O.k., I was just reading the airline upgrade to first class thread and I was thinking about the flight attendant/mess with your food and drink thing. I know from working in fast food, pizza delivery, restaurants and a technical phone help desk that you just do NOT screw with the help. Is anyone here gonna back me up on this? Anyone have any stories they want to share about getting back at a$$hole customers? I have a few, but I don’t know if they’d be appreciated. I’m looking for good old-fashioned, juicy, “got-back-at-the-jerk” stories.
punk snot dead,
broccoli!
P.S. If this thought offends you, or you LIVE by “The customer is always right” then you need help. Some people just deserve a good smack in the face.
Hmm, he use all caps to say FUCK in the subject, but then spares us the sight of the word asshole via strategic $ placement? Interesting.
Anyways, no the customer isn’t always right, but no matter what the guy fucking with the food is a bigger prick. I don’t so much feel all morally indignant at the thought of it, I’m used to people sucking on a regular basis. The real fact is that these pussies who fuck with food or other services behind closed doors are cowards, plain and simple. If some asshole gives you a unfairly hard time, then be a man and confront him to his face. You fuck with his food, thats just chickenshit. Even worse is if you are to much of a pussy to admit you made a mistake and wronged the angry customer. Fucking with a guy’s food just because he yelled that you took twice as long as you promised is not only yellow, its down-right idiotic and malicious.
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A friend of mine once told me about getting back at an asshole customer at the restaurant she waitressed by dipping her tampon in his drink. I think that’s enough to make any of us be very courteous to our hosts, and to tip well!
Damn!!! I thought I had heard every story possible, but that one really disgusted me. From now on I’m just going drink only beer in the bottle, with the cap still on when I get it.
I’ve read a lot of stories like that at http://www.customerssuck.com. What is really weird about it is they gloat about how the person happily enjoyed their meal without realizing what they had done to it - HELLO, what kind of revenge is that, unless the person happens to get sick, and even then they aren’t likely to realize that the person they were an asshole to is the cause. When someone pisses me off I WANT them to know that they fucked with the wrong person.
Messing with the customer’s food is just plain wrong!
Why?
It can make them seriously ill, or could cause them actual bodily harm.
If you are in the service industry you should damn well expect and be able to deal with rude assholes that you will encounter. And see my pizza delivery posts if you think I don’t know what I’m talking about with respect to dealing with rude customers.
It’s just plain dishonorable. If you are that upset about the asshole customer then don’t be a whining, scared little loser and pee in their soup, snickering behind a door - come out and tell the customer that you are upset, and don’t like them! If you are afraid of losing your job, then tell them in a polite way, measured way, so you don’t put your job at risk. Tell your manager. Tell your friends. Tell someone - make your voice heard that you have been wronged in an open, honest manner - not by poisoning someone (and I don’t know what else to call tampering with food in the “humorous” ways I have seen suggested in other threads).
Yes, for the most part the service industry sucks. It’s hard work, managers yell at you, and customers are rude, don’t tip, or just plain mean. So? Get angry. And let them know that their behavior will not be tolerated. But putting shit in their food? Why does assholic behavior on the part of the customers deserve so extreme a remedy? At some point you have to have some honor to say “This person is screwed. I do not deserve this. But I will make it through this, and I will not do something nasty and illegal to them.”
IMO, deliberately tampering with food for any reason should be a felony, do pass go, do not collect $200.
You tell them Anthracite!!! I worked as a waitress for almost 4 years and I never once did anything to a person’s food!!! It is rude and inexcusable.
Now, I did once poor a pitcher of water on a guy’s lap to get him to stop making crude comments. I warned him, warned my manager and when he did it again… it was ice cold water in his lap. That was funny!
I worked in a call center and when customers where rude I used to let my managers know so they wouldn’t go out of their way to please the customer. That was great too.
customer: “Well if I talk to your manager he/she will do this for me.”
me: “Let me put you on hold while I get a manager.”
Walk to manager and say: “This person is being rude, would you please let him know we have to stick with policy. I know we sometimes make exceptions, but this person is a dickhead.”
Manager to customer: “How may I help you?”
Customer:“Your rep said you couldn’t do this for me. Can you?”
Manager: “No we can not and will not make any exceptions. thank you for calling.”
See, there are many ways to get back at customers without poisoning food or being harmful. You just have to be creative.
Just for the record, Badtz, as many of you know, I’m a mod at Customerssuck.com. I can assure you that we do NOT condone tampering with someone’s food. Those are simply the stories posted to our board. In fact, I got medieval on some guy’s ass who laughed when his coworker put rancid mayonaisse on a sandwhich to catch shoplifters…yes, they were thieves, but you just don’t do that kind of thing.
That said, you also shouldn’t piss off the people handling your food, period. They may not tamper with it, but they may let it sit out and get cold, or the pizza guy will deliver to you last, if you’re a jerk and you don’t tip.
Incidentally, if you wanna hear some nasty stories, http://www.stainedapron.com
(A better way to get back at an asshole in a restaurant would be to tack on gratuity, methinks.)
How fucking inbred would someone have to be to mess with someone’s dinner? If I ever caught someone screwing with my dinner that person had better learn how to duck or take a whole shitload of punches regardless of their dim reasoning for whatever shit they tried. Spitting on my food would guarantee a person an express ticket to more pain than they could fucking imagine. What is the largest object a person can shove up another persons ass anyways?
I worked in the service industry for twelve years and put up with more arrogant, self serving, elitist fucks than I care to remember. Did I ever fuck with their dinner? NO. If I had I would have expected to get two of the worst ass kickings of my life. One from the customer (who isn’t always right) and from the owner of the establishment for fucking with his clientelle. My daddy didn’t marry his sister so I will never have to worry about being that stupid.
I want to hear about the people who tried this shit and got caught, I’m in the mood for some gratuitous carnage tonight…
I’ll soon be an officer in the Navy, and have heard several anecdotes about what the the mess cooks and servers do to the wardroom food. This is a rather interesting situation, as some of the people that will be handling my food will be my subordinates. I can certainly sympathize with their desire to get back at the officers without anyone knowing about it, but also have a personal and ethical motivation to prevent it from happening. I guess that’s just one of those things that I’ll have to live with.
Over the summer, I worked at a convenience store that also sold sandwiches and subs from the deli. One of my coworkers told me about a couple of rude guys that came to the store after the bars closed and started making all sorts of sexual innuendo towards the two women working there. The subs they odered came with a few (well at least 10) extra servings of hots on them. Within a few minutes the guys came back in the store in tears and were allowed a free gallon of spring water. I’d say that that’s about the desired effect for the occasional deserving customer.
Omniscient, I was kidding. But if I were you, I wouldn’t tell the waiter “if you fuck with my food, you’re just a chickenshit pussy.” Your opinion (although valid) is best kept to yourself, as least until after the meal.