KFC Workers Confess Their SINS
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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I'm cold and frightened.
You should do a GW store workers horror stories one of these
I worked in a cafe as a trainee, because I was on disability centrelink and employers get two bonuses for doing that. I was in my union luckily, which was good because I had to raise a case to Fair Work.
I was paid $13 an hour, even though I was 21, I was treated like a casual, and when we got jobseeker she didn't start paying it to us til 6 months on, which put me in centrelink debt for fraud.
But also it was fucking infested with cockroaches. Everything was cooked in either an electric frypan, a griller, or a microwave. The hollandaise sauce was this gross yellow shit that was heated in a microwave. That's how scrambled eggs were made too.
My manager would scold me about her family for asking for the mandated 15 hours a week, I usually got 7.
It was Luckin Cafe in Brisbane and I feel very comfortable disclosing it cause they went under. Also when I worked there I was genuinely advised to get Tracey Grimshaw on the job by my friends.
My father worked in a bar a while back where at the end of each night they would gather all the unfinished drinks, whether it be beer, wine or spirits and add them to a keg to be sold on tap as "bitters". This was very common in the UK 60 years ago, but it still happens today! The ratio of beer is just enough to fool the unsuspecting patron.
The "white powder" potatoes are just freeze dried instant potatoes. Not the worst thing but certainly not fresh.
Haven't worked at KFC just been poor before and lived on cheap meat and instant potatoes when I was feeling luxurious when I was broke AF.
Worked at KFC for 13 years of my life and I have a few stories, but I think the best one was going into work one day to see ambo’s talking to a high as a kite guy, holding a melted plastic spoon in one hand, and a lighter in the other. The guy literally tried to heat up heroin with the plastic spoon.
Wtf 😂😂😂
I guess that's why kfc uses wooden spoons now
Wouldn't be suprised if it was ethier at the Gold Coast or some rural area
Have to admit the spoons were sturdy.
13 years... Jesus man. Surely you wanted more out of life?
I worked at KFC for about three years, lots of surreal events but the funniest was when a bus of special ed kids rocked up and we gave them extra food to be nice. After a bit of talking with them we had a firm friendship. So when this guy came in and started yelling at us about his meal (even throwing an empty can at us) the kids decide that they would come to our rescue and attacked the guy. It was one of the funniest things I had ever seen, a complete bogan being decked by a buck of kids.
Retardo strength is a real phenomenon! Trust me, I had to work with special needs persons before!
Some guy said to never underestimate Retardo Strength
That’s legendary xD
I guess you can say that wasn’t the only thing that was fried that day……to soon
@Malayna Petersen probably they guy
Several people have tried to turn me off KFC gravy by explaining how it’s made from chicken scraps and fat. I’m like, “how do you think gravy is made?” “Like, the natural way with instant gravox powder?”
Apparently enjoying gravy the traditional way during your childhood is an indication of privilege.
I wouldn't recommend it because a lot of the people working there don't have standards. I'm not a fan of gravy in general so I wouldn't eat it either way, but some of the stuff I've seen would really put me off it.
Yeah the lard/fat part is fine, but deep fryer dirt is neither lard nor chicken scraps.. its just dirt
@@daliver722 its basically just flour soaked in oil, repeatedly fried throughout the day, mixed with instant gravy packets. I'm sure there's some chicken fat and some flavour falling in there but it's definitely almost entirely oil and flour before being mixed.
We had a KFC in South West Sydney that people came from everywhere to eat. The manager was so proud of the food. Especially his gravy and original recipe chicken. I honestly couldn't believe it was KFC because it was so good.
@@cincin4515 he probably just did it to the standard everyone should have been doing lol. Not to speak down on that guy, because its pretty good workmanship either way. I was praised for my chicken when I worked there but I was just doing it how I was supposed to. Most stores aren't like that though, hell, most of the other workers who were there when I was would take shortcuts and do things really terribly, sometimes really risky stuff healthwise too. I cleaned things there that didn't look like they'd been cleaned for years.
As a teenager, I worked as a cook....
1. The greasy floors are true. There's a lot of slipping and sliding. You learn to use it to your advantage and get good at sliding between spots quicker.
2. The gravy is true. It's just whatever's at the bottom of the fryers when cleaned out (batter and lard), put into bags, and frozen. It's later boiled with water and seasoning.
3. The cook before me always left the prep table and fryers spotless because he was always on speed.
4. If there wasn't enough chicken left for the night, the manager would tell the customers we can cook up a quick batch just for them, and then use the chip fryer and guess the timing, since the chicken fryers were already off.
5. There's a lot of rats and roaches. Flour used for battering can have bite holes in the bags, but they're still used.
6. The chicken "delivered fresh; not frozen", as the ads truthfully markets, is immediately put into the freezer and left until last week's delivery is done. At best, all KFC chicken has been frozen like a rock for at least 1 day and up to 9. Sometimes bags "way in the back" are found; no idea how old they are but you're told to cook upon discovery. Your best chance is the day after delivery day, if you can figure that out.
7. Finding random chicken parts isn't all that uncommon, but especially feathers and the spines they come in. Sometimes you can't get them out easily, but there isn't enough time so they get cooked. You'll get some crunch in wings from that.
8. Chicken is left under heat lamps for up to 4+ hours sometimes. This is when the manager tells you to cook more, you know you shouldn't, but you do and the extra "rush" never comes. This is the rubbery chicken; it's been out of the cooker for at least an hour.
9. There's a lot of tears from pressure and kids do things they know they shouldn't, but they just trust their adult managers because they don't know they can or should challenge them.
10. Things being accidentally or intentionally dropped into the fryers is common. Depending on the manager, they just stay in there. Stationary, plastic cutlery, rubbish, other food, latex gloves, cleaning products, etc.
11. The chicken trays are left by the sink all day. If too busy to clean that night, closing shift just leave them to close. Opening shift deals with rotted chicken pieces and chicken juice all over them. The cook does the cooking first, then deals with them. I threw up a couple times.
I left after the store manager kept rostering me on during class times, despite providing my class times for the semester twice. They threatened to fire me if I didn't come, I said I was in class, so obviously I wouldn't. That was that. The assistant manager called me later asking if I could work without the store manager going until they could find a replacement, which was for about three more weeks. The assistant managers are fantastic and care about people; the store managers are power trippers lording over kids too scared to speak up, too young to work properly under the conditions put on them, and too unmotivated and bitter to care. For everyone, it's just a temporary shitty job until they find something better.
I had the immense displeasure of working for KFC from year 10 to year 12. I could write a novel about my three years there but will keep this recollection brief. There was a kid, probably year 9 who joined when I was coming to the end of my time there. Let's call him Bruce. I know that KFC is not where you are likely to find a pool of future doctors or lawyers. However, I expected a lot more than Bruce. I struggle to imagine how Bruce actually functioned without a carer to perform regular day-to-day actions like going to the bathroom or eating dinner. In one of Bruce's first shifts, he asked whether he could bring in his live chickens from home to cook up. This meant one of two things: Bruce had 4 partially functioning brain cells, or Bruce was a serial entrepreneur. The latter was disproven the following day. I was teaching Bruce how to use the deep-fryer. I put the chips into the net, then into the fryer... and one lone chip spilled over the side and into the oil. This was a very normal occurrence. I turned to Bruce, jokingly, and said "oh quick, pick it up mate," and Bruce proceeded to reach into the oil -- which sits at around 250 degrees from memory in search of the runaway chippy. To no avail, all he found were second-degree burns from his fingernail to his index finger. Luckily for him, and to my surprise, he did have reflexes. A month or so passed with no major issues with Bruce. I came in for an early shift and I saw Bruce cleaning the exterior of the drive-thru window before we opened. Again, very normal -- though instead of wearing a high-vis vest and doing it from the outside, he was sitting on the windowsill and leaning out at a 45-degree angle. A car came through the drive-thru, realised we were closed and decided to drive all the way through. I heard a loud thud and break screeches. I turned around and Bruce had been knocked out of the window by the oncoming car, and was laid out on the floor. Credit to him though, he brushed it off and finished his 3h shift.
Bruce just seems too advanced for us mortals.
@@A-V01D bruce is just simply built different
The book of Bruce
Bruce the muh fuckin almighty XD
Bruce needs a nerf to op
I remember a time working at Maccas just after they got the music request machines for the customers. Someone kept queueing up "Let it go" to the point where one of the employees broke down in tears.
Probably had a kid blasting it in his house, wanted to share his suffering with McDonalds employees.
That was the day Melinda cracked. She hasn't been quite herself since. Legend has it, she has carved the lyrics into her bedroom door, in a daze.
when i worked at kfc on the goldy when i was 14, a homeless man walked in a just asked me and the other chick working register if he could have something small for free. we asked our manager and she said no. so we gave him some small chips anyways. moments later my manager walked out the front and told him that he shouldn’t be eating that and u can’t eat inside. he then proceeded to reach into the bins, grabs a half eaten zinger burger and a full gravy tub and pegged it at her head.
i got in soooo much trouble for crying in laughter
I will now be using pegged, thank you
@@sirfuttbucker6067 Use it in a setence
@@Alexander-cg1ey so the other day I was at the zoo, and this chimp pegged his shit at me, so I shat into my palm, and returned fire
@@sirfuttbucker6067 See that's what I thought it meant, although around I would use it a bit differently.
I was at the zoo the other day and this monkey just pegged me with a piece of shit.
Or
He has been pegging kids with his shit all day.
But I've never heard pegging used in that particular fashion.
I was just curious
Working at Dan Murphy's I had a guy run and jump the little motion censor gate to steal a bottle of something. Kinda exciting on its own but one of the managers ran out the front after him and GOT IN A CUSTOMERS CAR TO CHASE HIM! When he came back to the store with bottle in hand his only words were "Probably shouldn't have done that"
MY cousin works at a liquor shop in QLD and constantly has issues with customers trying to steal. Mostly teenagers and he has had to fight a few of them when he has confronted them.
Last time i saw him he said he had held down a kid and sat on him till the police arrived.
What?! Your manager stole a customers car, and probably broke every road law to chase him down? I find that harder to believe than any of these stories.
I was once in the line at KFC and a huge biker looking man in front of me got told that there was a wait on the chicken. He completely flipped out and lost his mind ,stomped over to where a big framed picture of Colonel Sanders was hanging and punched it so hard the glass broke. He then started jumping up and down on it as it rest in broken pieces on the floor. He really took his anger out on the Colonel that day, people were screaming it was complete mayhem..... all because the chicken wasn't quite ready.
I would have grabbed some popcorn chicken during the mayhem :D
On some level, I do respect him for taking it out on the business and not the workers. Still a wanker, but nowhere near as much as some karen who abuses the staff.
Proves my theory that all bikies are attention seeking toddlers
i bet if you punched him, he would cry and try to sue you
Bikers are known for their conservative upbringing and legendary self control. I'm shocked to hear about this.
I used to work at KFC about 10 years ago:
1. The trays used to hold the chicken are literally just dunked into the soapy water, not scrubbed, then hung up to dry at the end of every day. They're not washed. I remember scrubbing them for about an hour before I finally saw the silver underneath. I was very OCD about cleanliness I remember staying back til 2AM (we were supposed to close at 11) just cleaning everything properly. They always got me to do cleaning from then on because nobody else knew how to do it properly.
2. I used to also clean the bathrooms. The men's sometimes had shit in the urinal, but 99% of the time just piss everywhere and often a wine bottle or a wrench jammed in the toilet with it still sort of flushing which overflowed with piss water. The women's were somehow worse. Bloody tampons, sometimes dark red blood coating the wall next to the toilet, and a nauseating stench of over 100 different perfumes that almost knocked you out in minutes. The men's were seriously easier to deal with, just stank of piss, but the women's I had to clean in stages before going out to breathe again.
3. The yellow recycling bins and red rubbish bins are seriously both emptied into the exact same green dumpster.
4. Y'know the chip tray they shake the salt over? Sometimes there are chips that fall a bit off to the side that sit there for weeks, maybe even months. It's only when someone asked for no salt that the tray would be removed and rinsed off (but underneath that tray would never be cleaned).
If you want fresh chips, ask for no salt. You'd be surprised how few people actually ask for no salt.
5. We were almost always sneaking one popcorn chicken into our mouths at a time when nobody was looking. Sometimes you'd "accidentally" drop it onto the silver counter after having cleaned it and save it for later when nobody's watching. If you ever look over the counter and see random loose bits of popcorn chicken on a clean surface that's why.
6. Not sure if you're aware of this but you know that one piece of original recipe that's just really depressing? The wing piece? Every 3rd piece packed MUST be a wing. So if you order a 3 piece box one piece is always a wing. This one makes sense, otherwise you might end up with one unlucky customer getting served 3 wings.
7. At the end of every day at least 2 full trays of KFC is thrown out. This was AFTER the closing staff stuffed their bags full of leftover KFC. I used to cram my bag with a box of OR, a box of wicked wings, a box with whatever chips / popcorn chicken was left, a couple burgers and a couple twisters. Everyone else would usually fill their bags up too. There would still be more than 1 full tray of chicken that I sadly had to dump in the bin. We couldn't sell it. I felt so awful doing it every time. Knowing that literally every store does this, and I doubt it's just KFC, nor just Australia that does this, made me realise we seriously waste so much food.
8. Staff couldn't just hand out sauce packets. When I was there they were 50 cents each. I remember one lady (let's call her Karen) came in and screamed "50 cents for sauce? Just put it in the bag! It's not like it comes out of your paycheque!" to which I responded "Actually lady, IT DOES! If just one packet is missing from stock we have to pay for it ourselves!"
People don't realise this. We had to make a separate order for any sauce packets missing and pay for it ourselves.
9. Paying with cash was a nightmare. Not because of the counting but because of how quickly you'd run out of 5 cent pieces. We would always be too busy to have a manager get another roll out of the safe to fill the till with so you'd often just have to shortchange people 5 cents. One particular customer wasn't happy about this and caused a scene over it. The line was already out the door when she arrived. It was out of my control. I was getting yelled at by this lady, and yelled at from behind for taking too long with the order.
10. A timer shows up on the display when you're taking an order. If you took longer than 30 seconds it'd somehow signal the manager and you'd get yelled at for being too slow. Trouble is we were a very busy store that often had families and old people placing orders. They take their time, change things a lot and can't decide what they want. You'd feel rude for trying to push them along, and understandably customers would get rude "I'm not going anywhere you can wait jeez let me think!" all while you're getting pressure from behind to speed things up. And after being absolutely flat out dealing with customers with just 3 people working that shift you'd still get yelled at because while you were working your ass off nobody was cleaning the restaurant. And if you were caught cleaning the restaurant while customers were waiting you got yelled at. It was just constantly being yelled at from both sides. I don't miss it.
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When I was a manager at KFC, I had to change timesheets to avoid my bosses doing wage theft over overtime, had to deal with a boss who got transferred for having sex with a 17yr old worker in the store bathrooms and having to fire someone for accessing the store computer for finding someones address and going to egg their house because the person had spat on their car. The person who spat on the car ended up getting promoted
That story wins hands down!
Wtf was this in canberra? Because we egged this pricks car and front windows and he got promoted after i quit.
How old was the guy who got transferred and how old was she
This comment is _wild_ dude you're hitting us with punch after punch, give us a breather! You don't just casually toss out a "btw one of my bosses was a pedophile that somehow didn't immediately get fired and sent to jail" and without even so much as a comma move on to disproportionate revenge plots and promotions for vandals like that!
@@Zappygunshot Legal age in australia is 16, so sadly it would have been legal.
I got a story for ya Jordies, I worked at a dairy in Kangaroo Valley when i was 14. we milked the cow's on a rotary style setup, you would stand underneath and behind the cows to put on and remove the milking cups. the whole process would take about 1-2 hours and during this time the whole place would fill with cow shit, no joke... by the end you would be wading through 10 to 20 centimetres of cow shit, and once the milking is done i then use large high pressure water hose's to wash it all away.
One fated day I arrived to milk the cows, going about the usual routine getting ready and waiting for the cows to arrive on que, (by them self's mind you). i start up the machine's and start getting to work. now watching a torrent of cow shit pouring out the back of a cow who is actively being milked is one thing, and not a very nice one. but on this particular day i just happened to be removing the milking cups on a cow when the tail goes straight up in the air, now this only mean one thing, i saw this happen, i tried to move but it was to late. Before i know what's happening a storm gutters drain's worth of shit pours out of this cow for legit 10 seconds straight and directly onto my head and the rest of my body. the worst part is that we wear waders which keep the cow shit off us, but in this case it acted as a garbage bag and captured almost all the shit, and i was left basically swimming in a literal pool of shit. So now I'm soaked to the bone with cow shit, i still have got about 40min of the milking left so i just took off the waders and raw dogged it the rest of the day.
I ride my bike home as I'm 14 and cant drive while on the way home all the shit in my hair dry's and hardens soaking into the hair and my skin, i get home a show my mother what happens and all she can do is wheeze out between her hysterical laughing is "Thats horrible" and then continued laughing.
I took a VERY long shower that day, but it didn't matter what i did, i stank of cow shit for a week.
Liquid shungite soap, from Russia. That will get rid of that smell.
Sir, I salute you and thank you for your sacrifice for that week's Woolworths brand chocolate milk.
The smell might have been in your nostrils. I worked in a terrible smelling place. 1st day home, took 3 showers, couldn't get rid of the smell. Thankfully my Grandpa came over and told me (without me asking I think, lol) to wash my nostrils out. That did the trick.
You have a writer's talent.
You poor thing.
I worked at a Vintage Cellars in an affluent suburb of Sydney. Had an experience where a man rocked up in a Gimp suit to collect his order of champagne…specially Dom Perignon. When he came to collect it we were 15minutes from closing. To his dismay it wasn’t refrigerated, to which I explained none of our orders are because if it is you can’t return it.
He was getting so aggravated, his Velcro patch that kept his wiener at bay was becoming dislodged.
Wanting nothing more than to have this man out of my line of sight I just said, why don’t you just buy all of our cold champagne. Liking my suggestion he bought 50k of cold champagne in one go. Bruno, you are burned into my memory you rich bastard.
Amazing
stunning
What you did was impressive, and even more impressive considering most Aussies suck at customer service and sales let alone getting someone to spend 50k. you should work in sales bro.
Hahahahahahaha Hahaha. Fuck.
then everyone clapped
I was about 2 weeks into my short stay at a KFC in Illinois. I was still learning the ropes and as my shift came to an end and everyone was getting ready to leave they told me that it was my turn to clean the dishes. Everyone was pissed off because no one was allowed to leave until this task was finished and yet none of them seemed to care enough earlier to let me know that this was something I was to do (I hadn't done this before). Piles of dirty baking sheets lined with thick layers of chicken grease were stacked high above a 3 vat sink. One cesspool of a sink meant for washing, another for bleaching, and another for rinsing. I hurried back and started scrubbing pans left and right so that all these pissed off KFC slaves could head home. Nek minnit these assholes crowded around me and told me I was doing it all wrong and that what I was meant to do was dip the sheet into the soap then dip it in the bleach then dip it into the water and chuck it on the shelve. Wham bam thank you ma'am we were out of there in 20 seconds.
I had a full on heat stroke working at maccas when I was 16. Hottest day on record, no a/c, forced to work frier AND Grill which were on opposite sides of the kitchen. Had to stop after about 2 hours of this and had to argue with my manager that I couldn’t keep working like this and I needed someone to take over one of the stations. He used to physically push me around, which pissed me off so much I quit after a particularly bad shift. Anyway I earn twice what he does now and I’m half his age LMAO… and yes, 6 years later and he’s STILL THERE
I have worked this exact shift lmao, why can't they just both be on the same side I'll never understand
@@bottleflippergamer because that would make your job more pleasant, cant have that in a fast food place
Dude, How did you mention the guy who deep fried his own hand but completely skip the "We didn't change the oil & we served popcorn chicken cooked in the oil that day"!?!?! OMFG
They don't change the oil, just filter it every day and when it gets low drop a huge block of lard in to top it up.
@@kermdeezy5330 its just vege oil lol
@@TheExoticCow right? the vege part makes it fine...
@@TheExoticCow was he a vegan?
@@kermdeezy5330 But even then, most probably aren't filtering it as often as they should. Though, when I worked there they had liquid oil and would just pour some in, didn't use solid lard.
At the Newcastle CBD KFC there was a guy that was so nice that he was known city wide and there was even a facebook page to celebrate him, dude had the best customer service and nice demeanour that I've ever experienced. This was like 6-8 years ago, I hope he is doing amazing things.
Oh goodness... When I was working at Bacchus Marsh KFC at 16, I had the manager power trip on me, three days into a 40+ heatwave. Saying something like 'OI, HURRY THE F UP, we're all hot'... Then returned to his airconditioned section of the store. Off came my apron and out the back door I went. Hope you enjoyed finishing my shift big nuts 🤙
OMG. Sounds terrible. When I was a kid, when Moses was still alive, I don't know how many times Ballarat KFC, or back then, Kentucky Fried, was actually closed for a few days, for serving rabbit. It was really KFR. The rabbit was apparently cheaper back then. There were rumors of them serving rats sometimes. Everyone had stories of KFC Ballarat. Possibly half is true. They probably have a few there now.
Omg i knew that manager he was a total penis
I'm British, but I want to thank Jordan for fully putting me off KFC. You're a hero.
see you in a week cunt
- kfc britland
I'll be honest, mate... The best KFC I've EVER had was from a KFC in Wales.
The staff, even though it was really quiet and a little later than dinner time, were cracking jokes, but also doing their job. They were having fun, which I don't see a problem with.
By the time we ordered and paid, the food was sitting in a bag next to the guy serving, and we were really surprised with how quick it was. The guy just shrugged and said "Built different in Wales." in the most Liverpudlian accent possible.
The food was actually pretty great too. Not too oily, nice and crunchy. The only thing I COULD complain about is the lack of salt on the chicken, but it honestly didn't lose anything by being a little less salty.
Maybe it's normal standard, but it blew away my localish KFC place here in Australia. That's the standard KFC needs to aim for.
@@BakaTaco Honestly, KFC overall in the UK that ive had living here is miles better than NZ KFC back home
Our KFC was closed and torn down because they were making meth in there and selling it out the window as 'secret sauce' 😂😂 the new location opened up the road with staff replaced at all levels. For a while they had to call the cops on people asking for the 'secret sauce'. We have a meth epidemic around here compared to other places which is saying something...
But yeah, KFC at least in the States is overhyped anyways, you can get better-tasting fried chicken and sides at the hot foods section of grocery stores.
Worked at a kfc for 6 months part time when I was 17 and it was probably the worst experience I've had working. Super strict assistant manager would hover over my shoulder constantly and yell at me for mistakes as small as folding the corner of a package wrong. I can also confirm the potatoes are just starch powder mixes with with water but at least in canada the gravey wasn't just lard, It was a a thick powder/paste that was dissolved in water. I can never go back to a kfc be because the smell literally makes me almost puke which I attribute to the cesspool that the cleaning station would become at the end of the day and the constant state of stress I felt working there.
Hey Jordies. ✌🏽
Set the scene in Rockhampton: Had a lady get upset EACH AND EVERYTIME I made her a coffee saying it was too strong (by this stage I was putting in a "deer spit" amount... one day I forget to put her coffee in all together... she drank her warm milk and loudly proclaimed it was the BEST coffee she had ever had. Henceforth she came in with her friends and raved about it... and I had to carry on the LIE that was making her "coffee" just the way she liked it... "the correct way"
I felt dirty.
so it was just milk with foam ?
Bruh kfc dosent do coffee you worked at a maccas
I remember working at Nandos in castle Hill. So the thermometer on the fridges didnt work so we were forced to just write a number down. Cockroaches were everywhere and the area manager said there is nothing he is going to do about it. He also told me on my first day that if the restaurant catches on fire, dont call the Fire Brigade and just let it burn.
Haha I ate their once and it was shite ... they did not cook the chicken properly... I noticed it shut down after a year or so .. I knew it was not going to last long
I just started working at a Nandos 2 weeks ago. I have no horror stories as of yet, it seems to be a decent one
Ahah!
@@krytenfivetwothreep2485 are you still there?
@@sirspookybones1118 Yeah
Why do all Aussie stories always start with "I had a mate..." and then say the most insane shit imaginable.
to ward off legal liability.
Not KFC but once worked for Red rooster. Was being told that during a robbery you must comply etc, the manager then said don't be a smart ass, someone once, apparently said want fries with that to a robbery and got shot. Legend.
how the fuck did this only get 3 likes
I wish I knew this was being done at the time. I worked at KFC, but I was one of the only people who worked at this joint who actually took pride in their work (I was even complimented by customers as the head cook on regular occasions and I think the boss was even surprised someone was complimenting a KFC cook), but almost every other employee at this place should have either been fired, fined or even jailed for one or two particular people. One day I got in to work on a monday morning to find one of the breading bins was full of SOLID ORANGE FLOUR, I had to chisel this out, taking hours of my time, just so I could clean the bin, alongside all of my regular duties, now with no second breading bin to sift the flour into. This is a very, very, very simple process and it's actually hard to reach the point this employee did, you push a button, it starts sifting the flour through a hole in the bin, into a second bin, you clean the bins so that you have a clean one to sift into, and can then clean the other one when you have time but still have a clean bin to use for flour, it also keeps the flour clean and usable (too much liquid causes it to get clumpy and solid and then it wont actually bread the chicken, which is why you're supposed to sift the flour and add in more after sifting it as necessary). It actually makes your job easier when you clean them too. But, this particular employee had spent an ENTIRE WEEKEND using this flour without sifting it, and THEN LEFT IT INSIDE THE BREADING MACHINE to avoid having to clean it. This could have contaminated the entire breading table and I had to basically clean the entire thing inside and out just to try and minimize risks while doing my job, and me being the head cook I would have gotten into trouble if that caused people to get sick.
This same breading table had caked in moldy flour clumped into the wheels when I first started working, which I found out about after the boss informed me a health inspector was coming and so I had to make sure the breading table was clean underneath (He apparently meant underneath in the second bin for sifting, not underneath the actual table, but I didn't care, I cleaned the entire thing, chiseling moldy flour clumps from the wheels of the breading table (Not as far from the flour being sifted into the second bins as you might think, too))
Before I had started, another employee had set fire to the fryer/s and just ran out of the kitchen, which is not what you're supposed to do, stopping the fire is usually as simple as closing the lid on the fryer to restrict the oxygen, plus there's fire blankets etc. around and all this kind of stuff is one of the first things you're supposed to learn. (I believe this person was still working there (just not in the kitchen) when I left) But, due to how the health and safety and training stuff is done you don't have to actually know any of it to pass, you fill in multiple choice answers, if you get it wrong, you get told the answer and you can try again. So naturally, most people didn't actually read any of it. I read it and finished it far quicker than anyone else had and the boss didn't think I'd actually finished it for that reason, luckily a friend who basically got me the job shouted out saying "it's because he actually read it" which is true.
Anyway, in saying this, I shouldn't expect much from a KFC safety manager, but I still expect a little more than coming to laugh (thinking I would laugh with them) about the fact that the part time cook had a water fight in the kitchen containing 4 commercial pressurized deep fryers, also the day after I had pulled all fryers away from the walls to clean the entire back wall and have it spotless, just for this [potentially dangerous] water fight to result in layered water bubbles solidified in oil covering the entire wall, resulting in me being yelled at by the boss for apparently not doing my job, and a wall that now needed even more effort to clean. Thankfully the safety manager laughed about this to me, so I could relay the information to the boss, who then had the part time cook come in to clean it. Who wasn't very happy with me and then actively tried to make my job harder, for example, not emptying any of the bins and leaving not just 4 entire full rubbish bins and enough to fill each again resting on top of the bins for me to empty so I can then use them at the start of my shift (one of the first things needed to be done resulted in rubbish that needed to be thrown out, pushing the entire stores opening time forward because I had to make 8 trips with bins before starting my job, this isn't too bad but it's one of the last responsibilities of the day and is done this way to make the opening shift smoother). This same employee also did something genuinely disgusting to avoid having to clean. Instead of cleaning the breading table at the end of his shift, that is used to prepare raw chicken, he would cover the entire breading table in cleaning cloths, and just remove them at the end of the day and throw them out, since it looked clean having all the flour contained in the cloths, he could get away with not cleaning it because it looked clean. But, that's not how salmonella works. I would clean it before and after my shift so didn't have to worry while I was working there. But, this guy and the one mentioned above could have been making people seriously sick doing stuff like this and I was getting blamed for half of it as the head cook even though I was spending more time cleaning up after these shit cunts (Who also got paid more than my miserable $700 a fortnight for full time work, being several years older than them).
Plus there's stuff that's actually the standard for KFC stores that honestly shouldn't be that way. All chicken was provided in OPEN BAGS, folded over, leaking into the bottom of trays with holes in the bottom, stacked on top of each other in a cool room that didn't even close properly but was still considered fine by the health inspector (Who wore some of the flattest shoes I've ever seen in existence into a kitchen with flour being tossed around all day with big buckets of water being dumped on the floor regularly for cleaning, with boots being clearly labelled as necessary, not that I should have had to inform a HEALTH INSPECTOR of this)
And I only worked at this place for like 6 months, and this is just some of the worst of it. There are so many things I could say but this is long enough as it is.
The best chicken I've ever had from KFC is still to this day the chicken I cooked myself. I haven't bought any KFC from a store that was even remotely close to the quality that I was providing but, knowing the type of people who work there, it's not surprising and I probably shouldn't continue to eat it.
You were a great employee and a decent human.
The store manager was clearly slack and failed to supervise his staff properly.
I worked at KFC for over 10 years and i only ever had 2 managers that cared.
The others were drop kicks who thought that they were “someone” because they were called a manager 🤦🏻♀️
I saw similar cleaning issues, suspect chicken and other sides quality, food kept overtime and yes - dropped food. Even with the manager’s awareness 😖
Not on my shift because I stopped it.
No one should work with food because they just want the money.
Food workers should be interested in food safety and quality. That’s what the customer expects.
If you don’t care about the product then find a different job that doesn’t require any expertise… or bloody effort 😩
I've got a few from my short time working at Macca's, not really disgusting stories but hey.
1: I was "lucky" enough to to work new years eve close (pree 24hr Macca's) and while we were cleaning up we had a food fight with the food that was about to be wasted.
2: 1 day during that summer the girl on the drive through opened the window to serve the customer and the heat knocked her off her feet. Later that shift 1 of the other cooks had to leave early because both his parents were out fighting a bushfire but it was heading towards their house (never heard what happened as I didn't get a shift with the guy before leaving).
3: Back when the "healthy choice" was pretty new I always found it funny that I'd be putting chicken for it in the exact same fryer as the other chicken.
4: While at Macca's my shifts were all over the place and inconsistent (barely worth my time considering it was on the hwy and not in town) so I got another job, when I informed the manager (2 weeks before starting a new job) I wouldn't be able to work from 9 - 3, Monday - Friday, they thanked me for letting them know, then 2 weeks later I'm at my 1st day at my other job and my phone rings, when I answered it was my manager asking why I wasn't at work, I then explained that I literally told them about what hours I could work 2 weeks ago and told them again. At the end of the phone call I asked when my next sift was (that way I'd know and wouldn't use my fuel to find out) and they just said "if you want to know when your next shift is you need to come in and find out", so after work I went in and I wasn't on the roster for the week so I went home. Towards the end of the week I called a different manager to see if I had a shift and still nothing ... after that I didn't even bother asking and as of today (almost 20 years later) I still technically haven't been told I'm fired, I'm just not getting any shifts.
When I worked at Maccas, they didn't give me any shifts for like 3 months, so I stopped checking it. Then all of a sudden, after about 5 months of not getting any shifts, I get a phone call to ask why I didn't come in for my shift. I was like "You didn't give me any shifts for 5 months, so I assumed I don't work there anymore." Sent in a resignation the next day.
They also made me come into work with the flu once because it was a public holiday and they said if I called in sick on a public holiday they'd take me off the roster indefinitely. When I got there I just curled up into a ball on the floor and stayed there the whole four hours. They still refused to send me home, they'd rather pay me public holiday rates to do nothing apparently.
@@parrotperson I would have started an epidemic if that was the case.. sneeze on food, utensils, machines, tables, counters, you name it, door handles, handles of machines..
@@garystinten9339 after I left, one of the other workers pissed in the walk in freezer (not because I left, it was unrelated). He works for the NDIS now.
Same here - I think I'm still employed at Go Lo the discount store in Seven Hills NSW, but haven't had a shift in close to 25 years.
@@parrotperson Giving NDIS, or receiving it?
There’s bound to be some horror stories out of Dominoes.
Sounds basically the same tbh
Yeah, here's 1: Domino's exists
dominos near me had to close down cause someone opened their pizza box to a fat cockroach sitting there
Oh, I have plenty from Dominos, Red Rooster, KFC and McDonald's. But surprise, surprise. Maccas was always the cleanest... Red Rooster was the worse, pretty much on par was Dominos.
A Dominos in Vic...
I used to go to fast food chains all over Melbourne as a sub contractor to service/fix their POS machines/computers and networks. Once i had to run temporary network cables in one due to rodents chewing on the original ones. The floor was just like an ice skating rink of grease. It had about 50-100mm of a food carpet all over the floor except the isles the workers stood and walked in. They never cleaned under the benches. Only the isles. There was also a subculture of mostly cockroaches and mice living under that layer. I had to crawl on my hands and knees in it to run cables which i held down by using the food and sticky gunk because nothing else was going to stick to anything. When i got home i had to throw out my pants, socks and shirt, which looked like a really gross denum pizza and a Tshirt pizza on the back where i accidentally touched some things. That's the one time I ratted to the health dept.
My ex used to work at Dominoes as a delivery driver, he never had any full on horror stories from what I can remember but it was weird things like having to deliver pizza to someone literally next door, working overtime til midnight then going home then being told to come back, and the pictures he sent me of the back room was minging as fuck, mops and cleaning chemicals everywhere yet the floor looked as if it hadn't been cleaned for 20 years.
I worked at KFC in Dubbo for 6 years my god do I have stories, from iced-up gronks flashing female staff members in the drive thru to a lady coming in on 20/4/2020 (4/20 and during COVID-19 shutdown) having a miscarriage in the bathrooms
that poor lady
Did you deep-fry the afterbirth?
Yeah, Dubbo!
Cobra street kfc is the worse thing to exist
@@saintofkildas at least there’s only one now. When I lived on Cobra st, there were two right across the road from each other haha
Got some pretty good ones about the caricatures I worked with at maccas in midland circa 2010.
Most of the best ones came from before my time in the "glory days" where the stories have the same vibe as when my grandmother used to talk about growing up in the depression. One that encapsulates the wild west nature of the time was they kept a cup of hot water next to the drive-thru window so that in the odd instance someone tipped their drinks back through the window they'd have some ammunition of their own. What struck me in the telling was that they needed to keep refilling the water when it cooled down, I'm not sure if it was the vindictive nature of the customers or the staff that drove them to spend a quarter of their shift boiling water.
There were also the brothers; one complete skinhead while the other was nicknamed Jesus due to his completely unkempt and shredded appearance. Those psychos had competitions to see who could pull the most nuggets out of the frier with bare hands. Never felt less safe in a workplace as I did after witnessing that.
There's pages of this shit I could fill: the time I built an igloo in the cold room for punching billys, the dude who got a manager pregnant on his first shift, the managers that used to send me to pick up his weed on my push bike in some bizarre antithesis of ubereats
Maccas,
Ex area manager from one of the busiest stores on the Gold Coast, worked a lot of overnight shifts and had everything from strippers with money in ziplocks bags, soaked in a moist substance paying for their 10 pack of nuggets to one guy continuously coming through the drive thru naked and wanting a McFlurry. Even had raptor squad(Gold coast Major crimes) fly through our store to arrest a guy that was casually coming through the drive thru with a loaded handgun on the passenger seat.
Even had some of the guys that worked back area dropping pingas 30 mins before their shifts ended and go straight to the clubs with their maccas pants and a fresh shirt on. Oh the days.
Probably the first Jordies video where I feel like I should be dead by now.
Anyway I worked for a few years at a Cibo Espresso. The owner of the store was this woman (probably not in name because her husband was there a lot doing nothing but writing fake Google reviews for the business and he paid us through a dodgy paver business and not often accurate) would sell milk and sandwiches expired by days and let rubbish build up in the walkways because "cleaning the rubbish is too time consuming" (imagine milk already expired being left out all day in the heat, this was my burden). She would constantly dig through bins to pick out any used sponges and food safety gloves to wash and reuse. None of that was as bad as being asked by boomers with no hobbies on a daily basis about that god damn dead tree in the food court (google Burnside Village tree for context) though lots of old people kept complaining they would get sick after eating here to which they'd both just shrug off as "what can you do?"
Rosa and Brendan you people were the worst, I was the one who called on 4 surprise health inspections on you guys and the amount of chinottos I pinched is countless. (or did i?)
Just a tip mate, delete any names. You don't want to get sued for defamation (trust me as someone who has had this happen). It's amazing how a determined lawyer, or legal assistant can piece together stuff to identify you).
@@SpagmanAus I got photographic evidence of most of their shenanigans if not all if they dared to try but good luck catching the man with the green nipples in the first place, I'm using 7 Norton proxies stoogeeeeee xx
(Is a good tip tho don't get me wrong, thanks for looking out mate)
You probably should report this to the news or the Department of Health, that is a serious health hazard to the public.
How did they last that long in a suburb like Burnside ahaha
@@allanriley in my experience boomers don't care how the sausage gets made, only that they get uncompromisingly 100% of what they want lol
My cousin was a manager at Maccas in Sydney. It was pretty normal to get more food from other stores if they were running low. My cousin asked another store for eggs. She gave the eggs (like a shit load of eggs) to a bunch of other workers who were off shift. They went to the family home of another worker no one liked and egged it. She was obviously fired for multiple reasons. The story came back to the Maccas store where I worked in rural NSW.
The standing on the fryer thing. That actually happened at the maccas I worked at 10 yrs ago. Dude deepfried his leg. He also wasn't told to do it. He was told to drain them then roll them out of the way.
Also had a trainee once that dropped an apple pie box in the deepfryer on his first day, panic, then stick his hand in to grab it.
Way too much deep fried people.
When I trained at kfc they told us about a girl who did it too, fell in both legs.
good on ya Jordan, I live in Melbourne, but I'm currently working out in Roceshter and Echuca, doing disaster relief work, these folk got hit HARD!!! so many homes have lost everything. And because sewage came up with the water, everything must be considered as contaminated waste. It is fucking heart breaking mate. Anyway, just wanted to say you're a legend for donating, and if I'm back in Melbourne at the right time, I'll certainly be coming to your show.
I had a mate who worked at maccas and was always put on dish duty. He got chemical burns from washing all the cooking utensils and LOST HIS FINGERPRINTS. He couldnt clock in anymore because of the burns and had to sign an adjustment sheet instead every shift. His manager (21) also tried to hit on him (16)
When I worked at my local KFC in highschool which was out in the sticks, I remember two things happening. First was the time we deep-fried a dishwashing rag and served it as a zinger to a customer (that one made the news and got my friend fired). The other was how after my year level got banned from HJs for having our weekly fight club in their car park, they moved it to the KFC car park instead. I always made the excuse of checking the bins so I could go film the fights. We were banned a month later and lost my job but it was worth it.
Moved it from the HJ's to the KFC XD sounds like my school but it was the Maccas and it was during lunch breaks for the seniors only, to top it off it was between my private school and the public school we shared a library with... It was fight club but you had to represent!!!
I remember that story. It didn't get served as a Zinger patty, it was served as a normal piece of of chicken.
Suspect you were not involved at all and thats why you got that key part of the story wrong.
Getting likes on UA-cam will not improve your life. lol
@@Hussain.Sajwani Did you even consider that the place you heard it from were the one to get the facts wrong?
You appear to be incorrecting a primary source by relying on a secondary or tertiary source.
That said, for all I know you are both wrong.
Yeah.. maybe don't have a weekly fight club then. Fucking idiot.
@@yt.personal.identification I searched it and checked a few sources to confirm before posting my comment. OP has the story wrong. Probably just fishing for likes.
Looks like he succeeded.
I found my wife working in a restaurant in the mall where the sewer would back up in the kitchen during lunch times. They bought rubber boots for the staff rather than fix the sewer. The stink holy shit. they would make people work through it in rubber boots. Then clean the boots in the wash sink. I phoned in and the place was shut down for months.
How exactly did you meet your wife in those conditions??? Hahaha
When I worked at Maccas one time a kid around 4-7 years old shat on the ground and it was a forarm size, manager didn’t get anyone to clean it all day and few people stepped in it.
Someone who was cooking on the deep fryer threw up because they had a stomach bug (probably from eating the food) directly into the frying oil, manager said to just do auto clean, it refilled itself but it smelled rank.
Once someone put some meat paddies into the soft serve machines tank. Icecream started coming out with meat in it.
Our floor was so oily that one time a bloke
You should do Hogs Breath Cafe. I've worked at two of them in two different states. The worst one was in Dubbo. One cook sent out an ice cream in a bowl that was still warm from the dishwasher and the customer sent it back because it was partically melted; the cook then picked up the ice cream, licked the plate clean and then sent it back out. Later on, one of the other cooks chopped the tip off his finger when cutting carrots. After he left, the Chef proceeded to pan fry it. Just another day in that horror show...
Gotta be more hog's breath stories lmao
Worked at a trendy cafe in North Sydney for a time. Had a barista that complained to my boss because I walked into work wearing new sneakers that were better than his and thought "I didn't deserve to wear better shoes than him". Honestly such a drongo, that same guy later bought a diamond necklace for a coworker, and then when she declined his advances he pretended she didn't exist...
I worked at one of those food court KFC's, you know the ones that are about 4 x 4m hot boxes when I was 15. Two ailments I developed from working there. 1: the one pair of "protective" gloves we had to clean the deep fryers had holes where the thumb connected the rest of the glove which meant I was constantly getting hot oil burns - this resulted in about a decade of getting flare ups of dry, cracked, painful hands after I quit. 2: after a couple of months there I developed a skin rash all up my arms from the breading flour. I had to wear FULL SLEAVE gloves - you know the ones used to "assess" a cow's pregnancy - for my whole shift. As the store was permanently 40 degrees the gloves would fill with sweat, often giving my fingers that wrinkled affect when you stay in the bath too long. I quit after 11 months - I'd consider that commendable.
working at safeway I had a customer spill some kind of engine degreaser on my register belt. I got that same kind of skin irritation for years after as well! If I ever had to touch a lot of diesel dust now from unpacking boxes etc, then it flares up again.
Commendable?!?!? More like suicidal and lacking self worth. You deserved better than that mate, honestly you deserve compensation for on the job injuries let alone working in a unsafe environment.
good job soldier
I dunno. I'm almost 40, worked in similar situations and always knew my rights. This feels like, if you're so ignorant and silly and fall for this, you might deserve it a little. Must have zero common sense, and people like that are not good. Best if they.... Stop breeding.
@@WillowTheWitch I disagree, majority of majors aren't that cool, many were once crew they really should not do these scummy things. Prioritising sales over the health of workers the people earning the store money
Worked at St Ives maccas growing up which just a town of limbo for old retirees who aren't dead yet but sleep in a casket at night just incase they pass away in their sleep it's easier to bury them than moving their old rotted body.
The store won "cleanest maccas" for several years but only because the entire crew were teenagers on speed including the managers.
Golden days of my youth, I'd do anything to return back to those days.
Im pretty sure my KFC (Hastings) was the reason KFC took krushers off the menu. We had a health inspector have a suprise visit one day and he asked a lot of questions about the krusher milk machine we couldnt answer cause we only knew how to operate it, like why it would sometimes defrost or do certain cycles. Not long after they removed them from the menu permanently. It was also the only time we actually threw out the food when we were legally suppost to
Hello from (UK) Hastings Maccies :D
I worked at Gatton KFC for a few years now and I’ll say the best story I have was a man whom might have been on drugs walked through the drive thru. Eventually stopping at the window and said and quote, “where’s the front door?”, I was a little bit confused but regardless showed him the way there and he left to go through front. He got served like normal and the person that served him told me that after he left he said “where’s my pit-bull?”. All I asked her how do you loose a dog that big, and he didn’t have a pit-bull is what she was trying to tell me.
i used to work at the Queen St Hungry Jacks in Brisbane. in my first week i saw a man propose in the eating area upstairs, almost got rolled for my pouch on a smoke break and found a man passed out in the toilets at 11pm while i was cleaning it. stayed for another 8 months and left after throwing that rancid excuse for cheese slices around the store with a coworker. Big ups Daniel for taking the blame
LOL proposing in that HJ's, you know they went to some private school and had a unhealthy connection to queen St mall
That hjs is a nightmare to eat at let alone work there.
The gravey story is spot on. Also if you ever dropped food on the ground before it was to be cooked it was fine because anything that can survive the deep fryer is going to kill you anyway.
Hahah thats fucked you guys pickup raw chicken lol
@@edwardbrandon3170 my experience was from front of house staff. We only did stuff like nugs, chips popcorn chicken etc. That stuff all comes partially pre cooked ready to fry. Only the chefs in the separate kitchen deal with the chicken pieces, strip's, burger chicken etc that start out raw. But the front staff did the gravey. It was fucking gross. Literally out the back next to the bins. But dealing with raw chicken is not a big deal at home at least.
@@Mr16bit What good gravy doesn't contain "deglazed pan scrapings"?!!
Roast a chicken/Turkey in a pan - use the liquid/veg to make gravy
@@darrengordon-hill yeah watching that bit I was thinking that these people don't understand how the best gravy is made
@@theadventuresofzoomandbettie
"Gravy is a sauce often made from the juices of meats that run naturally during cooking and often thickened with wheat flour or corn starch for added texture"
Literal revulsion at "textbook" gravy, so removed are they from the "killing/preparing/cooking" part of food!
They don't wanna know how "plant based burgers" are made... and now I wanna know what KFC tastes like with "steak and ale" gravy...
The floor skating is fast food universal 🤣 Macca's flashbacks
I think it's hospitality/food service in general. Did it at the restaurants and bars I worked, still do it in the store where I work now 😂
Same here, but with Red Rooster. And our assistant manager used to do it past the counter during lunch rush to show off.😅
We would use the wash-up apron, sud the whole floor then slide on our belly's 😶🌫️
Worked at a Dan Murphy's in Adelaide, had three kids ranging from 7-12 max steal hundreds of dollars worth of spirits. I was working the register when they ran out of the store and laughed my ass off when I realised what just happened.
Having worked at two different KFCs in my youth I can confirm they are a den of disease. First one was riddled with roaches, so much so that when I pulled a paper wrap out to cover a burger a nest of them fell out with it. Despite this every staff member(myself included) still ate the food. As in, we pinched food during shift every chance we got. The manager said he installed security cams to stop us but we called his bluff as he was too cheap to actually do it. One time I got heat stroke during the summer working tills so they made me sit in the dining area with some water till I was right to work again. I thought it was good of them at the time but now realise I should have just been sent home haha.
I think Subway employees don't get enough attention, they probably deserve an episode.
Probably not as bad as KFC though. At KFC you don't change your gloves between every sandwich, nor does the breading of the chicken happen in front of customers.
@@potapotapotapotapotapota the stories I have heard from Subway tend to be more about the people who come through the doors rather than the process. Every Subway establishment seems to be a unique reflection of the community it exists in.
I can imagine how annoying it must be for a customer to force you to put every possible topping on their sandwich only to have them scream at you because their sandwich is so full that it fell apart while they were trying to eat it.
That and the amount of time each day you would have to spend listening to people saying “uhhhhhhhh” between choosing every single ingredient. Even though they order the exact same sandwich every time they are there.
There was a Subway in NSW that I used to go to until I witness one of the employees using the sandwich knife to open cardboard boxes behind the counter. Fortunately, they already made my sandwich and I never went there again. It also closed down.
This one's for K-Rudd, So at the Nambour KFC, I remember hearing and further reading about a former KFC employee taking a Dump down the exhaust chimney of the store one evening, they have since re-modelled the building
Really wishing I didn’t get kfc from nambour last week now
Drop my dacks for a dump in the KFC kitchen!!! Right On!!!
Ordinarily I’d call bullshit, but it’s Nambour…
@@peteradams1588 Nambour is stranger than fiction
@@peteradams1588 Funnily enough when i was younger if I ever used Nambour in a conversation I exclusively would say it in a high pitched cigarette stricken bogan yell.
Also on the sign going to Nambour from my area which is far enough away, it used to say NAMBOUR = poo, and it stayed up for year's
When I worked at KFC I was a safety rep for my store. We were told someone actually did slip into the fryer while cleaning the hood.
Someone else accidentally tossed a deodorant can in a fryer, so the cook closed the lid and legged it - honestly the right strategy imo
9:20 this is standard at most fast food places, you're required in America to wear special shoes that don't slip.
I used to work at KFC and here's a couple stories to add onto this brilliant video. back when kfc were doing the frozen mountain dew drinks the machine at our store that made them had a gas leak, we constantly got complaints about the weird taste because our manager forced us to continue selling them despite the gas leaking into the mixture. I also worked with a cook who would speed at work and one day he threw one of those massive chicken trays at our fill in manager because he was being rude to him.
Got an awesome McDonald’s story regarding a possum in the fryer….and this is why there are NO tall trees close to stores these days….
We had a front of house manager that was an absolute prick. Just a terrible human being really. One afternoon when no senior management were in he ordered a steak sandwich for lunch even though it wasn't one the menu. I watched the apprentice chef wipe the uncooked steak around the rim of the staff toilet and I spat on it. We grilled it and put it in some bread. He ate it all. True story, hand on my heart
as someone whose also dealt with a piece of shit FOH manager, good job. The guy I dealt with used to hover over my shoulder and complain that everything I did was wrong. When I would ask him to show me the right way he would roll his eyes and walk away. I left because he put my mental health down the toilet (I would panic if I knew he was going to be at work on a day I was there). Apparently after I left he got fired. Had a big argument with the owners after they confronted him about making staff cry and leave the store, so they fired him.
At Pizza Hut we had a psycho 5ft lady FOH manager and if we put even the slightest amount too much topping on a pizza she'd slap our arm so hard we would still have a perfect hand mark of it up to 20 mins later.
That’s some Road Trip shit right there
@@enquvist Psycho or just Italian?
I worked in a Little Caesar’s when I was in highschool, we won an award for having the cleanest franchise in the state. There was sauce all over the walls, not once did we wash the pizza pans (there wasn’t a dish-washing area to clean them anyways), and every single dough rack in the fridge was covered in mold (also was never cleaned).
Love the ' dont worry about that ' during the demonstration think that sets a standard for what's to come
And these are some of the stories people felt like telling. Imagine all of the stories from our unsung heroes working in the greased trenches of KFC.
Thank you for your service lads.
When i first started working at kfc, when covid was beginning to peak, I was doing my online training in store before some guy came in, screaming about a strand of hair on their chicken, Showed us the hair, it was orange and none of the staff that evening had orange hair, Spat on the efpos machine after they replaced his meal, then threw a chair into the lobby area, then walked out, the shift manager looked at me while i looked horrified and said "get used to the locals around here", I still currently work there and i did get used to the locals there
People seem to have forgotten the "I don't care" follows after the line "I crashed the car into the bridge" in the song.
It's literally about a psychotic chick crashing their ex's car and setting it ablaze
perfect KFC song
You need to do one for specifically supermarket employees. It’s the closest we get to our own People of Walmart.
Oh I have stories
Had a guy ask where his food was whilst an elderly guy was being defibrillated 5 or so meters away
I worked at Dominos Eastwood when I was 16 years old. The store manager yelled at me for putting too much cheese on the pizzas as he said cheese is very expensive and I should only cover half the pizza to save the store money. He took over the next pizza to show me how to do it and proceeded to pick up the cheese that had fallen onto the floor and in the grate and put it onto the pizza. I said nothing as he put the handful of cheese mixed with hair and dirt onto the pizza. That's Dominos for you
I wanna see some roadie stories for workers in the AUS entertainment industry
Might be a little less relatable to the average semi-switched-on punter, which appears to be Jordie's target demo
if that ever happens ive got plenty to tell
worked at McDonalds in Elizabeth SA few years ago and one rainy month no one closed the cardboard bin the whole time. when it stopped raining the bin was 2/3 fill and the boxes that were in there in there were turned into mush. two kids get in for a swim fully naked and come out an hour later to get back to work like nothing happened
Worked at kfc for 3ish years.
Most memorable moment was when a man walked through drive the wrong way with a snake in his hands. He proceeded to go to the car at the speaker and talk through the window. The conversation was the following:
Car: “Steve mate what do ya have there”
Steve mate: “dude a snake I found him on the side of the road and he’s friendly how sick is that?”
He then walked back down the drive through and left
We had people work with a dance company in France recall some of the greatest stories in the world. My personal favorite had to be when they toured to Egypt and set up their stage to be outside in the desert. Now, there is a specific part where the soloist rides onto the stage on a live horse and leads it off to get ready to perform, so he’s already waiting out in the desert for some 30-40 minutes.
The blazing heat and idle handling of an equine wasn’t what made the show, however, as his queue is signaled and he rides onto the stage.
Everything is going perfectly, until he leads the horse off stage, who then decided that, after a long wait in the desert, he needed to relieve himself right then and now. The horse is positioned in the perfect position-ass towards the audience-and gets ready to rain some of the most violent, spicy fury imaginable on the first 2 rows. Diarrhea is spraying everywhere, people are getting covered in it, but that wasn’t enough to ruin the show. People weren’t angry, like you’d expect them to be.
No, they were merry. Very merry. Very.
The entire audience bursts into laughter and people are just rushing side to side to ensure they can either dodge or clean themselves of the shit stains marking their suits and dresses.
It was an, overall, fantastic show, regardless of what happened.
I worked the overnight shift at a maccas near surfers paradise when I was a 18. One night around 3am a person came throw the drive throw and when I told them we cant give them uncooked chicken nuggets he "hooked" a 50c coin in there index finger and pegged it at me. it landed between 2 rips on my right side and hindered my breathing so much i had to go to hospital, my boss at first refused to pay me for that shift because i left early. I'm 30 now and when I breath in some times it still hurts.
where did it land? also classic gold coast!
@@PinkPugAU I turned to my side and covered my head, it hit between my nipple and belly button kinda in line with my right hip bone under my arm then fell on the ground. im a real skinny cunt so it hit real hard. I dont know why but i put it in till after.
@@TheCamwon thats fucked, was that at the maccas next to the convention centre?
Sorry mate, but that one had me crying with laughter
Wage theft is a crime but denying chicken nuggets is inhumane...
I have never felt good about myself after eating KFC. And yet, it is like crack, I cannot get enough of the stuff.
I don't care, I love it!
Same here, sometimes thew comedown off kfc is worse than the comedown off crack lol
Yeah, I worked at KFC when I was younger. Nothing too interesting during my time there, though I did learn how they make their gravy. Basically when they clean out the chicken fryers, they take all the collected gunge at the bottom, run it through a strainer to collect the lumps, then add essentially gravox and water, boom, KFC gravy.
It sounds gross, but really it's not that far from making a pan sauce or a roast gravy with pan drippings, just on a different scale and a lot more fat.
we dared each other to eat the stuff from the bottom of the fryer. Good times.
It's good shit
@@sirjolly81 I remember it tasted.... memorable.
Ya the flour from the fryer is nice and toasted. As long as it doesn't sit there for days on end it's exactly like making a regular gravy. And if they're making gravy with it regularly then they must clean the fryers often.
They also make pressure fryers, which have to be cleaned more often, so none of this is really that gross once you break it down... As long as things are properly cleaned. But that's the case in any restaurant.
yeah pretty much. I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen, but when I was regaling my nana about it afterwards and learned it was a pretty traditional (if sickeningly oily) way to make gravies etc, I was just '....oh. Oh, okay."
And when I mentioned powdered potato she's just like 'oh yeah that's Deb potato" and pulls a bunch of packs out of her cupboard from the supermarket lmao
Not a kfc, but the roach story reminded me of when I was working in a yuppie cafe. The kitchen area looked like one of those condemned druggy houses, but food themed. Piles of half rotting veg piled high, old, crusty and moldy equipment used to prep the food, it was actually a very large work space but no room to walk around because it was piled with crap. The back door leading from the kitchen area to the outside ally where the bins were kept was ‘locked’( said that the landlord forbid them to use it, but I don’t know, but had so many locksm bolts and deadlocks it looked like a movie trope) so we had to drag the overflowing garbage bin through the dining are(so packed you had to negotiate with the table next to you to get up out of your seat).
Anyway, the roach… they had a huge catering sized marg that had pride of place on the center work table that had the world’s largest cockroach planted head first into the center of it. The marg around it was used, leaving the roach buried into the resulting mesa looking like some kind of scene from some low budget sci-if movie.
Everytime I was told to put down a bag of crispy strips for the customers, would put down an extra bag for myself to snack on, and on the rooms to the coolroom for more chicken I'd snack on a handfull of chocolate chips they used for krushers.
Also had some customer come through drive thru complaining about no salt on the chips. Manager put more salt on, few minutes later he's rocked up again and yelled out "TOO MUCH SALT" and threw the whole box in at the manager
manager told me of the time a dad came into the pub (where we work) looking for his 13 year old daughter (pub had security on at the time for checking id’s ect) and manager confidently said his daughter would not be here as we check id’s and the dad points to a girl at the bar and goes yeah she is that’s her. Even funnier the ID the daughter used to get it on an asian woman and the girl using it was ‘very caucasian’
I worked at the colonel at high school. Some of these were very accurate especially the oil skating skills you needed to develop. We used to punch holes in the chip boxes, throw tomatoes into the chiller fans in the freezer and the manager could never find out who was doing it
I worked for KFC at the turn of the milennium (back when a burger meal was $5.45!) and our franchise owner was pretty strict with food hygiene.
However, one of the stores he owned (not the one I was at) didn't seem to understand the point of wearing gloves and they'd take cash at the window with the same glove they'd handle the chook. Small fry compared to other stories, but one day this practice resulted in my already chronically sickly brother catching the good ol' salmonella. I was about done with working for 'em at the time because my new manager was a gaslighting asshole, so my mum gave zero f*cks and formally complained to food safety about the poisoning. Apparently there were enough practices of concern at that other store that all the owner's stores, including ours, copped inspections.
I turned up at work the day of our store's inspection and the bitch manager was in the middle of a rant about the 'piece of shit customer' whose food safety complaint had made her life that day so difficult (of course, not concerned at all about the fact that the complaint was because someone had been made sick!). I just really wanted to bust out like the elevator bit in Liar Liar "IT WAS MEEEEEEEEEEE!" But I was too chicken-shit so I just went about my day all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that I'd caused her menopausal ass an ~apparently~ colossal inconvenience.
At least the other store cleaned up their act afterwards.
Those shitty plastic gloves that most fast food places get (latex ones are pricey) are largely to blame. Really hard to get on, so they just leave them on and don't change them.
I managed a Red Rooster but came from a proper commercial kitchen background - I just trained my staff proper handwashing practices (Touched your face? Wash your hands. Touched your cock? Wash your hands. Handled cash? Wash your hands. Haven't washed your hands in the last 10 minutes? Wash your hands...) and made sure food prep areas were out of customers view.
I used to work at Red Rooster (I was an assistant manager), and contrary to popular belief, it absolutely, positively is not a money laundering front for Bikies.
I trained at this one store store a whole six months before it burnt to the ground. Huge, glaring safety violations left, right and centre there, including electrical cables just hanging from the ceiling. I tried getting Corporate so they could get a sparky in to get the cables fixed, and they said, and i quote "Nah, she'll be right mate" , Six months later? store had burnt to the ground due to an electrical fault.
After I trained at another store, I was one of the managers who ran the Beechboro store. The store's in an absolutely shithouse location, but it was a brand new store that had brand new equipment. I often had to clean up after her mess because she refused to direct the crew to clean up and sent them home as early as possible in an effort to save a few bucks. It almost got the store shut down at one point due to HAACP violations.
I then transferred to the last store i worked at, which was a pretty good store, but because it was next to a KFC we always used to get drunk fucks who'd order twisters (we just gave 'em Flayvas instead lol) Oh, and there was this one time where this druggo customer jumped the counter and proceeded to bash the shit out of both me and one of my staff after i quite literally told him i would refund him for a meal that he had eaten a good three quarters of. I got a call from my manager asking me to come into work the next day whilst I was still in the goddamn emergency room.
Apart from that, i was one of those managers who actually listened to their workers and got stuck into working with them too. The other managers used to complain all the time that the workers did fuck all for 'em, and that's because they were lazy as fuck and did everything they could to fuck over workers as much as possible. Giving them shit shifts, ignoring their time off requests, it was fucked.
To anyone who works in fast food or hospo, do yourselves join your fuckin' union. You guys deserve to be paid better considering the kinda shit y'all go through.
Worked at woolies, the butcher apprentice left the bin open out back after discarding the old meat one summer. Next morning was probably billions of maggots climbing up our back dock. 20x40m driveway - couldn’t see any concrete. Took a few of us all morning to keep them from entering the shop.
Worked at KFC when I was 16. The manager, who looked like Quato from Total Recall, would at closing time not allow any of the staff to take any left over chicken home and would personally dispose of all the chicken 1 at a time into a bin but not before peeling the skin of each piece and eating it, then throwing it away.
Sounds like fuckin Eric Cartman incarnate 😂
I once worked at a Pizza Hut where one of the managers claimed he used to be a spy for the Greek Secret Service and would tell me all this crazy shit about how JFK and Princess Diana REALLY died, how 9/11 was an inside job, how aliens are real, times he nearly died on missions, and how he checked his car and house for bugs everyday. The other manager was on the run from the New Zealand police for selling dodgy cars; he would get drunk and smoke ciggies while rolling the pizza dough every night. One day I showed up to work and the spy told me not to come into work, it turns out the drunk manager stole all the money from the store safe, burned all the store records and ran off yet again. everyone working there was pretty much fired overnight without any calls or emails
I once worked as a delivery driver and I had to deliver the boxes of frozen fries to KFC. The rear pedestrian ramp was so greasy that I could not make it up with my trolley so I had to carry each box up the ramp one at a time dragging myself up with the handrail.
I'm imagining this like you were climbing up mount everest in a snowstorm, one hand in front to pull yourself up, and one hand behind dragging your supplies.
Back in year 1, my friend told me a story about a kfc he went to here in Victoria.
His sister was gonna go eat
a zinger burger and when she bit into it,
she found a massive dead moth. Still not
the worst story I’ve heard
Proper pan gravy (not the packet stuff) is fond (the bits stuck to the pan) deglazed (loosened from the pan) by a hot liquid (normally stock or wine) and mixed with flour, and often some butter. So lard + fond (the bits stuck to the fryer) is a perfectly reasonable way to make gravy.
Thats KFC for ya, it tastes so good when you eat it but then afterwards you're like "never again am I eating KFC" but tomorrows a new day. I love the ending, it describes my mentality perfectly.
as a former worker at hungry jacks i can also confirm that those dish sinks are purposely causing back pain
This hasn't deterred me from eating at KFC, it's now a fun game of roulette
Not KFC, but I work at a meat factory. My boss is like some kind of mad scientist or some shit. He built the ovens we use himself, big fucking room sized ovens, powered by diesel generators.
If they've been off for a little while, they billow out cartoonish quantities of black smoke for like, 10 minutes before operating like normal.
At one point while he was doing repairs on stuff, I saw him run out the back and through a power drill on the floor. I went up to have a look and the fucking drill was on fire. I dunno what he was doing but it lit the bloody drill on fire.
We also used to use like, KMART heaters in the ovens as well, and we have a bunch of power cords and extension cables in there, until the meat juices combined with the cables and caused a little bit of a fire incident.
I have mountains of pizza hut stories from working there 5 years
Just saw you in Hobart, great show and thanks for visiting the island.
I worked at kfc for 5 years, I can assure you not every store is that bad, well we had high standards then.
Funniest thing that happened to me was a regular customers order. Every time he would order a two piece combo and ask for the pieces to not be from around the chickens “butt hole “ he also didn’t like ribs or wings. So every time I would then reply with “so you would like breast pieces?”
This would happen every time. It made me giggle, like how specific he was by saying butt hole but could have just asked for breast. What’s his damage really? 😅
Used to work at Domino's for ages and one of my first manager shifts I made sure the floor was properly cleaned as it was covered in black mould.
Had to borrow a pressure hose to spray it off the tiles.
Then I moved the hotbox (the shelf they put the pizzas on after they come out of the oven if you aren't there to pick it up) and found a packet of chicken wings underneath. Still in the old packaging that was replaced a week after I initially started there 3.5 years prior
I have a few mates that worked at Red Rooster a few years back. One night we were at the pub next door (a few beers deep) and decided to go grab a feed. My mate called me in behind to cook my own strip sub combo. It was starting to get busy by that stage and the strip sub I made was needed for a drive through order... That customer got the best feed they ever had!
I went to uni with a guy who was security manager for a KFC franchise, despite only being 18. Apparently some guy died while he was on shift because one of the pressure fryers exploded and he had to deal with it.
Dude drank a bottle of JD a night, and it makes so much sense.
Some of these points are probably pretty obvious/regular for most hospo workers, but here we go:
1. I used to work at the local Mobil gas station as soon I was legally old enough to (14 3/4 in QLD) - in a role glowing called 'Dry Through Attendant', but was mostly spent either helping the rare old lady fill up her car with petrol or, more commonly, cleaning the toilets. I used to have to clean the toilets twice in a 4hr shift, because they constantly got so destroyed by faeces, vomit, or other various waste. Needless to say, I also ended up nicking a lot of their stock to help compensate for the measly wages I was getting, and also used to pass out pies and drinks to friends under the backdoor of the servo.
2. I've worked for ~8 years for 'high quality' hotels such as Rydges and Stamford Plaza - both of which are absolutely infested with rats and cockroaches. There was not a moment that would go by when I wouldn't go into the food storage room of these 'fine' establishments and have to shoo away a family of cockroaches, nor was there a single day that went by when rats wouldn't be scurrying around the dilapidated entry way for staff. Even though we knew the food (which cost a bloody mint for patrons) was made from the worst ingredients, sitting in the midst of a cockroach party, and arranged by cooks who had very questionable hygiene, I was so pissed when they stopped letting us eat leftovers on our break - instead rather throwing it out then giving us something to eat. On retrospect, that decision by management is probably the only reason why I'm still alive atm
Ive worked at a KFC for about 3 months and have counted the amount of times lads have come up to me and ask for free stuff and i eventually lost count becuase its happened so many times
You got to do a mc Donald's one, I can give you a entire videos worth of stories from my 8 years there
Story 1: I was taught by several managers which all of them were meth dealers, one of them was the ice queen herself
Story 2: one day I had to clean out the frappe machine, we were messing around with excess ice that was in it and were making snowballs, I accidentally missed when I threw one at a colleague and hit a customer at the front counter, it was the middle of summer, I apologised and didn't even get written up by my manager
Story 3: one day we had a bomb scare with Southern leaving an Esky behind, my managers were freaking out and I couldn't be bothered so I went over and opened it up, inside was just some tradies lunch and my manager was already halfway down the street when I looked over to see where he went
Story 4: I once had to clean up the dining area and a man stopped me and said as I quote "excuse me sir, I have just eaten 20 cheese burgers, can I get a free happy meal toy" as I was new and was 14 I said "sorry I don't think so" I then walked away and heard him say "I ate all those cheeseburgers for nothing" later I found out you can just buy the toy for $2 and felt bad that I didn't give him one
Story 5: our store manager was.the most hated man, one day he got into an argument with another manager outback, one of the girls from front counter came to check on it and found the store manager being choked out, she closed the door and pretended nothing happened and no one said a word about it
Story 6: the same store manager had me clean out the fry vats once with a power drill with a buffer attachment, I then accidentally slipped my hand into the vat that was on next to it and nearly deep fried it but thankfully I was wearing a plastic glove that I immediately threw off, it shrivelled up into nothingness seconds later
Story 7: Hamish and Andy actually did an instructional video on how to make an Angus burger that was woefully terrible
Story 8: when we had salads we got to see what the new salads were going to be called and one of them was going to be called the Asian noodle salad
I got dismissed bc I was told to kill myself and when I tried to report the manager told me to go away and that’s shes not on shift yet
When she did clock on she told me to pack up and leave when I had 7-4 and she told me to clock off at 2:35 bc of my ex tell her she felt unsafe from me doing my job
I then waited till 4pm for the person to walk out to “talk to him” my ex reported me to the police for hitting him
(She cheated on me with him)
So now I have no job bc I refuse to work with a corporation that is incompetent at there jobs
Btw I think the 'pussy cyst' comment about the chicken breast meant pussy as in the adjective describing it as 'full of pus'. Apparently they can pop just like a pimple.
Congratulations 🥳 🙂
Former Maccas worker from Woonona, NSW. Was known as the worst McDonalds in the area; staff knew it, management knew it, even the people who went there knew it. On several occasions, they had to remove the Change room doors because people were reported vaping and smoking in there, including managers, with them only being put back because Fair Work would come in and force them to put them back on.
Floors were slick enough that you could move around like you were skating and it was safer than walking.
Ironically, for the worst running store in the entire region, workers actually kept to the health code. Even the 15 year olds were smart enough to realise that poisoning someone isn't the best thing. Though, they'd never cycle out food, like nuggets or chicken if they sat there for too long, but I don't think any Maccas actually does that. There was a circumstance where an Apple Pie had been in the warmer for several days, which we presumed because of it being stuck to the box and impossible to get out without a knife.
Okay my two stories.
1. Middle-Eastern bloke walked up to the DRIVE THROUGH window and asked if we sold goat.
2. Two Persian blokes I worked with, insisted to be regarded as Persian, would balance the racks of raw chicken on a metal lip in front of the pressure cookers while they lifted up the cookers lid. When the chicken was cooked they would put the tray back in same spot while they closed the lid. I told the manager, her response.. ''I've told them not to do that.''
The guy that hired me had apparently gone postal and screamed ''I quit!'' before jumping over the counter and running out of the store before I'd even started my first shift.
They guy that quit, like that. Did, you quit after that?
@@balung It should have possibly been taken as a warning.. But no I stayed for months. The cooks were always chill, they had great stories from back when the managers REALLY didn't give a fuck. I didn't mind cooking. Felt bad for the fat guy who slipped on the greasy floors mentioned above. Cooks learned to keep their balance real quick.
I was doing one of my first Manager shifts at a Venue in Central QLD, I had noticed a group of miners in a big circle in the bar screaming with laughter at something in the middle of them, I decided to investigate, as I got to middle of the group, I noticed a man with his pants down, he was shooting ping pong balls from his rectum, they where going about 3m in distance....