Things I will not miss.
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Topic: Things I will not miss.
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Subject: Things I will not miss.
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 1:50pm
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So last night I worked my last shift at McDonalds. Things I will not miss about working in fast food. 1) The screamers. Apparently It is hard to comprihend that our drivethru speakers work remarkably well, and screaming into them in broken fragments slows us down, not speeds us up. Ex. “GIVE…..ME…..TWO…..NUMBER….ONES…WITH” “Sir, sir please don’t yell, we can hear you just fine” “OK…..GIVE……ME…….TWO…” Here is a tip. Talk normal into the speaker, we can hear you just fine. 2) The insults. People assume that if you work in fast food you must be idiots. Many times I was told by customers “Yeah, that’s why you work in fast food!” They didn’t quite get the fact I was going to college, and had a 4.0 in highschool. They got taint-burgers. 3) The bringer-backers. Shut the hell up. I don’t care if you got pickles when you asked for no pickles. You have fingers. You can pick them off. You are paying less than $5 for your meal, you just voided your right to complain. We are getting paid crap, so we void our right to care about you or your food. 4) The special orders. “Give me a quarter pounder no ketchup extra mustard with light onions and pickles add extra lettuce and can I only have one slice of cheese on that?” No. No you cannot. Order it normal like everyone else. You are not special, you are not cool. If you want anything different, go to Burger King asshole. 5) The people who don’t know menus. Everytime somebody came through asking for a classic double with onion rings and a large Pepsi, I wanted to kick them in the face. It is not hard to know the menu items for the place you are at. 6) The splitters. The people that cannot understand that if you are in a car with people, and you all order, you pass the money to the driver, who then distributes change. I got to the point one night where I quit letting people make separate orders in drivethrough. People who come through with 4 friends in the car, wanting 4 separate orders, well they had to think on their toes with the change for a chance. There may be more to come as I get to them ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 1:53pm
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What about the people that get pissed when you ask them if they want to make it a combo or whatever. My brother said people would scream and yell when he asked them that.
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Posted By: Taco Guru 3.0
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 1:55pm
| that's all part of your job.. learn to deal with it, or quit. |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 1:55pm
We never really asked if they wanted a combo. If they ordered a sandwich, drink, and fries, I would ask if they wanted me to ring that up as a combo to save them .45 cents. Other than that, I found it best not to meddle in other peoples affairs. -------------
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oreomann33 wrote:Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 1:56pm
Not really, no. And if you read carefully, I did quit. But not becuase of the idiot customers, I just found a better job. GG. -------------
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:04pm
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How much did you make an hour over there? ------------- 
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:13pm
$7.10 an hour. I would have asked for a raise more often but I only worked weekends. -------------
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:14pm
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Litre a cola?
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:14pm
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It kind of IS your job to make special orders if asked to if you work in food services... Believe me, I know it's a pain in the butt. I've worked at a small restaurant for 2.5+ years, and special orders suck, but you have to do it.
The customer comes first. You're getting paid to satisfy them. Nothing pisses me off more than "I want light batter on my fish & chips," or "I want half of my pizza with no cheese." There's no way to do 'light batter' and the cheese will flow across the pizza if there's none on one side. Out of curiosity, where's your new job at TKD? ------------- 
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:22pm
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I don't mind special orders at Taco Bell because we make all the food as it's ordered anyways so its actually easier to leave the extra stuff off and such. I hate the idiot customers that **edited** me out because we made their food wrong when somebody at the front rang it up wrong or something. Yeah, like that's my effing fault. Oh! And the stupid ass lady that came in last friday and ordered 27 freaking items when we were already busy as hell and then had to get the manager to complain about EVERYTHING. "Uhhh these tacos aren't wrapped right". My ass they aren't, i'm the one that works here I think I would know. "There's not enough cheese" Blah blah I hate some customers. ------------- I need a new Sig... |
Posted By: Hitman
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:25pm
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Last night was my for time working at Swiss Chalet. Holy crap working in a kitchen is hard. You have to know so much just to work a terrible job. It really surprised me. Damn the real world!
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:44pm
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Heh. I have told people they are not allowed to special order. They get angry and usually storm out of the resturant. I don't really care. I have done it for two years, and never got fired or wrote up.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 2:55pm
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Glad you're finally out of there. Working in fast food for too long does things to people.
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 3:12pm
I feel your pain. But my last night I got even. I filled the sourcream shooters with water and had a nice squirtgun fight. Then I was working drivethru. My family came in the lobby so I sat out there and talked to them for awhile... 4 cars in the drivethru. Then to just piss them off, I would tell them to pull up to the second window... We only had one window. OOh that guy was hella pissed. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 3:25pm
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 5:07pm
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Posted By: Boss_DJ
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 5:20pm
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 5:28pm
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I never understood how people can get so mad over nothing. I always see people at my work freaking out at cashiers or managers because there is a limit on an item or they have expired coupons. I work ina super market BTW. Im so glad im not a cashier. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 6:00pm
The only difference I think I feel about people who work fast food, is that I think they have a crappy job. I know alot of them, so I know they're still cool people and such, I just would hate to have that job. I've managed to never work fast food/ in a grocery store/ retail. 
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Posted By: xECx INFERNAL
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 6:14pm
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heh i work at del taco at the drive thru sometime the walk in and i hate when i repeat back a persons order and theyre like no thats wrong and they tell me the EXACT same thing back...LEARN TO LISTENNNNN..... It gets crazy at del taco on taco tuesday (3 tacos for 1.09) its like taco frenzy the most tacos i have ever gotten on a single order is...some mite not believe it i didnt either when they ordered them...120 tacos! |
Posted By: glazener24
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 7:11pm
| I try to be as nice to fast food employees as I can. I prefer my food un-tainted. |
Posted By: barn_user
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 10:35pm
Awesome movie... |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 10:37pm
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you aren't going to miss the minimum wage?
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 10:37pm
| I hate it so much when you've been cleaning a station and then someone comes in five minutes before close and orders something. (I work in a sub shop) |
Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 10:46pm
ahhh... I'm Glad I sell fireworks.  But yea, Unless I'm at Subway(where you get to watch the thing being made) I don't ask for anything special(no pickles etc...) and I just pick them off, not to hard. I just really hate it when they give you a drink that is 90% ice... thats my only complaint about Fast food. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 10:53pm
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heh. im a former 3, possibly 4. the 4 part, i just like plain meat and cheese. not much to it, but its what i like. i dont know if that falls under special order or not, but still. if i got pickles or something, i used to take it back, but then i just started to peel them off, so im good. sorry for all the trouble i caused you (?)
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 24 June 2006 at 11:47pm
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i'm nice to the people at the mcdonalds down the street from me... i never special order anything.... but i have a friend who takes his food back if it's not "special"... i don't get it... you pay a dollar for a double cheese burger with condiments and you're still not happy.... i mean, if you don't like something, get a fork or a knife and just scrape it off... it still tastes the same... ------------- X |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 12:38am
omg dude, me too. Sonic, i get a route 44 cherry lemonade, or any other combination, actually the flavor doesn't matter right now but, they fill it with so much ice, and the ice ar eliek these little cubes, so they can fit more cubes, and less drink. but i usually tell them to go easy on the ice ------------- 01001001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110 |
Posted By: backwoodsboy
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:26pm
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I personally don't work in fast food but a friend of mine says that he actually get's people, at the Hardees he works at, that will COUNT the number of fries they get in an order and if they don't get that same number next time they come and complain to him! Holy crap, if that was me getting yelled at I would punch that idiot in the nuts so hard that he could never have children as stupid as him. And the 90% ice thing sucks too. ------------- 
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Posted By: Aye El P
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:32pm
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:45pm
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yeah seriously dude. Welcome to the world of food service. Quit being a whiney emo piece of crap and do your damn job. You are paid to do what the customers want, so DO IT. I go by everything ILP said. Go work in a regular restaurant. You get paid a little more, and the customers are 3x more picky about food. You have it much easier working fast food, because you have every minimal customer relation. if you are not capable of working with the public, then get a new job, or learn to cope with the one you have. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:48pm
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He is quitting... But yeah I definately understand where you are comming from, but at the same time you DID apply for a crummy job and they pay you to serve people, not fill space. I managed a local ColdStone while I was in high school and I could not stand some of the crap that people pulled. I had one hippy lady come in and request that her ice cream never even TOUCH the styrofoam cups. She was telling this to a new employee and he just looked at me like 'What do I do?' I told her that it's doable, but she WILL have to pay the extra money for the waffle cone that it will have to go in, otherwise she wont get the ice cream. To be honest, I could have had him put her order in a to-go dish that is made of plastic, but she was pretty mean so I wanted to milk her money *a whopping 75 cents of it*. Anywhom, I tell the employee to put plastic gloves on so that he could grab the waffle product which would normally be placed in a styrofoam cup, and to just hand it to her that way so as to avoid any bare hand contact with ready to eat food. Everything was cool and she paid while the rest of the orders were being filled for her group, so another seasoned employee comes out to help the new guy go faster. He didnt hear a single word that was exchanged between the three of us so he just mixes up her order for her and then plops it right in to a styrofoam dish. The lady FLIPPED and started saying that her ColdStone experience was ruined and she went back to the tip jar and took her tip out. We offered to refund the order so she would at least gotten a free icecream but she refused and said to just hurry up and finish the rest so that she can leave. I hated her so much. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:53pm
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ILPWNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGGGG. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:53pm
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yeah whether you hate the customer or not, you have to hide it and just smile. Had a customer that said she was deathly allergic to shrimp, and that her fries must be pan fried in oil thatshrimp has never touched. She didn't want to hear anything about the temperature at which enzymes break down. So.... you only choice is to do it the way the customer wants. (open kitchen) ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:55pm
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I work in a supermarket bakery where we decorate cakes. Someone ordered a cake and brought it home. Next day we get a phone call. "Ummm, we ordered a cake that was supposed to be gold, but we got chocolate" "Ok, bring it back and we can make a new one for you or give you a refund" Next day the lady shows up with a half a cake trying to get her money back. I'm talking like a 30 person cake. Tell me that's not worse than anything you have seen. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:56pm
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I'm currently working at Boston Market which is sortof fastfood because we have a drive thru window, I experience the same troubles. The great part about working at a restaurant that serves chicken and cornbread and all the fixin's, is that it attracts lots of old people and gangster drug dealers. Old people like to pull into the drive thru backwards (our parking lot is sort of wierd) and we have to help them get backed out properly when a whole mess of cars are waiting at the drive thru properly. Either that or they don't understand the menu at all. The gangsters just do not understand that their systems are too loud and it screws up everyone in the dining room and the drivethru, even the cooks and the dishwashers in the back get confused when all they hear is bass. They usually pull up with a wad of cash of some sort and give me big bills, only because he's too messed up to count money. There are thousands of things that confuse me at this job. |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 25 June 2006 at 11:59pm
half sheet? I have the same job currently. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 12:02am
Yes, half sheet. Not many people know the size of that though. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: A-5 Empire
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:31pm
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Im going to be working at Arbys. YAY!!!!!!!!! ------------- A7X 4 LIFE! Synyster Gates=GOD 
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Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:37pm
| I work at Wal*Mart as a cart pusher. Thejob sucks, the money is ok 9/hour. And all the managers complain when theres not enough carts when there is one person working during the busiest time. |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:38pm
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If they have allergies, they should not eat at a place that serves the stuff. Their problem, not mine. I deserve to treat them like crap. What part about me quitting didn't you quite grasp? I don't think your mental ability is large enough. Its ok really. I understand.
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:40pm
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Nope. I am got paid to make food and take orders, I wasn't paid to care about the customers. I messed with them and usually annoyed them to the point of leaving. Honestly, what part about me getting a new job was so hard to grasp in this thread? -------------
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Posted By: Aye El P
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:44pm
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You deserve to treat customers like crap? You're a moron.
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:47pm
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Simply incorrect. I could do it right. I chose not to. They are not paying alot, therefor, they do not get respect. And if they are rude, they got floor-burger. -------------
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:48pm
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I'm with ILP on this one. You get paid to do a job, and apparently you
did it rather poorly. Don't expect to change any opinions with this
"But I made minimum wage, blah blah blah" crap- I worked the same deal
in the hardware department at a store for four months this spring, and it didn't entitle me to act like a jackass. Try a bit of maturity in how you deal with other people- it's for your won good in the end when karma rears its potentially ugly head.
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:49pm
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Its all about choice. I chose to have fun at work. You chose not to. Also, karma isn't real. -------------
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:51pm
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I believe in Karma. From what I've experienced, it's real. -------------
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 2:55pm
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I have tons of fun at work. My fun doesn't involve abusing other people or screwing with their food. Whether it was customer service at my temp job in the spring, or the stuff I do with the reserves, I conduct myself professionally whenever I'm on duty, and get my messing around done when I'm not.
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 3:07pm
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Well, mine did. I guess we are just different. -------------
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Posted By: Aye El P
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 3:08pm
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So people have to pay a lot for their food to get your respect? You're an idiot. -------------
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 3:20pm
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Yes. That is what I am saying. I get the feeling you have eaten a floor burger once or twice. -------------
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Posted By: kuhndog599
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 4:57pm
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dude, your supposed to respect people you freakin idiot. now if you know them and dont like them its a different story. you have a job and you should do it right otherwise go home. ------------- model 98 - homemade handguard solid stock - opsgear mag polished internals homemade sling - paintjob operator barrel progressive barrel opsgear mag - stock |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 4:59pm
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I always treat food service people with respect, particularly beause of idiots like this. I save any **edited**ing, complaining, and discourtesy until after I've got my food, and even then only if it's deserved.
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Posted By: glazener24
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 5:04pm
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Posted By: impulse!
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 6:51pm
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We went through Jack in the Box drive through backwards once. Like trunk first. Passenger orders the food and grabs it. It was pretty amusing for the workers. ------------- 
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Posted By: 636andy636.
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 7:03pm
I have a friend that has to do that since his car is right hand drive ------------- [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/anthonymartinez/402cdjo-1.gif"> |
Posted By: lilsully4
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 7:37pm
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my cousin owns Pizza house in michigan so i have conections. its good pizza too. ------------- 
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Posted By: lester98c
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 8:02pm
and your point is?? i like my job not really any customer relations to it, i work in the back and just do what im told. i always order my burgers katsup only since i hate mustard and ran onions. if they give it to me i scrape it off though |
Posted By: super_gman
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 9:07pm
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I, too, work in a restaurant. But I work in the kitchen, so thankfully, I don't have to put up with retarded customers. ------------- Zerglet. |
Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 9:17pm
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 9:23pm
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Yeah seriously TKD, you really are way in the wrong here. I don't know why you think you deserve to decide how people get treated based on the ammount they spend on food. Quite honestly I think that if you ever get caught disrespecting a customer that you are getting paid to serve, they have every right to beat you or shoot you. Perhaps both. No matter how high and mighty you may feel as a clerk of any kind, the customer owns YOU in the end. They don't pay you to be a jerk off, they pay you to meet certain standards of service dictated in your employee hand book given at any job. Nowhere in that will it state that you have the right to serve 'floor' burgers or to annoy customers. You just smile sweetly and do what it is you are told to do, not what you want to do.
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 9:39pm
Heh, I worked in the deli which is attached to the bakery(currently dating the bakery girl as well). And I was thinking right when I read that "half sheet". good times. |
Posted By: pimptastik
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 10:27pm
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im telling you guys hardware store is wear its at most of the ppl who
come in just want nails or screws u piont them in the right direction
follow them show them what they want they tip you you walk back to the
register they pay. they say thank you. end of the night get my pay
check go home. really easy only work 2 days a week. getting 7 dollars
an hour plus tips and im getting 8 in a few weeks.
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 11:28pm
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Ha. Your pay is crap? I'm a professional rescuer and I get $6.75 an
hour, and it would be 6 if they werent desperate for employees.
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 26 June 2006 at 11:33pm
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 1:55am
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TKD your an ass. You accepted the lowly job and the minimum wage. Your job was to serve the costumer. Its not up to you how much they pay for a burger, and in the end, you are getting paid to do you job-even if it is 7 dollars an hour. You accepted the responsibility, and it is your fault, no one else's you had to put up with picky costomers. Its the frigg'n food industry, what the hell did you expect? For an A student, you sound like a total dumb-ass. ------------- 
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Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 2:17am
I like Ice cream and Mc Flurries from Mc Donalds.
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Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 2:19am
Lifeguard. |
Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 2:20am
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I had 10pc chicken mcnuggets with fries and a mcflurry. Hit the spot. -------------
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 2:31am
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they have really good fries... ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 7:01am
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Well there ya go. You were not the kind of person I messed with. Glad we cleared that up. -------------
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 27 June 2006 at 7:03am
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Hahahaha. You sound like a bloody employee manual. Wow, its a good thing you never came to my McDonalds, I would hate to get "beat or shot" Haha.
Well arn't you just special. You make it sound like I was personally offended by the people. It bugged me, yeah, but they were just getting what was coming to them.
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