From 24728d4b0150265e3c0ea06448dfb10235171967 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DTB Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 16:43:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] start 2023-10-14 --- homepage/homepage | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+) diff --git a/homepage/homepage b/homepage/homepage index c7c4c57..a249133 100755 --- a/homepage/homepage +++ b/homepage/homepage @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ #!/bin/sh #llllmmmm11234567892123456789312345678941234567895123456789612345678971234567890 +# vim: syntax=:ts=8 set -ex <"$0" python3 -c ' import os, sys @@ -1928,6 +1929,145 @@ If I don't, escalate the issue to the host of this site (this can also be found +/blah/2023-10-14.html + +: no filter + +When I started at Burger King in 2020 I started at a location I would learn was +known for its bigotry, low food quality, and exceptionally shitty workforce. +Though most could be known for this, this Burger King in particular was quite +bad at all of those things and I would come to learn its employees gave zero +shits about even the barest of standards. I would see employees drop bottles of +sauce on the ground and pick them up without cleaning them or even changing +their gloves in the process, contaminating food with floor bacteria. Employees +dropping raw chicken using their gloves and no tongs and continuing to make +sandwiches with the same gloves used to touch raw chicken. Cross contamination +between all raw and cooked food and often between their phones, and the floor, +and the food. After the age of 17 I started eating at restaurants a lot less. + +I applied to Burger King as a joke while on call with my Information Technology +class in school in 2020. School during 2020 was, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, +virtual and hosted on-line in Zoom meetings, so on one monitor (a 70Hz NEC +MultiSync) I had Zoom running and on another (a slightly newer, higher- +resolution Acer monitor) I had the Carrols application process. I needed money. +A job - a legitimate job, which I had never had before, nor one where the end +wasn't defined at the start - seemed like an easy solution. I set my +availability to 1700-2000 after school days so I could get 15 hours a week in +three hour spurts, not much but enough to wet my whistle and get a taste for +the work if I wished to continue. + +They gave me a call that day maybe, or the day after. I sounded good on the +telephone so I was brought in for an interview. I arrived an hour early and sat +in a nearby parking lot playing Chocolate Doom on my netbook running Debian, I +think, and trying to page through Simulations and Simulacra though it took me a +month to get through the first paragraph because of how dense it is and the +confusing nature of the initial parenthetical statement. But the general +manager who interview me didn't know that, instead he saw a book with a +confusingly worded cover and a high school student who was also attending two +colleges (officially; taking classes at one and dually enrolled in the other) +and a technical school (for Information Technology) and who wanted to learn to +cook. After forty-five minutes of waiting I went into the building, told them I +had an interview, waited twenty minutes (five minutes past when the interview +was set), and interviewed for ten minutes where the manager clarified some +stuff on my application and hired me on the spot. I accepted. + +The job was meant to be a temporary job, at least when I accepted. It was close +to Staples where I could apply my IT certifications once I finished them and +then mosey my way onto better jobs while going to college. Then while I was +working there the Staples went out of business and I watched one of my +classmates a year ahead of me quit the computer store nearby because the +management was abusive. So I would have no computer-related job. + +My first day, Halloween 2020, a Saturday if I recall correctly, I was sat in +front of a computer after walking across town to the job (this was something +like a ninety minute walk because I was at the time very fat, very out of +shape, and very slow) and spent three hours first filling out my application +and then watching videos explaining the job. + +When prompted for my gender I filled out "Prefer not to say" on the computer, +knowing I was a woman but could not safely come out especially in that school +with those parents and knowing those people. I later watched the same manager +get prompted by the computer to answer the question I didn't. He chose Male. + +I memorized the cards hanging from the ceiling showing how to build the +sandwiches. The Whopper: mayo, lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, pickle. Wrong, +actually; mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickle, ketchup, onion. And later the meat +came before the mayo rather than before the pickle. But this explanation is +best for another time. Yesterday, my last day, a co-worker who was there my +first day that Halloween remembered me standing there trying to memorize the +cards. I was green and wet behind the ears and everything else that applies to +those who are new to what they are doing but think they will not only have fun +but quickly become very good at their job. I did neither. + +My first day on the job I was placed in a little-used area of the kitchen and +trained with a classmate from the year behind me on making the Whopper. Grab a +five-inch sesame bun, toast it, take out a paper and place it on the board. +Place the bun, spread mayo on the top bun, add a dusting of lettuce, two +tomatoes, get the patty, four pickles, three rings of ketchup, and three rings +of onion. My turn. The mayo hard a hard time staying on the spatula and I had +to dip the spatula many times to finish spreading it on the bun. The lettuce I +couldn't figure out, I always did too much or too little. Tomatoes, fine, but I +went and grabbed one and placed it, grabbed the other and placed it. Meat, +fine. Pickles, I always grabbed too many or too few, and it took me a moment to +place them. Ketchup I used my forearm to move the bottle rather than the wrist +as I should have. Onions I couldn't grab correctly and it took me a moment to +spread them. My initial time spent making one Whopper was three or four +minutes. + +I came in at probably 1500 or so and left at 1800. I can't say for sure but +that's what I would imagine because my first many shifts were three-hour stints +and this would be from a little after I got out of high school to when the +kitchen started to get busy. The person with which I trained left Burger King +maybe a couple months ago. + +After proving my ineptitude when it came to the kitchen, but being too socially +awkward to interact with customers, I was put on videos again. The videos +explained simple things about sanitation that even at first were clearly not +accurate to what was happening in the kitchen. I naively assumed this +difference came from my coworkers not knowing the contents of the videos and so +started to mention these differences in hopes we could make food properly and +safely. After a little while these corrections started to be less and less well +received. + +I don't remember much of Winter 2020 because I was busy with school, struggling +with my parents - about whom I write very little, because I try not to speak +ill of others - and trying to figure out how to get out of my current and +stifling situation. + +My coworkers frequently used slurs of ableist, homophobic, and transphobic +natures. Among them r-----, f-----, and tr---- were common utterances and I +pretended they didn't affect me despite falling into the categories +particularly insulted by all three profanities. It was the heyday of anti- +Capitalist Twitter and the same time period in which I started engaging with +higher level philosophical thingies like gender accelerationism, anarchism, +juche. The time period where I discovered nuances even in things where I didn't +expect them like the DPRK's place within the world. I knew what the "triggered +Liberal" acted like and I knew what the stereotypical tr---- looked like. My +gender identity was expressed only in private among friends with the exception +of losing a bet I knew I couldn't win and wearing a dress in class. However I +was too fat for it and ended up getting stuck in the dress. I've lost 55 pounds +in the years since. + +2023-10-13 + +[ 4:36 PM] trinity: this burger king is so funny. it's amazing it functions +[ 4:38 PM] trinity: + ricky: "i say what i want, i have no filter. i dont + care who i offend" + trin: "wow ricky you're so cool for having no self + control" + ricky: "okay, this shit is seriously starting to piss + me off." + **WALKS OUT OUT OF ANGER AT MY JOKE** +[ 4:38 PM] trinity: the assistant manager said holy shit did that really just + happen and this morning told the gm and the gm thought it + was funny as fuck +[ 4:39 PM] [...]: lmfaoo +[ 4:39 PM] [...]: ricky sounds like such a guy +[...] +[10:18 PM] sasha: he got offended + + /blah/2023-10-08.html An angel commits to sin...