Confession of a Sheetz Employee (2013) - Former employee of the northeast gas station/convenience store chain gives his thoughts on being fired over a 53 cent chicken biscuit
Posted Mar 26, 2021, 10:28 AM UTC
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Sadly this kind of situation isn't all that uncommon.
I worked at a Turkey Hill (Sheetz competitor) for a year and I've heard almost the same exact story at my place: Good people getting fired for out of touch no-nonsense policies that are put in place by corporate suits who don't even know what a store floor looks like.
Fuck retail, and fuck the big chain stores.
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This is what happens when "numbers people" are brought on who actually don't know how to evaluate value properly. In no universe is firing this guy the correct move, morally or financially. Any dolt can come up with arbitrary, monolithic laws that look like a structured environment, but actual leadership means being able to navigate situations as nuanced as what this gentleman went through.
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Poor dude. It's sad that he has to flatter the company's amorphous corporate identity too. He talks about how much of his life he has given to this company, and the way they have treated him, and it just makes me so very sad.
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That part killed me. They're humiliating this dude. They're making him grovel. It's like he said, they never even gave him the chance to fix the mistake. Just what the fuck.
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He has to do this out in the woods?
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How else would the individual who scours the internet for the phrase "Sheetz" be able to find him?
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I feel attacked.
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Sounds like a park with the people in the background.
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This company sounds like it truly sucks ass. He mentions how they look at labor as a liability and an expense and not as asset. Yet he doesn't see it. He still admires the company.
A lot of corporate cultures are sick, they're not the only ones. But I get the vibe from this video that this is one of those many companies that are just morally bankrupt.
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My best friend in high school was fired from McDonalds for getting caught eating a Big Mac that had been thrown in a dumpster. He was devastated, in poor rural towns McDonald's is one of the only jobs for a big sector of the population.
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That sucks, they shouldn’t care if eats what someone already threw away. Hell it could even be seen as free advertising. Big Macs are so good, he can’t resist eating them out of the trash!
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I don't think people are considering how unsanitary it is for someone who works with food to be eating garbage. Sure, maybe they had to, but at least do it out of the uniform.
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Sick goatee bro
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Fr, flip your shirt inside out like if you're drinking at the bar you work at. Problem solved. Imagine if the health department saw it, you'd DEFINITELY be getting a point lol.
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I agree with you, ultimately it is the property of the store and they don't want people eating that food which is their right. Reddit hates corporations but the reality is throwing food away doesn't mean it is free to consume. What people don't realize is if we make it difficult for companies to discard food with no risk of it being consumed it will make companies reticent about buying in larger quantities which will drive up prices of food for everyone.
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if we make it difficult for companies to discard food with no risk of it being consumed it will make companies reticent about buying in larger quantities which will drive up prices of food for everyone.
i bet the same people who told you this also told you that a $15 minimum wage would also make food price skyrocket because of people buying more food
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Was he on camera on store property? I can sorta understand why McDonalds wouldn't like the image of someone with their branding eating out of the trash. It's unsanitary, unappetizing, and frankly a little upsetting, three things you don't want associated with a restaurant.
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Back then if you were caught eating anything on shift you were instantly fired. Even one French Fry. Men had to keep their hair short enough it wouldn’t touch their collar. Totally insane by today’s standards, but people thought working at McDonalds was cool in the 1980’s.
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This is why Wawa is superior.
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Wawa is the sheet! We went to NJ from NY just to get food and not gas.
When I first saw a Sheetz truck with a picture of one of their burgers, I thought it was a joke.
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How very depressing
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This seems like a good guy who made a mistake, and was forced to learn a difficult lesson the hard way. If he continued to be a good guy, I doubt life could hold him back and I'm confident he could go on to live a great life if that's what he wanted to do.
I would recommend not sharing your name and face with the world if you're let go at your job, or have some kind of difficult situation like this.
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well, your username is apt.
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My username is narcissisticdickhead.
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Haha I thought your response was funny.
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Indeed it was.
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Chris?
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What an actually great video. Wonderfully obscure, so not meant for us to watch. And the ending is nice too. He's not mad, he loved working there, but they have some policies that need to change. Sounds like they should have promoted him instead!
I did not expect to watch this entire thing.
This dude is me.
My story. Master Technician for Volvo. This is about 4 years into this dealership. They asked me to come in to finish an engine job (big $ticket$) they wanted on the end of the month. Sure, even though Saturday is my day off. No problem, I got you. Saturday come in 10 hours on my day off and get it done.
Next week is my Saturday to work. Slow. I mean slow to the point we were down the street playing pool. Service writer would call us if we had work. I did two oil changes, then it’s 3pm. Lemme ask a manager to go home (it was so slow that day, the 3 managers already left. No one to ask, 3 other techs there. “Fuckit I’m out, I’ll see y’all Monday.”
Came back to a write up for leaving early. Got another write up for my attitude when my manager talked to me about it. Got another one when I signed the second one “FUUUUUCK YOU”. And got fired at lunch time when I left and found a better paying job 30 seconds away at BMW.
Fuck you Don. Fuck you Kyle.
Hell yeah.
Go record this in a forest maybe
It makes me wish I owned a Sheetz so I could hire him. If we take him at his word (I do, how many retail employees know the names of their company's execs?), his story is a great example of a passionate, loyal, hard-working employee who got screwed by corporate stupidity.
yeah. such a great example of absolutely horrible management.
That story was riveting!
I was emotionally invested in this guy's situation.