05-04-2026, 08:51 PM
that's when the big bucks start rolling in."
When I was 17 I worked at a Dairy Queen. A friend and I usually worked shifts together. The owner started asking us to close up, sometimes open up, he gave us each a set of keys, told us where the secret safe was so we could run a z tape and lock up the register cash. Looking back I later realized he gave us the responsibility of an assistant manager while paying us the burger flipper wages.
Now I wonder if he went home and said to his wife “paying those kids next to nothing, that’s when the big bucks start rolling in.”
When I was 17 I worked at a Dairy Queen. A friend and I usually worked shifts together. The owner started asking us to close up, sometimes open up, he gave us each a set of keys, told us where the secret safe was so we could run a z tape and lock up the register cash. Looking back I later realized he gave us the responsibility of an assistant manager while paying us the burger flipper wages.
Now I wonder if he went home and said to his wife “paying those kids next to nothing, that’s when the big bucks start rolling in.”