Fired by an Email

[ChadTower]

Clearly you've never managed in fast food, especially fast food with a very short shelf life and has a very specific customer rush period.

If we had thrown all of that stuff away and waited long enough to clean that vat we would have missed the morning rush entirely without any inventory.  That would have decimated our sales for the day by about 85%.  In a tiny profit margin business like fast food that's enough to destroy two weeks' profit.

[boykster]

Clearly you've never managed in fast food, especially fast food with a very short shelf life and has a very specific customer rush period.

If we had thrown all of that stuff away and waited long enough to clean that vat we would have missed the morning rush entirely without any inventory.  That would have decimated our sales for the day by about 85%.  In a tiny profit margin business like fast food that's enough to destroy two weeks' profit.

Morning rush sales lost: $800.00
Raw materials to make more donuts: $35.00
Crispy rat disposal: free

Shop being closed for major health code violation? PRICELESS!!!!!!

[ChadTower]

Dude, a free big coffee and egg sandwich, wrapped in a couple twenties, and the health inspector would look the other way if I teabagged the morning donuts.

Besides, it's more like $50 for raw materials + (two people for 5 hours each at $7/hr) + (power to run fryolater for 5 hours).

[boykster]

too true...too true....

[Zakk]

Assinine assumption: PRICELESS.

Worked as a fast food manager for two years.  Would have fired your fat *ss, or had you up on health code violations if I could.  Never could stomach ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- teenagers that thought it was funny to poison customers because they didn't give a s*it, but hey if you're okay with how you made your money, good for you fat boy.

[NightGod]

Assinine assumption: PRICELESS.

Worked as a fast food manager for two years.  Would have fired your fat *ss, or had you up on health code violations if I could.  Never could stomach ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- teenagers that thought it was funny to poison customers because they didn't give a s*it, but hey if you're okay with how you made your money, good for you fat boy.

You obviously missed the bit where it was the owner who did it in the first place.

[JackTucky]

Clearly you've never managed in fast food, especially fast food with a very short shelf life and has a very specific customer rush period.

Why must someone have "managed" fast food to know that not cleaning out after a rat is thrown into the oil is wrong?

Where are your morals?  You should have called the health department. 

Jacktucky

[ChadTower]

Assinine assumption: PRICELESS.

Worked as a fast food manager for two years.  Would have fired your fat *ss, or had you up on health code violations if I could.  Never could stomach ---auto-censored--- teenagers that thought it was funny to poison customers because they didn't give a s*it, but hey if you're okay with how you made your money, good for you fat boy.

The other baker was the owner.  It was his decision, not mine.   You can find him and yell at him if you'd like.  I won't mind.

[Vigo]

We fished it out with the donut scoop and kept going because there was no way we were going to lose 90 minutes of prime baking time to flush the fryer and we had no place to store an unanticipated vat of oil that late in the month.

I've worked with fryrs on multiple occasions, and for a donught shop that frys thier doughnuts, you should have at least a half dozen fryers since it is your main form of cooking. You always have to expect fryers to not be usable...they go out...that should be accounted for. a rat going in should be considered the same as a fryer not working. Even at the most meager stocked places, there is at least one spare fryer at bay.

Also disposal of fryer oil shouldn't be a problem. A place that uses fryers needs an oil disposal unit. Much like a dumpster, only for oil. A place without ample room for disposing oil is at itself code violation and it would be hard to keep the franchise without meeting code for oil disposal. I doubt your dougnut shop could fill an entire dumpster of oil monthly, especially if they don't like changing oil as much as you say.

I also love how you took credit for the whole deal, until people starting calling you on it...spoken like a true "don't give a crap" minimum wage employee. 

[ChadTower]

We had two fryers.  As you said, one was out.  This was a small franchise making very little money if any at all.  We didn't even have room for half a dozen fryers as more than half of our product was BAKED.

Since we only ran with one or two fryers at a time we did not have a large oil disposal unit.  It did indeed get to nearly 100% full at the end of the month.  We didn't have a compunction against changing oil except when we were actually using it.

And note that I also said that the franchise was sold unexpectedly (for me) not long after that.  Dude wasn't making much money with it.

And hell yeah I was thinking like a min wage employee.  I was freakin 15 years old.  How many 15 year olds do you know who care much about the fast food franchise they work for?

[Stingray]

If we had thrown all of that stuff away and waited long enough to clean that vat we would have missed the morning rush entirely without any inventory.  That would have decimated our sales for the day by about 85%.

 We didn't even have room for half a dozen fryers as more than half of our product was BAKED.

Uhm...

-S

[ChadTower]

Different products produced at different times of day.  Morning was almost all fried stuff - donuts, primarily.  Later in the day would be baked goods - special orders and the like that we weren't working on that particular day anyway.

[JackTucky]

Nice job.

Jacktucky