You assumed the wallet had been thrown away at BK, and didn’t bother to call your friends to be sure that you hadn’t left it in one of their cars?
You mention a thick Spanish accent for no apparent reason. You seemed to have no trouble understanding her, so why bother to mention it?
You seem upset that a manager won’t have employees spend hours digging through garbage, rebagging it, and then making sure all the garbage is again disposed of properly, based on the word of a caller who isn’t even certain of what happened.
You seem upset that a manager won’t let you spend hours digging through the dumpster, exposing the restaurant to liability if anything happens to you during that time, and either paying employees to monitor you during that time or sending the staff home and trusting you to rebag the garbage and clean up when you’re done?
You’re pitting the manager for not acting on your recollection, which you now know was incorrect, but not the girl who took your wallet, $15, and almost certainly copied your social security number, credit card numbers and expiration dates, and all the other information she needs to go on a spree with your accounts?
I’m sorry but I have to disagree. Actions speak louder than words. On the one hand, we have you *saying *you’re respectful of women; on the other, we have you impusively and unjustifiably calling a woman a twat. There’s a disparity here, between what you say and what you do.
I think you guys are being a little hard on Foxtrot. 1) he probably had no idea of how hard it is for someone at BK to go digging through the trash 2) was upset that someone who is supposed to help (again, as far as he knows) was being so, well, unhelpful.
Therefore he was upset that he wasn’t getting any help and called the “twat” on it.
And sometimes a thick Spanish accent is just a thick Spanish accent.
At the risk of showing how big of a dork I am, the girl was probably a Ravnos and not a thief…
Not hard, just disgusting, disruptive and rude.
2) was upset that someone who is supposed to help (again, as far as he knows) was being so, well, unhelpful.
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It is NOT her job to dig his wallet out of dumpsters. She owed him nothing. People who work at Burger King are not fucking servants.
What is this Ravnos you speak of? Is it some European sect of the Speakers Of Dreams?
As a psychologist and member in good standing of the College Of Etheric Sciences, I think I’m quite well qualified to analyze the motivations and emotions of others. Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to get back to the IM chat with a friend who is a Difference Engineer and is helping to purge my machine of persistent spyware.
I walked to lunch one day from work and discovered, after I had taken everything out of my bag and pockets, that I had evidently emptied my keys (car, house, office, everything) into the trash can along with the remains of my icky shrimp lo mein. I was surprised that the poor guy who worked there was willing to make a cursory poke through the trash can to investigate on my behalf. No keys.
Maybe it was my business attire, but I wouldn’t have dug through there for my wallet or my keys. Ew. I also wouldn’t have considered him a dickhead for a second if he didn’t do it.
When I got back to the clinic, the receptionist had them as I had left them in the staff bathroom on the sink. :o :eek:
My point being he didn’t realize it. He asked someone to do something he thought they could/should do and they said no, while not explaining that it’s not their responsibility/policy. What’s so hard to grasp about this? I think an explanation from the BK employee would have been helpful but he certainly didn’t get one and felt he had been treated poorly.
Again, he didn’t know that. We have a counterexample of a poster who was a cashier at a place and went digging through the trash for someone, so it obviously happens whether or not she [the person who threw away her ID] was entitled to it.
Me too, except I’m not. If you would, please describe to the layman like me how describing the accent of someone is indicitive of latent or overt racism rather than just a description to enhance the story? Does the fact that he referred to the “new girl” as the “new” girl show his overpowering masculine desire to possess every female that comes his way, subverting their personality before the power of the masculine gaze and if that fails, through emotional abuse and eventually rape?
OK, that’s a strawman, but I’m not buying the racism either.
When I worked at McDonald’s, all the trash went into a giant compacter before it even got to the dumpster. There’s no way in hell we would dig through literally hundreds of pounds of compressed Big Mac leavings and cold fries for someone’s wallet. And closing time is not slack time, it’s time to scrub the floors, clean the fry table and vats, disassemble the shake machine (usually my job), scour the grills, etc. My store was usually busy right up to the time we stopped taking orders, which meant we were there for another two hours.
I failed to mention that the manager with the Spanish accent was difficult to understand. My mistake.
I play a small D.C. Metro Area-based LARP called Darkon.
You all are reading way too deeply into what I wrote. I just wanted my wallet back, dammit, and I was desperate. I’ve never worked in fast food, and given how concerned the first BK I called was, I assumed the BK I was at would help this poor schlub out. I was irritated when they didn’t.
Darkon’s far from defunct. As a matter of fact, SeeThink Productions is doing a full-length movie on us. Rome has come out twice this year. Mordom is the world superpower.
By adding detail. Although Foxtrot’s already explained it, I still see nothing wrong with the description as it stands. With the fervor he was attacked, I think you guys would have picked on him even if he left it at, “and then some lady got on and told me no.” “What, you think all women are lazy or somethin’?”
Although we could argue this forever and get nowhere, I’m willing to let it drop as it’s essentially a moot point.
He also mentioned that the first girl on the phone had a cute voice. How else do you describe someone on the phone other than by their voice and speech?
