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My first job at 16 was at a Friendlys. Learned a lot about the real world in my 3 months there lol. I was pretty sheltered in catholic school and had never been around real white trash minimum wage workers, whoa were my eyes opened. I was amazed the manager who was probably around 40 was dating a waitress who was definitely not 20, probably not 19, likely not 18, maybe not 17, etc.

Everyone was drinking or on drugs or both, was pretty much a loser stoners dream job. Another fun friendlys adventure was just sucking on the nitrous from the whipped cream cans, that's fun when you have unlimited free whip cream cans lol.

What sucked was washing dishes that was so gross and especially Sunday morning breakfast was a disaster to clean after. Slightly better but still crappy was ice cream counter. Just an fyi for everyone who enjoys ice cream, those tubs are fucking gross. they are there open for like 2-3 weeks + and your constantly shoving your arm into it to get scoops and you always touch the sides or edges etc, all the germs are frozen just waiting for your mouth to warm them up back to life inside of you.......no way no thanks lol...

I couldn't take it and needed to quit, but i was a pretty shy/nervous kid so I had an outgoing friend of mine call and say "hi this is AJ i quit , bye" lol and thats how I ended my friendlys ice cream shop career.
My fast food working experience was Dominos, I was a driver in the summers for like 3 years. It was the most unsanitized place you ever saw. The refrigerated cooler was in the back of the store and drivers would stash a case of beer back there and drink beers them between runs, the manager did not give a shit either. Some drivers were 4 down by 9pm on a Friday, I saw two guys shotgun two beers before a run and just laugh. The assistant manager was even worse, when he was working drivers would just routinely grab pepperonis, sausage and cheese with their bare hands (which were coated filthy handling cash) and put it on a paper plate and heat it in the microwave in the back and open up the door and smoke a cigarette. There were literally three lawn chairs out there. And the employee bathroom, was so filthy the lone female driver would go next door to the 7-11 to use the restroom. I mentioned this before, but the most egregious thing I ever saw was when the manager spilled an entire can of pizza sauce on the floor, calmly scooped it up and used it the rest of the night for pizzas. He was like I have food costs to manage.
After I 'quit' Friendly's I started working at Carrabbas that was a much better experience, it was still full of drugs and shit, but the level of human-trash was elevated, and the people really cared about the food and I honestly thought it was amazing after seeing Friendly's and expecting all restaurants to be run the same.

Carrabba's was really good and the people really cared. It restored my faith in humanity.

But they wouldn't give me enough time off for tennis practice and matches so I left Carrabba's after a little less than a year, good times though.

Later in college I worked at a local pizza place as a delivery driver, and the things you mention above make the pizza place i worked at sound like a 5 star Michelin, I have so many un-godly stories from that place but suffice to say everyone was drunk delivering pizzas that was just entry into the club, the owners were heavy alcoholics, real alcoholics, they had delirium tremors etc, etc.

when i have time i should return and recount some stories they are WILD, hard to believe honestly.