All the little shit suddenly at the front of my mind. And my shadows get a good view of my job.

If you're worried about getting your kids to lock doors, just narrate a day for yourself once in a while and find a few age appropriate things you maybe over looked and fill them in.

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GreyMath@reddit

You’re a consummate professor, doc!

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violettheory@reddit

God, I have a ten month old and I'm constantly being reminded that one day I'll have to teach him stuff like that. Locking the door! I never would have thought about that. Presumably he would observe me doing it when we leave the house, and maybe one day ask to do it himself, but I'm not sure if I'd ever think "hey, he doesn't know how to do that yet, I should teach him"

OK but like even without being shown how to use a key, there’s only one thing it does once it’s inserted - turn. Either left or right.

5 seconds of fiddling would show you which way locks or unlocks it (whichever youre trying to do) and the other way must be the opposite one…

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thunderling@reddit

I'm trying to empathize with this person. My front door lock is very fussy. You have to pull hard on the knob so that the deadbolt lines up. If you don't, and you turn the key, the deadbolt will hit the doorframe and will feel like it's stuck.

If someone has never used a physical key before, and they know the concept of "turn key to lock door," I can see how a door that's slightly misaligned would throw them for a loop.

(Also I never thought knowing how to use a physical lock and key would be something that makes me feel old... Yet here we are.)

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1OO1OO1S0S@reddit

How old were you when you first unlocked something

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theJirb@reddit

I mean, you still unlock things with an electronic lock lol.

We all have our blind spots.

Maybe the sandwich maker is a second generation immigrant from a culture that doesn’t typically eat sandwiches and has finger foods like skewers or stuffed rice balls instead of sandwiches. Or maybe he has a health conscious parent who always cooks with whole food instead of making things like sandwiches.

Also, a lot of instructions, especially spoken ones, are really poor because there’s always assumed knowledge, and if that knowledge isn’t present, the instructions don’t work. It doesn’t mean the person receiving the instructions is stupid or off, maybe they just lack that knowledge or their brain functions in a way that written directions work better for them.

One example of instructions being bad I’ve noticed recently is video games. So, when the game Baldur’s Gate 3 released, my girlfriend watched me play it for a bit. She liked the story, the camp interactions, the characters, the outfits, etc, and decided she wanted to play it with me. That was fine because I could help her through it. When she started playing games on her own with me watching, video games will have tutorials that explain something like what to do during a QTE, without ever explaining what QTE stands for or what it means. Because the developers assume someone playing a video game knows what a QTE is, but that’s not always the case.

I manage a restaurant, and after I watched my 35 year old girlfriend learn to play video games, I literally rewrote my entire training program. Because I realized it was great for people who had already worked in the industry, but it was more difficult for a high schooler I hired as a greeter for their first job or even an actual adult who got tired of whatever field they were in and I hired for a serving job.

Most instructions are bad, especially verbal instructions from people intimately familiar with what they’re giving instructions for, because there’s a lot of knowledge they assume is common sense when it actually isn’t. It just feels that way to them because of cultural knowledge or personal experience or whatever.

Don’t feel bad about yourself. Know one knows everything

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Prudent-Travel7098@reddit

i just had to say, you seem like a really kind person! too often you see people in management positions who enjoy the power they have over others (however big or small that power may be). hearing you approach training in such an empathetic, “look at it from their point of view” kind of way brightened my day a little.

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Double-Bend-716@reddit

Hey, thank you!

The way I see it, it’s my employees job to make sure the guests enjoy their experience at the restaurant, and my job is to do what I can to help and facilitate them doing that while also doing what I can to make sure they also enjoy the restaurant as a work place.

It’s not entirely selfless, though. My job is a lot more enjoyable when I have well-trained and confident staff members and a staff turnover rate lower than notoriously high restaurant industry average

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Cumulus_Anarchistica@reddit

FYI, I'm cracking on a bit now and have played computer games most of my life. I had to google what QTE meant.

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Nah, this kind of person is CONFIDENTLY wrong and shows not even an iota of shame for it. And often getting basic things wrong that would have been skills acquired prior to any adulting becoming necessary. Like, they seem to struggle with basics - calling on a phone, turning something everyday on (TV, computer, etc), plugging or unplugging something. Hence the shower being “deadly”. How did this person take off clothes, get in, turn on water, etc…because they seemingly struggle with similar levels of tasks.

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captainfarthing@reddit

The person wasn't in your anecdote

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Meikou133@reddit

Well…it was a phrase coined from interacting with several folks over a period of time so…can’t be a story about one person with specifics…

My sibling was a trainer for tech support. But there were a few people who were well into their adulthood who had somehow got through the interview but then couldn’t manage basic like turning on their computer, following simple directions (ex: “open your learning app we have used for the last ten days and go to today’s date on the schedule we have pulled up everyday.” And they’d still say “what’s our learning app?” Despite it being several days into training.)

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captainfarthing@reddit

People have aptitude for different things, being hopeless at one doesn't mean they're stupid in general. I worked in tech support for 10 years, lots of smart people have a combative mental block against anything IT-related, and people often use weaponised incompetence to avoid having to deal with things they don't want to.

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Frowny575@reddit

Tech support nightmares.... I had my share of calls due to them unplugging something and not having the brainpower to go "huh, unplugged this and that stopped working..." I really do question how they're able to dress themselves without somehow suffocating.

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captainfarthing@reddit

Lmao yes I'm the same. I can learn just about anything as long as it's not under pressure with someone watching me. Learning to drive was a nightmare, soon as I passed the test and could drive on my own it was so easy.

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jc_chienne@reddit

I legitimately can't tell you how many teenagers I have taught to sweep a floor or do dishes. Like not only have they never held a broom before, but they apparently have never thought about the act of sweeping and it's purpose because they would just stand in one spot swishing the broom back and forth like a cartoon.

Or when I would say, "load the dishes onto the rack and into the dishwasher" they would say "how? I've never done dishes before" and I'm like "wait, your parents have literally never asked you to load the dishwasher or wash anything by hand? Ever? You've never washed a single dish in your life? And you're 18?!"

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"how did you get dressed this morning without suffocating?"

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BattleHall@reddit

The ol’ “he’d drown looking up in a rainstorm”

"born out of an egg 5 minutes ago" people. I normally experience them in customers. I had a youngish couple when I was a waiter who didn't understand that I wasn't making their food personally. As in they saw me type their order into the till next to their table and their drinks arrived and they flagged me down to ask me how they got them when I didn't make them. I had to explain the entire concept of a till system sending orders to the kitchen/bar.

Either they were unprovoked method-acting trolls or the stupidest people I've ever met.

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manfredpanzerknacker@reddit

They didn’t shower - that’s how.

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Kellbows@reddit

I mean... it CAN be funny, but as a person who always somehow-or-another ends up training wherever I land, I've got to remind everyone of the age old adage there are no stupid questions. I choose to think it's because the pursuit of knowledge should be considered noble, and we all do not have the same upbringing. I am guilty of being a person who finds it difficult to ask for help, and anxiety can be a real bitch!

I once was a mail person. We had a new sub who had a problem with collecting "outgoing mail." If the flag on the mailbox is up, we take the mail and deliver it to the station. Sounds simple enough. (It is also important to note this occurred during COVID, and this new recruit didn't get to go to academy.) My manager kept getting complaints and simply couldn't understand. I eventually just talked to the new recruit and explained that flag was an indicator. If it's up, they have something for you. Even if you don't have mail, you need to stop there and get something from inside. He never had a problem going forward.

My manager and others thought this poor young man was doomed, but he eventually got the hang of things quite well. I explained to the manager this young man could've grown up in an apartment complex. Even if he lived in a house, maybe he never mailed a letter. It was 2020! Perhaps his parents just mailed the letter to Santa themselves or they lived in a bad neighborhood where it wasn't deemed safe to leave anything in the mailbox. Who knows? The point is, there are no stupid questions; it's on us as a whole to accept people's willingness and meet them with grace and love.

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Sherry_Brandt@reddit

i'm always terrified that i give this impression. i am also kind and a quick learner, but neglect is a crazy thing - you just discover all the time the right things weren't baked in.

Being a manager working retail or food service is such a huge eye opener that some people just don't have basic skills. It's a wonder they got hired in the first place and you just have teach them everything like they're a lizard person trying to hide in society.

I worked at blockbuster as a manager for a few years and I felt like I had to hand hold one girl all day long for basic stuff but I will never forget the moment she opened the cleaning cabinet and saw a bottle of goo gone and just went "oh thank God I need this" and she squut a shit load into her hands then rubbed it through her hair like it was shampoo then just went back to work.

I don't know where you are Simone, but I hope you figured out what Goo Gone is for by now. It's been 16 years, I hope you figured it out.

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NovelTAcct@reddit

I am so intrigued by this

What did it do. What did she THINK it would do. Many questions

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MrFluffyThing@reddit

She was an enigma. She actively avoided watching movies despite wanting to work at a video rental store and asked to keep the leftovers from our printed barcode sheets (that were blank with our logo) to stick to everything she owned. She always recommended movies based on the colors on the cover art and swore that our concentrated window cleaning solution packets were the best for washing dishes.

lol remind me of this moment I'll never forget over a decade ago while I was a banquet captain at a wedding hall in college. This girl from my highschool who I didn't really know well also worked there. Well, it was the near the end of the night and we wrapped up our closing responsibilities. There were about 8 of us hanging out in the galley just chatting as we were waiting for the last bridal party people to leave.

Then comes Maddy turning the corner literally dabbing the floor in an up-and-down vertical motion with the mop. No cleaning bucket in sight. Just a dry floor mop that she is dabbing like a paint brush on a canvas for a splotch effect (no she is not an artist either).

We all just started laughing and asking her wtf she is doing. She said she was sweeping and mopping like the assignment chart said... We all started laughing more and asked more questions.

1) she never swept. Didn't think it was necessary since the mop will do it

2) genuinely told us she has never swept or mopped anything in her life, and thought she was doing it fine

3) she started crying because its not her fault she doesn't know how to sweep or mop

I worked at a food place in college and one day they put me on the salad thing. I never had money for all those fancy nuts and whatever else, i dont even know what half that stuff. was called

lucky-squeaky-ducky@reddit

Back in the late 90’s I had a science/math teacher who went off the books and tried to teach our math class how to “budget for a space station” and he got reprimanded for not going by the books.

I loved that teacher for trying with us, and I hated that school.

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Mewchu94@reddit

As someone who can’t cook for shit your choice of “I had to file my taxes by hand and balance a checkbook”. Is funny and comforting I suppose.

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mijico@reddit

We all say stuff like that, but the issue is most kids don’t care. Not blaming them, obviously, but making them sit in another class on their phones isn’t going to impart life skills onto them.

Like, I graduated high school in 2012 so it’s been a minute but not that long. I took a home economics class because it counted toward whatever credit it was I needed to graduate and was missing. I didn’t care, I didn’t pay attention, and I didn’t learn a goddamn thing.

We can make all the classes we want - until we find a way to get kids to give a shit, it’s not going to make a difference.

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Ranchette_Geezer@reddit

I graduated from high school in the middle 1960s, and, since I was a guy, had never taken a home ec course. The district FINALLY realized that not every young man was going to get married the week after they graduated, and my younger brothers all took a course they called "Bachelor Science" which taught the basics of cooking, including planning balanced meals.

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LongestSpermFastAF@reddit

Honest question, how old are you and how did you start using reddit?

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Ranchette_Geezer@reddit

I'm in my late 70's. I'm being vague for privacy.

I started using Reddit because I noticed a ton of the interesting clickbait articles on Facebook - BuzzFeed and so on - cited it as a source. I found notalwaysright.com the same way.

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mrbasedballed@reddit

That would be great but I think the real crime is parents not parenting.

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District98@reddit

I took this class and we filled out tax forms and baked chocolate chip cookies. Sandwich making wasn’t covered. There are a lot of life skills to learn in a year.

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YouToot@reddit

I worked at subway 20 years ago and I can make great sandwiches and that's it.

I can't even reliably crack an egg even through I eat them all the time. I just accept a certain percentage of shell in there as if nothing can be done about it.

He may just be living off the one sandwich he learned how to make. If he's as useless as I am.

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Sherry_Brandt@reddit

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QuickNature@reddit

His parents set him up for failure though lol man had ZERO life skills.

This was me, amd it set me back a good ten years. I was fortunately smart enough to figure things out and lucky enough to have good people around me. Im only now where I should have been 10 years ago though

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CompetitiveRub9780@reddit

Sounds like my bf. I swear he pretends he doesn’t know how to make simple sandwiches. If I ever asked him to make me one and himself… deer in headlights. Says I make them better. I mean yeh. But common now 😭 just make sure every bite looks the same.

I’d like to report he does know how to even make grilled cheese now and I’m very proud 🤣

I think some people just always had someone at home to cook or make simple things for them. That’s my only logical explanation i don’t know

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TheVoidWithout@reddit

That's why I forced my son to learn how to cook simple meals for himself, at least he's not gonna be helpless one day...he's no chef, but he can make eggs, pancakes, some boxed bakes and definitely sandwiches. His first job is definitely gonna be in food service so he can learn more important skills...

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Lucrio87@reddit

r/talesfromkevin is a good sub for this kind of thing

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Yea, I had this realization in college. It was hard to comprehend people not knowing how to cook rice, even when they read the damn instructions, and then don't follow them, and then complain it's crunchy. Also, apparently cutting broccoli is hard?

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vampyreprincess@reddit

At my job in college, I had to teach other college kids (most of them older than me) how to: - use a mop

turn on a vacuum

-use a vacuum

-what a dustpan and dustbrush were and for

why you can't fucking makeout with your SO while working

-not to fucking touch the metal thing that what actively filled with boiling oil

Somehow, these were not the most mind-numbing things I've had to teach people. This was at a college that required a minimum highschool GPA of 3.5 for acceptance, and you were required to maintain at least that average each semester to remain enrolled without academic probation.

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eugeneugene@reddit

I've had to teach so many people over the years how to sweep and mop. I have a 5 year old kid who sweeps his own room twice a week and helps with the mopping lol. People are just not taught how to do these things growing up then they're just released into the world 😭

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Royal_Negotiation_91@reddit

I worked at a restaurant that served brick oven pizza when I was in high school, my job was making the pizza. I trained this woman who was probably in her 30s for the same position. We served small and large pizzas and the dough was portioned out ahead of time so all you had to do when an order came in was get the right size dough ball out of the fridge, roll it out, put sauce/cheese/toppings on, and bake it.

This adult woman looked at 17-year old me and asked "how do you know which dough is for the small pizzas?". I think I stared at her for a second and said "... The smaller ones". The smalls were about half the size of the large dough pieces. I usually say people should always ask any questions they have, even if they think the question is dumb, but that was one of the dumber questions I've ever heard.

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Apophthegmata@reddit

I went to a chain pizzaria type place, I forget the name but all it did was a variety of different personal-sized pizzas.

We are there before the dinner rush and there's just two teenagers working. One of them was very obviously being much more productive than the other. I think he was prepping online orders.

They had a big menu on the wall with different interesting pizzas, and one of them caught my eye because I didn't run into that particular mixture very often. So I ordered it.

I'll add that it's also run like a subway, so the ingredients are in front of you and you can point and pick what you want if you want it custom.

Not only did he not know how to assemble the pizzas on the menu, I swear this poor kid had never heard of a pizza before. Had no clue even what order to put things on it. It would have been easier and far less awkward for me to go behind the counter and make it myself.

But it was also one of those small places off the suburbs where the owner is basically just trying to make a tidy profit by utilizing teenage labor. So I chalked it up to management not training it's people or giving them cheat sheets and moved on with my day.

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Maleficent-Ad9010@reddit

He’s my husband now.

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I’ve been in a lot of management positions involving training teenagers, including working at a career center. A lot of it is parents, a lot of it is just anxiety about fucking up. They’re so scared to try or ask for help and it’s like their brain just short circuits.

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d_nicky@reddit

Oh lord this was me at 17 at my first job 😅 But now I can do all kinds of things!

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Knees weak

Palms sweaty

Used up all the avocado already

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Unlikely_Ad7722@reddit

Sandwich not bready

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Emerald_bamboo@reddit

Reddits creativity is unparalleled

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Tasty_Lead_Paint@reddit

Manager: you put bread on the sandwich Jerry?

Jerry, visibly nervous: y-yes b-b-boss..

Manager: on the outside right?

Jerry, sweating: yes boss…I…I did.

Manager: on the top and bottom?

future_futurologist@reddit

The Tracy Jordan Meat Machine!

Yeah I love toast! I’m not judging but I don’t really love the taste of plain white bread by itself and I don’t know if the piece of toast would really bring enough flavor to really get it. Also I don’t think I’d love the feeling of eating raw ass bread and toasted bread together

Sell it for $25 as Death and Rebirth.

Colonel, cast your light upon us, for the fryer is dark and full of terror

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cltncrts@reddit

Haaaaaave you heard of the KFC double down?

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mishutu@reddit

Oh I’m cultured lol. But iirc I don’t think the double down had a piece of bread in the middle, right?

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cltncrts@reddit

You are correct, there was a purposeful lack of bread in the double down.

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Reminds me of the episode where SpongeBob forgets how to make a krabby patty.

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t3hgrl@reddit

I sent out a BLT without bacon once because I went bread✅ lettuce✅ tomato✅

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InternalLab6123@reddit

LOL are you using Jerry cause of Jerry

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Ha I thought of Detroiters where he’s like “OH CMON HOW DID YOU MAKE IT INTO A BALL.???!”

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Lanky_Stock4775@reddit

Spend 2 minutes watching food reels on Instagram and you'll see 2 minutes of burgers being made with the bun on backwards.

It's a feature, not a bug.

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ThePocketTaco2@reddit

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This guy from Star Wars

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WhyNotSecondLunch@reddit

“Yo man cover us, you got this”

“It’s my first day… What if someone orders a sandwich?”

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SirQuick8441@reddit

Feminists when you say they are wrong.

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shittyfoodporn-ModTeam@reddit

Insults towards posters and other commenters will be removed, and you may be banned.

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COCK-CHOPPER@reddit

I want to say, as someone who worked at whole foods, here's what happened to me.

I was pulled off dishwashing 4 hours into a shift and told I was making sandwiches from now on. They put me out there just like that. When I pointed out I'm pretty dirty from washing dishes, don't know what I'm doing, and I'm not comfortable doing that, they told me they could only switch my shift back to the job I was hired for with a doctor's note. The rest of my shifts were already changed.

I was shaking because I felt very disgusting and embarrassed trying to make food for people and was essentially getting a big smile and a fuck you from my bosses while they dangled a paycheck in my face and dared me to walk out. Eventually I did, but not before telling every customer I interacted with how dirty and untrained I am and how aware our managers were.

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MozartTheCat@reddit

u/COCK-CHOPPER on his way out the door:

OoOooOo what a dirty boy I am

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craptasticluke@reddit

That’s awful

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wristlockcutter@reddit

I used to work there and yes they will do that.

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delamerica93@reddit

I went to a whole foods recently and the lady working in the deli seemed so overwhelmed.

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wristlockcutter@reddit

They will fire three people, make you do all the work. Then you will learn every single thing in the department, interview for a team trainer position, just to not get the job. Have it sit open for months, they decide not to hire a team trainer and make you do it without the promotion or raise.

I finally left because I didn’t get my yearly 10 cent raise in 2016 because I “had too many points”, the points I had never ever even existed. Then when I went back to be like “… so can I get my raise?”, they said no because it was too late and my review is over.

Or he was a dishwasher ten minutes ago.

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adamjfish@reddit

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draz0000@reddit

/r/wheredidthesodago

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MysticalMummy@reddit

I have worked at whole foods for 14 years, and have been the sandwich maker.

Dirmbz@reddit

They shouldn't be moldy. It should be the fruiting body of mushrooms, dried when fresh, or used when fresh. If there is mold growing on your shrooms, they probably aren't safe to eat.

The first time i ever served someone in a bar they ordered a soda and a beer. I opened the beer upside down in the opener, so it immediately started pouring over my pants and onto floor, and that flustered me so when I was opening the soda I did it wrong and cut my hand and it started bleeding everywhere!

The only types of openings I know of for beer are either a bottle with a twist-off/pry-off cap, or a can with a pop-tab.

Picture, in your head, the act of. opening either of these upside down. Having to place your hand on the bottom side to open it. Something that would feel completely unnatural if you've ever opened bottles or cans before, especially a poptab, which I'm assuming this person had done plenty of times even before becoming a bartender.

You would have to be EXTREMELY flustered to a level I can't comprehend, having a stroke, or just straight up severely intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol for your brain not to realize something is quite wrong before you proceed to open it.

As a teenager, I had never made coffee before and had to start like 9 different pots that were all setup on the counter. They were mostly full of water and I didn't realize that was because you don't want to just let them sit empty on a hotplate. I popped a filter and ground coffee into each machine and headed back to the cash register. Few minutes later look over and see a waterfall of hot coffee overflowing everywhere.

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richard-564@reddit

Ah that makes sense, I've never used one of those before.

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PlayfulSurprise5237@reddit

People think the there is only flight and fright, but there is also freeze. And it does not always mean you physically just stand there, sometimes your brain just ceases functions.

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‘I hope he’s doing ok’ was disingenuous.

Standing there and laughing at someone is so fucking out of touch and inconsiderate. The dude was obviously struggling and he could tell he was a new hire trying really hard, and I don’t understand why anyone would choose to stand there and laugh at someone like that. This is one of the reasons people who work in service positions hated their jobs so much. On top of not being able to make a living wage, they often don’t get the support they need to be trained and empowered, and then customers come in making faces, hovering, judging and laughing at them. If you had any compassion you’d be able to recognize that that would be inappropriate. There are so many other ways you could choose to behave in this situation if you had any character or empathy.

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figaronine@reddit

he was a new hire trying really hard

Was he though? All he had to do was put a slice of pizza on a plate and cover it with foil and he couldn't do it.

they often don’t get the support they need to be trained and empowered

"Empowered"? Girl what the fuck are you talking about? If you need advanced training and "empowerment" to be a Certified Pizza Shuffler then maybe you're too stupid for any workplace. Why are you simping so hard for mediocre men?

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Proper-Internet-3240@reddit

Have you ever met a developmentally disabled person or person with anxiety disorder or a person who’s never had a job and maybe isn’t as familiar with sandwiches? Yeah, those people have to work too. Have some fucking empathy for once in your life.

Empowerment means you know what TF you’re doing enough to feel confident on the sales floor alone. Not everyone starts from the same place, not everyone is wired the same, and not everyone comes from the same background of life experience. I have people in my life who struggle with this shit and they are not stupid or unworthy of common decency and a feeling of dignity in the work they do. Some people struggle significantly with things we find simple and that is no reason to call them stupid. Have some fucking morals for once in your life.

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figaronine@reddit

person with anxiety disorder

Yeah, me, and I'm not so utterly useless that it takes me 5 minutes to put pizza on a plate, no matter how stressed I am.

Have some fucking empathy for once in your life. Have some fucking morals for once in your life.

Employee thought OP would be like

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That was NOT bros job

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brutal4455@reddit

Everyone knows you need a woman to make a good sammich.

starlightsynthesizer@reddit

*UPcharges

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Reasonable-Top-7994@reddit

Lol he was sweating because he only had a slice and a half left for you

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MCfru1tbasket@reddit

There's no room in any hospitality place for someone new to shadow even just for a day. I know making a sandwich should be easy, but making something to spec no matter how simple is a task if no one is there to back you up.

Give it another 10-20 years and we'll see the downfall (hooray) of most corporate hospitality.

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ShittyPostWatchdog@reddit

This sandwhich isnt fucked up because the maker had no idea what to put on it, it’s busted because they’re probably new and have no idea what to do when they miscut or have a bad piece of bread and are too scared to just throw it away and get another.

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And then they wonder why new hires will quit within a few days or weeks. Maybe even the same day

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MCfru1tbasket@reddit

Yeah, precisely, it's crazy. If you dont back up online 'training' with on-site knowledge then you'll get a merry-go-round.

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ShermanCookout@reddit

Sure but I don’t think this is that. I worked at a large grocery store deli and I think exactly two people ordered a sandwich over the course many many years.

I too was a little nervous. Not because I didn’t know how to make a sandwich, or because I was new with no training… but because no one ever did that so it threw me off.

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Butterwhat@reddit

yeah and some people cant just look at something and know how to make it, even if it does seem very simple. I remember the first time I tried to cut cooked chicken with a dull knife and at the wrong angle so it just ripped it as a kid. my mom was so annoyed when the chicken salad looked hilariously shitty.

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Educational_Can_2185@reddit

just solve by more training.

That's what the person you're replying to is talking about, most companies in every sector have cut back training as an unnecessary expense over the last decade. It's obvious in service/hospitality because customers are immediately affected by the decline in quality, but you see it everywhere from record keeping departments to federal law enforcement agencies.

The epstein class collectively decided "eh they'll figure it out" and now there's just nowhere you can go to actually be trained in a lot of the stuff you're expected to know. But at least they saved enough money to look busy to the board for another quarter.

Combine that with the complete dissolution of our regulatory bodies, and yeah America's exceptionally large service industry looks pretty unsustainable

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Mean_Tennis_6474@reddit

If I hired a cook and he struggled with something like this I don’t think I could take him seriously ever again

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kate0rama@reddit

Agree

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Meinteil2123@reddit

Idk if they have deli slicers but if they're new the slicers can be terrifying.

BaconSoul@reddit

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Someone upthread guessed:

Turkey, dill havarti, Granny Smith Apple, arugula, honey mustard

There is also sliced avocado visible :)

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Ill-Condition-5054@reddit

I ran a kitchen for many years.

I had to do all of this, by myself lol. Dishwasher, cook, clean, night manager. The main deli manager stopped talking to me, literally, and cut my hours shortly before I walked out because I was dealing with some family issues and had to miss a week of work (excused) it literally felt like I went into work every day, paid below minimum wage, just to get bullied and treated like garbage because I did things my own way (which ended up EXACTLY the same as any other way, but even cleaner and more smoothly accomplished)

Idk man, some people have God complexes that shouldn't be in high up positions. I guess that goes for everywhere these days? But the old Deli Trenches as I called them were absolutely the lowest point in my life and I will never go back. I don't even like going near the deli in stores because of how stressful it was

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eugeneugene@reddit

lol this is giving me flashbacks to my deli days. My boss was constantly making the dumbest fucking schedules. Saturday on a holiday weekend? I'd be on my own for 10 hours straight then he would come in during dinner rush and chew me out for how dirty everything was but I literally had to choose between cleaning or serving customers. so only essential things were getting cleaned like prep surfaces, cutters, etc. How dare I not stop serving a lineup of people out the door to take 15 minutes to sweep and mop. Then I'd work a Tuesday closing shift that's slow as fuck and he'd have three people scheduled and we would get yelled at for doing nothing so we were just constantly wiping down already clean surfaces just to look busy lol. He'd also take insane catering orders and pop in like "hey you gotta do this 60 sandwich order to be picked up in an hour" while I'm like deep in the weeds and get mad at me when I asked him why tf he told them we could even have that ready on an hours notice. Then the order would never be ready on time and I'd get yelled at again. Ahhh I don't miss it 😂

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CouldBeBetterForever@reddit

I worked at a grocery store in high school and everyone I worked with hated working in the deli. I think maybe some of the regular deli employees were okay with it, but anyone that had to fill in hated doing it.

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itsleeland@reddit

this is a good way to put it, that the tasks are easy but you have to juggle so many of them at once. often, your department manager or the big boss store managers will have you switch your focus on the fly. turns something "easy" into something hard.

I liked doing the bake when I worked in my grocery's bakery, but you were doing a lot all at once. my favorite shift was doing overnights because I had one task (usually pies or cookies) and could block out everything else.

I hope you're doing better 💙 it sounds like there were a lot of compounding factors creating those three years, and I'm sorry that your job had to be one of them.

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Phoenix88555@reddit

This sounds exhausting, im sorry you went though that. I hope that you're doing better now

And yeah, easy things can pile together pretty fast - the dose makes the poison. The way corporations treat employees expecting them to go above and beyond and literally not be human, but also underpaying them is disgusting and i really hope we see it come to an end some day

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dmisfit21@reddit

You should read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.

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Reasonable_Diet7955@reddit

I'm good now. I haven't worked in a deli for almost 5 years. But yeah, I was expected to do everything because my coworkers didn't, wouldn't, or weren't asked to because I was known to get the job done no matter what, and always on time lol. The amount of anxiety that is drilled into grocery store employees should be illegal

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Garry_Heckscream69@reddit

Worked in grocery story delis throughout my early 20s/college and I feel this lmao

Other departments stock shelves, clean, and help customers while the deli does all that while also basically operating 2 fast food restaurants (sandwiches/slicers and the hotbar), making party platters, and putting up with some of the most aggressive customers possible. Nothing like getting snapped at for "taking too long" to make a sandwich while the person ordering is basically dictating your every move so you can't go faster without them also blowing up over that lmao.

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richard-564@reddit

I agree. I have gotten a third job working at a restaurant to pay my mortgage, and haven't worked in food since I was 16 (I'm in my mid 40s) so I've been slow at first. I can cook fast at home, but it's bc I'm doing whatever the hell I want, not having to make something specific to the exact corporate and customers standards. Way harder than it looks.

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Francl27@reddit

I subbed for deli when I worked in a grocery store and holy crap. I couldn't even slice the stuff properly. Then we had to watch the rotisserie/fried chicken, find the stuff people want, find the codes for all the different meats/cheeses for the scale, and all the while people were lining up to place their order.

It's no joke.

And this was all before Amazon bought them out, so I'm sure their training has only gotten worse.

Its possible either super new, or someone who was supposed to work the deli didnt come in or was late, so someone else had to cover for them despite not being familiar with the deli section.

I worked in a Fry's (Kroger in Arizona) deli for about 4 years. I can probably count on one hand the number of times people would order the "made to order" sandwiches from us. Now the sandwich catering orders, that's a different story.

Here's an idea: don't go to Whole Foods because it's owned by Amazon!

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When I went off to college our cafeteria had a deli, and all the restaurants were staffed by students who worked directly for the school. It was first day of the semester and I went to the deli and this girl who was working the counter looked mortified. When it got to my turn I got her as my sandwich maker and she asked me like 4 times what I wanted on my sandwich. She had an accent so I assumed she was an international transfer, which tacked because we had a lot of transfers from Africa at this school.

I couldn’t see her make my sandwich because it was behind a little wall, but when I got to my table and unwrapped it, it was bread with the meat inside, and everything else on top, sauce included.

Silly me assumed sandwiches were a universal concept, and I can only assume whatever cafeteria staffer appointed her thought that too and never thought to ask if anyone didnt know how to make a sandwich before putting them on the sandwich line.

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TyrannasaurusRecht@reddit

Im ngl. If youre complaining about this sandwich we are not the same.

Patrick, that's a pickle.

"Yes."

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newportred100s@reddit

Im dead 🤣

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NoNeedToBeUnkind@reddit

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I used to go to an annual event at a local college campus. It was always the weekend before Thanksgiving, and would attract thousands of kids and their families.

Somehow, that weekend always ended up being when the Subway in the campus center was training a new employee.

So every year without fail, the poor new employee would be faced with a huge number of irritated people while they were trying to get trained.

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cjs81268@reddit

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Too many bongs for breakfast.

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Captfrank4@reddit

Whole Foods could make some of the best sandwiches you could ask for, but I have the same experience there all of the time.

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ChaoticLogic@reddit

I was in that workers position when I worked at the Whole Foods deli a few years ago. I was technically supposed to work the pizzeria but because the company purposefully understaffed, 2 people had to fill roughly 6 to 8 positions. Management was absent and didn’t train staff. There were laminated handbooks around and we were told to flip through them when we weren’t busy, but since we covering so many areas, we were always in the shit.

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XelaLuu@reddit

all these comments sharing their first time jobs made me remember when I used to work at a 99 cents store and some sweet old black lady asked me where the ketchup was and I told her I didn't know and that I was sorry and she started escalating to yelling and pointing out to everybody in the store that I do not know where the ketchup was even though I worked there, it was maybe my 3rd or 4th day working there too and with 0 training. I ended up taking a training video maybe 7 months in because apparently my managers forgot to train me.

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IsThisKismet@reddit

… … would.

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Sherry_Brandt@reddit

ok, yesterday, i was looking up the etymology of kismet, and normally i wouldn't tell someone this just because the word i looked up was in their username, but because of its meaning, i'm telling you.

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IsThisKismet@reddit

Sounds like kismet to me!

I was inspired by the really old Magic the Gathering card by the same name.

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Sherry_Brandt@reddit

nice. well, now we have the answer to your username.

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kingftheeyesores@reddit

Once in a while I get a salad from subway and find out a shocking amount of people don't know how to make a salad. Best part is they're obviously trained on rice bowls but not salad so they pile everything on one side of the bowl and leave the other side for rice and everytime someone has to come over and tell them to put more lettuce in because there's no rice.

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Past_Trick7256@reddit

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Before bezos bought them, the whole foods in Dallas had a sandwich bar second to none. Fresh breads, toppings, great meats, and reasonably priced. After 2017 it was gone.

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mattyboy555@reddit

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OP: “Can you make me sandwich?”

Sandwich guy:

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H00Z4HTP@reddit

What side of the sandwich am I looking at?

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StandardWizardHat@reddit

I would kill for a sandwich like that right now.

“I often panic while making sandwiches”

-Crow

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SpicyDirtTheGhost@reddit

When I worked at WF, we didnt have the sandwich station open for whatever reason and then a few months before I quit they wanted to start training us on it and my enthusiasm was in the negatives...tbf, WF was a shit place to work for me .... I still think probably better than larger grocery store chains but still. This is funny and disappointing

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E_Feezie@reddit

Bun down, then patty, then… lettuce? NO NO NO THATS NOT IT!

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Why is the top bread only covering half of the sandwich

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serotonin_xxIII@reddit

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tokyo_driftr@reddit

Do you enjoy torturing aliens that just landed?

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lothcent@reddit

sad thing is- I see examples daily of younger coworkers totally failing the same task.

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xtremesmok@reddit

Im trying to figure out what went wrong here. Maybe he first sliced the roll into top & bottom slices and then he sliced them in half again (left & right halves) and dropped one of the top halves. Maybe he just said fuck it and cut the remaining top slice in half and used that as the top slice for the whole thing instead of getting a new roll.

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