After the Show: Your first Summer job

Jodi is starting to worry about her oldest daughter, Taylor, getting a summer job.
"We're in such an instant gratification world now that even the most grown up adults have very little patience." -Jodi

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Listen to the show on your schedule, subscribe to the podcast,
and get more from Murphy, Sam and Jody after the show.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thanks for hanging out with us. That's exactly what we're
doing right now. After the show.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, we were talking about our oldest daughter, Taylor, if that,
being at that age where she needs something, some constructive
things to do this summer. But she's too young to
get an official job job yet, she's fifteen.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know, I guess I need to explore because when
I think back, I had to have my driver's license
before I was able to get a job.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Also, right, she can't officially legit get a job this summer.
I'm drinking, you know, back.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Door hes some money under the table.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm sure I could. But we were talking about my
first job, which was McDonald mcdonald' when I was sixteen, Sham.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
What was your first job? Oil rig?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Now cutting grass might have been the oil rig?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Wow? Working off shore? You know I was aroused about.
Yeah you are? Are you in the kitchen? Yeah? I
was in the kitchen. Okay, my official title was cook's assistant.
That's great though.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
See I think that you did the same thing, really
Jody did, except Jody wasn't behind the friars and all that.
She was the greeter at the window.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I was the win to drive through. I was the
drive through girl and the girl at the front sometimes
and then I hosted birthday parties.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
My first job really was cutting grass only that was
a cash only basis.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
By the way, just so you know, that was a
backdoor thing, but it was.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Limited to really just the neighborhood because I don't think
I was driving. My first job when I was driving
was at a radio station.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Of course, of course, Murfey Murphy Murphy. Well, so the
reason I bring it up is because I've always said
for years when we talk about first jobs that I
had a great experience working at McDonald's and I did.
I learned a lot just about their system. I mean, man,
do they have it together with how things are done

(01:49):
and the time I had no idea until I was
behind that counter that from the time they placed it,
or of course it could be very different now, but
from the time they placed you say what you want
that clocks ticking and they want that food in your hand.
I think it was two minutes or less, something crazy
like that. And there are so many systems and I
was impressed with that, and I thought, Wow, bigger picture here,
not just burgers. But so I learned a lot and

(02:12):
all of that, and I was very time conscious. I
hated to be late. I was so mad at a
boyfriend once for making me late.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yead, Yeah, can you late to get to McDonald's at work?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes? Really, because he drove me there and he was
made me late. Anyway, Anyway, when I bring it back up,
because I've always said I had a great experience, and
I think it's a great job for any young person
to try. But I worry now thinking about what we
saw the other night. You and I went to get
burgers and shakes the other night, and there was this

(02:42):
burger joint with the shakes and all they were slammed,
and it was all young people working, and the adults
who were impatient having a fit to get their chocolate
shakes were so mean to those kids.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I do but if you noticed that, you know, honestly,
those kids handled themselves better in their response to those adults,
and the adults were handling themselves.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, quite embarrassing. We're in such an instant gratification world
now that even the most grown up adults have very
little patience. And you know what, when it's a young
person working, you should whip out your patients. You really should.
You should bring an extra dose of your patients. It
could be their first time, You could be their first customer.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, you don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I had my first customer. I spilled a drink on
a man, Sure did.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
But you know the manager that was there because it
took me, I don't know, maybe thirty minutes to get
the shake. And so most people, look, I get it,
most people productly will laugh.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
But see I wasn't. I just wasn't gonna do that.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
A this is really good, it's worth waiting in a
half an hour or for. But I also, I mean
what I was seeing was, even though it was kind
of chaotic, they were doing their best. And I wanted
to be able to get to the front of the line,
to be the first guy in line to actually thank
the girl for doing and taking care of everything the
way that she was taking care of because everyone else

(04:01):
was being so rude a little lot.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right, right, So I see what you're saying, Jody, But
you know.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
You can't keep her from that. You can't protect her
from to be that's the real work environment. That's the
customer services encounter.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
It totally is