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Fast food/retail job stories

So, I've looked this up and the internet is FULL of horror stories from both fast-food and retail jobs. I'm sure I would get plenty of results if I looked up horror stories in any career, but since I'm going into entry-level jobs, that's what I'm looking into. Unfortunately the place I worked at, which was a pizza place, had financial issues and had to fire all new employees after only a week, so I am job searching again. It was a pretty stressful week (that was only five days including orientation day), so I will share the few stories I have to tell. They may not totally qualify as horror stories because they are pretty minor, but it's all I have to tell at the moment. I will edit this in the future as I get more stories to tell.


  1. I was working near, but not at, the drive thru and an assistant manager was training me on how to take orders and use the cash register. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I guess someone was losing their patience because they just drove off. Their tires screeched so loudly that I thought they were going to crash into something! I guess they had been waiting too long for us.
  2. This is more of a new-employee mistake than a horror story, but I'm concerned it had something to do with the new employees getting fired. I worked with an employee who had been working there for a few months and we were working on getting dough orders. We had to prepare pan, 12 inch, and 14 inch pizza dough and get them seasoned with garlic butter and prepare them to be cooked. Well, apparently you can't just leave them in the freezer overnight because the next day, one of the managers showed me that the dough had become soft and would not be safe to cook with. This mistake cost the pizza hit company so much money, probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars! My managers knew it was an accident, but I think it had something to do with all of their new hires, including me, losing their job a week after I started. (Like I said, they said they had to fire us for financial issues.) (I tried to tell the manager to forgive the person who'd been training me and she just said that girl wasn't going to be training me anymore. Since I've lost that job, I have no idea what has or will happen to her.)
Now I have a story to tell as a customer at a store, which I will not name. I was at a store with my dad and this loud, obnoxious woman was grocery shopping and probably didn't say a single sentence without mentioning that her husband was going to have a colonoscopy. I don't even remember everything she said, but my dad and I were at the soda isle and she was like, "I'm shopping for my husband. I have to be careful about what I get because my husband's getting a colonoscopy!"Then in the checkout lane, she kept saying "I couldn't get this because my husband's getting a colonoscopy!" "I had to get this instead of that because my husband's getting a colonoscopy!" When she finally left the store, I imagined the line breaking into applause because we no longer had to hear that. (I told my mom this story when we got home, and when I was typing this, she read this and said she remembered us telling her that.)

Anyway, I saw that sharing fast-food and retail horror stories was a thing on the internet, and it probably is for all jobs but these are the types of jobs I'm sticking to for now since it seems like most people I know had fast food for a first job. I have a job at a burger place and one at a sandwich shop now and it's pretty gross, but I'm sure all fast food places are so I will update this soon, I'm sure! So far, I haven't been asked to do anything except wash dishes, so I will ask my manager for different tasks to learn during my next shift. I would love to hear your stories in the comments! TTYL

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