longest day yet

Worked from 7:15 AM to 4:30PM...oy, are my feet tired.

Was trained about McWaste today. That is the food products that are thrown away for various reasons. I had been directed to throw overcooked, old, dropped, broken, etc. food into a specific tub. I wondered what the follow up on that waste was and today I found out. Training consisted of a manager (who was not wearing gloves)and I (who was wearing gloves) inventorying and listing the contents of the container. I'm sure you can guess what my part consisted of (remember, I was wearing gloves). Yes, I would take out similiar looking food items, determine what they were and how many of them there were, and the manager, (very pregnant Krista) would list them on a piece of paper. Ugh. That really says it all.

I attended my first employee meeting today. The two managers, Candace the store manager and her assistant Justin did a good job holding the meeting, keeping control and not letting it turn into a bitch session. I spoke up once, when Candace was complaining about someone draining the nitrous off the whip cream canisters. I knew from my F&B Manager experience in the Nat'l Parks that the culprit typically is the most recent hire. I knew it wasn't me, (yes really, that stuff gives me a headache, lol) so it was probably Mike, the "I keyed my managers car when he fired me from Arbys" guy I met at orientation. When I commented it was probably the new guy I got punched on the shoulder, laughs, and a knowing nod from a shift manager. Mystery solved

Many of the staff attending were in their civilian clothes, as the mandatory meeting was held 15 minutes prior to the designated hour on the day of paycheck distribution. The fashion choices were revealing, specifically the international staff were dressed the hippest, tan, with a "I live at the beach" look. The Americans had poor fashion sense, ill fitting clothes on pale overweight bodies, and mixed their work clothes (nasty shoes) with their off work clothes. To me the immigrant staff treat McDonalds as a hip place to work, and the Americans should take a lesson from them, if only to raise their self-esteem.