Andrew Zimmern, "What's Eating America"..

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How come the people who get fired are always the best employees who do the most work, I just can't understand it?

Not always.

I did a stint at a major  pizz a long time ago. I noticed that the shift and store managers got fired far quicker than the insiders and drivers. 

Store managers are paid to count beans and delegate. That does not mean they do most of the physical work. 

Not that I would ever own a restaurant. But if it is all about quality, I would hire a bean counter, and do all the shit work my employees don't want to do to make their lives easier.

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What I was doing was in the real world.   It just so happens it doesn't fit your narrow narrative.

There is nothing wrong with doing that type of work.  People often want to do more if they are able to do more.  Some people get stuck in that sort of job for one reason or another and it's difficult to understand for some of us.  I didn't like the mindlessness of working in a die cast toy factory but some people worked there their entire working lives.  I made it two months  at the Ertl farm toy factory one summer during high school.  My dad got me that job so I would know it wasn't what I wanted.  I can't just shut my brain off and work like a robot...some can.

There's nothing wrong with performing a menial job if that's what you want to do.  And it appears that's what you wanted to do.

Your issue seems to be that you managed to write your own working rules under an owner that gave up and let you do so.  You are pissed that your way didn't fly with the new owner.  No matter how much you don't like it, the new owner was the new boss and it was play by his/her/corporate rules or move on.  It's often not in the best interest to let one person buck the rules as then you end up with others who think they can make their own rules...then no rules are followed.

No matter how good you were at what you were doing things were different when you, along with the business, were basically sold to new owners.

You are the one with the narrow narrative.

I can tell you, think of any job in the world, that most would call "no skill" or "meaneal", and I can tell you that is BULLSHIT. Dishwasher, busser, trash collector, janitor, fry cook, you name it, EVERY AGE IN THE WORLD DOES  IT, not just teens.

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The new owner didn't appreciate what he had, and as pissed as I was at him not having the  guts to fire me to my face, he still failed and would have even if I had never worked there.

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Fuck the word "menial", there is no such thing Every job takes skill. Easy to learn does not mean easy to do under heavy traffic.

You don't get to define the language.  We, as a group, come up with an accepted definition and go with that.

menial
[ˈmēnēəl]


ADJECTIVE

1. (of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.
   "menial factory jobs"
   synonyms:
   unskilled · lowly · humble · low-grade · low-status · routine · humdrum · boring · dull · degrading · mean · inferior · unworthy · blue-collar
   

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NOUN
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1. a person with a menial job.