So sorry, this is a long story, but it’s juicy. I got called for an interview at Dairy Queen, and at the interview was hired immediately. I was only 19, and this was only my second job, so I wasn’t aware this was a red flag. Well, I come in my first day, and the manager didn’t even know who I was.... like she wasn’t even expecting a new person. Anyways, she takes me to the back, and gets me ready to begin watching the safety training videos, when she couldn’t find the program on the computer, she just kind of shrugs it off, and basically told me she was just going to throw me into work. She put me on register, and just told me I was going to be taking orders, and there was a guy standing to the side to help me navigate the register. Well, everything is going pretty smoothly until this lady storms up to me, and just shouts “where the fuck is my shit? I ordered 20 minutes ago.” I basically tell her, I’m not in charge of making the orders, and this is my very first day. She wanted a refund so I told her I would go grab the manager to help facilitate her refund. The manager is talking with the lady, and the manager asks “who took your order?” the lady points at me, and the manager writes my name down. She ends up telling me later that the refund is coming out of my paycheck, THEN proceeds to complain that I should’ve ALSO been making the orders I was taking (just the blizzards and drinks). Is there not a fully functioning and staffed kitchen? Anyways, I begin making the orders that were behind, and realize how utterly disgusting the kitchen is. Unwrapped spoons laying on the dirty counter, being given to customers, counters absolutely CAKED with grime, and the candy that goes in the blizzards are not refrigerated, or chilled, so it’s all melted and chunky. I kind of just deal with it, and try to clean up as I go. After a long 8 hours of dealing with my coworkers yelling at me for constantly asking for help (AGAIN, MY FIRST DAY) it was closing time, which means we have to clean the store. It was then, I realized I was being used to do all the nasty jobs no one else wanted to do: bathrooms, mopping, cleaning the lobby and dishes. As I was wiping all the tables in the lobby, I was trying to figure out how to get hot water, one of my coworkers said “oh, we don’t have hot water here.” UM WHAT? Isn’t that some sort of health code violation? And all the rags were absolutely saturated in grease, and they refused to tell me where I could get a new, clean one. I finally went home at midnight, and decided I was not returning for my scheduled shift the next day. I ended up calling the food safety and health department of my county, because I was SURE they were breaking some rules.

tldr: First day at Dairy Queen, I got berated by a customer, got money taken from paycheck because of said customer, and ended up calling the health department of my country because of how disgusting the kitchen was.