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I’ve only had two jobs because my parents believed that my number one job is being a student.  Thankfully they believed that otherwise, I feel like my grades would have gone down.  My longest job I’ve had is working a McDonald’s unfortunately.  Surprisingly, 1 in 4 Americans have worked there and therefore, I am not going to be surprised if any of you have worked there.  Honestly I can say that I hated working there.  It was awful, disgusting, intense, and at times degrading.  Not only were the people you worked with idiots, but also the bosses were power hungry and the customers treated me like sh*t.  (can I say that?).  Let’s start with the fellow employees I worked with; most of them were high school drop outs who literally partied and did drugs all day long and came to work under the influence of god knows what.  Most tried very hard to feel accepted by asking if I wanted to have “some of this or try a puff of that,” and I obviously said no.  I’m not trying to be mean, but a lot of the people there just weren’t worth even remembering.  Next, the bosses that I worked under were just crew members promoted.  I think it’s great hat they have been in my position, but after promotions, they weren’t trained to be good managers.  Consequently, they did not know how to treat their employees nor did they care if they insulted you.  Lastly, the customers treated me like I was worthless because I worked at McDonald’s.  If I would mess up (which happened a lot, I’m only human) I was yelled at by the customers who felt empowered because they were in their car and had momentary courage to yell at someone because they could just drive away.  They knew I couldn’t say anything back so they would just antagonize me and belittle me.  I hated working there also because the work was very unclean and labor intensive.  Cleaning bathrooms and washing the floors is not what I signed up for and it was incredibly gross that I was expected to go back to handling food afterwards.  Overall, I have to say it taught me how to deal with different types of people,  but I definitely say that I will never work for McDonald’s again because I’m going to get an education so that it’s not necessary to work there.