As a teenager, I have held many jobs. Jobs in retail, food service and childcare have fulfilled the past four years of my life. For the past two years of my life I have been working at Dairy Queen, a nationally recognized fast food chain. Dairy Queen is known for their blizzards and soft ice cream. These days Dairy Queen is adding more and more variety to their menus. Recently adding funnel cakes, royal blizzards and 6” cakes. With all of the hype around this national corporation, have you ever wondered how the employees feel? Being the employee’s of McDonalds cleared the way to higher minimum wage, thus the fast food worker’s minimum wage is now $9.75, $0.75 more than the general minimum wage. The workers are more than tired of your B.S., and even though we get paid almost ten dollars an hour, we don’t need your attitude.

1. We don’t like when customers refer to “BLIZZARDS” as “McFlurries.”

We don’t understand what customers don’t understand. “Mc” is for McDonalds. Get it right. It even says “BLIZZARDS” at the top of the menu board. It’s literally plastered all over the store. Everywhere.

2. Our drive thru menu is where you order.

So, PLEASE for the love of God, STOP AT THE MENU TO ORDER. It is sometimes hard to see the “Order Here” sticker, but it’s there. I promise you, it’s always there.

3. Not every Dairy Queen has a full grill.

This means that we do NOT all have all of the food that is advertised. Meaning we do not have burgers. Also, we do NOT have fryers. So no, we do not have fries . . .or chicken fingers. You are lucky we have grilled chicken. Enjoy it.

4. We are tired of passengers ordering.

If you’re that eager to order yourself, then come inside. Do not come through the drive thru and order from the passengers side of the vehicle. I cannot hear you. Oh and getting mad at me when I can’t hear you, (because our headphones only pick up so much,) isn’t going to do anything but piss me off. By pissing me off you will cause a chain reaction. I am going to give you a severe attitude, as well as, make you wait ten times longer than a nice person.

5. STOP SMOKING IN THE DRIVE THRU.

I cannot stress this enough. I will make you leave my drive thru. Just because you are choosing to input toxins to your body, doesn’t mean that I want to make that same choice. I promise you I will refuse to serve you.

6. Coming in the minute before we close makes us automatically hate you.

If it’s 8:58 and you decide to walk into our store, I hate you. My co-workers hate you. Generally, my manager hates you too. If you’re going to walk in, make sure you know what you want. Nothing is worse than it now being 9:01 and you still haven’t decided what you want.

7. The same goes for the drive thru at 9:29.

Don’t pull through the drive thru at 9:29 and order three blizzards, two moolattés, a smoothie and four banana splits. Seriously, it will look like crap because we are going to rush you to so we can leave.

8. Our store closes the grill an hour before closing.

Our grill, consisting of hot dogs and grilled chicken, closes an hour before our store. Yelling at me, and getting mad that our grill is closed isn’t going to re-open it. Sorry not sorry.

9. You do not get a free blizzard if we do not flip it upside down.

Yes we flip it upside down, but if we forget, you do not get it for free. If you look at the small fine print during the commercials, (that advertise this,) it says: AT PARTICIPATING LOCATIONS. We are not one of those locations. Do not argue with us about it. *Look at the small orange print.*

10. Yes, I do enjoy the occasional free ice cream and I do eat a lot of ice cream.

To the customers that continuously ask: I do work here because I love ice cream. Yes, I do get screw-ups from my shift. Yes, I do get the occasional free ice cream. And yes, I do love DQ.