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What follows is a snapshot of the living hell that I’ve been through as a dehumanized, scorned, mistreated fast food employee at Hardee’s, a fast food corporation that spends more money claiming good deeds to their employees and their community than it actually does. My personal experience, mixed with statistics and stigmas described in the literature, shows that fast food chains are mostly focused on profit, putting their workers’ needs on the backburner of their hot money-making oven, which feeds off of customers’ every desire but at the expense of the workforce of underpaid, and brutalized servants.
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Falls, B. (2017). My Personal Hell. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hensley, B.O., Braniger, C.J., Jennings, M.E. (eds) Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies In Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-005-9_21
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