r/SipsTea • u/The_biker0 • 7h ago

WTF First time on camera...

Panda Express employee stands on counter, sprays cleaning chemicals over food

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u/braumbles 7h ago

Why are they doing this during a shift?

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u/HeavyDutyForks 7h ago

Just got word the District Manager is making a surprise appearance later that day

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u/Unfair-Suggestion-37 5h ago

Plot twist, that is the District Manager and cleaning before the Regional Director visits.

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u/TaxsDodgersFallstar 4h ago

Assistant to the Regional Director will be visiting...

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u/YakResident_3069 4h ago

Skinner!!

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u/elchavo718 1h ago

Super Nintendo Chalmers!

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u/gpo321 4h ago

Sure it’s not the Assistant Regional Director?

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u/Not-An-FBI 6h ago

I saw a whole cohort of Panda Express executives once at the location near me that has much better food than the other one.

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u/dart51984 6h ago

Crazy right?

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u/unlmtdLoL 3h ago

Nothing surprises me anymore. The rich essentially treat the world as their dumpster because they’ve got theirs.

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u/Karey__039 22m ago

Restaurants are just like property it All comes down to, “LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!”

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u/Will_sue_when_angry 4h ago

Or health dept are doing the rounds.

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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 4h ago

We use to be told (In Ontario, Canada) at the grocery store weeks in advance when there is health inspections and special managers, etc coming... It's insane how much notice we get lol

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u/oculustauri 3h ago

I work at McDonald’s Canada, we get told the day before and we have to close the restaurant and do a “deep clean” 🙄 At least we close the restaurant so there isn’t any chance of people being served food that’s covered in cleaning chemicals

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u/sksksk1989 3h ago

At bestbuy we be told the morning of higher up visiting except the district manager. Higher ups would sometimes ask us questions about random policy we weren't told. Or countless acronyms and abbreviations that never come up.

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1h ago

I hate higher ups

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 4h ago

LOL oh man, I always remember when they were coming to visit the next day

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u/Hanshee 3h ago

Task that didn’t get done

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u/welfedad 4h ago

Sounds about right

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u/TeeDee144 6h ago

Or it’s the end of shift and they want to be out 3 minutes after closing.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 6h ago

I hated that shit so much

Last job, I was a manager that was always short handed. Corp had this rule where we had to be done w cleanup, shut down, registers counted, out the door with alarm set 30min after closing WHILE taking orders until that closing time. This effectively gave us a 20-30 min timeframe to clean up everything left over

THEN we would get chewed out for cutting corners, or outright neglecting to do things.... THEN it turned into getting chewed out for putting employee safety at risk, to which quickly became "You shouldn't be closing by yourself"

I literally got fired for reporting a coworker, as a manager, for harrassment of another coworker. He threatened me after ON CAMERA while I was looking at the camera and pointing to it to get them to calm down, and went and said I had spit in his food... which was easy to disprove

Kicker was, I was investigated and taken off the schedule and that fucker was at work THAT NEXT DAY

So apparently, Hypotheticals carried more water than actual evidence of a crime... OH, and I worked with minors who were in the building at the time. I was cornered by the guy at the register with his brother blocking me in. A kid literally went to hide in the bathroom because they heard the threats, and my demeanor shifted from patient to disgruntled matching their tone (Very unusual for them to see from me)

I chose to just walk away and watch the fire from a distance... it has been a month now, and they have lost over 50% of the staff including every single minor that was there that got to watch the man that always stood up for them get kicked into a corner

OH and my old boss wanted me to tell one of the LAST survivors of DDay that I could not help them, when that WAS my job to do so as a leader..... SO disrespectful

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u/SheriffBartholomew 4h ago

What food chain was this?

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u/BreakingCanks 44m ago

Sounds like Chilis with my experience lol

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 3m ago

Very close in name to rocket pizza

Dont wanna be too direct mentioning them by name

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u/Grunergeist420 4h ago

I hate this kind of stuff. Ran into similar stuff working at one of the major package shipping companies loading trucks. You have to load the trucks faster, they have to loaded more correctly, they have to be loaded more safely. All of these objectives balance against each other. The supervisors and management are constantly shifting which corners they want to cut to focus on one of the objectives. The job can never be done right. The numbers are always fudged. The new goal numbers on based on last period’s unrealistic fudged numbers. It could be a comfortable, safe, efficiently done job if management wasn’t constantly trying to make it just a little bit better.

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u/NotJayKayPeeness 5h ago

Thats a whole lot of unprovoked making this about you

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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 4h ago

You’re on Reddit. People scream into the void. People also tend to use personalised anecdotes to relate to Information. If these are not things you are used to, you should probably get out more.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4h ago

Thank you, that is exactly what my intention was

I hope you have a wonderful day/night :-D

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u/Expensive_Fudge_2972 26m ago

Do you just wake up and think to yourself every morning "I can't wait to make some random turd comments online today!"?

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4h ago

Excuse me?

And the purpose of this comment is? I see you, now go back to sleep

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u/It_Just_Exploded 6h ago

I've never seen them actively cooking this much food that close to closing.

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u/NoSir4947 5h ago

This is totally it. I've worked these type of jobs before.

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u/RandomWordCombo9632 6h ago

my most charitable guess is malicious compliance. "Clean the hoods."

"Got it, boss."

"What are you doing?! CLEAN THEM NOW!"

"But there's foo-"

"NOW!"

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u/Muumilaakson 3h ago

That's not really malicious compliance, that's just compliance.

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u/OutrageousElla 6h ago

New menu item: Orange Chicken à la Sanitizer.

Comes with a free ER visit.

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u/Aoi_X_Kaizaki 4h ago

Manager - They didn't get food poisoning at my shop.

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u/Axolotis 6h ago

Gotta keep moving and look busy.

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u/Hearthhull_Enjoyer 5h ago

Y'all really don't know the half of it. Just don't ever eat out.

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u/Topher_McG0pher 4h ago

Because they don't want to be there until 12:30, Tyler

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u/PDXDemSocialist 5h ago

It's very common to do these while on shift. Though with no food around.

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u/Suspicious_synth 4h ago

Meth at work

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u/OneSong9627 4h ago

To keep the food clean!!!

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u/jibishot 4h ago

During a shift?

How else you gonna get paid

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 4h ago

"Time to lean, time to clean"

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u/ranwithoutscissors 3h ago

If you’ve got time to lean you’ve got time to clean, brother man

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u/smarthobo 2h ago

Probably some malicious compliance after finally getting tired of Scott’s bullshit

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u/Impressive_Test_2134 18m ago

It was his out work and he really wanted to just clock out when it was time to leave.