What's harder?? Being short staffed or over staffed?!

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Why it worked

The video succeeds by tapping into a highly relatable pain point for service industry workers, using a conversational, venting tone that encourages engagement in the comments.

Summary

A fast food manager vents about the frustrations of both understaffing and overstaffing in a workplace. She concludes that she often prefers being short-staffed because overstaffing leads to inefficiency.

Structure

1Posing the question about staffing levels
2Describing the struggle of being short-staffed
3Describing the struggle of being overstaffed
4Expressing a preference for being short-staffed
5Explaining the inefficiency of having too many people on one task

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What's harder?? Being short staffed or over staffed?!

Transcript

What's harder?? Being short staffed or over staffed?! Y'all is it just me or when you're short staffed you're like struggling like a motherfucker. But then you be overstaffed some days and you're still struggling like a motherfucker. Like I be like I'd rather be short staffed sometimes. Because why is it three of y'all running for a front counter but y'all are all working on the same fucking order.