Which even to this day still blown my mind. My dad used to tell me how lucky I was because he used to pump gas in the freezing cold for a Nickel. I still don’t know if there was any real truth to that it seems a little low. I remember getting hired to work at KFC, I had to go to orientation. The orientation was help in this little out building the was painted like a small KFC. I seem to remember people calling it the chicken coop but I could totally be making that up. I was hired to be a cook I was going to cook chicken. The orientation was a lot more geared toward people working in the front. I remember there being some sort of customer roll playing around upselling and I remember me being super uncomfortable and bad at it. I wasn’t going to be anywhere near the front counter or dealing with customers but I still had to do the drill. There was one situational question where I was supposed to ask the person playing the customer if they would like to order a drink and I my response was something like
Maybe you guys can tell me but I feel like the most stressful part of any job is the very first day. Everything is weird, and different and everyone knows what’s going on but you. It’s like walking into a class mid semester in the middle of a lecture.
I think it’s pretty stressful. Take out the time and place and just focus on yourself for a minute. Think about the social aspect of it. How do you look, how do others things you look, are you going to fit in, will you like the people, will the people like you. How do you dress? Are you wearing the right clothes? So many things run through you head before you even walk in the door. This kind of stress and anxiety can make you literally not even want to show up. It’s almost like you would rather live in your parents basement than to have to go through that.
Working in fast food was no different but they did take some of the guesswork out of the equation. Before I started they issued me 2 shirts, a pair of pants, a hat, apron, KFC belt and a pair of non slip shoes. It was all blue and white and had the cornels face and logo embroidered on it. I remember the first time I put this costume on and I looked in the mirror and I felt the like the biggest doofus to ever walk the earth. I remember feeling like I wanted to cry until I walked in the door and then I had this realizat...
