Okay, my job has gotten to a new level of sucking and pathetic today.
I already knew that working at McDonalds for five and half years didn't exactly make a dedicated career woman, but exactly how pathetic this job is has been becoming more and more clear to me this summer.
For example, last night a few of my co-workers had sent the poor little 16 year old "new guy" into the stock room to look for FILET STEAM. Now, I am not going to comment on the intelligence or common sense of a person who actually believes steam can be packed and stocked in a box in the back of a restaurant, but that poor child was back there for at least five minutes while the people who had tricked him were up front laughing. If it were me, I know I would probably fall for something just as idiotic because that's just me, and I felt for the kid.
But a few weeks ago I was sent to the back to teach a new kid (18 or 19 years old, mind you) how to WASH DISHES, because he had never washed a dish in his life.
I was completely at a loss for words.
My lesson plan was "Ummm, well, you put the dish in the sink, and then you rinse it off, and scrub it with the little scrubber and some soap. Then you, uh, put them in the dishwasher and close the dishwasher and take them out when it's done and set them here to dry."
It was some mind-blowingly simple and self-explanitory that was wondering if I actually was supposed to teach him or if this was his idea of a joke.
These are the kind of people that work at McDonalds.
And I have worked there for over 5 years.
What does this say about me?
And not only do I still work there, but I still make minimum wage. And for the past 3 years or so, I have been doing the same job every shift.
And eating the same disgusting McDonalds food every shift, which brings me to my next subject.
I was a fairly thin child, but somewhere between middle school and now (I'm guessing it started around the time I got the job at McDonalds- fancy that) I've put on quite a bit of extra weight. I'm not fat, but I weigh noticeably more than I should and, judging by the various websites I've checked, I'm about 30-40 pounds more than I should be at my height.
It's not a huge deal to me what I weigh, but for the past few years it's been bothering me that it's so difficult to find clothes that fit me and my self-confidence has been drooping.
I've been trying to lose some weight this summer, and I'm down about 5-10 pounds from where I was sometime last school year, but I've not been doing as well as I'd hoped.
Then I came across Hayley G. Hoover's blog (http://hayleyghoover.blogspot.com/2010/08/losing-weight.html if you're interested) about how she had the same problem and had lost 25 pounds this summer by tracking her calories and exercise at livestrong.com and I decided, why not try it?
I began tracking the calories that I both eat and burn yesterday, and magically, I already feel more confident about myself, like somehow I know that this is going to be the way that I actually do this. Like maybe having numbers in front of me and knowing exactly how much is too much for me to be eating and exactly how much exercise I need in order to be in shape is going to do the trick, finally. I'm really excited to do this and I'll be keeping you guys updating on how I'm doing with it.
Song of the Day: Rainbow- Colbie Caillat
(I know I used her yesterday, but I fell in love with this song today and had to use it.)
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