Should i work at Sonic?
I’ll be graduating highschool next year and I want to get a job to get some experience and money.. Is Sonic a good place to work? I don’t want to work somewhere where I won’t be able to move up. I am willing to work hard and put in my time.
Any advice from current/past Sonic employees?
Do some research on the company and check the rep of the company.
I love my job at sonic
Well I'm not a sonic employee I have worked in the restaurant industry for over 25 years. Every thing from the supply side to a multi unit manager . I can tell you if you put in the work you can learn a lot in the industry especially in the quick serve stile restaurant. Also being a franchise stile restaurant you will also have opportunity to move up and advance. If you can make it in this industry you can make it any where. Good luck to you
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Trinity,
First things first, you're asking yourself the wrong question. As someone who wants to gain experience while earning a living should be looking at this or any place of employment as an opportunity. Moving up and moving forward in life depends on the experience you get and how you apply that experience to climb the opportunity rope. Realistically, you will need to work so you have to ask yourself where do you want to start? What field do you want to get into? If you're starting at the bottom, what's your version of the bottom? Is it fast food? Is it retail? Don't go into this asking if a place of good to work for when you really don't know that answer until you're in the role, performing those duties. The experience is different for everyone so what's bad to someone may be great for someone else.
I would suggest that you focus on more important avenues in the workforce like avoiding workplace conflict, establishing and maintaining your time management skills, etc. you have to focus on balance, not the good or bad. Every person who has worked has or is starting at their own bottom somewhere, but it's the determination and mental growth that helps you move up.
Best of luck!
Sonic is a good place to start. Here is some advice. Once you get the job, take a look around at your fellow employees, take a honest look, look at how they work, look at the weak employees and especially the strong hardworking employees, those hardworking employees are your competition. Look at the turnover rate, sonic is a good start out job, but if you work hard and stay on task, you can move up, probably pretty quickly, maybe even to manager, manager experience goes along way. Being a manager is a skill that will go anywhere,. Inspire to be the best. Don't just do the minimum, the weak employees do the minimum, everyday strive to be better than the strongest employees, not just once a week or once a month, everyday....and you will succeed farther in your life and your final career than you ever imagined. Remember work can be played like a game, but you gotta play to win, everyday..enjoy and good luck in your life and you life careers.
Like Tricia said, it will be a good way for you to get some experience. I'm going to tag Karla Sieg and Tracy Savoy here, as they can shed some inside knowledge about Sonic!!
A job at Sonic will be a good way for you to start to build your work history and gain experience in the workforce. It will also, as you said, start to put some hard-earned money in your pocket!
As long as you work hard and show up on time, you should walk out of it with a great reference and possibly some new friends!
I have been a current carhops for 4+ yrs yes it's a great job for current or out of high school students. Does help with other job opportunities with customer service, handling money so yes if you are looking for a first time job with a friendly welcome, smile, and a very outgoing person this is the job for you anymore questions be free to email me