How to work at jack in the box?
hello my name is anahi and i just got a job at jack in the box the manager asked me to come back on tuesday to start my training the thing is that i have never been employed at any fast food restaurant and i want to make sure i know i dont do anything wrong on my first day especially on my first day i got the cashier position but i know i am gonna be doing a lot of more different things than just standing there i need you guys to advice me thank you
What's it like to work at Jack In The Box?
Jack can be a decent place to work. It really comes down to leadership. If you work at a store with a Restaurant Manager who cares about their people and keeps the store properly staffed, Jack is an easy job. On the other hand, if you get a manager who could care less the store can frankly be hell. I've worked with both kinds over the years. Some pros and cons of working for Jack: Pros: 50% discount while working 20% discount at all other times Free soda, coffee, and iced tea Medical/dental/vision benefits after 90 days Thanksgiving and Christmas are paid overtime Flexible hours Vacation pay if you work enough hours each week Stations/job tasks are easy to learn Jack promotes from within. If you exceed at your job you could possibly go very far with the company. My prior Area Coach ($100,000/year job) started as hourly crew in 1985. Cons: Those (im)famous 2 for .99 tacos will be the bane of your existence. EVERY employee hates making them. You can go home smelling like grease if you work in the back. This isn't such a problem for front-of-house people. You will deal with the public all day, regardless of what kind of mood you're in. Corporate policy is to never argue with even the rudest or most difficult guests. This can be hard at times, trust me. You will have to work on short-staffed shifts. You will have to work holidays and weekends. Some stores can be extremely busy for long periods of time. I have worked some rushes that lasted 5 hours. All in all, I view Jack as being above average as far as fast food jobs go. The benefits they offer even regular crew are (from what I've been told by people who work for the competition) better than other company's.
Working at jack in the box?
So recently got employed at jack in the box (this is my 1st job). i have been working there for 4 weeks already and i only been there 8-10 times working there so i am not really experienced at my new job. But i i have been getting into trouble at work because i dont do somethings right. for the time that i have been working there i have done register and fryers, certain days i get fryers and other days get cashier. Well it doesn't matter what i am doing because even if i am doing fryers or cashier i have to clean the dinning room and restrooms and take out all the trashes..... some other stuff i cant really remember. But is it normal for a person that is doing fryers or cashier to do all that cleaning because would imagine that they should have someone else that specializes in that because im out there to often and it just makes my job so much harder. I have only been in there 8-10 times and only for 6 to 4 hour shifts (cleaning half the time) and they expect me to be a pro already. Ohh and i already got written up because a order took 10min and i wasn't erasing my orders from my screen fast enough.
What do you not like about Jack in the box?
What do i not like about Jack-in-the-Box? …spending the night in the bathroom, using the toliet as a pillow after eating their food. That “pillow” should be reserved for the end of a night that was filled with drunk shanagins. Not after eating fast food. :/I'm sensitive to fake greasy food and my body lets me know how much it hates it by having me spew unspeakable crap from both ends. Literally. So yeah.. I really don't like Jack-in-the-Box..except their milkshakes..that is the one and only thing that hasn't tried to kill me from there. o_0
How does jack in the box pay you?
You likely started in the middle of a pay period. That one week check was for the first week you worked. If this is true, you should be right in the middle of the next pay period, meaning you will get paid Friday the 23rd. Next payday you'll get a full check. The pay period runs two weeks Sunday-Sunday. So, if a pay period ends on Sunday the 1st, you will be paid Friday the 6th for the previous 2 week's work. In my time at Jack, new hires were usually started in the middle of the pay period for whatever reason. I was never given a satisfactory reason as to why. In the year before I quit, new hires were started as-needed.
Jack in the Box job. Need uniform?
Me again. Like I said in one of my other replies management changes are chaotic. Unfortunately a uniform for a new hire ranks near the bottom of the list of priorities. This doesn't excuse their continually putting you off. If they don't have your uniform today (as promised) I would ask the manager to call around to other stores. Somebody in your area has to have a shirt that would do until the one that was ordered comes in. I would explain your situation and tell the manager you really need to start working. At my old store we allowed new hires to wear a solid color t-shirt that was the same color as the uniforms we were using at the time until proper uniforms arrived. It might be worth your time asking if you can do the same. Once you have some kind of acceptable shirt it shouldn't take long for you to actually start working. They didn't hire you just to take up space on the schedule after all. I'm sorry to hear that your on-boarding has been less than ideal. It really shouldn't have taken this long to go from paperwork to paycheck.
What's it like to work at Jack in the Box for your first job?
It’s a learning experience. It’s a good place to have a first job. You learn about people’s life hardships but you also get to go home and enjoy your own life potentially. It helps you figure out that you don’t want to work there the rest of your life.
What item should I avoid at Jack in the Box?
The stacked grilled cheeseburger munchie meal is probably the grossest item on the menu and the worst munchie meal. It's pretty gross in flavor and we constantly got complains on its taste. On paper it sounds good, a burger topped off with a gilled cheese sandwich but in practice its EXTREMELY cheesey and greesey. Biting into it feels like biting into butter with sourdough bread.
Job.. paycheck....jack in the box..?
From my own experience: Seeing as how you started during the beginning of a new pay period I would expect that you will get a check for all of the hours you worked between now and then. Depending on how many hours you are scheduled the amount of this first check might closely resemble what your future checks will be. Jack payroll used to lag about a week behind for new hires, but around 2008 or so they did something that let the newbies get paid faster. It took between 2-3 pay periods for direct deposit to be processed. Until then you will either have to get a paper check (franchise only- corporate doesn't use these anymore) and/or those ripoff pay cards. I used to work at company-owned stores, so things might be a little different if you work at a franchise.
Will Jack in the Box drug test me?
Most likely not, I worked for Jack In The Box for 8 years and drug testing was extremely rare. The only times I saw it done were when somebody way injured on the job and filed a worker's comp claim. The standard employment contract states that Jack may drug test you before hire, promotion or at random. I never saw this done once. To be bluntly honest most fast food companies know that a good portion of their employees would fail a random drug test. As long as it doesn't cause any issues the owners take a don't ask, don't tell attitude about it. If the person you spoke to asked you to bring your social security card and picture ID this just means you have been hired. They need those documents to verify that you are legal to work in this country, that's all.