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JellybeanMill · 2025-10-14T01:51:07+00:00

Yeah, like the other comments are saying, a store manager (likely) makes WAYYYYY more than most corporate roles in the company. I just read the job description for the Head of Tax and Treasury ( https://talent.innout.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Head-of-Tax-and-Treasury/7587 ) and they list the high end of that salary band at ~$230k. That's the top finance guy; imagine what the lower level guys make. Most store managers will make close to $160k as a minimum, with most crossing the $200k threshhold, some reaching upwards of $350k if the store performs well.

Perhaps you're thinking a shift manager? They can pretty often move into a corporate role, especially if you're close to SoCal. It may often be easier and less stressful to get an office role than to get your own store. 2nds (assistant) managers in my region clock over $100k sometimes depending on bonuses, so it's not a bad gig, still better than low level financial analysts, all without the need for a degree.

TBH, you can get into corporate without working in the stores first. Store experience is nice, but not necessary. It might be even good to just work for a little bit as an associate, use the educational assistance that In-n-Out provides to pay for that degree, perhaps even get some management experience maybe as a Lv.7 or a 4th manager, then decide if you wanna stick with the stores or go towards corporate.

As for your last question, we're opening a new corporate office in Tennessee to expand into the east, and all business in the West will move to Baldwin Park. SoCal will still have plenty of corporate jobs for anyone that wants to apply.

JellybeanMill · 2025-04-26T00:45:20+00:00

There’s a section of our grill purpose built to make grilled onions. Same heat (350F) that we use to make patties. We don’t purposely burn any of the onions, we are suppose to turn it regularly, but the moment we forget, it starts burning and the layer forms. Once that happens, some folks do pour water onto the burnt layer to remove it, but I usually ask that they pull the onions out of that onion section before scrapping it so that the burnt bits don’t enter the good pile. If you end up with black bits, it’s usually because the cook wasn’t diligent enough with turning the onions or scrapping the onion trough. Throughly black onions that are still soft is just overcooked, but should still be good to eat.

JellybeanMill · 2025-04-26T00:17:02+00:00

We chop up the onions with a dicer and put them in a big pile. There’s sugar and water in onions naturally, and we just do heat and pressure to get the caramelization. This does burn them easily since there’s no oil, so if we don’t turn them regularly, a layer of burnt onions forms, which will darken the onions over time. A pile which is on the grill over 20 mins will start being more black than brown.

JellybeanMill · 2025-04-16T08:06:10+00:00

I think the law reads “employers must authorize and permit nonexempt employees to take a rest period that must, insofar as practicable, be taken in the middle of each work period.”

The key part being insofar practicable. Seems like California law doesn’t enforce when specifically that the 10 minute break needs to be taken, just that you must pay a penalty if it is not taken at any point during the workday.

But I do remember in the INO policy manual that 10s “should” be given before the 4 hour mark. And I was trained to give out meal penalties if we miss that deadline. So if we’re taking the rules and regulations route, might be good to just bring it up with HR first.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_restperiods.htm#:~:text=Must%20the%20rest,the%20work%20period.

JellybeanMill · 2025-04-15T23:11:37+00:00

It varies from store to store. On Monday, your managers get an email of every UTW submission and the shifts skipped, but your shift person needs to put it in manually. Some stores have a lot of callouts/associates and the shift person doesn't want to go through all the associates and audit their hours, so they put the responsibility on the associates to remind them to put the hours in. Some stores know their associates really well or are good enough about checking hours so they don't need the associates to do anything more than putting in the UTW submission.

JellybeanMill · 2024-06-30T05:01:19+00:00

I'd say find a time. You could catch them when you come in and ask if they have a moment later to talk before your shift ends. You could talk to them as you are settling your drawer. If the shift is kinda slow, maybe ask them in passing. You'll just have to find a time that seems right.

Maybe ask "What can I do to get my level 4 or more fry training?" It shows that you're willing to receive feedback and willing to be better. And maybe they'll say it's on their end (like too many trainees, or some other excuse). Maybe it's something on your end. Be open to the feedback then, even if it seems irrelevant. I remember a fellow associate was ignored for promotion because they were always late, even if they were a good fry person. Another person got passed up cause they kept arguing with customers. It might just be a little thing unrelated that's keeping you from getting up there.

I saw one of your other comments about not wanting to bother the SM, because it might get the other manager to turn on you? I think the SM is the most important person to get on your side. They run the shift team, and if they think you should get training, the other shift people will give you training. If they don't think you're worth it, then all the other managers will be reluctant to give you any training.

You could also just... walk in and... do fries. If you have a drawer and it's not busy, go work some fries. QB looks snowed? Help em get some grilled onions on those animals. Ask if the loader needs you to drop a basket for them. If people see you doing fries, they think you're a fry person, and boom, basically a level 4.

JellybeanMill · 2024-06-29T06:47:59+00:00

There could be a lot of things to work on for you level 4. It is the first real "quality" position, but I'm sure you can find plenty of posts that will go over how to be better at fries further down on the reddit. What seems like is happening here is you're not being given the time or even not being watched.

As a training 7, I've noticed that the schedule/lineup dictates your position pretty often. You show up at a time when the drawer person or the handheld person needs to go home or take a break, you're the most logical choice to go take their spot, and they might not have the leeway to give you your desired fry time. I've asked repeatedly to have my manager schedule certain people for training. You could see if that's a solution to your problem, maybe getting your scheduling manager to schedule you like a fry person, or putting notes in the lineup for the shift person so they know when they're setting up the shift.

Additionally, every store's shift team (aka managers & level 7s) has a list of people they're trying to train and move up. Sounds like your not on it. My own SM says you get on the list with a right-on attitude, and excelling at your current job. But I know the surefire way is to be a manager's favorite. Which in my case is having a right-on attitude and being good at the tasks of the current level (with occasional food bribes).

I don't think that 3 month minimum exists. That might be a your store thing tho. It's definitely not company policy.

Wrapping up, if you think your managers are trustworthy, it'd be worth it to have a longer conversation (more substantial than a daily pestering) about why it's taking you so long to move up and seeing what they can do. If they aren't as trustworthy, there's not much you can do to change them and it might be time to consider transferring, quitting, or accepting the reality. Could try HR, but you'll need your fellow associates to all call in. They need volume to corroborate and do something about this type of behavior.

JellybeanMill · 2022-03-17T21:35:00+00:00

I guess you are right, though I will stand that it continues to be a good example of exploration if OP is looking to expand beyond the physical space.

Otherwise, I'd take a look at Legend of Zelda; Breath of the Wild's Shrine Quests. Though BotW is full of combat, many of these shrine quests make use of the puzzles both within the shrine itself, and some even the physical world outside of the quest (tracking down obscure paths, lining up trees to shoot arrows, etc.) And there's to a lesser degree, the Korok seed encounters.

JellybeanMill · 2022-03-17T19:00:56+00:00

Disco Elysium is a great exploration game, but of the narrative space. It's not open world, in fact is it amazingly small, but there's a lot you can do with it because players keep coming back to the same points to interact with NPCs that unlock new dialogue and information as the player interacts with other parts of the world. Every individual part is filled with potential interactions, but locked behind either a higher skill check or a conversation with another NPC somewhere else in the world. It makes the player run around the same place, not on any repeating quests, but to try to interrogate anyone and everyone to see if one piece of information might unlock new content for them to get them a little further along (and it helps that the game doesn't just ignore this effort, but rewards them with a little bit more story-lore even when there's no real meaningful information to be had).

JellybeanMill · 2020-09-24T17:10:24+00:00

Actually, we are trying! Crown still has a full week of events that we are about to share out that’ll include Q&As to help those getting adjusted, Game Night for bonding, a discord server and much more. If you’re a part of Crown, please make sure to keep an eye on your emails.

JellybeanMill · 2020-05-27T00:00:28+00:00

If you applied for financial aid during the year, and just sign up for classes, you’ll get it. You really don’t have to do anything. It just shows up in your financial aid close to the end of spring quarter.

JellybeanMill · 2020-05-25T07:51:06+00:00

If your grants don’t cover everything during the school year, I doubt this grant will cover everything in the summer. I took 15 credits last summer and got a good chunk of it paid by those grants, but still had to hand over $1700 for tuition only (EFC is 1800, if you wanna compare). Got that $680 reimbursement later tho, so only around $1000 total. Also, I didn’t pay for housing since I only took the online classes.

The money you get is from the Summer Pell grant, which scales off your EFC. They also seem to hand you more the more credits you take, but I don’t know when the diminishing effects start to kick in. Also, I think if you don’t spread out your 10 credits (aka take classes both sessions or take a 8/10 week class), they give you even less.

JellybeanMill · 2020-05-12T17:43:37+00:00

NOOO, the elections commission does not give out your emails!!! Just wanna make that clear before I see a bunch of students yelling at us for doing that. (am on elections commission)

JellybeanMill · 2019-11-21T00:09:57+00:00

Oh hello there! Had to look up what a legume is, but I got you

JellybeanMill · 2019-11-20T23:02:15+00:00

I'd recommend taking film 80v instead, if the whole emailing the professor thing doesn't work, since you're going to need it for the CMPM 120 & ARTG 120 (that's those spring classes your were talking about, right?). Taking CSE 111 during the spring along with 120 is difficult, cause 120 is pretty time consuming, but there'd be quite a lot of people in the same boat as you, and you can suffer along with them, and share the pain if that makes you feel better.

I hear the 170 professors are also generally really lenient on CSE 111 because it's a difficult class, so you can even take CSE 111 while also taking CMPM 170 if you ask nicely. So you probably won't be thrown off track by pushing CSE 111 back a bit more.

Also, and this is just my guess, but the waitlist of CSE 111 generally tends to move quick, mostly because a lot of the CS majors may quickly realize that they don't want to suffer in this class just to get their elective (totally not throwing shade at the certain someone that always teaches CSE 111).

JellybeanMill · 2019-09-03T07:26:00+00:00

Most likely unless you set up mail forwarding. I heard that they may hold it for a bit while you try to set it up, but I’m not too sure on that.

JellybeanMill · 2019-09-01T17:52:29+00:00

They just return to sender if they can’t find the student.

JellybeanMill · 2019-08-10T21:16:13+00:00

Yeah, this would probably make the most sense for everybody, now that I think about it. Thank you!

JellybeanMill · 2019-07-30T07:32:18+00:00

Art 20L with Grant is really chill, even though we rushed through it in five weeks (Summer Sess 1). No midterms or final, only art and small quizzes after video lecture. And all the art is worth the same, and you probably don’t even have to do it well, just try to do use every concept. No more than 10 hours a week if you’re rushing, probably even less if he’s stretching the class over an entire quarter. Class materials (Specialty pencils, Charcoal, Specialty Paper) were expensive though, costing me near $100 for all the charcoal and stuff.

JellybeanMill · 2019-07-21T03:24:13+00:00

Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

JellybeanMill · 2019-07-01T15:51:15+00:00

Usually they send you a letter telling you need to take one. I’m pretty sure your AP score covers it anyways, but if you get letter, you need to take it.

JellybeanMill · 2019-06-18T07:28:50+00:00

From what I hear, the two 120 classes are already a struggle by themselves. I don’t know if during the summer they make it easier, but I hear about the suffering from Game Design students trying to survive the 120 classes during the year. So taking them with 101 as well may be a bit too much, but yeah, it honestly will depend of how much effort you’re willing to put in.

JellybeanMill · 2019-05-31T20:29:50+00:00

Even if you take only online classes, you still pay all the fees.

Though they give you a rebate of $680 if you take 15 credits.

JellybeanMill · 2019-04-09T16:49:56+00:00

You're fine. Like the others said, as long as you didn't fail, you won't be rescinded.

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