People that work at fast food places

[Shine Dude]

They always get the damn orders wrong!

[Ace Mercury]

To be fair, working at a fast food place also sucks it hard, and sucks it long.

[CaptHayfever]

^^Well, do you say the order so they can hear you, or do you do the whole "WHOPPERNOONION" and/or "and the pickles...ice....bunseeds..." things?

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Shine Dude]

No, it even said on the receipt "No onions."

[Booyakasha]

Do what I do--order something that's actually on the menu, and then eat the whole thing. Even the things you don't like--man it up. Say to yourself, "I'm gonna eat this sumbitch. I don't care what's on it--mustard, pickles, onions, peppers, anchovies, severed fingers, whatever--this sucker's goin' in my belly. I'll put up with the bad stuff to get to the good, and the good will then seem that much sweeter. For such is life." Hell yeah.

[Shine Dude]

But what if you were allergic to something they put on it by mistake?

[Beam Yosho the Drunkard]

Originally Posted by Shine Dude

But what if you were allergic to something they put on it by mistake?

Maybe you should start CHECKING what you get before just immediatly cramming it into your mouth?

[Ace Mercury]

Or, maybe we should have a nanny government, who makes sure you wear a sweater when it's cold out.

(But, anyways, I realize it's a pain. Call the manager over and demand satisfaction.)

[Codiekitty]

If you're allergic to a hamburger condiment, you shouldn't even be eating from a place that deals with them. That's why most candy bars say "Made in a factory that processes peanuts".


Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

[Sen. Brak Obama (FACE)]

Meh, my only problem is getting cheese on things. I always make sure I say no cheese on something that generally has cheese.

I've visited Mrs. Winner's several times during the years, and I believe they've only put cheese on my bacon egg biscuit once.

[Link2000]

What Codie said is damn true. Just because you say 'no onions' doesn't mean that the hands which prepare your order didn't touch onions one before.

[Shine Dude]

I'm not even allergic to onoins, or anything for that matter. I was just saying.

[Kae]

I think everybody should have a stint working at a fast food restaurant. That way, you realize that this is not what you should be doing at age 40.

[Sen. Brak Obama (FACE)]

I can't handle customer service, my problem is if someone gets rude, I'll probably be a smartass right back.

I'll stick to taking the bagger job at Schnuks

[Ike]

I could complain just as much if not more about some of the idiots that buy the food than Shine Dude can complain about the employees. Some of those customers can be quite ridiculous. I'm glad I work in the back.

[Codiekitty]

Early one morning, on a bright, sunny weekend, a woman walks up to the register...

Woman: Does McDonald's value single customers?

Me: [smiling brightly, not seeing what this is about] Uh, sure! We value all of our customers.

Woman: Because I have a two for one coupon on Egg McMuffins. These coupons are for couples.

Me: Uh, yeah, I've seen some couples use that coupon and share. But I've also seen some single people use it and eat both egg mcmuffins.

W: There is no conceivable way a single person could use this coupon.

M: ...or you could eat one, and take the other one home for later.

W: This coupon is for couples. I want half off a single McMuffin.

M: Look, the reason McDonalds has coupons is to encourage people to buy more food. The savings per sandwich to you for a "buy one at half price" and a "buy one, get one free" deal are the same, but McDonalds makes twice as much money on one transaction for the latter. Also, these promotions go in waves; sometimes, there *are* coupons for half off.

W: Give me half off a single McMuffin.

M: I couldn't do that even if I wanted to; the register has all prices and current coupons preset.

W: [blank stare]

M: Do you want me to ring you up something or not?

W: I want one McMuffin, for half off. McDonald's doesn't value single people.


At that point, I handed her off to a manager.



Then there was the beenie baby promotion. For some reason, people went nuts over this. There eventually was a limit of so many beenie babies you could buy in the drive through, causing some people to just loop around the store.

Anyway, it was possible to get them in a kid's meal, or buy one separately (for a dollar, I think).

Anyway, so a family with the grandmother had the old woman order.

She wanted one beenie baby with a kid's meal, and one extra beenie baby. As usual, the one for the kid's meal was put in the kid's meal bag, with the food, and the other one was put on the tray.

Old Woman: [sees the one beenie baby on the tray] I ordered two beenie babies.

Me: That's right, the one for the kid's meal, and the extra one.

OW: But there's only one.

M: I put the one for the kid's meal in the kid's meal bag; the other's on the tray.

OW: But there's only one on the tray.

M: The other is in the bag on the tray.

OW: [picks up the bag and looks in it] Okay, where's the other one?

M: On the tray.

OW: [looks at the tray] Okay, but where's the other one?

M: Uh, it's in your hand.

OW: There's only one in my hand.

M: ...and there's another on the tray.

OW: There's only one on the tray!

Eventually, either her son or son in law pulled her away from the counter.

Later Post, during a time when the poster worked as a pizza delivery man:

But, anyway, one day I had to deliver a pizza to a trailer, and a kid answered the door.

Him: Uh, my dad's asleep.

Me: You don't have any money for the pizza?

H: My dad has it all.

Me: You can't wake him up? [And thinking, "Why would you order a pizza and then go to sleep? Or if the kid ordered it, if he knew he couldn't pay for it.]

He goes off for about 10 minutes. When he comes back..

H: He's passed out drunk.


So I told him that I wouldn't be able to give him the pizza but we'd probably keep it at the place.

I had another delivery to make, so I did that, then went back to HQ and told them what happened. The manager seemed bemused; I'm not sure if he totally believed me, but there's no logical reason to lie. No person in the world is so lazy to shirk delivering a pizza -- and, for the most part (if their orders don't get repeatedly @#%$ up*), pizza customers are a lot happier than, say, McDonald's customers. They're waiting at home, which is more relaxing and convenient. They already placed their order, so there's not much more interaction. And even when they made up their mind on their order, they were in the comfort of their own home, not corralled in a line, possibly with screaming kids, having to read a menu that requires awkward tilting of the head, and maybe little time to decide.

So, you generally wouldn't even want to shirk delivering a pizza to get out of dealing with customers.

Anyway, they put the pizza on a counter, and I went out on another delivery.

Sometime later, they told me that they got another call from the same number, and the person was angry that they didn't get their pizza, even though a delivery was attempted, and it was their fault they didn't get it.

So, they sent another guy out to deliver it.

And then he comes back and tells the same story -- the kid says he has no money, and his dad is passed out drunk.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

[Booyakasha]

Originally Posted by Shine Dude

But what if you were allergic to something they put on it by mistake?

Well, I'm not allergic to anything. But if I were, and they put something in my food that I was allergic to, I'd suppress the allergic reaction through sheer force of will. Then, after I finished eating, I'd go back up to the cashier, ask to talk to the manager, and bounce his head off the counter until he cried. Then I'd go outside, mount up, maybe shoot a man just to watch him die, and ride off into the sunset, leaving nothing to mark my passage but a swath of death and a legend...