Our local Kentucky-Bella-Hut, the obscene thing that it is, has a sign out front proclaming, “Why would you want to work anywhere else?”
Excuse me? Why would anyone want to work at a fast food job if they could get anything else?
Are they trying to attract highly motivated people or what? Maybe friendly people.
If anybody could enlighten me why people would want to work at Taco Bell as opposed to anywhere else, feel free.
Or maybe it’s just a stupid “employees wanted” sign. In any case, I may be missing something here. Do you think they actually believe that their normal hourly worker (not managers) really wants to be there? Does anybody get any enjoyment out of those types of jobs? Granted, I’ve never worked at one so I wouldn’t know, and I’m very open to any comments on the situation.
Speaking of now hiring signs… how come you never see now firing signs?
Far be it from me to quench such enthusiastic pessimism and cynicism, but methinks you’re taking the sign a wee bit more literally and seriously than need be.
All labor is honest labor. You talk as though these folks should be embarassed of their occupation. You should have more respect for hard-working people.
Satan, lighten up. In these days when everyone is bending over backward to pad their post count, it is nice to see someone who registered in November with 7 posts. Let’s encourage the thoughtful, quiet types.
It is is a pretty odd thing for a sign to say–It makes you wonder how much thought they put into it, and if the prol sent out to post it could have possibly done so with a straight face. In a similar vein, the local Burger King had a sign out for a while that proclaimed they had the “best benefits in town.” I suspect that to be an exageration, and had to wonder if anyone could have taken it seriously.
Ack, have to respond to the simulpost. Billehunt, the fact is that fast-food and retail businesses expliot their labor horribly: they ask more and pay less than any factory in America, and they do it by hiring people who do not know that they can demand better treatment–recent immigrants and inexperienced teenagers. I worked at several fast food outlets as a teen, and the demands were ridiculous. They would flout labor laws, for example: denying people breaks, scheduling people to close and then open with only a six hour lull in between to sleep, cuting and then extending people’s hours arbitrarily, etc. Furthermore, they constantly treat their employees as criminals–you can’t call in sick at most such jobs unless you can produce a doctor’s excuse, even though they do not provide insurance, because the assumption is that you are a liar unless you prove otherwise. Retail jobs often insist that their female employees carry clear plastic purses, and everyone has to submit to having their bags searched when they leave the store, even if they have been good employees for a decade. Management assumes that all hourly workers and lower level management are thieves, and they don’t even bother to hide it. I think that Nutmeg’s concern is not that people who work these jobs are inferior, but rather that the people who hire them are horrible, and that it is the height of tackiness for these same people to even pretend that they offer a job that is more desireable than anywhere else.
My assumption is that anyplace that needs to advertise for new employees must not be an ideal workplace. You’ll notice, for example, there’s never a sign posted in front of the Playboy Mansion saying “Looking for people who want to get paid to spend all day taking pictures of attractive young nude women.”
Professional thieves are very hard working people. Any decent caper will require months of planning, casing, acquiring tools and vehicles, setting up false identities with which to buddy up to informants. The caper itself is labor intensive, requiring heavy lifting, cutting through ceilings, walls or floors, drilling, explosive work which must be muffled with very heavy wet matresses. And even when a team has managed to get inside, say, a bank vault there is still a lot of work to do ripping open saftey deposit boxes and general looting which has to be done while dust and other noxious materials still hang in the air. After the caper the vehicles and tools must be disposed of, often by dismantling, and care must be taken to remove any back trail, and dispose of the swag in a way that cannot be traced. And by the time the caper pays off, the gang is casing another joint. Not all labor is honest labor.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m always jumping on people for using garbage men as a punching bag. I maintain that garbage men have one of the most important jobs out there. Think about it… not many people want to do the job, it’s tough work, and controlled sanitation is vital to the health of the general population.
Things are random only insofar as we don’t understand them.
Woah now guys, I think you are taking me a bit too literally. I admit the post was harsh, and I apologize. I respect people who do honest labor. They are extremely important! I was in no way making fun of them.
I just saw an incongruency between the sign and reality. I never said that the work that they did was unimportant, I was trying to say that it can’t be that pleasant. I was sympathizing with the people who had to work there and also have to put up with somebody else telling them it’s the best place in the world to work.
Can you imagine leaving, dead tired after closing at 3 in the morning, and having to look at that sign?
In any case, I hope I didn’t offend anyone who does honest labor. That was not my intent. Actually, I just found it kind of funny.
I worked in a supermarket once. On the first morning the manager took me in her office and told me in no uncertain terms the penalties for thieving or slacking on the job. Welcome to the company ! I lasted four weeks, and was searched on each and every day on the way out of the building.
