I used to work at this establishment .... In the very small management office of the store I worked at, they had all these colourful flowcharts with big bold key words for work performance and output and all that put up, but on my first day of training, I wasn't informed of the company's objective or anything like that, but they started me right away on french fry duty ....
Er, well, let me tell you that it doesn't look as easy as it seems .... probably that's why new staff start on french fry duty first ..... You do not want to be messing around with vats of oil boiling at 300 degrees ...... and the halogen bulbs are really hot, you get a nice tan on your arms ...
... Of all the duties I had to do, lobby duty was the easiest to me, probably 'coz I like cleaning up, being the anal-retentive freak that I am ...... but let me tell you the amount of food waste that human beings can produce ..... It's astounding ..... all the filthy mess we make with the chilli sauce and ketchup, and they hardly touch it ..... and drinks that are hardly drunk and chicken bones thrown here and there ....
.. and the treatment you get from some customers ...... It is one of the most debasing jobs one could ever have, next to toilet cleaning ..... which explains the look on the cleaning ladies when you enter any public toilet in KL .....
I lasted at McD's for a month ...... It wasn't because of the work itself, or the shitty pay, it's because when one works for an institution like this, if you can call it an institution, one has to commit him/herself to shift work ...... and I was thinking, since I'm gonna be underpaid anyway, why don't I get my weekends off ...... at least I have something to look forward to ...
... er, no, nobody can change that system ...... If they need you, they need you, and if they're understaffed on weekends and they call you up, you better come up with some damn good excuse ........ Hence, I quit, but not without learning something about the whole experience ......
I learned that one can either work to live, or live to work ... (Like, duh) ... It's all about finding the right kind of job for you ...(Indeed)... I'm sure that there are a lot of people there who at one point in their working lives have got this feeling in their gut that they want to get out, this work doesn't feel right anymore for them .....and despite practical considerations to think about like bills to pay, mouths to feed etc. they still feel trapped .... and why is that so? Isn't the work they're doing the dream job they have been waiting all their lives to do? .... What has happened to the so-called dream? ...
What is the dream job? The one you get after working like hell getting a degree, and graduating, and going through all those strenuous interviews with interviewers from hell? .... You'd say, my dream job is the one that I enjoy doing, but let's be realistic here, there are a number of people out there whose certs/diplomas/degrees/whatever are not relevant at all to the work they're doing, and if you ask any of them, they'd probably say "Hey, one has to make a living, and who's gonna pay the bills?" ........
I can give a load of bullshit about my definition of the dream job ....... but I think I've just made my point ....... The dream job should define you - your goals, your motives, your principles in life ...... Then work would not just be a means to gain anything, but simply an end to itself .... (My God, this is, like, so insightful) .... I'm talking bullshit here again (yeah!)..... So I'm gonna stop ...... and think up some other bullshit for next month ..........
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