Total number of posts in the three active ATMB threads on this issue:
Bosstone: 22
Red Barchetta: 21
Oakminster: 13
Just sayin’.
Burger King Corporation
ATTN: Consumer Relations Dept.
5505 Blue Lagoon Drive
Miami, Florida 33126
Dear Sirs:
Your advertising jingle of the late 1970s and early 1980s—which, I remind you, was widely distributed on the public airwaves and heard by millions—included the clear promise “special orders don’t upset us.” With this in mind, I was extremely DISTRESSED by the treatment I received at your 9679 North Hayden Road location, on July 17, 2011, at approximately 11:37 a.m. After I entered the restaurant and placed my usual order (a BK Big Fish sandwich on two TOP bun halves, substituting a grilled chicken patty for the fish patty) the cashier, a young woman named “Mercedes,” let out an AUDIBLE SIGH. When I attempted to explain that I am unable to eat fish due to a rare inflammatory bowel disease, “Mercedes” visibly rolled her eyes and said “$3.34 please” in what I found to be a very INSOLENT tone of voice.
Needless to say, I was FLABBERGASTED. As a longtime customer, I have always perceived Burger King to be company that keeps its word. If “special orders don’t upset us” is no longer a company policy, you OBVIOUSLY need to make some sort of public announcement clarifying the new policy. For example, “special orders MAY upset us,” or perhaps a detailed list of what does and does not constitute “special.” Without accurate information about your policies and rules, we as customers are flying BLIND in SKIES OF CHAOS!!!
I look forward to your speedy and thorough response to my concerns. It would be a shame if I were forced to relinquish my BK® CROWN CARD and patronize JACK IN THE BOX instead.
Sincerely Yours,
Eugene Q. Busybottom
Desert Flower Assisted Living Center
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Oh, so now you’re comparing The Giraffe Board to Jack in the Box?!
Could we please stop the hijacks and off topic remarks? If you have something to say on the topic of my OP, fine. If you want to Pit me, fine. Otherwise, please take the off topic stuff to a more appropriate thread. Thank you.
Nice one. Not the whole picture by far, but hey.
No, but people have called Soulfrost a martyr, and BigT called in Jesus to give credibility to his approach. While I disagree with the original call, and while I think that civil disagreement with the mods is entirely appropriate, some of the rhetoric being used is wildly hyperbolic.
Well, I don’t know who called SoulFrost a martyr (it may have happened, but I missed it), and BigT’s post came after you said:
So it sounded to me a lot like you were mocking anyone who was objecting in this series of threads. If you are backing off from that, great: I think the criticism of the mods (and especially admins) here is quite warranted, and I remain rather disappointed at the overall approach from staff here towards handling the problem.
Vinyl Turnip, 
Agreed. Whatever Oakminster is trying to do with this thread, you folks piling on is not improving the situation. Rehashing the whole incident yet again is not helping.
Oakminster, I have a hard time believing you are seriously confused in this matter. It seems more likely that you are just trying to poke mods with a stick. If I were Dex, I certainly would feel that way. I would probably try to answer you seriously anyway, assuming I saw the thread, but given the nature of everything going on and your tone, it certainly comes off as more hystrionics to bash mods rather than a sincere search for clarity about something confusing. Now maybe my perception is colored by all the other chaos going on at the moment, but I assure you if I feel that way that it is likely the mods do, too.
I may have used that word, in the sense that SoulFrost seems to have been trying to be one. That doesn’t mean I believe he was justified in his behavior.
:mad:
That is such an unfair comparison. They gave hundreds of people e. coli back in the 90’s, whereas we’ve had less than a dozen confirmed cases that were directly attributable to us. Given how filthy everything is, I think that’s pretty good, actually.
This is the sort of nonsense I’m talking about. Your interpreting my words in the light most offensive to you is one thing. Suggesting that my clarification is backing away from that interpretation is foolish, but you then assume that’s what a clarification means, and you move forward from that assumption.
It’s this sort of selective hyperparsing of words that the OP is engaging in with Dex. Unlike what BigT thinks about himself and Jesus, it doesn’t work: if anything, it seems likelier to make mods think people objecting to mod decisions are whining about nothing.
Dear Eugene,
Thank you for bringing this urgent matter to our attention. Accordingly, we dispatched one of our “disciplinarians” to the franchise in question and let me assure you, sir, that her uniform was pulled down forcibly and she was spanked on her bare bottom until it was bright red. I hope this satisfies your outrage. By way of compensation, we are sending you - at no charge!- a years supply of catheters. Please enjoy.
Sincerely,
Consumer Relations Dept.
5505 Blue Lagoon Drive
Miami, Florida 33126
No, sorry. The original shit by the Czar was wrong so I voiced my displeasure but you are acting like such a little girl who found a spider in her vagina that now we all look like crazy persons.
“Chill, Winston.”
~Willy
ETA: Oh shit, I just broke the (new) “OP gets to dictate what can and can’t be said in my thread rule”. Damn. I guess I’ll get a warning…
; )
That’s a hell of a place to find a spider.
I don’t think I was hyperparsing your words so much as going on tone and suggestion. I think the Kissinger quote is offensive here: sure the stakes are small, but people care about this place, and I’m glad to see that. If you meant something other than “All you people are small and petty, and you ought to let it go,” then I apologize for misunderstanding you.
I don’t get that this is hyperparsing either. Dex said A. Twickster said Not A. The OP wants to know why Dex said A, when A (apparently) wasn’t even close to true. Now you might not care, and I might not care, but I can’t see why that that makes it an invalid question.
Many posts in this thread begin with the premise that this is a disingenuous OP.
We don’t usually play this card, but C K Dexter Haven has much more important things happening in his life right now and isn’t going to have time to deal with this discussion in the immediate future. I think it’s unseemly to let this go on indefinitely when he has things of actual import to attend to, so I’m closing this thread. I think the question was already given a full answer, but Dex can come back to this thread and respond when he has the time.
My apologies. As noted, Real Life has sort of intruded and I’ve been on the SDMB very little (and this will probably continue for a while.) When I do have SD time, it’s spent handling Cecil’s Mail, for which I’m not paid, as opposed to moderatoring, for which I’m not paid. Anyhow, Real Life stresses obviously caused me to miscount the moderator voting tally. Or, perhaps, my computer has caught a miscounting virus, it’s the sort of last drop to overflow the camel’s cup that Murphy’s Law would dictate.