When I was a teenager I worked at a McDonald's restaurant. I usually
worked the grill making hamburgers, Big Macs, and quarter pounders
with cheese.
One day when I went to work there was a problem with the metal prep
table. The way the grill area was set up there were two big metal
grills with burners on to keep them hot. There were powerful fans
above them to pull the air and the greasy smoke and steam from the
grill up and out instead of leaving and spread throughout the kitchen
and restaurant. And behind that a preparation table made of stainless
steel. The table had holes along the far side of it held the buckets
with the fixings for sandwiches. Lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, onions,
all that stuff.
The preparation table was plugged into an outlet on the floor. It
helped keep the sandwich stuff cool and there were a couple of heated
holes for future use when the McRib and sandwiches like that came out.
On this day when I went in the problem was a short circuit. Somehow
the table itself had become electrified and whenever we put anything
on it or touch ed it we would get a shock. All the other workers were
putting the stuff on other things like ledges on the side of the grill
where trays could actually be set by design but also tended to fall if
he jostled them too much while preparing the sandwiches. They were
put him on the sink behind the preparation table. They were putting
him over the oil at the fry station. It was generally just a bad time
the grill area of our McDonald's.
The manager on duty kept trying to figure out where the short might
be. And me being the guinea pig while I was cooking the burgers he
would have me touch the table. I got shocked so many times that day!
It got to where I was afraid to touch the table but I kept doing it
because we needed to figure it out. And I thought it was funny later
that he did never touch the table he made me do it. Good management,
right? Eventually he found where the problem in the wiring was in the
did a quick repair job with some electrical tape. And the show went
on - yay!
But I always thought it was funny I got shockef all those times trying
to keep things going while trying to help troubleshoot and find the
issue.
Good memory!
