Today, at my new fast food job, I was in charge of filtering the grease out of the fryers. I accidentally turned the wrong lever and flooded the kitchen with hot oil. It took over 3 hours to clean up, and my manager is furious. FML
Punkpoptart1119 tells us more.
Hi! OP here. I honestly didn't think this would get posted so I'm pretty surprised. They gave me a super quick run down of what to do, then everyone left the kitchen. The front cash people don't know how to do it, so I was left alone. The good thing is, it could've been way worse. My manager said that if it had flooded on the top, the fryer could've caught fire, so at least it wasn't that. I was really upset so my manager told me to go outside and have a smoke while it was cleaned up. She got mad at the kitchen people for leaving me by myself and talked to me later on. She said that everyone makes mistakes and that it was okay. I had to filter the fryers the following night, but I made sure someone was with me so I didn't **** it up again. I still have a job! Thanks for all of your comments. A lot of them made me laugh and feel better about the situation.
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HylianBadger 21
At least your manager wasn't a ******* and was mad at the right people instead of you. Glad to hear you still have your job!
qpdoll 19
Wow, your manager is like 7 times less shitty than most
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Comments (62)
IssacB 14
Seemed like a great time to play "The floor is lava".
Tripartita 45
"Hey, I just reviewed your patent application for the 'vat of hot oil used to cook foods in a commercial setting' device, and it looks great! I can foresee this being popular if those rather fast food cooking restaurants you've been talking about take off, but I have one question: the 'dump all oil on to floor' lever… why?"
Crazyjohnb 23
This is obviously in case you see a spider and need a quick way to burn down the restaurant
bobsanction 18
Pull the lever, Kronk!
Punkpoptart1119 20
WRONG LEVERRRRRRRRRR!!!! Literally. Ha
HylianBadger 21
Why do we even have that lever?
FUCKTARD_HATER 15
For the lols
claudiajean 24
Hopefully your manager will calm down and realise that worse things happen. You're new, people make mistakes and people get over things :)
jcash52426 5
I would blame who ever told to change the grease. Your the new guy and he/she should have showed you how to do it. How ever if you were showed then you messed up big time.
Punkpoptart1119 20
Hi! OP here. I honestly didn't think this would get posted so I'm pretty surprised. They gave me a super quick run down of what to do, then everyone left the kitchen. The front cash people don't know how to do it, so I was left alone. The good thing is, it could've been way worse. My manager said that if it had flooded on the top, the fryer could've caught fire, so at least it wasn't that. I was really upset so my manager told me to go outside and have a smoke while it was cleaned up. She got mad at the kitchen people for leaving me by myself and talked to me later on. She said that everyone makes mistakes and that it was okay. I had to filter the fryers the following night, but I made sure someone was with me so I didn't **** it up again. I still have a job! Thanks for all of your comments. A lot of them made me laugh and feel better about the situation.
HylianBadger 21
At least your manager wasn't a ******* and was mad at the right people instead of you. Glad to hear you still have your job!
qpdoll 19
Wow, your manager is like 7 times less shitty than most
scyth3s 13
Indeed, it sounds like you found a delicious apple in the rotten barrel known as fast food.
Emmereen 29
It sounds like no one got hurt, either. I'm glad it all worked out.
McDerp 11
Awsome, it's pretty cool that your manager wasn't a cuntwaffle.
cuz803 46
I give an absolute **** about you! :)
TeasinDaNoobs 16
You made a mistake and learned from it! Way to go OP. Dont be afraid to make mistakes or fail at things!
freddygasman 18
your manager is awesome, so many people could learn how to their employees better from him. all too often managers forget what it's like to be the new guy, and when the new guy screws up they go postal.
ohmypie 8
Omg..one time my manager was cleaning the fryers and the cleaner boiled into the other two and on the floor..we couldn't serve and fried food the rest of the night.
ZaiopePerSe 15
some elaboration is needed
19foxy81 8
They should NOT have made you do that on your 1st day unless they knew you had experience with doing it, don't feel bad, it's more your managers fault then yours!
WintressSoldier37 27
You said your new job? So this is a one of your first few days I take it. When I was a manager at a fast food place, the new maintenance men we trained to filter had someone doing it with them for at least a week. There is usually a lot of steps to remember and sometimes it takes time. I wouldn't feel that bad OP, your new. Hopefully things get easier!
CrotatoChip 11
Well why would they even have a lever to drain hot oil directly onto the floor
buffy_fan 3
when I worked fast food the idea was you put something to catch it below the drain and then opened the valve to drain out all the old oil.