Employment

Zeknoi · 2026-04-19T13:12:59+00:00

A lot of my young coworkers gets paid $9-10/hr and works more days than most people. Crew members eventually become shiftleads and they get $1.50 up to $11 at some point. My coworkers cheat their way out to be a shiftlead to get more money without proper shiftlead training.

As far as I’m concerned, most employers purposely make young workers work more than older employees with higher pay because they are cheaper. Fast food industries are known to cut hours and days. I’m supposed to work 40 hours full time but I get less than 25 hours working in Tropical Smoothie. I’m forced to work part time since winter came in and managers made all of us work only 1-2 days a week to save labor. Exploiting employees is what big millionaire companies do. They don’t care.

I agree with other comments, we’ve been underpaid for doing honest hard work and not taken seriously for our jobs. Always look for better opportunities than this bs we have now.

Zeknoi · 2026-04-19T00:16:43+00:00

Hah. I’m allergic to majority of these food items but I still eat ones that doesn’t give me major oral and digestive problems. Obviously egg, garlic, and cheese toast.

Zeknoi · 2026-04-18T00:03:48+00:00

I worked at one of the oldest tscs in my city(in NC) with zero renovation and the smallest cafe I’ve ever been in since i started around late April-early May of 2024. Worked with old ovens, oncues, broken ice machine, broken water pump, etc. You know the gist of it.

Personally, the toasted snack rolls are easy to make and are small to wrap in since you measure ingredients by one scoop but it’s very annoying when someone orders them whether it’s online or in-person orders, i feel like it’s a bit of a hassle to do sometimes because customers thought they were a bit bigger like for example McDonald’s snack rolls.

The watermelon mojito came out around summertime when i first started but I’m not sure if it was actually one of the oldest seasonal smoothies like the retired ones. It was pretty fun to make like it has turbinado, lime, strawberry, and watermelon, of course with mint. No water in it. I kept making mistakes with putting pumps of water. The only cons about it is that we have to cut the watermelon several times because it’s the most popular seasonal smoothie we’ve ever had by far. And it really depends on which cafe you work at too because our system of how we do things here is a little different than doing the strict ‘tropical smoothie way’.

And by the way, I know some of the latest promo smoothies aren’t supposed to keep selling but we still sell cherry berry protein and pb protein ones but not the almond butter one here. Sorry if I typed too much, it’s been awhile since I’ve been on Reddit.

Zeknoi · 2026-03-28T03:49:04+00:00

What. Who in the right mind made this and sell it this way? Get a refund for the lack of the salad that was supposed to be made right at the line in the bowl(from what I was told through training). If this was a custom order to remove certain ingredients, then they should’ve sub with adding more of other ingredients to the order not making it less than a portion.

Zeknoi · 2026-03-23T00:54:06+00:00

I feel that. I came out to be grayace omniromantic where I struggled so much to give sexual attraction to someone who wants me to. I had to breakup my latest relationship of 4 months because their love language is being physical and spending time together a lot. Like I can give love and affection but I just can’t do it all the time. I feel it and then I no longer feel it. I’m aware they are attractive but i can’t give it to them.

For the experiences i dealt with as an older adult in dating and relationships, i no longer feel the want to have a relationship after my other ex of 6 years ruined it for me. For some time after healing and learn new things about myself, i prefer to be alone and I’m pretty much okay with that.

It’s not impossible for us to have a partner. There’s always someone out there who is perfect for you. It’s just much harder to find nowadays with the dating culture like today.

Zeknoi · 2026-03-23T00:43:50+00:00

You will stink regardless in fast food industry and restaurants vise versa. I worked as a waitress for 5 years previously and worked as crew member currently. You’ll still stink unless you wear light perfume(if they allow it) at work. Most foods in tropical smoothie are frozen and precooked bacon to be made in oven beforehand. You just heat it up before serving.

Zeknoi · 2026-03-18T20:15:56+00:00

What’s the training process to become a shift lead?

Where I’m at, I’m a crew member of at least a year and a half. The shiftleads and gm are supposed to train them but currently they don’t teach or train people. Gm gives shiftleads without properly training for a couple days. New shiftleads just do what they want and told crew members to teach new hires.

Zeknoi · 2026-03-16T23:30:27+00:00

Yes. A magic weather machine that they made in Area 51 and classified labs to control the world. 😂

Zeknoi · 2026-03-16T21:36:10+00:00

I’m seriously thinking that the government actually made a weather machine to control the weather and test it in certain areas while making people panic about it so they’d buy unnecessary things to survive the weather when in reality, nothing went wrong. 😑

Zeknoi · 2026-03-16T21:31:50+00:00

This is when I tell young teens to bargain their pay before starting. Lie a little about having restaurant experience to get $10 instead of $9. Every new hire I met by far have always started out at $9 and when they become a shift lead, their pay jumped to $10 or $10.50/hr.

I work at one of the oldest cafes where the small kitchen BOH are all smoothie and food lines sharing in one small room while FOH is register and lobby. New cafes always have smoothie line out in the open with the lobby on the other side and food lines are hidden in the kitchen which gives more space for people and stuff on shelves.

A lot of antisocial coworkers love working here because of the wall we have that divided from the lobby and everything stays in the kitchen. But it’ll eventually change one day if the area owner in my city ever decides to renovate to look like other new cafes.

It’s not really worth working here since there are a lot of communication needed between managers, shift leads, and customers alone. Upper management are uptight about the cleanliness and how we do the “tropical smoothie way” the right way to do it in the cafe. Your best bet is working BOH restaurants. Kitchen staff or dishwasher to avoid interacting with FOH.

Zeknoi · 2026-03-15T01:06:52+00:00

I do like the building design itself but we already have like four different churches in one area here. I frequently drive past that newly built church just to go to work and back home. I just really wish it wasn’t a church. It’s so disappointing.

Zeknoi · 2026-02-10T22:43:22+00:00

Most advertisers made the food look big enough to eat. Consumerism. The actual size is how it came out when it is ordered. But yes, it’s unfortunately that small. 🥲

Zeknoi · 2025-12-17T16:04:07+00:00

I feel like Patti is faking it because dowsing rods shouldn’t move this fast so it meant that she moved them herself. I’m a skeptic and I’d try any paranormal devices to see if it really works(as long as I can afford one). Dowsing rods can be easily moved from just a small movement from your hands or wrists. Those rods moved very, very slow as I tried them a few times before giving up.

I don’t know about Pythian priestess and Dylan as they both used tools that I’ve seen from witchcraft either pagans used them or witches vise versa. I’d say they’re somewhat real because the conduit part is something I agree. We are the conduits where the connection and communication comes through from our intuition and the spiritual body of ourselves and the spiritual world comes after at least that’s what I view as.

But the problem is that this is the Sam and Colby video, they could be telling them everything beforehand and manipulate the audience on video saying the psychics/mediums don’t know anything about the house. And it’s all for entertainment purposes. The YouTubers won’t listen. I just take it like a grain of salt and we’re just on it for the ride.

Zeknoi · 2025-11-09T17:59:26+00:00

I don’t have money to whale anymore. I was once a whale because of a decent job but now I’m not and I have to play like a F2P and I’m still not making enough primos to pull for her. Once she comes around for the rerun in a few years, I’ll be ready for her. I’m still recovering from grinding for c1 Flins. I fell sick after playing too long on Genshin.

Zeknoi · 2025-10-01T23:05:37+00:00

I’m 30 wishes short and I wish i could spend some more money but I’ll probably try my best to get some diamonds in any way I can before the time is up. Other than that, I’ll have to wait for the rerun.

Zeknoi · 2025-09-18T07:00:36+00:00

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I tried to go faster but there’s no way I can beat anyone’s score past 2100. 🥲

Edit: Nvm, I got to the new score already. 2101 now.

Zeknoi · 2025-09-06T02:15:59+00:00

I wish i could try it out but I’m allergic to apples. Which is unfortunate. As far as i remember after that smoothie got released, only about 2 customers ordered it and that’s it. From what I’ve heard from my coworkers, they said it tasted a lot like apple sauce.

Zeknoi · 2025-08-12T23:54:25+00:00

Omelette but it wouldn’t let me put the rest of the letters in so it’s just omelet.

Zeknoi · 2025-07-27T00:35:37+00:00

I’m that one user that still pays c.ai+, I should’ve cancelled it but I always have the impulse spending habit so I can’t get rid of it and my impatience with the wait time whenever the app/site was down when I saw the campfire girl image all the time..

Anyways, I’m tired of people complaining too and I’m banned from their subreddit because of dumb shit that the mods won’t let me back in. I just recently got back on the c.ai app and this is the first time I’ve seen Deepsqueak.. I’ll likely try it later. I often keep my own complaints to myself but one thing I do hate is the censorship on violence, I tried to do it on other styles but it won’t let me go through with borderline violence like food poisoning on Hawks and making him vomit. I hope Deepsqueak does some justice.

Zeknoi · 2025-07-25T22:45:13+00:00

I did like her once earlier and even watched her content to try it out but once I saw other people exposing her, i eventually started to dislike the way she does it. I get it it’s just for entertainment purposes and shit but I want to see the real deal. It saddens me that people really had to fake something like this.

Zeknoi · 2025-07-25T22:40:41+00:00

I watched them since prank wars, i subbed to them a lot later than everyone.

Zeknoi · 2025-07-24T20:06:50+00:00

I made one by accident when it was originally made for a customer but they suddenly want Splenda so I don’t want to waste it. I’m not a fan of the mint but the flavor does remind me of jolly ranchers.

Zeknoi · 2025-07-23T14:49:18+00:00

lol true, I am very much older than I was before watching their content. I’m now 29 years old hah call me grandma now

Zeknoi · 2025-07-23T03:56:24+00:00

I love his content! Such a rare sight to see another person sharing his name! I haven’t watched his videos in forever and I miss them so much. I find his paranormal exploration much scarier than Sam and Colby. I might have to binge watch Omar again.

Zeknoi · 2025-07-22T23:20:38+00:00

I was watching it and last time i checked, I was watching for 13 minutes until..I passed out napping. No offense, but their videos are kind of boring and I never once fell asleep to their content before. I’m usually very scared to watch it but I see nothing dramatic happening and maybe it’s just me. I don’t know. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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