Posted on 08/22/2017 8:59:43 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Here’s what I was told during my freshman orientation at Haverford College: Ask for help when you need it. Speak up when you feel uncomfortable. Place your own well-being above all other concerns.
In short, the school was ready to protect me from any personal slights or hurt feelings I might suffer. What counted as a personal slight or similar offense was up to me to define. This surprised me.
It surprised me because at McDonald’s, where I worked before I started school, acting in this way would have probably cost me my job, a job I needed in order to go to college.
The most important thing at McDonald’s was not how I felt but how my customers felt. It was my job and the job of everyone working there to make others – namely, the customers – happy.
I worked at the front counter. That meant that if there was a problem with an order, I had to deal with it.
The issues weren’t complicated. It was usually something like a missing piece of cheese from a McDouble, or whipped cream on a milkshake when they hadn’t wanted any. Whatever it was, I had to listen patiently and mentally take notes so that I could report the relevant details to someone who could actually correct the problem.
Oddly enough, customers were not interested in carefully crafting their complaints in such a way as to spare my feelings. They were in a rush to get back to work, or they were dealing with their screaming kids, or they had calculated the cost of their meal down to the cent out of necessity and could not afford a mistake.
And they had a right to have their meal served the way they ordered it. If a mistake was made...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecoachsteam.com ...
That is entirely possible. I try to remember to thank the folks working at fast food places. I sure wouldn’t ‘want’ to do it but if push came to shove...... Mrs rktman did it during high school and college. As well at TG&Y and K-mart.
A lot of colleges are turning out kids without such real-life experience. Such kids cannot function well in the world.
A lot of colleges are putting kids deeply into debt because it costs $60,000 a year to be molly-coddled for 4 years.
The Democrats are hoping to maximize this sort of misery because running on the platform of both “free college tuition” and “tax the rich and give everything to the unproductive people” seems like a winner with a certain demographic.
In college where they get all that cash to accommodate you, you are special. In a service enterprise, you are not special, the customer served is.
Pretty simple really.
And there are some very good reasons to go into six-figure debt for years, rather than work for low wages and work experience.
Some not very good reasons too. I am currently biting my tongue a lot while a relative brags about her granddaughter heading for college. A lovely, unspoiled girl going off to a leftist indoctrination camp...to study music.
One of the best managers I ever had was the guy I worked for at McDonald’s.
Even though I was there for only six months, I learned a ton from him.
Still use stuff he taught me 30+ years ago.
Good times.
Good times.
I’ve told my (eye-rolling) children for years that the McDonald’s maxim, “If there’s time to lean, there’s time to clean”, was more educational and helpful than a lot of stuff I learned in college (which is where I was while working at Mickey D’s).
Colonel, USAFR (ret)
I saw this a while back at Prageru.com...
Here is the link to the video...the girl narrates it herself with some graphics. Excellent video, as most of those at Prager University are.
https://www.prageru.com/courses/life-studies/i-learned-more-mcdonalds-college
Few SHWs have the smarts or talent to work at McDs.
But rest assured they will graduate from most univs with a 4.0 average.
Even while remaining illiterate.
I give credit to working at McDonald when it first started and learning a few things:
1) I worked almost every job and it gave me an overview of how a business was run, This helped later when I took a tour of a facility or business that I develped an overview of the business.
2) The manager or owner of the local McD stiffed me as a 16 year old out of $ 75 from my last paycheck and I didn’t know how to react.
You should have gone to Domino College!
#12 You would have been shot before graduating.....
Somali’s aren’t good prospects but they like MN
When I worked at Long John Silvers in the mid 80s, management training school was known as "Cod College."
Mark
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