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re: Gas stations who still use one girl employee overnight

Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:08 am to
Posted by Kreg Jennings
Parts Unknown
Member since Aug 2007
4029 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:08 am to
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my 16 year old wanted to apply for a job as a hostess at Olive Garden; I just laughed and told her no - less dangerous than a gas station; but full of alcoholics and drug addicts


Que?
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85495 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:11 am to
Olive Garden doesn’t seem like a dangerous place
Posted by Booyow
Member since Mar 2010
4193 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:19 am to
Yeah, those breadsticks are what all the druggies and drunks crave
Posted by PeterPeterP
Member since Jan 2013
781 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:19 am to
Just saw a Forensic Files episode on that where a girl was taken and raped and killed. The law states now there are to be two employees at all time. Not sure of the state that was in though.
Posted by tigahbruh
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2014
2864 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:21 am to
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Olive Garden: full of alcoholics and drug addicts

Full of people who have terrible taste in food? Yes. Alcoholics and drug addicts? Huh?
Please explain.
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
19449 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:26 am to
I’m assuming you are referring to BOH staff? Yeah they aren’t the highest quality individuals back there but teach her the difference between FOH and BOH. Two different breeds of human.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
66985 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:44 am to
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I've seen too much uncensored security footage.

Carry on...
Posted by weadjust
Member since Aug 2012
15814 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:59 am to
I worked in a convenience while in college. We had this thug looking customer that had a gold tooth with a star in the middle. He came in every night about the same time and was a cool guy.

When a new person was hired. We would tell them we got a tip from the cops about a guy with a gold star tooth robbing stores and to be on the look out. We would stand in the drink cooler and watch the new guy freak out when gold tooth came in the store
Posted by Gatorbait2008
Member since Aug 2015
29681 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:03 am to
I worked at a gas station while in college because I needed overnight work...for 2 months. Got robbed and said frick this shite. Wouldn't recommend that bullshite job on anyone.
Posted by stapuffmarshy
lower 9
Member since Apr 2010
17507 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:05 am to
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Allsups



Going into one of those is like a trip back in time to 1976
Posted by dawg23
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Jul 2011
5066 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:12 am to
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So the next time you see 5-6 nurses sitting at the nurses station where the monitors for the entire floor all are tied to, remember, no breaks. Those nurses may be sitting but they are monitoring, planning , etc.,
No. They are usually sitting there BS'ing and laughing loud enough to keep patients in nearby rooms from sleeping - while also ignoring the monitors that are alerting them to patients that need assistance.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
32380 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:27 am to
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Full of people who have terrible taste in food? Yes. Alcoholics and drug addicts? Huh?
Please explain.
most of y'all must have never worked in a restaurant

restaurant employees tend to be party types, they tend to drink a lot and do drugs

my 16 year old will not be allowed to work in that environment

if she wants to work in a family owned cafe, fine

but corporate restaurants are a really bad place for an impressionable 16 year old
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
45189 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:29 am to
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Who takes 10 minutes to smoke a cigarette?
Those that drift over behind the dumpster for a bit of meth during their break.
Posted by stapuffmarshy
lower 9
Member since Apr 2010
17507 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:29 am to
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restaurant employees tend to be party types, they tend to drink a lot and do drugs

my 16 year old will not be allowed to work in that environment



Do you but you must not have much faith in your parenting then. JMO.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
32380 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:31 am to
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Do you but you must not have much faith in your parenting then. JMO.



whatever, part of being a good parent is keeping your kids out of bad situations
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49696 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:32 am to
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What else is she gonna spend her 2 15 minute breaks on? It's Fed Employment Law, 30 minute break relieved of ALL duties, no exceptions. So interrupting her smoke break is a violation of her Legal Right to a break and causes problems for payroll.

This is what gets nurses and other health employees is that they are still on-call during "break" making it a non break that they are not compensated for if hourly pay. At the hourly rate of a lot of workers that 30 minutes short per day ends up being thousands over the course of a year, especially when it puts them into OT pay. ($40/hr nurse, now $30/day on OT, x 300 days = $9k...for y years)

It's one of the reasons nurses go on strike, no breaks, to even keep from crapping themselves they have to insure someone is covering for them just to wipe their own butt in case a patient needs butt wiped. ICU, ER, that kind of department means shift of total stress with zero real breaks every day, 24/7/365. So the next time you see 5-6 nurses sitting at the nurses station where the monitors for the entire floor all are tied to, remember, no breaks. Those nurses may be sitting but they are monitoring, planning , etc., no breaks where they get true relief from duties. Someone extra has to be there just so they can pee and/or poop. And they do it without proper compensation under the law.




Thanks Gordon.
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
51733 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:35 am to
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but corporate restaurants are a really bad place for an impressionable 16 year old

Unless she's homeschooled she's around way worse people at school.
Posted by Hat Tricks
Member since Oct 2003
28973 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:37 am to
Close em all down and open Buc-ees nationwide.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
32380 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:37 am to
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Unless she's homeschooled she's around way worse people at school.


probably so, our high school has been in the national news a few times recently (Spain Park in Hoover, AL)
Posted by Klingler7
Houston
Member since Nov 2009
12620 posts
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:38 am to
There is a 24 hour Murphy’s store in my neighborhood. Seems like most nights around 10:30-11:30 there are drug deals going down around the gas pumps. Loud music and kids. Even small kids with their mom’s are in the store at that time of night.

One of the guys that worked there told me how bad the shoplifting and illegal activity got. Eventually, he left Murphy’s and went into a restaurant business.

Closed a Curcle K in Gonzales on HWY 44. Place got robbed every couple of weeks.
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