• Fast Food workers

    From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Jim Weller on Friday, May 10, 2019 02:57:02
    On 05-08-19 22:25, Jim Weller <=-
    spoke to Dave Drum about Coffee <=-

    just try to get something more than a blank look ...
    min-wage doofus ...
    the kid at the ca$h register wouldn't have a clew ...

    You sure do have a low regard for retail workers in the food and
    beverage industry!

    Sometimes warranted, sometimes not. A job behind the counter at most
    fast food locations does not require much in the way of intelligence.
    The meals are listed by number -- i.e. I'll have a number 3 dinner.
    They do not need to add, nor know how to make change. It is given to
    them by the register. The people in the back might need a bit more
    training.

    Similar can be said of most grocery store check out clerks. Most items
    are scanned using a bar code. Things such as produce have a universal
    sticker on it with a product code. After a while, the smarter clerks
    know that a green pepper is code number xyzw -- the new ones have to
    ask, or look it up in a book.

    In both cases, those jobs are most likely minimum wage and starter jobs.
    Rarely do they offer any real career path -- but some do move on up into management jobs.


    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

    Title: Beef Vindaloo
    Categories: Beef, Meat, Indian
    Yield: 1 servings

    MMMMM--------------------------BARB DAY-------------------------------
    2 lb Beef chuck cut into 1" cubes
    14 c Garlic
    1/2 c Red wine vinegar
    4 sm Hot Red Chiles
    1/4 ts Cumin seeds
    3/4 ts Tumeric
    1 ts Dry English mustard
    1 Lemon
    1 1/4 ts - Salt
    1/4 ts Ginger
    2 Bay leaves
    5 Cloves; whole
    3 tb Poppy seeds
    1 sm Onion
    1/2 c Tomato paste
    Clarified butter
    - Salt and pepper to taste
    1/4 c Sugar

    Place the garlic and vinegar into a blender and mix to a smooth
    paste. Remove the tops and bottoms of the chiles and remove the
    seeds. (do NOT put your fingers near your eyes, or they will become
    inflamed). Add the peppers to the blended paste. Put cumin seeds,
    tumeric, mustard, ginger, salt and sugar into a small bowl and mix
    together. Pour this mixture into the blender. Remove the peel from
    the lemon, squeeze the juice, discard the pips and chop the inner
    pulp. Add the juice and the pulp to the blender, then blend
    thouroughly.
    Place the beef into a bowl and pour the blended mixture over it.
    Stir in the poppy seeds and marinate for two hours. (Be careful not
    to spill this marinade, or you might have to move from your home!
    <G>) After meat is marinated, finely slice the onion.
    Pour some clarified butter a skillet over med. heat, and add the
    onions. Cook until opaque. Add the bay leaves and cloves. With a
    slotted spoon, lift the meat from the marinade and add to the frying
    onions, increasing the heat so that the meat is sealed quickly. When
    the meat is sealed all over, add the marinade.
    Cover tightly, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour. After
    the meat has cooked for 1 hour, add the tomato paste, stirring it
    thoroughly into the meat mixture, and cook for another 30 min. When
    the meat is tender, serve at once - piping hot.
    This is very hot! Nice served with plain boiled or steamed long
    grain rice.
    For a nice cooling touch you might serve with a lime cordial.
    Note: When using the hot chilies, remove the placenta as well as
    the seeds (the inside fleshy membrane) as it contains Capucin and can
    cause inflamation if you eat too much.

    Source: Graham Kerr book , copy-righted 1971, called "The Galloping
    Gourmet TV Cookbook" -Vol 6. I have made this many, many times, and
    love it. I hope you will enjoy it for me, because my old stomach
    just can't take it like it once did, and I have to tone down the
    recipe to make it . But full-strngth it is fabulous if you like
    things HOT and garlicky!
    Good luck to those who are breathing in near you, for several days
    after you consume this dish ! <grin>
    From: Geoff Percival Date: 01 Feb 94

    MMMMM


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  • From JIM WELLER@1:123/140 to DALE SHIPP on Sunday, May 12, 2019 22:19:00

    Quoting Dale Shipp to Jim Weller <=-

    a low regard for retail workers

    Sometimes warranted, sometimes not.

    I have come across the occasional young part timer in Edmonton mall
    shops that meet Dave's description, but I tend to blame the
    supervisors for inadequate training as much as the kids for having
    a poor work ethic. And I don't assume they're dumb just because
    they're terrible employees.

    But I must say that I very rarely encounter that in Yellowknife at
    stores or restaurants.

    And given our strong economy and low unemployment rate the base
    wages here are way over the minimum wage and we still need to bring
    in a lot of temporary foreign workers to man the tills, flip the
    burgers and stock the shelves,

    The minimum wage here is $13.45 (going up to $13.85 on June 1) and
    Walmart is the cheapest employer with new hires starting at $14.
    (They also have the worst employees.) The fast food places start at
    $15 with raises to $17, Subway pays their bread bakers, $17 to $22,
    shift leaders make $20, assistant store managers $25 and I know one
    store manager (an employee not the franchisee) who is getting $65,000
    per year plus a percentage of sales performance bonus. Drug store
    and clothing shop clerks make at least $16 and grocery store
    cashiers who are generally full time, with a benefit package, make
    $20 to $22.

    I manned a booth at our annual trade show all weekend and I chatted
    with the McDonald's franchisee during a break, He is currently
    advertising jobs at $15 for no experience and $17 with prior
    experience and I asked him how he felt about Fatburger breaking away
    from the crowd and running an ad at $18, He said quietly he had just
    give the best half of his workers raises a week ago to $19 and let
    the others know they would be eligible for the same treatment if
    they were more punctual and consistently performed well. He also
    said my next burger there would coat a little bit more than before.


    Cheers

    Jim


    ... Walmart: "Always Low Prices, Even Lower Wages"

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