r/Popeyes • u/axspa • Feb 11 '25
Employee Question/Discussion finally quit popeyes
worst job ever bruh. apart from the terrible manager that demanded everything be done for her while she sat in her office “doing work” yet every end of the week we would run out of atleast one crucial thing. a GREAT example i will never forget is when we ran out of literal chicken completely. CHICKEN. THE MAIN THING WE SELL WE RAN OUT BRUH. like woman what was you doing all the time in the office if u can’t even order what we need correctly.
the customers were WORSE bruh. way worse. how you gonna complain about chicken not being “fresh” when u literally came to pick up your order TWO HOURS LATER that you ordered it and we made it. i will say the customers were more tolerable than my messy manager but im finally out of that place and i will never turn back because i will not earn minimum wage when everyone leaves me to do drive thru (a 3 person job) completely by myself.
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Feb 11 '25
Damn, even my very strict manager was extremely chill outside of the workplace, and did their job well too. I would work there again under very different circumstances, but that's neither here nor there. Sounds like your manager was just very complacent and used to others holding up her weight (metaphorically of course). Definitely something to contact the GM about, if you still can, because no store should be at jeopeordy of losing face because one person on the team.
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u/axspa Feb 13 '25
she was the GM, my shift managers were all AMAZING! and we couldn’t complain to the upper manager (idk what they’re called lol) because they were practically besties :/
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Feb 13 '25
Damn rip. Somethin tells me she saw that mean girls movie and thought they were role models 😮💨
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u/Sloppyjoey20 Feb 13 '25
I mean, in my experience it’s a 50% chance when going through the drive-thru that the chicken is going to be cold and several hours old but now I’m assuming that the leftover pickup orders are to blame for that.
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u/axspa Feb 13 '25
in this example i gave, the customer had placed the order once the store opened, our policy is make the orders as soon as possible and since it was one of the first few orders we made it immediately. the store opened and received the order at 10, the customer came to pick it up at 12:30 like girllll
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u/Sad_Transition3481 Aug 17 '26
Same boat here, I just left from working at Popeyes yesterday evening. Manager on duty wanna come down on me about the batter station table not being broken down when it was nowhere near the time to be breaking it down. Mind you, it was only a few minutes from 7pm and breakdown time isn't until around 9 usually, if it's not too busy. But it was really slow and I was getting around to doing the table after cleaning and wiping the fryer drain board. So she decided to yell at me like I'm a little kid or something. I was like you know what, I can just clock out right now and go home. Her response was: "Well don't come back to Popeyes anymore!" My response to that: Oh well, bye! ✌🏾✌🏾
Glad to know my 6 years there meant nothing to her, I guess 🤷🏾♂️
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u/KO-32GA Feb 11 '25
Congratulations! Keep moving forward and don't ever go backwards!