The tone of that article wasn't especially complain-y. Mostly it was harder work than the author thought it was, but she did it anyway until she got a full time job. Anyone that will drop off thirty resumes and swallow their pride to work at a Starbucks rather than go hitting up mom and dad has got my respect.

Also, service industry jobs are hard. I can remember my stints in retail, and they weren't fun. And that didn't involve food/drink preparation. I respect anyone that has the willingness to go and do what it takes to get by, whether that's putting on a suit or a McDonald's uniform. I wish our society would provide that same respect.

Well yeah, working food service or retail doesn't allow you sit around posting on Fark all day, does it subby?

In all seriousness though I've been a dishwasher, and it was tiring work. The upside was that it was all physical, so my brain was free and we could talk as much as we wanted, plus the work stopped immediately after the shift was over. But yeah, it would tire you out.

Desk gigs on the other hand, you sit on your ass all day, and often there's time to surf on the internet. On the other hand, they can be mentally tiring, it's endless large projects with deadlines, and it can spill over into the rest of life too even when there isn't any official overtime or working late, because you're trying to brainstorm some solution. In some ways that's more tiring. Yet, the pay is definitely better.

Cagey B: I respect anyone that has the willingness to go and do what it takes to get by, whether that's putting on a suit or a McDonald's uniform. I wish our society would provide that same respect.

This. Bills need to be paid and sometimes you have to work thankless, mindless, low paying jobs to make ends meet.

/worked a summer at taco bell when decent job opportunity fell through
//will never, ever eat there

But I had to get a part-time job in order to pay next month's rent. So one afternoon, I printed off a stack of resumes,and hand-delivered them to nearly 30 Starbucks in Lower Manhattan and one in Brooklyn.

Maybe part of the problem here is this guys obsessed with Starbucks and assumed that it was some sort of magical fantasy world where everybody is hip, happy, and caffeinated?

Alright biatch.

You can take my current lack of unemployment, I'll take your job. Sounds fair?

Grables'Daughter: DarthBrooks: Ladies: the moral of the story is - - WORK THE POLE.

The pole is MONEY, baby.

[www.bodybuilding.com image 640x509]

/plus no having to mop out the potty on break.

Are you saying that is not work?

Oh, it's work. Very sexy, hard work.

ill trade places with her come work on a dam alph alpha farm you hozer

60 bucks a week but on bright side so long as nothin breaks i got a machine that does most of the heavy lifting that is if it doesn't break again.

thats my odd job i do pluss to my normal job as a friken tsa person i hate that job MOST OF ALL coworkers= world dumest security and worlds biggest idoits they dont even know how to load a friken gun and operate the safety on it or how to respond to a person who has been traped on a fraking plane for nine hours.

coco ebert: I try not to judge how other people experience the work they do. Hard work, easy work, it's all subjective.

Why do you hate Americans?

Anyone who has worked in food service knows this. When it's go-time the pace is nuts. When it's not, you end up cleaning the coffee maker.

DarthBrooks: /plus no having to mop out the potty on break.

I had a stripper tell me management made them clean fingerprints off the mirrors after their shifts. And there were a lot of mirrors.

It was a karaoke strip club. I'm not making that up. Outside of Pittsburgh. Not a classy joint.

This is the post where I snicker and remind myself why I went to college to get an education in a marketable skill that pays well and lets me work inside and goof off on the computer while still producing a highly valued product/service to an ever growing client.

...where's my coffee?

Actually, it's a pretty informative article with little to no whining but this is Fark so bring on the hate.

i farking hate work. i just drink all day and post on fark. its about all i can handle. i thought the rest of were all the same.

So one afternoon, I printed off a stack of resumes,and hand-delivered them to nearly 30 Starbucks in Lower Manhattan and one in Brooklyn.

Wow...she really, REALLY must have wanted to work at a Starbucks...

Eh, a poor work ethic is better than no work ethic.

Because People in power are Stupid: I particularly hate the part where she complains about having to clean the bathroom. I mean what does she think -that the bathroom will clean itself.

No, that job is for poor people. Not her.

Sounds like she learned a valuable lesson and got shat-on for her hard work, and then wrote about it. Subby sounds like someone looking to downplay anyone he can to assure himself in his superiority.

Working on the floor in Borders sapped me of my will to live. People are awful and I really don't blame the author for writing this article.

/That McDonald's "I'm an asshole to everyone before I have coffee" guy should be found and shot on-sight
//That commercial is also annoyingly close to reality

I am the barista trainer at my starbucks. I work at a fairly busy Sbux in San Antonio Texas. Right along an interstate highway, we are one of the busiest in the city. Is it hard work? Yes. Do you have to hustle? Yes. Is it impossible, obviously not.

Before this job I worked for my father who is a flooring contractor, owning his own business. The hours were terrible, 10 hour days were normal. This is south texas so laborers are a dime a dozen. 100 degree heat is the norm if you are working outside, and there were many times that we were. Starbucks is just as hard if not harder

Its not the "air conditioned, cushion" job that you think it is. You are running around constantly, doing 5 things at once all day. If you are working 5am to 10am, you are dealing with about 300 plus people easily, and if its friday, you can deal with much, much more than that.

I train people all the time because there is a very high turnover rate. Its not impossible work, its actually simple, its just the pressure. There are always 3 people screaming at you at any time, and those are just your co-workers.

After working 2 years at starbucks my hands look far worse than they did working with my dad. Its not hard to be a barista, its hard to be a good barista.

/the only reason i dont work with my dad is because he is out of town 5 days out of the week.

bighasbeen: Pawn takes the King: blah blah blah...
Not hard, but it's farking tiring.

THIS. If you were coddled all of your life and never had to work a midnight shift or never had to do a couple doubles, you have no endurance. Face it, a job is work. Sometimes work takes some building up before you can do more work. Novel idea! It does not mean the precious snowflake is a loser... it just means the snowflake never got a chance to be a hardened icicle!

Americans work more hour per year than most developed countries. We should be better than this. Maybe if we closed colleges and built up some industrial work camps, we could get these shiats to stop aspiring for professional jobs that require a set amount of brainwork and get them back into the hard 80 of taking orders. Little punks.

Get like the Indonesian Martha Stewart sweater-maker or GTFO, MF! Your $80,000 student loans are not going to buy you happiness or anything! It's called indentured servitude - unless you are a financial instrument manager, you need to grow a pair and get working. Do I see calluses on your hands, you little wimp? Do I? No, I don't - so get working harder or go sit under an overpass, you scum.

That is, unless you know how to move some numbers from one column to another. Then you can be a 1337 bank employee and get these shiats to make your coffee for you! Hell, all that spreadsheet crunching is so important, your little blond trophy wife could not figure out how to make coffee herself - so fark yea, load up in line at that convenient barista on your way into lower Manhattan - and I will be farked if you cannot find some out of shape schlep that cannot get you a farking coffee, NOW - WHEN YOU WANT IT! shiat, some 6-digit loser is about to troll your train out of the outer borough and you gotta get to work - where is the manager?? There is a spreadsheet with numbers missing because YOU ARE NOT THERE! Oh noes!

Cagey B: The tone of that article wasn't especially complain-y. Mostly it was harder work than the author thought it was, but she did it anyway until she got a full time job. Anyone that will drop off thirty resumes and swallow their pride to work at a Starbucks rather than go hitting up mom and dad has got my respect.


So very much this.

Working crap jobs and whining about them is fine, the only people deserving of scorn are those who wont do the job, quit after 5 minutes or think they are too good for the job.

/ If the only job you can get is digging a ditch, then that IS all you are good for, get over yourself and grab a shovel.

Food service sucks.

You know what I got for my 15th birthday? A job at Dairy Queen, since the owner used to babysit my mom back in the 60s. It wasn't even my first legal job, since I'd been a detassler since I was 13 (which was a job that involved getting on a bus at 4:30 AM to walk through sopping wet rows of corn and lose shoes in the thick mud. The Dairy Queen job was infinitely worse.

Even though it was awful, the real value of those jobs isn't the money, it's the knowledge that if you screw around with your education, you'll wind up stuck in that kind of situation forever. No matter how boring school is, it will always lose to the fear of being the 50-year-old guy manning the fry station.

saintstryfe: Sounds like she learned a valuable lesson and got shat-on for her hard work, and then wrote about it. Subby sounds like someone looking to downplay anyone he can to assure himself in his superiority.

To be fair, posting links on fark.com from your mother's basement is hard work, man. At least the author has a marketable skill (hint: it's writing).

It's a Starbucks in the middle of Manhattan. In less crowded places, most food service jobs consist of a couple of rushes at lunch and dinner, interspersed with some tedium where you get the cleaning and prep chores done, which was probably what the author had in mind when she applied.