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malachilenomade
06-03-2006, 07:42 AM
George Carlin was incorrectly credited with the quote: "Your grandparents called working at fast food opportunity" or something like that. Either way, he was incorrectly credited with it.

That was then, this is now.

This morning, I go through the Mickey D's drive through because it's there and I have the munchies. I haven't eaten any of their food for a long time because it's basically crap. But I was hungry. It was there. You do the math.

I place my order, drive to the first window, the lady taking orders and money for the orders does her thing and I drive to the second window....

Ok, I work in a place where attention to detail is pretty important. And even my ex-coke head moron assistant can follow a basic line of orders. Apparently the twit working the second window was never blessed with such capacity. She got my drink wrong... and got my order wrong (it was a simple steak and egg bagel). And she got snarky with ME because I said it was wrong! I wasn't rude... I wasn't a j-o, I just said "that's not what I ordered."

Let me give you a guideline: If you are in your 50s and the ONLY job you can get is working the drive through at Mickey D's and you STILL screw it up and blame anyone but yourself, you REALLY don't need to act like the world owes a favor. In fact, do the world a favor and shoot yourself in the head.

I'm not lying when I say that SO many of the fast food joints around here are worked by disgruntled middle-aged people that feel that life has passed them by. Life passed them by because they refused to get the hell out of the fast food industry! I don't feel sorry for them! They just continue to plug away at a job they hate and look at you like YOU'RE the problem! Hey moron! If my ex-cokehead assistant can get a job in something other than flipping burgers, get off your lazy ass and get a better job! Don't look at me like it's MY fault that you're plugging away at some minimum wage crap! What the hell did you do with that degree you're paying off?!

Douche.

MotorWerk
06-03-2006, 07:57 AM
It could be that person in window 1 gave the wrong message to person in window two.

I must say that these american drive-through food places seem very strange to me.

LiLOrion
06-03-2006, 08:38 AM
When I worked at BK (Burger King) we had two older women who worked in the front, (not because life passed them by, but because they were supplementing their social security income).

Granted, people pick up the wrong thing from time to time, but sometimes the order of the bags get screwed up. If there was someone behind you in the drive-through, she could have handed you their bag by mistake.

And - steak and egg on a bagel? EWW! She was probably trying to do you a favor. :lol

Fyodor
06-03-2006, 09:14 AM
Around here, the only people that work in fast food joints are Emos fresh out of high school. ... So naturally I take the piss out of them as much as I can when they give me attitude.

I've worked in customer relations before, and I'd fire half of these people if I had any power.

woolhoss
06-03-2006, 09:30 AM
HAHAHAHAHA Gotta love them lil Emo kids.

jerseygirl
06-03-2006, 03:55 PM
It was just God's way of telling you not to go to Mickey D's any more.

woolhoss
06-03-2006, 04:02 PM
Oddly enough, I went to McDonald's today and since I usually never carry cash I gave them my debit card to pay for my food. Being the technology wizards they are there, they couldn't figure out something with my card....so they just said "Have a nice day" and I got free food.

It was a all around great/free meal.

RustySlinky
06-04-2006, 02:46 AM
. . . steak and egg on a bagel? EWW!. . .I like them, I think they're good. :wstupid: But I liked them even better when the steak was more like chuck steak instead of something like processed beef or something. Right now, I go for the $1 sausage mcmuffins, which are the best breakfast value for the buck.

People that are 50 and doing fast food are likely doing the best they can with whatever they got left. :wstupid:

McDonalds does get my orders wrong, around 3 to 4 times a year on the average. What I do now, is tell them what I ordered, and show them what I got. And guess what? Sometimes they give me what I ordered & let me keep what they gave me, and once even gave me my money back on top of that too!

McDonald's employees who feud with customers won't last that long usually. You'll likely have your revenge soon.

scrape_medic
06-04-2006, 06:29 AM
It was just God's way of telling you not to go to Mickey D's any more.
:lol

DRD2001
06-04-2006, 06:04 PM
You've got my sympathies mal.

The problem isn't that orders get messed up. I think we all understand that mistakes happen. And as a rule, I try to treat any line worker with respect cause dealing with the public can be very tiring. But when the person at the window trys to make out that it's my fault or act like I'm making an issue out of it cause I say "I'm sorry I didn't order this" really gets on my nerves. I want what I ordered and I expect it without attitude, backtalk, rolled eyes or any other sort of gesture. It was a consistant and repeated rotten attitude from employees (mostly younger ones) at various locations that made me refuse to eat at McD's again.

zahncrelnik
06-04-2006, 07:13 PM
well, some of us did not have life go the way we were told it would.
some of us lost everything when the companies we were loyal to
screwed us. some of us have no choice but to work 2 jobs, and
yes, some us have to work at McD's to "make ends meet".

life happened while we were busy making other plans....

However, I do agree that is no excuse for being rude to the customers.
I worked at McD's way back when Mr. Ray Kroc was still around and
one of his basic tenets was "the customer is always right" -he was
a pretty smart guy Ray Kroc.

Sorry your day started off that way malachilenomade.

malachilenomade
06-05-2006, 03:47 AM
And to make the day worse, I found out that I was supposed to go into work that day, but had TOTALLY forgotten :( The date was set up almost a month before and I had completely forgotten about it!

TheBladeRoden
06-05-2006, 10:51 AM
Ironically now you'll be working at McDonald's. ;)

SpeX
06-05-2006, 02:30 PM
Ironically now you'll be working at McDonald's. ;):rollin:

malachilenomade
06-05-2006, 03:54 PM
Ironically now you'll be working at McDonald's. ;)
:eek4:

zahncrelnik
06-05-2006, 05:01 PM
Ironically now you'll be working at McDonald's. ;)
:sing: a little too ironic...:rollin:

DRD 1812
06-05-2006, 11:22 PM
Around here, the only people that work in fast food joints are Emos fresh out of high school. ... So naturally I take the piss out of them as much as I can when they give me attitude.

I've worked in customer relations before, and I'd fire half of these people if I had any power.



So the epidemic has spread away from North America. I feel for you.