Really? This is living up to your potential? This is a career? This is your opportunity? This is wrong. This is selling yourself short. Maybe not for everyone, but if you've got a suit like the one in the picture, maybe you should aim higher. I'm a little conflicted regarding good employees in fast food jobs. There are those diamonds in the rough that make it worth driving past the close Taco Bell so you get to the one that does it right. There's the breakfast guy at Del Taco that knows my order if he sees my car pull up. These are the people who routinely perform above the bar that has been set by countless others with no ambition. These are the people who you really hope get better jobs, at better restaurants, in better industries, etc. These are the ones you shouldn't take for granted. You can usually tell who they are before they leave. Sometimes they are the kids obviously putting themselves through school, and you are almost happy for them when one day your burrito kind of sucks. Others remain, and you wonder why, and the good person in you wouldn't mind if your burrito sucked tomorrow. Perhaps they are managers, and doing better then I imagine, but I'm pretty sure that McDonald's is more of a job than a career.
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I remember when I was working at Beaver at met a lady in her 50's that coming in for PT. When I asked her where she worked she said Del Taco. She said "it has been 16 years." I said "wow you must be running that joint by now. Her response..."I haven't made manager yet." That is what I think "careers" at these places end up like. The guy in that picture probably worked there in high school and maybe even when he went to college where he majored in something that allowed him to get a job at Mc-Corporate. I love blogging.
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