Am I a crazy person for this?
I’m a new porter at my local Culvers! I have a lot of fast food experience so learning stuff has been easy enough, and I absolutely love porting. No truck, I get overtime constantly, I get to deep clean anything I want and get coupons and free meals out of it a lot of the time, get out early enough to still enjoy time with my girlfriend before bed, weekends off, decent pay(could be better, I’m probably the lowest paid porter in my state, but it’ll get better lol), good morning crew, all that good stuff.
Anyway, this morning while changing outside trashes and picking up lot, I noticed the trash was absolutely filled to the brim. Friday was supposed to be trash day - garbage is closed for the weekend. Yikes.
I had been thinking about it all day, even while we were getting bum rushed with a thousand chicken tender orders and custard and box upon box of burgers and how I wouldnt be able to finish porting at the end of the shift because all this trash was blocking room for my shift’s trash. If you work fast food, you know we go through a LOT of trash in a day. So I’m thinking about tomorrow, and how I won’t be here, and about allllllll the trash that will pile up after just one day during college graduation weekend just like it did today, literally the back door was blocked with trash because no one could even get it in the dumpster.
My managers obvi told me I did what I could and that I should stop worrying about it, yayaya, but with my personality it’s really hard for me to not think about it lol. All that trash stinking up the dry stock for a whole day? Blocking access to the back door, the emergency exit? Uhhhh no.
Soooooo I brought donuts back to work for the crew, told the manager I brought my uniform too and wanted to see if I could take some time to figure out the trash situation - it’ll take me less than an hour! He was ecstatic about all of it and gave me coupons, Butterbucks, all of it, especially because he has to port in the morning and deal with all of it as well.
I went back into that corral, gathered up the biggest pieces of cardboard I could find, put them on top of the trash already in the dumpster, jumped into the dumpster, jumped jumped jumped up and back down, did the worm a bit, shoved, pushed, and oh my GOD guys I fit so much more trash in that dumpster. I took what trash remained and put it in the old garbage bin outside and duct taped it shut with some more cardboard to make sure no animals could get inside before trash day. There were still some trashes that needed taken out but I shoved those mf’s down too, put my back into it for real. I think it’s still gonna be really really really bad but I took a few really’s off that bad at LEAST. All in 27 minutes. And I got to spend some time with the night people and donuts really buttered em up after a long night.
Ugh. I think I might be crazy dude. lol