Really? Your case is unusual; it normally affects the brain.
You are right. She could be mentally ill and imagined a transaction. Or was confused because she was too loaded.
However, this is a very common scam among drug addicts. I’ve done it myself. There are several variations. The most common, IMO, is to buy something at a grocery store, then return an hour later complaining of being shortchanged. The thing is, whoever you deal with is going to resist and you have to become beligerant(not violent, just loud). That’s when they cough up the dough, just to get you out of the store, especially if their busy at the time. As has already been said, if you work in retail long enough you’ll see someone use it.
It doesn’t always work, but works often enough that people keep trying it.
I didn’t order the fish sandwich; I ordered a fish biscuit. And I still want my damn money back.
mmmmm, fish biscuit…
fish biscuit. the.worst.food.idea.ever.
But not a bad name for a Rock Band.
“How do square fish swim?”
And I asked for extra tartar sauce on that fish biscuit! That’s another 25 cents you owe me!
I’ve seen this scam - or something pretty close to it. While working at Pizza Hut, a very large man came in demanding the two dollars he’d been supposedly shortchanged. My manager refused, and the idiot scammer left. Oddly enough, he had the nerve to come back the next night and pull the same scam on the same manager! I guess he got the point then, because he didn’t come back for a third night.
Another time, I was working at McDonald’s, and I accidently placed a Quarter Pounder on a customer’s tray instead of the Big Mac they had ordered. I realized my mistake when I was going to get the fries, but when I got back, the Quarter Pounder had vanished (along with one of the two customers who had ordered it, back to a table that wasn’t within view).
I called the other customer on it and he flatly denied it. I refused to hand over the Big Mac until I got the Quarter Pounder back, so he asked for the manager. The manager was from “The Customer is Always Right” School of Management, so he handed over the Big Mac immediately.
I don’t think “The Customer is Always Right” applies when the customer is a thieving scumbag, but maybe that’s just me.
No, it’s not just you. The customer is not “right” when they are trying to steal. I wouldn’t be so hard on your manager, though; he may have simply been making a practical business decision: He had a choice between making a scene and demanding the return of a Quarter Pounder that would just have to go into the waste bucket anyway (the health dept. isn’t gonna let you re-serve food that has been taken away to an out-of-view table by a customer), or just giving them the Big Mac. He chose to handle the situation the easiest way possible, rather than make a stand on principle that wouldn’t be likely to benefit anyone.
Don’t give the corporate weasles any ideas.
Besides at my store they would want jelly with it.
And yes they put the jelly right on the sandwich.
They’ll call it a “fishiscuit”!
They may already have it.
I swear to God, when I was in Boston, they were selling the McDonalds lobster roll.
WTF is a “fish biscuit”? The only fish meal McD’s serve here is the incredibly yucky Filet-o-fish burger.
McD’s in the US serves LOBSTER?
McDonald’s in different regions of the country will offer specialty items; sometimes they’re just for that area, other times they’re a test market for the nation’s McD’s.
Boy, there could be an entire thread on the stuff McDonald’s has tried but no longer offers, such as the McRib, the McDLT, and so on.
They even used to sell hot dogs!
Actually, McDonalds reintroduces things if they sold well enough.
The idea is to have " Special Items ".
The McRib will be back, and the Chicken Flatbread was supposed to be back already.
They delayed them in order to focus on the Dollar Menu.
I’m not going to think about work anymore today. This is one of the two days All Year we get to be closed.
Unfortuneately, the top brass wanted some stores to be open today.
Fortuneately, my owner thought the idea was completely stupid.
I reckon some of you people think that in some fashion you are extending the courtesy of the benefit of a doubt to someone whose behavior appears incomprehensible and/or unforgiveably obnoxious by noting that such person might be “mentally ill”.
A couple of words, please…
a) Having read the behavior described by the OP, I must say that I resent the comparison. Most of us who have been diagnosed/labeled “mentally ill” by the medical professionals don’t behave that badly, and it isn’t fair to us to have behavior like this held up as typical of us. :mad:
b) A bit more seriously–the diagnosis of “mental illness”, in modern medical-model parlance, means that one’s behavior and thought patterns are warped or caused by physiological brain problems. On the one hand, that explanation can be used to excuse behaviors (i.e., “She can’t help it, her brain’s messed up, she’s not responsible for her actions, she’s schizophrenic”); but on the other hand, that explanation erases the meaning of one’s behaviors, and by implication if not outright action serves as a recommendation that the person be put on mind-altering medications. If I am outraged and you and start yelling at you for reasons that I think are legitimate (even if you don’t), you most assuredly are not doing me any favors by attributing my fury and my statements to an alleged brain disorder for which I should probaby be drugged up with Prolixin or Haldol.
In other words, it’s akin to attributing fury and irritability to PMS. It says in effect that there is no legitimate cause for the fury or irritability, and it relegates the other person, their thoughts, and their emotional state, to a laughable and dismissable category of irrational nut.
Gimme a break. Unless you have some clinical reason to diagnose “mental illness”, what you’ve got here is a person pulling a scam, and making a scene is part of the scam process.
With all due respect, just because you’ve been diagnosed or labeled by the medical community as “mentally ill” does not mean you are any more qualified than anyone else to make the same diagnosis of others. In case you didn’t read some of the subsequent posts in their entirety, the theory isn’t that this person was most definitely, most sincerely mentally ill but that she may have been.
IANAD, but I don’t think there’s only one form of mental illness; if you’ve been diagnosed as suffering from one of these illnesses, you might well recognize other people exhibiting similar symptoms. But if the other person exhibits none of the same symptoms, it is still plausible he or she suffers from a different form of mental illness.
Please, please,* please* bring back the Chicken Flatbread sandwich. That was incredible.
That was the worst excuse for a sandwich…a little lobster, smothered in mayo, a handful of shredded lettuce, and a hot dog roll. I hated making those damn things.
You actually ate one?
You are a braver soul than I.