Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.

littlewildraven — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:42:52 GMT

Heya,

After scrolling through the many online forums for the past week now of employees of Maccas expressing their dislike of working there I would like to ask for advice.

I started my first job two weeks ago. I'm almost 19, I finished school late last year and after 6 months of searching I finally got accepted to work for McDonalds. I have struggled with Anxiety and Depression for years, so this was a massive achievement for me. First few shifts were okay, the staff are mostly lovely. Regardless after my third shift I came home in tears as I knew this place wasn't for me, for despite the overall kindness and training, I really disliked the way some customers treated me and the copious amount of work I was given compared to my fellow trainee. After being told by numerous people that understandably "I'll get used to it" and the fact that I'm too afraid to even talk to the head managers to resign, I decided to push on through to my second week.

This week I was on front counter. During my last shift, the head manager who I had originally found to be more approachable than the other, grew incredibly rude as the 3 hour shift progressed. At one stage I was 'assembling' an order, and said manager bluntly said "move' and immediately bumped me out of the way to assemble the order herself, causing me to almost spill fries onto the ground. Being sensitive this made me even more anxious and weary, as customers were literally right behind the counter and witnessed it. A little later a wave of customers had ended, so instead of standing around doing nothing, I decided to do a spot clean and quickly make the fries station look more presentable. All of a sudden I hear the manager barking, "Are you just going to pretend that there are no customers waiting or go and serve them!". I quickly stop what I'm doing and rush to serve the customers.

After that, my already nervous heart could not stop beating fast, I felt even more on edge and I couldn't settle down. Before my shift today I had a panic episode that didn't leave until about an hour later due to my work shift that was getting closer. I ended up getting my dad to tell them I couldn't make it. I couldn't do it myself as I was a hyperventilating mess.

After a rough 5 years of pushing through school that I hated, I'm so scared of my mental health and sleep declining again. But after having such a hard time getting a job in the first place, I'm worried I won't be able to get another...

What should I do?

Money > Health?

Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.

Bethie — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:56:44 GMT

My son is on his 2nd job atm in fast food. First company just wasn't for him and he was much like you. He got me to apply to everything online for him and now is happy. They started him of slowly doing 1 3 hour shift a week in the slow time and 7 weeks in are slowly increasing his hours. First busy shift was crazy but he did well.

Now he's doing the max hours he can at 14 and is happy with no work stress.

I would advise apply to other big companies online then see how you go. Dont give up over 1 bad apple.

Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.

littlewildraven — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:31:11 GMT

Thank you so much for your reply.

I'm really considering it, surely they're not all like this!

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Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.

Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.

Brain in a spin over whether or not the Fast Food industry is for me.