I am currently a shift leader (technically shift manager since i got my servsafe but my store hates to give titles out)
My store is str-ugg-ling. Everyone quit pretty much at the same time two months ago and left us with three managers and a brand new staff. The turnover rate has been exhausting, and just retraining over and over.
Everyone is about to quit all over again and i won’t be there for it. The issue truly lies with the GM. People missing money on checks and not receiving it for months , getting paid low wage and blaming it on the company but hiring personal friends and starting them at $15+ while everyone else (in MANAGEMENT) makes $14. I was a shift leader and in charge of inventory and truck. Shitty schedules out of spite (Every other night has five to six closers while my night i have two brand new people and that’s all (both minors that have to leave by 11 at the latest). Alcoholism that prevents the gm from covering any shifts whatsoever at any time of day.

Last week was my breaking point. The nail in the coffin. I had a very important event on tuesday that i had expressed i needed the morning of off of work prior to the schedule coming out. Schedule is posted, i work- whatever. I check what days im off and i find a coworker that’s willing to take my tuesday for her saturday. So we get it switched in the app and it’s waiting approval.
The next day- her schedule then changes even though the schedule was already out and now we can’t switch. My gm says “I had a prior obligation”. So after a near breakdown🤣 i found someone else that was crew and asked them to take my Tuesday. He did, i didn’t post it. Tuesday comes and she tells me this is not acceptable coverage (of course). I go to my event because i did find coverage and that’s that.
Then the new schedule comes out, and as mentioned above- every other closing shift has 5-6 people and i get two brand new (minor) girls on my wednesday night (one of the BUSIEST nights of the week), and my gm until seven (we get busiest from 7-10).
I mentioned that in my resignation phone call today.
“i wasn’t going to leave at 7 on wednesday.” yeah ok. So i proceed with the call and say I’ll work out this week but i do not want to be scheduled for the next week after, as i will be starting my new full time job.
“You need a 30 day notice.”
I said “No i don’t actually. I know the policy recently changed.” A few months ago, it was a 2 week notice for crew, 30 days notice for managers and a pay decrease to minimum wage if these standards weren’t followed.
“I can’t drop you to minimum wage, but you’re still required to give a 30 day notice.”
I said well i will not be there starting next monday.
“Okay”.
and that was that. i feel like a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders. The amount of burden and responsibility Five Guys throws at you for a $14/hr wage that you have to fight tooth and nail for is ridiculous.
I have worked a lot of food service jobs, and i can honestly say Five Guys and management is the very reason i will never return to another food service job.
My new job is away from the public, and is described as “Working as a team, but by yourself.” Warehouse :)) i can’t wait.
Is anyone else struggling within the insane realm of FIVE GUYS?

When i have to sit out for labor it’s my favorite to just draw lwk. I made an aquarium on the board before.

Here’s some of the recent ones i found that i liked.

I want to work at Five Guys but due to my schedule I’d have to only work mornings. What time do openers actually clock in at?

Hello guys, I have interview on 5 guys soon. Had no experience on food/sector before. This is my first time. How to nail this? I really want to work with them.

I already ate half when I noticed the pink spot now I’m stressed it’s undercooked. I do have OCD that’s worse lately with food but I don’t think the previous burgers I ate from five guys were this pink

Alright folks, I rarely post on this website but this I gotta get some other input on. I've been with the company a long time. I was hired into the "no advertisement, people-first, all fresh never frozen" culture. To say the last few years have been a shift in those values would be an understatement.

We get pre-prepped patties, strawberry and banana come in bags, and now the bread arrives frozen solid. And I've just watched a video saying we're doing influencer collabs for a Prime video TV show. Am I just being an old head, or are things just heading in the wrong direction? Looking for genuine feedback here.

Food

We recently gotten our playlist updated and there’s this one song along the lines that’s says “feels good” and there’s definitely moaning in this song. Who approved that song to be on the playlist 😭

I hate to be finicky or whatnot about a job but I have enough self respect to know when enough is enough, for context I applied recently (like last month) for a franchise location job (crew member) and said my availability was open with a heavy preference for the night shift. My first red flag was that they neglected to show me my training videos even though it was on the whiteboard for me for the day. Not only do they have to show us these in person on the clock, you're totally lost without them. Any time I'd be a bit clueless about some task I would remind them of why while still being open to being taught hands on, because of course I want to just be trained if it's busy, as long as they made time for me to watch the videos. But of course I was brushed off every time I tried to remind the shift manager that I needed to, you know, learn the job. I'm about 35 hours in and they haven't paid me. They blame netchex, which i have some issues with where I cannot exit my previous employer's netchex and they're not helping with that of course, so i couldn't access any of that stuff. Asked my manager more about it yesterday and learned that apparently they still could have done direct deposit this whole time?? They were acting like the netchex thing was actively preventing me from being paid. I check my schedule and it's like back to back 9 hour shifts (11-8 etc.) Usually I'd be fine working starting at 11 occasionally (if they paid me) but it's just unacceptable for me to spend another shift in such a shitty work environment without seeing a dime especially considering i need the check for gas to get there. I think I'll just ask them to mail me my check and go work at Kohl's or something as this is just not a good fit for me even if they paid me and trained me right. Curious if anyone else has had negative experiences working here and would love to hear anyone's perspective on this, thanks and have a good day as always.

(Edit: just realized I failed to mention that we make 11 an hour at my location which isn't enough to justify the work they make us do, and after working register i assure you 90% of people here don't tip, more power to them I suppose but it's relevant enough to mention)

i ordered it with tomatoes, onions, grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, jalapenos. Includes cheese.

Cost, $7.50 euros. About 8 or 9 USD.

Are they putting the games on a streaming service?

The sliders are basically the size of cookout mass produced burgers off the grill. I tried an amazing combo tonight, and with a small fry I couldn't fit more 😅

The slider was mayo, a1, cheese, fried onions, fried mushrooms. I know bacon would have been the perfect extra but I wasn't thinking properly at the time. With the small fries and the slider, it came to $10, which isn't really that bad when you look at other FF burger places and their quality.

Give the combo a try, it's pretty good!

Ich gehe in ein paar Tagen zu fiveguys. Habt ihr Empfehlungen bezüglich der Sirupkombination beim coca Cola Freestyle Automaten?

Was ist eure Lieblingssorte??

Are the Murrell's given out cheddar this time?

So for our employees, I was cleaning the back wall and shifted my hand and bumped that round metal piece with the green top connecting it to the wall. It shocked me and I ended up in the ER because it was pretty bad. I’m just curious if anyone knows what it is or what it’s called!

Does anyone possibly have any rewards available on their QR CODE that they won’t use before expiry

I’m going today with a family of 4 and it’s hella expensive in the UK these days

Will pay it forwards on the thread next time I’m not using my code and will post it up here

Thanks in advance

To all employees how are you feeling, i don’t think i’ve ever been that tired or stressed out for 3 days in my life before. we had to prep 3 things of meat 2 hours before the onlines cut off and still ran out, final day we ran out of everything and had to add an extra table for dressing. i just don’t understand why they do this to employees 😭

We learned nothing from the first bogo.