Yeah, but if they’re out of mayo, why offer it?
“Would you like mayo with that?”
“Yes, please.”
“Well, we’re out of mayo.”
:dubious:
It’s you guys who are being stupid. Just dumping the extra or giving it to someone else is logically the easiest and most expeditious thing to do, but you gotta show how much smarter you are than fast food workers by picking a fight with them on this minor point of punctilio. You figure this is a chance to butt heads with them and win, so you do. You’re all horns and no brains.
And when it comes to not having any brains, Evil Captor knows what he’s talking about!
Nah, It’s simply a matter of logic.
What makes more sense - Taking bits off a burger (which is not always 100% successful when it’s liquid) or not putting it on in the first place. We expect little children to be able to follow simple instructions, why shouldn’y we expect fast-food employees?
I had a coupon for a free breakfast bagel at McDonald’s. I expected just a bagel, but it turns out to be more complicated than that.
Me: I’ll have a breakfast bagel.
McDrone: What kind would you like?
Me: What are my choices?
McDrone: <Shoves a laminated sheet showing three types of breakfast bagles at me.>
Me: I’ll have a Number Three.
McDrone: Our Number Three is not the same as the picture.
Me: What is your Number Three?
MdDrone: It’s the same as the Number One.
Me: I’'ll have a Number Two.
McDrone: We’re out of the Number Two.
(long pause)
Me: Then… I… Will… Have… A… Number… One.
Lemonade in the States is not “fizzy” as mentioned above. I have to say though, that a carbonated lemon drink sounds like it would be really yummy. I don’t think anyone even makes that on this side of the big pond. Maybe you could ship me some Lobsang?
Juniper, can I use this as my sig?
You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in France?
Ahh, screw it.
Of course, Mr. Walrus; I would be honored.
::reads the OP::
::thinks about giving Lobby a 4/10 rating::
::reads 2nd edition of OP::
::cracks up!::
::notes to self… Lobby ROCKS!::
So I dodged the bullet then…
‘You move like they move’
Hey I’m NEO! I’m THE ONE. I do rock!
<shudder> Self congratulation doesn’t feel right.
O’Sullivans???
Lobsang, Evil Captor wasn’t talking about getting a condiment you didn’t ask for. He was responding to overlyverbose’s post about refusing two-for-one deals.
I’m with EC on this one. Kiger was joking about workers getting flogged if they don’t push the special deals, but the truth is, they do have to, and they will hear about it if they don’t.
That’s great, Rilch, but that still doesn’t mean the fast food workers have to be stupid to the extent of not understanding a customer’s simple wish: “I only need one”. If I walk in to a McDonalds and I want one, uno, ein, un, een cheeseburger, then I don’t want two. I expect the register clerk to accomodate me. Whatever he does with the other half of the 2-for-1-deal is up to him: he can stuff it up his left nostrill and dance the hokey-pokey for all I care. But when I ask for one cheeseburger, I want one cheeseburger, not two. The register clerk trying to make his sales campaign issue my issue is hardly what I’d call good service.
Actually, I’ve done this quite often before. I was a vegeterian for about ten years and still don’t eat beef. In high school, we often went on conventions or field trips where the only food option was McDonalds. Rather than starve, I’d order a cheeseburger and ask them to hold the meat.
Some places were fine with this. In other fast food restaurants, I’d end up arguing with the manager over my right to do so. What irritated me to no end would be when they would either tell me to just take the cheeseburger as is and take the meat off or in front of me pull the patty off a premade item. They just couldn’t get that I didn’t want meat touching my food (and yes I know that even if the meat wasn’t on my sandwich that meat-contaminated items in the kitchen probably touched it anyway).
I finally got to where I would always carry snacks with me to eat on these trips. That of course would lead to managers occasionally telling me that as I was not a customer that I couldn’t eat inside (despite the fact that I was obviously one of a rather large group of paying customers). It really was annoying when I couldn’t eat inside or get back on the bus to wait and it was quite cold outside. I would end up just buying something cheap that I wouldn’t eat so that I could have the right to sit in their precious McD’s.
::wipes tears from eyes::
thanks for that INCREDIBLE second post Lobsang! Absolutely brilliant. I practically went into convulsions trying to stifle my laughter, here in Cubeville.
Thankfully I had spotted “goat” out of the corner of my eye when I started reading it, and was able to finish my mid-slurp of soda before reading on - otherwise there’s no doubt that my keyboard, computer, monitor, and cubicle walls - not to mention the deepest recesses of my sinuses - would now be thoroughly suffused with the aforementioned soda.
If the Judges don’t give you an 11 for that rant, why, why I’ll, I’ll,
::vein in forehead starts to twitch::
commit [pick your favorite unspeakable act] upon them!
And to try to preserve my near-perfect record of no “me too” posts, here’s some links to some other enjoyable rants about the “food” “service” industry (both related to McD’s, oddly enough…) - enjoy!
The Greatest McDonald’s In the World - by jarbabyj
I stood next to the Emperor of the World at McDonald’s! - by Sauron
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OK, why do you ask that your food is incorrect a lot of the time? Simple.
1.)The people are teenagers, a majority of whom are dumb in the first place, many who are not responsible, and do not care.
2.)Older, uneducated people. You know, the High School dropout. The dope smoker. The ex-con, the welfare mother. The manager is usually a young person himself, with a LOT of pressure, from upper management, his crappy workforce and goofy customers who want a burger without meat and extra pickles. Managers in restaurants, fast food hells and retail usually work 50-60 hours a week including weekends.
To add, many of these people work two jobs if not more to survive, working 6 to 7 days a week. You cant live in North Dakota on 6 bucks an hour, much less a big city like New York, LA or anywhere else.
3.)During lunch or dinner rush, these people are usually doing several things at once, doing different orders, whatever. Fast food labor is also very tiring, like all low paid jobs.
4.) Many of these people who work in these places simply do not care. They have to be there. The economy is now bad, which means you have people with college degrees working there who are looking for other places to go. The turnover in this industry is very high. I graduated college at a recessionary time and had to work at a Blockbuster Video briefly. That was humiliating.
5.) Workers are sometimes hostile at customers. You are making them do extra work, especially at closing time. That sounds stupid but true. People resent making shit money and having their ass worked to death and still end up with absolutly nothing at the end of the month.
6)They have to deal with asshole people all day long, see below:
To follow up, when I was in school, I worked at a Cracker Barrell (CB) restaurant waiting tables. CB serves breakfast food all day. The stupid lazy hostess never asks the people if they would like a breakfast menu, and I would end up having to fetch them when people ask.
One night a bunch of old people came inside our place, and one old bitch ordered an egg sandwich. She told me it came with the hash browns. “Make sure not to forget that!” CB doesnt ever sell egg sandwiches ever, it is not even on the menu. It is a special order. Well, of course, I fucked up the bill and charged her for the hash browns. That old bitch went nuts and screamed at me. “IT COMES WITH HASH BROWNS!!!” I really wanted to give her a dollar from my tips and tell her to go buy a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs and never return.
Moral of story, food service people and customers have about the same temperment and IQ.
SP
I don’t get it - if it’s not on the menu, why would it come with free hash browns? And if it the hash browns weren’t supposed to be free, then how did you “fuck up”?
I just remembered another funny thing that happens occasionally:
Me: “I’d like a small coke”
Server: “We only have medium and large”
Well, take a wild guess which of those two I want.
What Clipper said about eating outside food in a McDonalds made me think of something that happened to me several years ago.
One night I bought a soft drink in a bottle after work. For some reason, I didn’t drink it and left it in the car. The next morning I was hungry, so I went to a local Steak and Egg place. I took the drink in with me.
I was told by the old bitch manager (no doubt related to the egg sandwich woman) that I was not allowed to have that drink. “Why?” “It’s a rule, we sell drinks here.” So, I left.
What was so stupid about this situation was that I was going to order the steak, and tip the woman 15%. So, for being a stubborn bitch, she lost 10 dollars, a customer and a tip for her waitress.
Too many rules and lack of common sense.
SP