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When you demand a pay rise. Preferably your own manager.

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Can confirm this doesn’t work with other people’s managers :(

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Sir, this isn’t your Wendy’s.

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You can’t tell me what to do, you’re not my real Wendy’s

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It never works with your own manager either.

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when the person behind the counter has absolutely no say in whatever policies they’re being required to enforce, the manager is just using them as a scapegoat

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I’ve begun using, “if you don’t have the authority to help me, please transfer me to someone who does.”

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Still quite accusatory imo. Better would be I understand we might not be able to resolve this together. Is there someone you could connect me with that could assist further?

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When your service is really good. It never hurts to let management know when they’ve hired someone who knows what they are doing.

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This so much…

Also let them, the customer service person know that they were Awesome

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As long as no rules were broken to do so. Don’t go bragging to the manager that an employee did something they weren’t supposed to just to help you.

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Oh my god YES. Don’t accidentally snitch on someone doing you a solid.

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Usually if somebody is going to get hurt. Otherwise I’ll let the business run itself the way it wants.

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When you want to apply for a job.

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Can you even do that anymore?

I’m mid-forties, and that was what you did circa 99, and I was taught how to do it.

But I can’t imagine a manager today wanting to deal with paper resume and walk-in application.

(Also, if I hand you my resume, it means I’m going to skip the job history fields on the application. I hope manager can read and critically think enough to notice the resume and get that concept. Otherwise, I don’t want to work for you.

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Yeah, we still do this in the restaurant industry.

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McDonalds is bottom of the barrel in terms of hiring. My co worker told me today he saw an application at mc dicks and the reason for leaving a certain job was “went to jail”. But ya know what? That won’t stop them from hiring you.

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Let me tell you a little secret from the HR world: Every employer you’ve interviewed for is assuming you’ve been in jail. That’s why they ask about gaps in your work history. They can’t legally ask about misdemeanors, but they can ask about why you were out of work for two months back in 2017. By default, they assume that any gaps in your work history are due to jail time, and it’s up to you to convince them that they’re wrong during the interview.

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