Intelligent design

About once a day when I work in drive-thru, I get someone who almost drives pass my window, and probably would if I didn't holler "hello!" at them. Often then, they'll comment on the poor design of the drive-thru. I mean... heh, looks like I'm going to have to do some exposition.

There are three ways to enter the parking lot at my McDonald's. Two of them can get you to drive-thru easily, but one other makes you circle the building so you can order. Also, you can't see the window that I work at from very far down the line, because it's around a corner. Besides the window I often work at and the window where the food is handed out, there's another window. We have it covered by a curtain, but sometimes people still stop there and I'll have to hang out the window to wave them down.

The poor design of this McDonald's is not merely relegated to the exterior; it also has quite a bit of wasted space, not much storage, a grill that is too small of the volume of business we do, and my personal favorite, only one stall in the women's bathroom. In fairness, there's only one in the men's too, but they also have a urinal. It was built on a crawl space rather than a foundation, and there are cracks in the floor if you look closely. And, the dining room is too small. I say, jokingly, that this McDonald's is evidence that there is no such thing as intelligent design. And the owner agrees with me. He's having it torn down and rebuilt like a "normal" McDonald's.

Hey, Mr. Owner, be sure not to give the contract for designing this place to the same company that give you this shitty design in the first place, mmmkay?

Chances are, it'll still be closed when I graduate from boot camp. It'll make things nice and complicated when the Navy guys show up to interview my superiors and coworkers for my security clearance and find a building site. Heh. I might spend a month or two doing more shit jobs because they can't easily find people to interview.

Taxes, McDonald's, comments, and DEP meetings

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on to more pleasant things.

Final Embrace said...

The only part of this story that's hard to swallow is that you work for McDonald's.
I mean, really. In your post about abortion (today's post) you use a semicolon correctly. Do you expect me to believe that you labor daily at a fast food restaurant?
Otherwise, keep up the great writing.

Well, I don't suppose it really matters whether or not you believe that I work at a fast food place. Given my situation, I could either work there, at a gas station, Subway, or the local Chinese restaurant. Menial labor. I have to say that it's good for me to work in this in-between time, otherwise I'd likely get depressed and lazy and bitter. I could start a small business doing something like writing resumés, but I personally don't like the idea of opening a business that at the onset has a close date. Well.

I had my first DEP meeting (that would be a meeting of all the kids that are in the Delayed Entry Program in the area in the Navy); it went both better and worse than I expected. Better, because I had confirmation that I have indeed memorized my Eleven General Orders for a Sentry, Sailor's Creed, and Rank and Recognition. Worse, because I've found out how out of shape I'm in. Well, that's fixable and I do have time to fix it. I am going to be strong and fit by the time I visit my friend who's already graduated boot camp.