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Fattening jobs
Be careful about fast food.
When I was a teenager, I worked at one; a McD's franchise.
The policy was that I was *not* supposed to eat fries straight out of the heater (likely more for hygiene reasons than being stingy as hell).
However, they were pretty stingy. It wasn't free, but a 50% discount. Furthermore, that only applied to half an hour before and after the shift, or during official break times, not the few minutes here and there to have a smoke or use the restroom where you'd stay on the clock.
I've since seen some franchisees being even more stingy, only offering 30%.
The only free food I could get was any beverages or that because I regularly worked the closing shift (that location closed at 9PM), I regularly took the leftover pies. The only rule was for the manager on duty to record them as waste, since they obviously couldn't be sold the next day. There was also a policy to keep at least 2 pies of each type available, precooked, for immediate sale, so it was guaranteed there would be some.
You're definitely not getting fat off of that. At best it might help restore the calories burned during the shift.
Even crueler, I've heard that at all Tim Hortons locations, employees are banned from taking the waste home with them at closing time, and that's why I will never buy from one.
Free food and catered lunches are definitely a nice bonus, but let me be clear. The only thing you should be looking at is the pay and size of your paycheck, paid time off, and healthcare coverage. Even employee discounts are relatively worthless.
Wal-Mart offers a 10% discount to employees, which sounds nice at first, but consider this. Suppose you spend $500/mo. at Wal-Mart, which you probably don't, but suppose you do. The 10% discount reduces that to $450, for a $50 value. Suppose you work very part-time, once a week, 8 hours each time. That's an average of about 34 hours, 40 minutes a month, making the value of the benefit to be only $1.44 an hour. If you work more than that, and you probably will, the effective value is even less than that.
Maybe if you're a teenager or young adult, and you know of a local bakery business of some sort (not as many as you might think) that has a strong focus on freshness (*very* important), perhaps that would provide a lot of waste that they'd be happy to let you take home.
Or if you're lucky, certain pizza places, depending on how stingy they want to be.
But in the long run, this is not a benefit that should really be prioritized. The primary focus should always be the pay, followed by paid time off and healthcare coverage. Never, ever switch to another job that pays less because of free food. It's never going to be worth it.
When I was a teenager, I worked at one; a McD's franchise.
The policy was that I was *not* supposed to eat fries straight out of the heater (likely more for hygiene reasons than being stingy as hell).
However, they were pretty stingy. It wasn't free, but a 50% discount. Furthermore, that only applied to half an hour before and after the shift, or during official break times, not the few minutes here and there to have a smoke or use the restroom where you'd stay on the clock.
I've since seen some franchisees being even more stingy, only offering 30%.
The only free food I could get was any beverages or that because I regularly worked the closing shift (that location closed at 9PM), I regularly took the leftover pies. The only rule was for the manager on duty to record them as waste, since they obviously couldn't be sold the next day. There was also a policy to keep at least 2 pies of each type available, precooked, for immediate sale, so it was guaranteed there would be some.
You're definitely not getting fat off of that. At best it might help restore the calories burned during the shift.
Even crueler, I've heard that at all Tim Hortons locations, employees are banned from taking the waste home with them at closing time, and that's why I will never buy from one.
Free food and catered lunches are definitely a nice bonus, but let me be clear. The only thing you should be looking at is the pay and size of your paycheck, paid time off, and healthcare coverage. Even employee discounts are relatively worthless.
Wal-Mart offers a 10% discount to employees, which sounds nice at first, but consider this. Suppose you spend $500/mo. at Wal-Mart, which you probably don't, but suppose you do. The 10% discount reduces that to $450, for a $50 value. Suppose you work very part-time, once a week, 8 hours each time. That's an average of about 34 hours, 40 minutes a month, making the value of the benefit to be only $1.44 an hour. If you work more than that, and you probably will, the effective value is even less than that.
Maybe if you're a teenager or young adult, and you know of a local bakery business of some sort (not as many as you might think) that has a strong focus on freshness (*very* important), perhaps that would provide a lot of waste that they'd be happy to let you take home.
Or if you're lucky, certain pizza places, depending on how stingy they want to be.
But in the long run, this is not a benefit that should really be prioritized. The primary focus should always be the pay, followed by paid time off and healthcare coverage. Never, ever switch to another job that pays less because of free food. It's never going to be worth it.
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Fattening jobs
ILuvChubbyChix:
Even crueler, I've heard that at all Tim Hortons locations, employees are banned from taking the waste home with them at closing time, and that's why I will never buy from one.
But in the long run, this is not a benefit that should really be prioritized. The primary focus should always be the pay, followed by paid time off and healthcare coverage. Never, ever switch to another job that pays less because of free food. It's never going to be worth it.
Even crueler, I've heard that at all Tim Hortons locations, employees are banned from taking the waste home with them at closing time, and that's why I will never buy from one.
But in the long run, this is not a benefit that should really be prioritized. The primary focus should always be the pay, followed by paid time off and healthcare coverage. Never, ever switch to another job that pays less because of free food. It's never going to be worth it.
Unless they've changed policies recently, my local Tim Hortons franchises actually had a phenomenal meal policy - they deducted $2 from your total paycheck (so $1 per week) but you could eat/drink as much as you wanted before/on break/after your shift, and got 50% off when not working that day. It really accelerated my gain when i worked there as a teenager, I remember dipping the unbaked cookie dough from the freezer in the boston cream doughnut filling and oml it was heavenly... I have a friend who still works there so as far as I know this policy hasn't changed... but possible
That being said, I completely agree with and echo what was said about pay, Healthcare, time off, but mostly job enjoyment that was also said. As much as the free food was amazing, I spent all day on my feet running around the back and would be so sore and exhausted afterwards with no bennnefits and only minimum wage. With where I'm at now, I have a cushy desk job in a hybrid work arrangement with good pay and benefits that pay for my chiropractor bc wow big boobs do a number on your neck lol.
I would recommend a desk work job, potentially with a heavy client focused company (for free food) that has good pay, benefits, parking, and is near lots of cafes/restaraunts. Bonus points if it is hybrid bc then you have the option to be at home and pig out there sometimes 😉
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