that made me laugh.
I'm not familiar with Popeye's. Were you required to wear a weird uniform, keep a smile on your face constantly, and put on a little show for the customers? I always feel sorry for service staff who are expected to do a happy-face song and dance routine as well just getting on with their damn job.
My manager acts like if we quit we're somehow evil.
I really want to quit but I waited 4 months to get the job.
Is the pay decent? Is the work exactly as described? Are the supervisors perhaps weird, uncomfortable or unreasonable? Are you?
No, no, yes and no.
The people who quit I haven't even worked with yet.
One girl quit because 2 managers and another third employee were talking crap about her sister next to her, the other person quit because a manager told him to go home early.
I fucking hate it here.
If half of the new hires quit in the first week, that sounds really bad, but if there were only four new hires to begin with, that means two of them bailed out, which isn't really all that significant.
That being said, it's a minimum-wage job, and the work is shit, the night and weekend and sometimes even holiday shifts are shit, and the rude and stupid and overly demanding customers with laughably unrealistic expectations that you have to deal with every day, are even more shit. Get an asshole manager who treats his employees like second-rate dog shit thrice stepped in, and you have a perfect recipe for high turnover. I should know because I used to work in fast food, management even.
Where I worked, even if the main store manager was cool or at least decent, turnover was still high and most people only lasted for about a month to two months, though they seldom quit because of the manager pissing them off.
One time when the guy we had who was our store manager was such an insufferable douchebag, turnover was through the roof. We were always understaffed, which made customers even more pissy because of slower service and dirty tables, floor, etc., the cleaning work couldn't get done, and everyone who toughed it out (like myself) was just miserable and anyone otherwise motivated to at least do an acceptable job, couldn't under the oppressive tyranny of this jackstain of a manager. He was Mr. Perfect who never, ever made any mistakes, and if he did, it was somehow always your fault. Nothing was ever good enough or fast enough for this prick. The day the district manager finally fired him was perhaps the best day I ever had when working there.
In customer service the manager or customers doesn't care about you it's about numbers.
yes, some try for weeks but cant do it. shitty pay and shitty job, shitty customers and environment does that to ya. i look at fast fod as a means to an end, as soon as you can get out n find something better, take it and run like hell
it takes its toll on you mentally especially. i used to work in one of those uppiddy ass city in subway and not a good time. didnt help i was black n all ppl in there every single day were stuck up rich people that looked down on me. one called me shanay nay and just rude af. mind you, i am not a stereotype at all. im shy, awkward af and have really bad social anxiety so i struggle with speaking or stutter or sweat (have fainted a few times too). but im also soft spoken and try my best to be really sweet n nice to everyone (cause of me being bullied in school too). worst working experience ever.
I would think people quitting in days, not weeks, would be more the norm.
I don't know what the average length of employment in the fast food industry is, but it sounds like you've landed in a particularly badly managed place.
If those higher up the corporate ladder have any sense, there should be a system in place to track how long new-hires stay in the job, and managers who have particularly high staff turnover should be flagged up. Hiring people costs a business time and money, and regularly losing 50% of new employees in their first week can't be a sustainable business model. At the very least, it indicates that the manager is bad at deciding who to hire.
Look for a new job. If you'd like to get some revenge on the manager, take notes of specific incidents and write to the company's head office after you've moved on to a better job.