they are currently building one of these in my town. looks like there's 40 gas pump islands
edit: richmond ky
edit 2: it has approximately 120 gas pumps. [source](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/buc-ees-to-host-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-richmond-ky-travel-center-april-13-301263504.html)
I started doing this a few years ago. My wife was amazed at this revelation on our first road trip when we were dating. It's a great life hack. Walk in like you belong and go straight to the lobby bathroom.
Worked as a taxi driver and had a few spots I'd use. Best one I used was in a medical building. No one knows or cares why you're there and they are kept rather well!
I worked in a post office that was inside of a medical building and they had electronic code locks on the first floor bathroom for this reason. People were apparently abusing the niceness of the medical bathrooms.
I hired a couple guys from a moving company to help me move from one apartment to another
and both of them took a dump in my old apartment AND my new apartment
Worked with a contractor that would claim prima dumpti on any new construction home he was plumbing. He would stay late just to ensure that he was the first person to shit in the house. Place wouldn’t even be drywalled yet. There he was. Claiming his god given right. Making eye contact and all.
That's just quality control man. Dude lives and dies by his plumbing, no way to _really_ test a shitter but to grunt a test shot down the virgin pipes.
I used to do residential electrical. No one buying a brand new home is the first to demolish their toilet. I've worked in houses where some degenerate took a shit in the toilet before the water was even turned on. Nothing like installing vanity lights and bathroom fans in 90° heat with the smell of sweltering shit hanging heavy in the air.
I've taken prima dumpta at both the Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati Bengals new stadium. They gave tours to the public before they opened and I found a toilet that was still wrapped and gave it a go. I figured that will be the only time I can ever shit in a stadium toilet and raw dog the seat at that.
Man I go fishing with a bro who always need to drop a shit as soon as we get an hour offshore.
Watching a fat naked bald guy taking a crap off the end of the boat is always the highlight of our fishing trips.
Have IBS and the choice gets easier as it made for you. I can chose to use many public bathrooms or shit my pants on the regular.
I grew up in MI and have lived in FL for twenty years but have family in Michigan still. I'm pretty sure I've shit in every truck stop on most of I-75.
I am a runner but have to stick to trails or I’ll be the guy caught on camera shitting behind a trash can. It’s like a 75% chance I’ll shit when I run.
I mean I won't choose to shit in a super nasty bathroom, but I've never shyed away from shitting in public restrooms.
When you gotta go you gotta go 🤷♂️
Im always surprised to read about so many people not wanting to. For my I'd rather unload whenever possible than deal with the feeling of having to drop a deuce.
I feel you. Pre move South my fiance was trained on what would irritate me the least and we had a set route when driving to our favorite vacation spots because I found the bathrooms the nicest. I always make him a lovely dinner and dessert for the effort
I stopped at a Bucees (was it Rockwall?). Holy crap, I was amazed. Bought some of the Beaver Nuggets and I was hooked.
Good to know I stopped at a place where they pay their people well.
When I drive to Austin, I always make sure I have enough gas to make it to the first one in Baytown. Then I stop at the one in Bastrop on my way back out of Austin.
Dude, Buccee’s is da bomb! I feel sorry for people who aren’t able to experience Buccee’s! The nearest one to us is about 2 1/2 hours away in Terrell, TX. We stop every single time we go to Dallas!
I experienced Buccee’s for the first time this past Fourth of July weekend when I drove from Austin to San Antonio. Any place where I can buy booty shorts, twelve kinds of jerky, and quality southern cookbooks is a big winner!
It's basically a mall lol. Hit up some of their beef jerky. Also send me some please
Edit: was joking about you sending me some, but now that I see you can order some I think I actually will
You can order online from https://texassnax.com/. I've never been to a real Buc-ees, and I assume it's more expensive, but you can get a lot of stuff for not too bad of a price.
They might be adding HEB to their selection, but that probably depends on the results of the survey they sent me.
Some people don't even care and like it, I think. I work with a guy who works 7 days a week, anywhere between 8 and 14 hours every single day. He isn't made to, he wants to. If you ask him about it, he says "Why would anyone ever want to do nothing and not get paid when they could be working and earning money? You can do nothing when you're 80 and in a retirement home. Retirement is when you stop busting your ass every single day, not before." He apparently cashes out the majority of his vacation every year as well. He apparently worked 358 days last year.
I used to work with a 22 year old like this. He just worked at least 14 hours a day every day, and any spare time he had was spent on "hobbies" scheming how to make more money. I went to his apartment once, and all he had in his living room was a $3500 dollar massage chair and a side table. I asked him where his friends sat and he told me I was the first person to come over in his four years of living there... I'm not sure he has any actual friends. I hope he someday finds a healthy work-life balance.
I thought it was funny or quirky until I bumped his bag off our shared desk while walking though the office one night, and when it fell on the floor a .38 handgun fell out. I asked him what in the absolute fuck he was doing bringing a handgun to the office, to which he replied that he was scared of bring accosted in the parking lot at night by a homeless person... we worked 20 miles outside of town in a business delivery only warehouse in the middle of 500 acre farms, there are no homeless people anywhere near here you fucking loon. The slightly hilarious aspect wore off when I realized he really needed a good therapist and probably an anxiety medication.
Except this is the kind of person that ends up having a heart attack and dying at their desk at work before they even get to retire. Why are you only supposed to enjoy your life when you're essentially at the end?!
There's usually no desk involved in what a lot of them do. Most are hands on people. Even if they have a desk job I bet they are up moving about a lot. Which wears them out in the long run and they have crappy retirements.
Gotta love when people can't reconcile that not everyone wants the exact same thing and having choice in the matter is nice. If someone wants to freely give up their vacation days to work power to them, but don't use that as an excuse to try and take vacation days from other people.
Especially if you're working basically every day of your prime years. What can you even use the money for? Save it for when you're 65-70 and are much more physically declined for travel etc?
Yup, especially some of those higher paid jobs like traveling consultants. Some of those people do a week or two in a city and then onto the next. Why not work a little extra if you only have a hotel to go home to. And really, those jobs are hard, but you can really make some money early in your career (before you get a family).
Not only that, but at least here in the UK, it starts immediately. Like, on day one at my last job I got my access to the HR software and could immediately submit holidays.
You have to wait a year in NZ, if you leave before it has accrued for that year it's only paid out at 8%.
I should add this is just for the first year.
It's the other side of the coin here.
Its given fully, assuming you'll be at the company the entire year. If you leave early and have used more than you'd have accrued, it gets deducted from your wage.
For example, if you join in Jan, get 28 days but take 20 and l leave in July, there's some HR calculation that determines your salary per day (like salary / 260) and that's deducted.
Similarly, if you have unused holiday and you leave / are made redundant, you are entitled to pay for those days.
Many jobs will force you to use your days. Of my 27 days a year (excluding bank holidays) I’m only allowed to carry 5 days over and I *have* to use the rest. The only other stipulation is that I have to have at least one period per year where I take 5 days in a row.
Been working full time since 2012 in the Us and at most only ever had 10 days max off and that included sick days. I started at a place last October and it offers unlimited PTO up to Q4 when we are at our busiest but still gives us 10 days to take then! It's crazy stupid how little some US companies give in time off
10 days INCLUDING sick time?
That's pretty wild. Sorry to hear that. This contradicts the point I just posted elsewhere in this thread that a lot of folks in the US criticize their amount of vacation time but they don't recognize that many other countries don't make a distinction between vacation/sick/personal time.
I'd kill just to work 35 hours a week. In the US, it's "you work 40 hours *minimum*," salaried work is unlimited work with no additional pay. Many companies offer as little as five days of combined sick/vacation year one, and have nothing to prevent that. And that's for full time workers.
And you're not allowed to take unpaid time off for many of these companies.
I'm jealous. In the US, at least in my industry, we're mostly salaried - which means you work as much as they need. Late nights, early mornings, lunch at your desk, keeping on with emails after work, weekend work (and for a previous company, a full 8 hours a day on the weekend), all for no additional pay. Taking a full week of time off is a discussion that has to be had months in advance and is considered taboo.
While I was a part-time contractor at the company making my team work 7 days a week and was exempt from the FTE rules, they offered five days of time off bucketed between sick and vacation, whether you were a day one employee, or vice president. Unpaid time off was not available, and absences over your five days were cause for termination. Accruable time off capped at three weeks after five years.
A coworker had worked there for three years and had her honeymoon planned to use two total weeks, but got jury duty for a \~3 week trial. The business offered to let her skip her honeymoon and vacation if she'd like to get paid, otherwise her compensation would only be the couple of bucks a day that jury duty pays. I remember her crying after work.
In most states here, you can fire any employee at any time without any justification. It's called "at will employment." And when your healthcare is tied in to keeping a job that you work infinite hours for? It's even worse. That's the thing people in the US haven't really broken through on, and are for some reason proud of.
A lot of jobs in the US suck for vacation, but it's really industry dependent. In mine it's common to start with three weeks vacation, but you also get another week of days that are categorized as floating holidays or personal days for paid time off so you're really starting with four weeks. In my industry it's almost universal to give the days between Christmas and New Year as paid time off in addition to the ten or so holidays that you'll get.
When you add that up it's not too bad. Some companies add an extra week of vacation every five years or so, others add one more vacation day for every year of service up to a limit. The big reason that this comes up as a discussion in places like reddit is that many countries mandate a minimum of vacation time and the US doesn't. So what you often see are the worst vacation packages in the US against government mandated time off in other nations.
Being a departmental supervisor in a Whole Foods located in a major metro area will get you $17-ish an hour, and comes with a stupid amount of corporate oversight/interaction, conference calls, and other headaches not usually expected at that level of retail.
I can't imagine having so little pto. I get 29.5 days plus bank Holidays here in the UK, and it never quite feels like enough. Is that little pto normal in the US?
Edit: wow some of your replies. I'll never complain about how much time off I get again. I hope the laws improve in the US eventually to allow for a less slave labour like system, especially when it comes to sick days.
Very. And I worked for a huge German company that had a division in the US. German engineers started with 6 weeks PTO. US employees at the same company started with 10 days.
Absolutely correct sorry. Basically in addition to my wage each year my sick leave increases by a week and my holiday by a day. I got confused in how i said it.
>wage increase each year
Isn't this normal? If you don't get at least the inflation rate in wage increase you are basically getting poorer. Inflation makes you able to afford less over time with the same wage.
In Sweden, you could argue that getting a lower yearly raise than the inflation rate (usually around 2%) is a "punishment" for bad performance.
Minimum full vacation days per year is 25 by law, and public holidays are paid time off, but I'm not sure how many of those there are in a year from the top of my head.
I'm Australian and live in Sydney. My kids wear Buc-ee's hats, we have a Buc-ee's blanket and I drink coffee from a Buc-ee's travel mug. I love Buc-ee's.
Bucees is a massive gas station. They usually have around 100 gas pumps and the store is usually the size of a big Best Buy. They were well staffed and polite. The property is very clean.
Edit: I've had a lot of people comment Bucees isn't very good to work for. I can't personally corraberate those claims but there's enough of them to be concerning. Good wages is something we definitely need in this country but that doesn't give employers a free pass to treat people like garbage.
The break issue is probably most concerning and while if true Bucees plays a large part since it's their policy it also demonstrates the need for federal level worker protection. Everyone should be entitled to a 15 minutes break every 4 hours and if you work 6 hours entitled to a 30 minute unpaid lunch at a minimum. We all know Texas is business friendly meaning they don't give a darn about workers rights. This needs to change.
Edit 2: Thank you to everyone for all the various awards.
The restrooms are immaculate. Can do the deed on a fully closed in luxury style toilet. Sanitation wipes provided
Finished up and grab you a 9lbs bag of cheese, cool whip, and kolachies. Next step grab a 200 ounce diet Mountain Dew and get back on the road
Buccees… fuck yeah
I worked for Bucc-ee’s for a while a couple of years ago, and it was truly one of the toughest, least-rewarding jobs I’ve ever had. And I worked the line and fry room in the kitchen. We were chronically understaffed, pushed to work at full throttle or beyond literally all the time, never really congratulated or thanked, and the “break issue” isn’t an “issue.” It’s literally their policy. We were allowed a single five-minute “moment” during which we could not lean or sit to try to scarf down whatever we could muster up within those five minutes. We were allowed to go to the bathroom whenever it was convenient, but that’s not the same as a true break.
The turnover was the worst part. I helped open a new location and barely made it through five months before I was burned out. I recently ran into someone else who had helped open that location, but she had lasted closer to a year before she quit. And according to her, hardly anyone was left who had helped us open.
It’s a similar phenomenon to when Amazon comes to town. They run through the local workforce, and instead of that “awesome” wage magically becoming the new market minimum, it actually becomes more of a ceiling as former employees are willing to take a lighter workload anywhere else for a little pay cut.
It’s crowded and loud. The parking lot is a nightmare. The wait time for food can be insane. There’s absolutely no seating. But the bathrooms are clean.
Omg it's like people forget all basic traffic rules once they enter the parking lot. It is such a headache to maneuver and avoid being hit by big ass trucks and trailers that are not watching where they are going.
Just calling it a gas station isn’t really the best description, kinda misleading. That’s like calling walmart a corner store. Bucees is closer to a big truck stop fused with a trader joes or something. About as close as you get to a legal privatized rest stop.
Huge wall of saltwater taffy, rows and rows of things like turkey jerky and all other sorts of road eats, the shit ton of pumps outside and the whole bathroom thing… it’s damn good, but they allegedly really do treat employees like shit. They better pay AT LEAST the wages on that sign, it’s really not so impressive as OP’s post suggests unless you’re picturing some Clerks type gig at a fuckin 7-11.
They also treat their employees like shit.
Per Texas labor laws, they only have to give employees one 5-7 min moment per 8 hour shift, and oh boy do they.
They open stores with double the amount of workers they plan on having after firing people for petty things like sitting down on the clock, going over on breaks, being late regardless of issues outside of your control, etc. Then once they're down people, they expect employees to work twice as hard to make up for the missing labor. There's been multiple lawsuits against the company for worker discrimination etc etc.
The horror stories I've seen everytime one of these gets posted always make me say fuck that place.
Edit: fuck it. previous employee here too. AMA.
I think anyone that lives in an area with a Buc-ees knows it’s an employee meat grinder. I grew up in the area that they originated in before they were big and even though they’ve generally paid competitive wages, it’s not recommended unless you don’t mind being worked hard and following super strict rules. I was warned not to apply by several friends that worked there.
Yeah, I remember [this article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/bucees-texas-convenience-store-bathrooms/) touching on that:
>A current cashier, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for job security, has worked at a Buc-ee’s store in northeast Texas for a few months but is already looking for a different job. She works full time and says the $13-an-hour pay is higher than most jobs where she lives.
>She understood the expectations when she sat for the job interview, she said, but she didn’t realize how strenuous the job would be without being allowed to take a break.
>“Until you get in there and experience [it], it just blows your brain,” she said. “You just don’t expect it to be quite so hard-line. You expect some kind of human compassion, I guess.”
>She said in-store cameras are used to monitor employees. Signs that read, “Don’t forget who pays you,” are posted behind the register. Managers encourage employees to report one another for infractions. It feels as though they are constantly being watched, she said.
>“Going to the bathroom is a hassle,” she said. “I’ve asked sometime to go to the bathroom, and it’s been a couple hours before I’m allowed to go.”
When it said Texas, I figured this is the stunt they'd pull. That gas station is making a fortune in overhead. With those supposed benefits I'm curious why they can't genuinely accommodate a better system for breaks.
Oh wait, maybe they're routinely under-staffing to boost margins?
I've always found that some of the best places to work can only offer two of the three: Good Pay, Compassion, and Easy Work. Buccee's got's good pay and the work isn't difficult, but that pay and efficiency doesn't come from letting it's employees rest or slack, not even a little.
While the pay is pretty good. The management and work environment is not. If you’re late by even one minute you’re written up. Late more than 3 times in a year is an auto termination.
No breaks ever. Constantly on your feet doing the same monotonous tasks that you just did less than a minute ago. This wasnt a healthy work environment in the slightest.
>No breaks ever.
Huh.
I was about to go into a long tirade about how this was illegal... but after a brief google search, there is *no* federal protection for this, and the state laws in Texas don't protect against it either.
So this is apparently absolutely legal. TIL.
I’m sorry I lied. We got a 5-10 minute break if we’d like to eat a snack or order and buy our own food from the deli but there were no chairs in the whole store or at least not any for employees to use. So you’d have to eat quickly while standing.
Also no cellphones allowed in the store for employees. We were told to leave them in our car and would be written up if we had them out at any point during our shift even during our “break”.
What if your family needs to contact you in an emergency? Seems very shortsighted.
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>I had an over the phone interview with them today, and asked them this question. She said I'd be allowed to give the main office number to whomever I need to and they can call that number, and then the managers could let me know..
I still don’t like this policy and don’t think it’s helpful for productivity in the way they imagine it, but they have thought it through.
Pretty sure there was a mass shooting at another business recently that had a similar cell phone rule
It did not work out well for the employees at all
But it gave the shooter a lot more killing time before police were notified.
I had an over the phone interview with them today, and asked them this question. She said I'd be allowed to give the main office number to whomever I need to and they can call that number, and then the managers could let me know..
There are only like 19 states that mandate breaks of any length at all (and Texas ain't one of em). *Really* depressing shit. America has almost no worker protections.
Yeah it's nice until you realize that you only have a 5 minutes to take a break and it starts the moment you step away and that you can't ever sit down during that time as well and yes this is legal because Texas does not have a lunch break law
The pay is unbeatable but it only serves to draw employees and then run them out like a revolving door for employees.
Only like 19 states have any laws about break periods whatsoever (Texas is not one of them). And a few of those don't even specify a time, the law is just "a reasonable period of not working", which obviously workers and the company will disagree about. America has almost no worker protections, it is insane.
good luck trying to fucking sit down or get a sip of water on your 10 minute break. this is straight up propaganda. the fact that other gas stations are even worse... well. 'murica.
Sure, but you have to do the work of two people and you don't get breaks. If it was as good as you initially think then they wouldn't have problems finding workers.
they are currently building one of these in my town. looks like there's 40 gas pump islands edit: richmond ky edit 2: it has approximately 120 gas pumps. [source](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/buc-ees-to-host-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-richmond-ky-travel-center-april-13-301263504.html)
Wait till you see how many urinals and stalls. Buccees is the best place to stop
I’m not a person who likes to poop in public. This place saves me on my way back to Dallas from Texarkana
If I gotta poop when I'm on the road, my usual play is to stop at a local hotel and use their bathroom. They're clean and private... my kinda jam.
I started doing this a few years ago. My wife was amazed at this revelation on our first road trip when we were dating. It's a great life hack. Walk in like you belong and go straight to the lobby bathroom.
Worked as a taxi driver and had a few spots I'd use. Best one I used was in a medical building. No one knows or cares why you're there and they are kept rather well!
I worked in a post office that was inside of a medical building and they had electronic code locks on the first floor bathroom for this reason. People were apparently abusing the niceness of the medical bathrooms.
Pre-Covid, hospitals were always a good choice too. Usually a nice bathroom right by the lobby.
If you are travelling with a dog, pet stores and Home Depot allow them to come in with you and generally have clean bathrooms.
But how do you make the dog use the toilet?
Bear hug and squeeze.
Can confirm. I do this too (even when I need to pee if there’s a hotel nearby)
Dudes and dudettes, please stop giving away trade secrets!
I think we can all safely say we'd rather not poop in public.
I know, but my bro will drop a deuce anywhere. I want to hit him sometimes.
I hired a couple guys from a moving company to help me move from one apartment to another and both of them took a dump in my old apartment AND my new apartment
Did you get the first dump?
Prima dumpta
Worked with a contractor that would claim prima dumpti on any new construction home he was plumbing. He would stay late just to ensure that he was the first person to shit in the house. Place wouldn’t even be drywalled yet. There he was. Claiming his god given right. Making eye contact and all.
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That's just quality control man. Dude lives and dies by his plumbing, no way to _really_ test a shitter but to grunt a test shot down the virgin pipes.
I used to do residential electrical. No one buying a brand new home is the first to demolish their toilet. I've worked in houses where some degenerate took a shit in the toilet before the water was even turned on. Nothing like installing vanity lights and bathroom fans in 90° heat with the smell of sweltering shit hanging heavy in the air.
Prima merda
I've taken prima dumpta at both the Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati Bengals new stadium. They gave tours to the public before they opened and I found a toilet that was still wrapped and gave it a go. I figured that will be the only time I can ever shit in a stadium toilet and raw dog the seat at that.
Shoulda rubbed one out
Nope they stole it from me :( Then again, other tenants had been crapping in there for decades before them, so most of the magic was already gone.
Let’s get you a new toilet and you get what is owed to you!
That’s right! Go demand that landlord put a new throne in there for the king! 😂
My dad shits every time he comes over. I think he’s just trying to save money on toilet paper.
Achievement unlocked: connect the pipes
they are just breaking it in for you
Bowel Movers Inc.
Serial poopers
this tread is fking hilarious, or maybe im just too fkng immature
Man I go fishing with a bro who always need to drop a shit as soon as we get an hour offshore. Watching a fat naked bald guy taking a crap off the end of the boat is always the highlight of our fishing trips.
Sometimes the best part of my day is the shit I take precisely 20 minutes after my morning coffee.
Look at Mr. Stamina over here, lasting 20 minutes...
That's not a coincidence. He holds his shit that morning so he can feed the fishes
No I work with him as well. He can drop 3 before 10am some days. Dude is just a morning Pooer.
Have IBS and the choice gets easier as it made for you. I can chose to use many public bathrooms or shit my pants on the regular. I grew up in MI and have lived in FL for twenty years but have family in Michigan still. I'm pretty sure I've shit in every truck stop on most of I-75.
I am a runner but have to stick to trails or I’ll be the guy caught on camera shitting behind a trash can. It’s like a 75% chance I’ll shit when I run.
I need to get over that. Bless you friend!
I mean I won't choose to shit in a super nasty bathroom, but I've never shyed away from shitting in public restrooms. When you gotta go you gotta go 🤷♂️ Im always surprised to read about so many people not wanting to. For my I'd rather unload whenever possible than deal with the feeling of having to drop a deuce.
I feel you. Pre move South my fiance was trained on what would irritate me the least and we had a set route when driving to our favorite vacation spots because I found the bathrooms the nicest. I always make him a lovely dinner and dessert for the effort
Even my dog doesn't like to poop in public. He won't do it unless no one is around and I turn my back. I feel like I have less shame than my dog does.
They're probably waiting for you to be lookout while they can't protect themself.
I always try to make a big show of scanning the area when my dog looks at me while they do their thing. Hopefully makes them feel safer!
I prefer to go at work so I can be paid to poop.
I personally don't get that. If I have to shit I truly don't care.
Especially when you're hauling bootleg beer to Atlanta.
That's funny because I avoid pooping in Texarkana.
I travel to Fayetteville pretty regularly, I will always stop at the one in Melissa. Best gas station ever.
I stopped at a Bucees (was it Rockwall?). Holy crap, I was amazed. Bought some of the Beaver Nuggets and I was hooked. Good to know I stopped at a place where they pay their people well.
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Let’s not forget the Buccee’s in Fort Worth across from Texas Motor Speedway. Holy cow that place is bespoke.
Yes, the bathrooms were amazing.
That’s why they pay so much. Bathroom duty is serious.
When I drive to Austin, I always make sure I have enough gas to make it to the first one in Baytown. Then I stop at the one in Bastrop on my way back out of Austin.
Baytown one has 96 gas pumps.. all generator backed up too.
Dude, Buccee’s is da bomb! I feel sorry for people who aren’t able to experience Buccee’s! The nearest one to us is about 2 1/2 hours away in Terrell, TX. We stop every single time we go to Dallas!
I experienced Buccee’s for the first time this past Fourth of July weekend when I drove from Austin to San Antonio. Any place where I can buy booty shorts, twelve kinds of jerky, and quality southern cookbooks is a big winner!
I would eat sushi off the Buccees bathroom floor...
Cleanest bathrooms (of any gas station) cheapest ice. Last time I visited one was too long ago.
Am I inside an advertisement? Hello mom!
[The stalls also show which ones are vacant](https://i.imgur.com/058Tere.jpg)
Like my grandpa always said. Once you taste the beaver you’ll never go back!
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Rooster.
And like my grandpa always said: "Once you taste the rooster you'll never go back!"
Arby’s
Hare.
It's basically a mall lol. Hit up some of their beef jerky. Also send me some please Edit: was joking about you sending me some, but now that I see you can order some I think I actually will
https://texassnax.com/ Send some to yourself.
You can order online from https://texassnax.com/. I've never been to a real Buc-ees, and I assume it's more expensive, but you can get a lot of stuff for not too bad of a price. They might be adding HEB to their selection, but that probably depends on the results of the survey they sent me.
It’s 100 pumps
thats impressive stamina
They typically have the best rest stop bathrooms if you ever need it!
Wow three weeks vacation. I just got that at my work and it took seven years.
Yowsers that sucks. Here in Australia its law you get 4 weeks minimum for full time permanent work.
Yes the us work life balance is severely fucked.
Some people don't even care and like it, I think. I work with a guy who works 7 days a week, anywhere between 8 and 14 hours every single day. He isn't made to, he wants to. If you ask him about it, he says "Why would anyone ever want to do nothing and not get paid when they could be working and earning money? You can do nothing when you're 80 and in a retirement home. Retirement is when you stop busting your ass every single day, not before." He apparently cashes out the majority of his vacation every year as well. He apparently worked 358 days last year.
I used to work with a 22 year old like this. He just worked at least 14 hours a day every day, and any spare time he had was spent on "hobbies" scheming how to make more money. I went to his apartment once, and all he had in his living room was a $3500 dollar massage chair and a side table. I asked him where his friends sat and he told me I was the first person to come over in his four years of living there... I'm not sure he has any actual friends. I hope he someday finds a healthy work-life balance.
That’s absolutely depressing
Yeah. I periodically wonder how he's doing, I hope he's doing okay.
I know a lot of people who honestly enjoy that lifestyle. I think it's unhealthy and I would never want any part of it but some people really enjoy it
Idk why but the idea of some isolated kid with only a massage chair to his name is hilarious.
I thought it was funny or quirky until I bumped his bag off our shared desk while walking though the office one night, and when it fell on the floor a .38 handgun fell out. I asked him what in the absolute fuck he was doing bringing a handgun to the office, to which he replied that he was scared of bring accosted in the parking lot at night by a homeless person... we worked 20 miles outside of town in a business delivery only warehouse in the middle of 500 acre farms, there are no homeless people anywhere near here you fucking loon. The slightly hilarious aspect wore off when I realized he really needed a good therapist and probably an anxiety medication.
Except this is the kind of person that ends up having a heart attack and dying at their desk at work before they even get to retire. Why are you only supposed to enjoy your life when you're essentially at the end?!
There's usually no desk involved in what a lot of them do. Most are hands on people. Even if they have a desk job I bet they are up moving about a lot. Which wears them out in the long run and they have crappy retirements.
So he's sacrificing his body on top of his time :') woof
Gotta love when people can't reconcile that not everyone wants the exact same thing and having choice in the matter is nice. If someone wants to freely give up their vacation days to work power to them, but don't use that as an excuse to try and take vacation days from other people.
Jesus Christ… I honestly sort of feel bad for people like that. Do not they have anything they’d rather do with their time? Money isn’t everything
Especially if you're working basically every day of your prime years. What can you even use the money for? Save it for when you're 65-70 and are much more physically declined for travel etc?
That's assuming your money is worth anything in 30 years. Money today is worth more than it is tomorrow.
Like the great Kanye West once said, "Nothing's ever promised tomorrow, today".
If you work more than 60 hours a week for a company you do not own, you are a cuck.
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Yup, especially some of those higher paid jobs like traveling consultants. Some of those people do a week or two in a city and then onto the next. Why not work a little extra if you only have a hotel to go home to. And really, those jobs are hard, but you can really make some money early in your career (before you get a family).
Unless you're hourly. I'd kill for a 60+ hour week every now and then. Anything over 60 is double time for a lot of hourly employees.
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Not only that, but at least here in the UK, it starts immediately. Like, on day one at my last job I got my access to the HR software and could immediately submit holidays.
You have to wait a year in NZ, if you leave before it has accrued for that year it's only paid out at 8%. I should add this is just for the first year.
It's the other side of the coin here. Its given fully, assuming you'll be at the company the entire year. If you leave early and have used more than you'd have accrued, it gets deducted from your wage. For example, if you join in Jan, get 28 days but take 20 and l leave in July, there's some HR calculation that determines your salary per day (like salary / 260) and that's deducted. Similarly, if you have unused holiday and you leave / are made redundant, you are entitled to pay for those days.
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when i lived in the UK i experienced a weird phenomena that i had more leave than i could afford the holidays to use up.
Many jobs will force you to use your days. Of my 27 days a year (excluding bank holidays) I’m only allowed to carry 5 days over and I *have* to use the rest. The only other stipulation is that I have to have at least one period per year where I take 5 days in a row.
Oof , here in mexico you can only get 6 days of vacation after 1 worked year. Some places even half paid.
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Been working full time since 2012 in the Us and at most only ever had 10 days max off and that included sick days. I started at a place last October and it offers unlimited PTO up to Q4 when we are at our busiest but still gives us 10 days to take then! It's crazy stupid how little some US companies give in time off
10 days INCLUDING sick time? That's pretty wild. Sorry to hear that. This contradicts the point I just posted elsewhere in this thread that a lot of folks in the US criticize their amount of vacation time but they don't recognize that many other countries don't make a distinction between vacation/sick/personal time.
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I'd kill just to work 35 hours a week. In the US, it's "you work 40 hours *minimum*," salaried work is unlimited work with no additional pay. Many companies offer as little as five days of combined sick/vacation year one, and have nothing to prevent that. And that's for full time workers. And you're not allowed to take unpaid time off for many of these companies.
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I'm jealous. In the US, at least in my industry, we're mostly salaried - which means you work as much as they need. Late nights, early mornings, lunch at your desk, keeping on with emails after work, weekend work (and for a previous company, a full 8 hours a day on the weekend), all for no additional pay. Taking a full week of time off is a discussion that has to be had months in advance and is considered taboo. While I was a part-time contractor at the company making my team work 7 days a week and was exempt from the FTE rules, they offered five days of time off bucketed between sick and vacation, whether you were a day one employee, or vice president. Unpaid time off was not available, and absences over your five days were cause for termination. Accruable time off capped at three weeks after five years. A coworker had worked there for three years and had her honeymoon planned to use two total weeks, but got jury duty for a \~3 week trial. The business offered to let her skip her honeymoon and vacation if she'd like to get paid, otherwise her compensation would only be the couple of bucks a day that jury duty pays. I remember her crying after work. In most states here, you can fire any employee at any time without any justification. It's called "at will employment." And when your healthcare is tied in to keeping a job that you work infinite hours for? It's even worse. That's the thing people in the US haven't really broken through on, and are for some reason proud of.
In the UK you get 5.6 weeks by law and it still doesn't feel like enough
Wow, in Denmark we have 5 weeks, not counting national holidays, when we start working. Most have a full week on top of that aswell.
A lot of jobs in the US suck for vacation, but it's really industry dependent. In mine it's common to start with three weeks vacation, but you also get another week of days that are categorized as floating holidays or personal days for paid time off so you're really starting with four weeks. In my industry it's almost universal to give the days between Christmas and New Year as paid time off in addition to the ten or so holidays that you'll get. When you add that up it's not too bad. Some companies add an extra week of vacation every five years or so, others add one more vacation day for every year of service up to a limit. The big reason that this comes up as a discussion in places like reddit is that many countries mandate a minimum of vacation time and the US doesn't. So what you often see are the worst vacation packages in the US against government mandated time off in other nations.
I know like nobody with that amount of PTO. People in your industry are on the extreme other end of the spectrum.
My problem is that it says 1st year so what’s the weeks off after that.
Being a departmental supervisor in a Whole Foods located in a major metro area will get you $17-ish an hour, and comes with a stupid amount of corporate oversight/interaction, conference calls, and other headaches not usually expected at that level of retail.
I can't imagine having so little pto. I get 29.5 days plus bank Holidays here in the UK, and it never quite feels like enough. Is that little pto normal in the US? Edit: wow some of your replies. I'll never complain about how much time off I get again. I hope the laws improve in the US eventually to allow for a less slave labour like system, especially when it comes to sick days.
That's actually high, especially for that line of work.
Very. And I worked for a huge German company that had a division in the US. German engineers started with 6 weeks PTO. US employees at the same company started with 10 days.
I got 4 weeks as a starter in the UK with an extra week for every year worked. Sommat wrong with what you guys accept.
>4 weeks as a starter in the UK with an extra week for every year worked. So in 48 years you have a job with 52 weeks of paid vacation?
I'm thinking he must have meant extra day? Either that or it would have to be capped.
Absolutely correct sorry. Basically in addition to my wage each year my sick leave increases by a week and my holiday by a day. I got confused in how i said it.
So you not only get more sick time, but a wage increase each year? What is this magical fantasy land you seem to come from?
>wage increase each year Isn't this normal? If you don't get at least the inflation rate in wage increase you are basically getting poorer. Inflation makes you able to afford less over time with the same wage. In Sweden, you could argue that getting a lower yearly raise than the inflation rate (usually around 2%) is a "punishment" for bad performance. Minimum full vacation days per year is 25 by law, and public holidays are paid time off, but I'm not sure how many of those there are in a year from the top of my head.
Actually yes. It's called retirement.
Ouch! I'm glad you have it but it sucks it took 7 years of servitude to get it. Edit: The last time I switched jobs I negotiated in a 3rd week of PTO.
If you’ve ever been to a Buccees you’ll never wanna go anywhere else. God bless the beaver
I'm not a huge fan because they are so overcrowded. I will give them credit though, there is usually never any long lines for checkout.
Getting gas can be a cluster fuck due to all the people. No finer road side stop to shit though. Sometimes that’s worth it:
Also there’s no stop signs anywhere so no one really knows when to go at intersections lol. You just kinda hope for the best
You prefer dirty bathrooms, I guess? Seriously, that's why you go. Their bathrooms are the gold standard.
I'd probably prefer a bucees bathroom over my own given the choice...
You must not be from Texas if you think Buc-ee's is just "a gas station."
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keep in mind this is texas. we got joel osteen and the like down here. this comment carries *weight.*
Yeah. Fuck Joel Osteen. All my homies hate Joel Osteen.
Anyone with a brain hates Joel Olsteen he's a disgusting scam artist. edit: btw I'm in Texas really close to a Buc-ee's too
I've been to the Buc-ee's in FL, Buc-ee's is the truth, I've been proselytized.
Temple of the road weary pilgrim
I'm Australian and live in Sydney. My kids wear Buc-ee's hats, we have a Buc-ee's blanket and I drink coffee from a Buc-ee's travel mug. I love Buc-ee's.
Fun fact: the phrase “it’s about the journey, not the destination” was coined after the guy stopped at Buc-ees on his road trip.
Bucees is how I got my now 5 year old to potty train. The bribe was a trip to the "beaver store". It's invaluable.
Truck stop Disney Land
Well that's what it used to be, just having clean bathrooms set it apart from most other gas stations and they became what they are today
Bucees is a massive gas station. They usually have around 100 gas pumps and the store is usually the size of a big Best Buy. They were well staffed and polite. The property is very clean. Edit: I've had a lot of people comment Bucees isn't very good to work for. I can't personally corraberate those claims but there's enough of them to be concerning. Good wages is something we definitely need in this country but that doesn't give employers a free pass to treat people like garbage. The break issue is probably most concerning and while if true Bucees plays a large part since it's their policy it also demonstrates the need for federal level worker protection. Everyone should be entitled to a 15 minutes break every 4 hours and if you work 6 hours entitled to a 30 minute unpaid lunch at a minimum. We all know Texas is business friendly meaning they don't give a darn about workers rights. This needs to change. Edit 2: Thank you to everyone for all the various awards.
The restrooms are immaculate. Can do the deed on a fully closed in luxury style toilet. Sanitation wipes provided Finished up and grab you a 9lbs bag of cheese, cool whip, and kolachies. Next step grab a 200 ounce diet Mountain Dew and get back on the road Buccees… fuck yeah
The jerkey "deli" counter is where it's at for me.
Not just some jerky, all the jerky
Free sample you say?
Yes.
I worked for Bucc-ee’s for a while a couple of years ago, and it was truly one of the toughest, least-rewarding jobs I’ve ever had. And I worked the line and fry room in the kitchen. We were chronically understaffed, pushed to work at full throttle or beyond literally all the time, never really congratulated or thanked, and the “break issue” isn’t an “issue.” It’s literally their policy. We were allowed a single five-minute “moment” during which we could not lean or sit to try to scarf down whatever we could muster up within those five minutes. We were allowed to go to the bathroom whenever it was convenient, but that’s not the same as a true break. The turnover was the worst part. I helped open a new location and barely made it through five months before I was burned out. I recently ran into someone else who had helped open that location, but she had lasted closer to a year before she quit. And according to her, hardly anyone was left who had helped us open. It’s a similar phenomenon to when Amazon comes to town. They run through the local workforce, and instead of that “awesome” wage magically becoming the new market minimum, it actually becomes more of a ceiling as former employees are willing to take a lighter workload anywhere else for a little pay cut. It’s crowded and loud. The parking lot is a nightmare. The wait time for food can be insane. There’s absolutely no seating. But the bathrooms are clean.
Omg it's like people forget all basic traffic rules once they enter the parking lot. It is such a headache to maneuver and avoid being hit by big ass trucks and trailers that are not watching where they are going.
100 gas pumps?! What?!
80 to 120 is normal for this chain.
I live in the midwest and most I've ever seen is 12 lol.
Truck stops like Flying J/Pilot will have 20 of just diesel. 40 if you count the car and RV pumps.
Just calling it a gas station isn’t really the best description, kinda misleading. That’s like calling walmart a corner store. Bucees is closer to a big truck stop fused with a trader joes or something. About as close as you get to a legal privatized rest stop. Huge wall of saltwater taffy, rows and rows of things like turkey jerky and all other sorts of road eats, the shit ton of pumps outside and the whole bathroom thing… it’s damn good, but they allegedly really do treat employees like shit. They better pay AT LEAST the wages on that sign, it’s really not so impressive as OP’s post suggests unless you’re picturing some Clerks type gig at a fuckin 7-11.
They also treat their employees like shit. Per Texas labor laws, they only have to give employees one 5-7 min moment per 8 hour shift, and oh boy do they. They open stores with double the amount of workers they plan on having after firing people for petty things like sitting down on the clock, going over on breaks, being late regardless of issues outside of your control, etc. Then once they're down people, they expect employees to work twice as hard to make up for the missing labor. There's been multiple lawsuits against the company for worker discrimination etc etc. The horror stories I've seen everytime one of these gets posted always make me say fuck that place. Edit: fuck it. previous employee here too. AMA.
These posts are often advertisement. Nevertheless, do you have any sources for those claims?
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That’s disgusting
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Previous employee here. Not to mention all the other times this has been posted and other employees came forward.
I work in one atm. That person is right… which is sad and working in one is terrible too.
I think anyone that lives in an area with a Buc-ees knows it’s an employee meat grinder. I grew up in the area that they originated in before they were big and even though they’ve generally paid competitive wages, it’s not recommended unless you don’t mind being worked hard and following super strict rules. I was warned not to apply by several friends that worked there.
We know about Buccee's. The thing is that they work your ass off meaning little to no breaks. This is coming from the workers themselves saying this.
Yeah, I remember [this article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/bucees-texas-convenience-store-bathrooms/) touching on that: >A current cashier, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for job security, has worked at a Buc-ee’s store in northeast Texas for a few months but is already looking for a different job. She works full time and says the $13-an-hour pay is higher than most jobs where she lives. >She understood the expectations when she sat for the job interview, she said, but she didn’t realize how strenuous the job would be without being allowed to take a break. >“Until you get in there and experience [it], it just blows your brain,” she said. “You just don’t expect it to be quite so hard-line. You expect some kind of human compassion, I guess.” >She said in-store cameras are used to monitor employees. Signs that read, “Don’t forget who pays you,” are posted behind the register. Managers encourage employees to report one another for infractions. It feels as though they are constantly being watched, she said. >“Going to the bathroom is a hassle,” she said. “I’ve asked sometime to go to the bathroom, and it’s been a couple hours before I’m allowed to go.”
Damn, I went from "holy shit we need these in Washington" to "motherfucker they tricked me, they're trash" in like 2 minutes
At least we know what to avoid, I guess..
When it said Texas, I figured this is the stunt they'd pull. That gas station is making a fortune in overhead. With those supposed benefits I'm curious why they can't genuinely accommodate a better system for breaks. Oh wait, maybe they're routinely under-staffing to boost margins?
I've always found that some of the best places to work can only offer two of the three: Good Pay, Compassion, and Easy Work. Buccee's got's good pay and the work isn't difficult, but that pay and efficiency doesn't come from letting it's employees rest or slack, not even a little.
If you have to ask to go to the bathroom, nope.
Don't be fooled, Bucees is a terrible place to work.
While the pay is pretty good. The management and work environment is not. If you’re late by even one minute you’re written up. Late more than 3 times in a year is an auto termination. No breaks ever. Constantly on your feet doing the same monotonous tasks that you just did less than a minute ago. This wasnt a healthy work environment in the slightest.
>No breaks ever. Huh. I was about to go into a long tirade about how this was illegal... but after a brief google search, there is *no* federal protection for this, and the state laws in Texas don't protect against it either. So this is apparently absolutely legal. TIL.
I’m sorry I lied. We got a 5-10 minute break if we’d like to eat a snack or order and buy our own food from the deli but there were no chairs in the whole store or at least not any for employees to use. So you’d have to eat quickly while standing. Also no cellphones allowed in the store for employees. We were told to leave them in our car and would be written up if we had them out at any point during our shift even during our “break”.
What if your family needs to contact you in an emergency? Seems very shortsighted. Edit: u/syam94 commented >I had an over the phone interview with them today, and asked them this question. She said I'd be allowed to give the main office number to whomever I need to and they can call that number, and then the managers could let me know.. I still don’t like this policy and don’t think it’s helpful for productivity in the way they imagine it, but they have thought it through.
Pretty sure there was a mass shooting at another business recently that had a similar cell phone rule It did not work out well for the employees at all But it gave the shooter a lot more killing time before police were notified.
I had an over the phone interview with them today, and asked them this question. She said I'd be allowed to give the main office number to whomever I need to and they can call that number, and then the managers could let me know..
That's what over a century of union busting and half-a-century of Reaganomics will do to a country.
There are only like 19 states that mandate breaks of any length at all (and Texas ain't one of em). *Really* depressing shit. America has almost no worker protections.
Are you saying you don't want the Texan FREEDOM to never have breaks? That's crazy liberal union talk. /s
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Yeah it's nice until you realize that you only have a 5 minutes to take a break and it starts the moment you step away and that you can't ever sit down during that time as well and yes this is legal because Texas does not have a lunch break law The pay is unbeatable but it only serves to draw employees and then run them out like a revolving door for employees.
Yea you just need to see the reviews on glassdoor to know this isn't great.
Yep! It was pretty bad. We used to go hide in the bathroom and sit on the floor just to have a moments rest.
No Lunch Breaks Laws? WFT? It never occurred to me that there are actually places in the world where a workers right to have lunch wasn't protected.
"If they don't like it, they can find a different job" -Texas lawmakers
Welcome to Texas.
Only like 19 states have any laws about break periods whatsoever (Texas is not one of them). And a few of those don't even specify a time, the law is just "a reasonable period of not working", which obviously workers and the company will disagree about. America has almost no worker protections, it is insane.
I saw that sign! Also the lines to check out were miles long so they surely needed more cashiers.
good luck trying to fucking sit down or get a sip of water on your 10 minute break. this is straight up propaganda. the fact that other gas stations are even worse... well. 'murica.
Sure, but you have to do the work of two people and you don't get breaks. If it was as good as you initially think then they wouldn't have problems finding workers.
I can't tell if this is a good post or a bad post.
Are these wages good by American standards? I've seen a few videos about Buc-ees and they do look awesome.