Have you ever worked at Pizza Hut or any fast food chain?

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We often complain about the terrible quality of fast food chains, but let's offer the perspective of the workers. I worked at Pizza Hut part time for just two months, and it wasn't anything terrible like child labor or anything, but it wasn't something I would want to do forever. Here is my experience: First, we had to read the same sheet of paper every time we picked up the phone. Something like "Thank you for choosing Pizza Hut... would you like to hear the specials?..." Then the manager would always tell us not to eat the food but he would always be stuffing his face in the kitchen with a bread stick. Our other jobs as customer service representatives were to fold the stacks of pizza boxes, clean the tables, bring orders to those who were dining in, take orders from walk-ins, and make the wings since the cooks were often busy with the pizzas. It was often difficult to take orders because there were only two or three phones, and just two computer systems to take orders. At night, we would get much more than two calls at a time in addition to the walk-ins. People who walked in were always really pissed off because it would take a while to get their orders in between calls. Also, people would complain about wanting to change the channels on the tv, and cause a riot because the pizza place was a popular location for birthday parties. It was a lot to handle for workers who were often high school kids.