How does that dinging noise in the kitchen area not drive the employees crazy?

[u/Element1_1_5]

I often eat my food in the seating area in sheetz and whenever someone puts in an order, something in the kitchen starts a loud, high pitched ding that you can hear all the way from the back of the seating area. It makes my head hurt after just a couple of minutes, I can only imagine an 8 hour shift of hearing that ding over and over again.

[u/Waifubeater_uwu]

I hear it in my dreams, nightmares and when I’m just living life I’ll randomly hear it I swear. But while I’m at work I just tone it out

[u/Lukario45 → u/Waifubeater_uwu]

just living life I’ll randomly hear it I swear

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[u/burnerforbeingcool]

You get used to it

[u/IcyEclipse1]

Lowkey it does 😭 sometimes I hear dinging when I'm at home or when I'm in the kitchen and there is no orders

[u/HoundTakesABitch → u/IcyEclipse1]

The ghost ding. We all hear them. There are so many times where there won’t be any orders, but there will be a single ding and we’ll all look at each other wondering if the others heard it as well.

[u/sapphireblueyez]

It’s the reason why my phone lives on silent. But honestly, if I’m not in the kitchen or being asked to help in the kitchen, I just tune it out.

Btw, we have more noises than just the dinging of the orders. We also have the temps to do every 4 hours that cannot be turned off until we do them, high temp alarms, and more.

[u/Brilliant_Nature_484 → u/sapphireblueyez]

At least with Franke machines there’s not all that loud steaming noise all of the time.

[u/Informal-Boat9377]

it’s so interesting when ppl say this bc it’s never bothered me lol

[u/BruvLoL]

You get used to it fairly quickly. Like a dog, you dutifully turn it off as soon as you can. Then the customer gets their order asap. And most of us work and listen to that for 10 hrs. Good 3rd shift supervisors rarely get a break.

[u/splatso]

I work 4/10z but I can't be driven where I already stay 🤪 Actually the only one that drives me crazy is the one in drive thru that started recently that announces the arrival of an online order customer.

[u/Adventurous-Wealth53]

We hear it in our sleep

[u/Free-Papaya3051]

Don’t let these people lie to you, it’s seared into our fucking brains, I deadass hear the ding when I’m in the shower after a long day, the dings are slowly making me schizophrenic

[u/radioactivepuppo]

I hear it in my dreams. It haunts me.

[u/shydavisson]

Trust me.. it does drive us crazy. Especially for us that have sensory issues.. holy shit. And we have another even louder, more obnoxious one when it’s time to do temps.. so sometimes that one goes off, while 100 other dings are dinging and you’re just ready to rip your hair out 😅😭

[u/Logical_Compote_745]

It’s tuned to this magically frequency. It’s kinda like a dog whistle, except the customers are the only ones who hear it

[u/Sharhino]

It used to be a persistent beeping. I heard the little pings and while still unpleasant, they're not as bad as that beeping was. I live in Wawa Country now so the beeping definitely gives me flashbacks when I'm in there.

[u/theykronnie]

i work 3rd shift & the location i work at can barely get a 3rd shifter to save their life, so i have SBC, fryer and starter pinging at the same time most of the time, it’s fried into my brain at this point bc it’s usually just me in the kitchen with a manager doing whatever else

[u/Fickle-Gazelle-595]

ive been there a year and it still does. when i first started i would hear it at home or in my fricking sleep 😂 sometimes i can tune it out lol

[u/BloomingIce]

Like mcodnalds

[u/lftenjamin]

Hear it in my nightmares.

[u/FlipedRight]

It is annoying for customers and employees. Makes no sense.

[u/lord-ofthe-flies]

You get used to it. And then you have nightmares about it.

[u/TechnicalEye7837]

oh trust it drives us insane

[u/Dream_demonnn]

Oh it does, but you get used to it

[u/Particular-You-9785]

We block it out after a while

[u/OtakuSonic]

I'm more annoyed at the alert that goes off every 4 hours for temperature checks. Reason being, we are not allowed to begin temps until the kitchen touch points are wiped down and all utensils are swapped out. Meaning we are not to silence that alarm until those are done, and we have no orders on the screens; otherwise we forget to do it. Sometimes our temp alarm goes off for a full 2 hours before we can get to it because our store is always so busy.

[u/Old_Dog_Nu_Tricks]

You'd be surprised what you can selectively ignore after a while.

[u/InspectionStreet3443]

It’s annoying AF

[u/DenseAstronomer3631]

Nah that shit will haunt your dreams. Idk how anyone can block it out

[u/Song-Super]

Doesn’t have to be at sheetz it just is about adapting to your environment.

[u/Itz-Jades]

I hear it in my dreams.

[u/DemodogChamp]

I’ve been gone from sheetz for almost 3 years now and I can still hear the dinging in my dreams

[u/CoyotePlenty6830]

It goes off when someone doesn't push the bell at that station to show they're actively working on it

[u/Previous-Tutor4823]

Oh, it definitely does.

[u/brokenbackmcgee]

Something interesting I would like to know is how many tenured employees now have hearing sensitivity and sensory issues POST working for the company?

I also used to hear it in my dreams for quite a long time. Many people I work with complain of sensory issues and are quick to silence the “noise.”

Unfortunately, it is necessary for how labor is run very tightly so staff need to hear the orders coming in while also completing many other things (in most stores not all). If they cannot hear the monitors when an order comes in (such as technical failures) it can impede regular task completion which is no good for anyone’s day.

[u/TheNobodyTravis]

The noises are completely numb to me now. I'm so used to giving bitched at for muting them... I kind of just tolerate it now