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Homework sucks. That's the reasoning for that one.

Work sucks because I go to school, I go to practice for soccer, and then i have less than an hour to get to home, get changed, and get to work so i can work until 11 PM. Which doesn't exactly leave much time for homework. Which is why I hate work. Another reason i hate it: I get stuck doing the jobs i don't like.

I hate doing:
Till: be it front counter or Drive thru. It sucks, when it's slow, all you can really do is watch the clock taunt you, "Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. Whoops, A minute just passed, what, you thought it was an hour? you dummy!" yeah, It sucks.

Back window, AKA Cashier for Drive Thru: People give you orders, you tell them the total, you take their money, you send them to the next window. You're stuck in a little 3 foot by three foot room, by yourself, unless you're fortunate enough to be stuck back there with a friend, then it's just talk and joke around.

Fries: You drop a basket of fries, wait for them to finish frying while staring at the clock. You pull them out when the buzzer timer goes off, and you dump them in a bin, where they get salted and then scooped into little containers. If you're in a rush, you have three people breathing down your neck, The Drive-through Runner, The Counter Runner, and the Manager, sometimes.

Lobby: Janitorial, self explanatory, You tell me you like pulling out a bag and tying it shut to find out that in bringing it back to the big garbage wagon thing, you've dripped a combination of pop, coffee, and milk all the way through the restaurant.

I usually like doing:

Running: You get the food, turn to the counter, put it on a tray or in a bag, and give it to people, making sure they get the right stuff.

Assembly: Putting together people's food as fast as you can. There's always something to do, If there isn't, slip into the crew room and grab a glass of water.

Meat, AKA Grill: Cook the meat, it's hot, and it's really easy to burn yourself on sizzling burger grease, but it's fun.

Breakfast Grill: Lots more to cook than just beef, chicken, and bacon. Eggs, Canadian Bacon, all sorts of stuff, Still, always something to be doing.

There are the jobs i don't mind too,

Lot: A variation on Lobby, Go out and clean outside, usually in the morning, and i can usually pick up a few cents that were dropped in drive thru.

Presenter: Make sure the drive thru runner didn't screw up the order, and hand it out to people, Make sure they're all set, and send them on their merry way, all while chilling in one relative area, but you gotta get the drinks for drive thru, so no slacking too much.

Today, Just SUCKED.

6-9: Front till: Busy as New York at Rush Hour.
9-11: Runner for front till
9-11: Got demoted from runner to Till, then from Till to Lobby, It was still busy, and i had customers grabbing wrong orders when i yelled them out, i had people complaining that they were waiting, and two unnamed people were not helping. Till person would tell me that a customer was taking the wrong order, The Drive Thru Runner took my food and sent it out in Drive Thru, and the person in Grill was the only one making food, and he couldn't keep up. Three others went to help him, and they couldn't keep up either. Finally, I was demoted to Till, the guy doing assembly was told to run, and then when it got quiet i had to do Lobby. TOTAL PIGSTY.
11-1 (Last station of the day): MEAT! I was excited, sure, i got to go on break then to meat, but once i got there, i could barely keep up with the people assembling. When it's "breakfast", one person does assembly, the other keeps him supplied. At "Lunch" there's one person toasting buns, one person putting on condiments, and one person slapping on the meat, wrapping it, and passing it up to the heated waiting tray for he runners to get. I would fill one tray with fresh cooked meat, and the next would be empty. There was a point where the assemblers had to get it straight off the grill. I got off work and came home.

In the past two weeks, I've worked 15 hours. I need to work more than just that, I have a Car, and Gas i need to pay for, and college coming up that i need to save for, 15 hours at 6.65 an hour isn't gonna cut it, that won't even be 100 bucks, 75 after they take all the taxes and stuff out. My schedule is open for their option to schedule me, but no, i'm not getting scheduled. In the meantime, When i am getting scheduled, I'm getting homework from Calculus class, Government and Politics (A College Class, I'm a senior in High School), and Advanced Placement Biology, the hardest class in the school (Third being a tie between Calculus and AP Physics, and second being AP Chemistry, which i took last year). When i get behind, i'm screwed, for lack of a better term. Bad news, I have 4 Calculus assignments. Bad News Worse: They're all due tomorrow, and i've been assigned to do s**t that takes "priority over that kind of thing". So, yes, I hate Homework, and I hate work right now too.