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here is a funny little story I came across yesterday:


A dream of a job with McDonald's
Miles Kington
29 May 2007 at 09h00
I was surprised by just how easy it was to infiltrate McDonald's. I had decided to go undercover for a week or so and see if working there really did justify the new dictionary description of McJob as low-paid, repetitive, mindless work, which has got McDonald's so upset.

All I had to do was fill in a brief application form. There was only one question: "In applying to work for McDonald's, are you hoping to get (a) a lowly, poorly paid repetitive job or (b) a challenging and satisfying position in the heart of the catering world, which will enable you to meet young people from many other cultures and converse with them in halting English?"

I am no fool. I ticked the second option. I was in like a shot.

"Welcome to the team," said Rod, my supervisor. "Have you worked in a restaurant before?"

"Worked in a restaurant?" I said, in surprise. "I thought I was working for McDonald's?"

"You may laugh," said Rod, "but things are changing. In the old days, for instance, all the food came prepared in advance."

"And now?"

"Well, for instance, we are starting to get whole potatoes delivered which we actually cut into the shape of fries ourselves!" That, as it turned out, was my job. I stood near the front, in view of the public, cutting potatoes laboriously by hand into the shape of fries. It took a long time. "How long did the guy before me last?" I asked Rod one day, when it seemed more repetitive than usual.

"There was no guy before you," he said. "It's a new post. Management has decided that the sight of you hand-shaping the potatoes stresses to the public that we care about individuals and individuality. Once you get the hang of it properly, we might even start using them …"

Working there certainly gave me a chance to meet a cross-section of people from round the world....

I won't give away the ending but its very amusing :D (http://www.ioljobs.co.za/article_view.php?fArticleId=3854290&fNewsletter=2676a17a20070530ah)

so what are your experiences with working/doing fast food, I currently don't have any beyond the McDonald's that put man milk in the sandwiches (yes I have been the the exact McDonald's many times:p)

I like McDonald's hotcakes. I suspect they don't call them pancakes because there's no pan involved.

Worked at a Pizza Hut for years, I can answer several key questions people might have:

Yes, your waiter hates you. Hell, all the employees hate you.

Yes, if we thought we'd get away with it, you'd be eating snot (or whatever else we could come up with)

Yes, we realize the prices are high, pay them or leave.

No, we do not have *insert product from another chain*

Yes, if you actually treat the employees like people instead of servitors, none of the above will apply.

Yes, if you actually treat the employees like people instead of servitors, none of the above will apply.

what if you leave a really big tip?

I like McDonald's hotcakes. I suspect they don't call them pancakes because there's no pan involved.

pfft McDonald's hash browns are the only breakfast item they do as far as I'm concerned (but you have to wonder why they stop serving them by lunch time:confused:)

pfft McDonald's hash browns are the only breakfast item they do as far as I'm concerned (but you have to wonder why they stop serving them by lunch time:confused:)

Apparently, different cookers for breakfast and normal. They're getting new cookers in that can do both, so... all day breakfast? :)

what if you leave a really big tip?

Depends on the waiter ;)

Depends on the waiter ;)

another big question is "what on Earth takes so long there, I thought this was fast food dammit!" :p (and how come you always hear plates smashing?)

another big question is "what on Earth takes so long there, I thought this was fast food dammit!" :p (and how come you always hear plates smashing?)

Plates smashing: we're trying to kill the roaches

what takes so long: see answer #1

I worked at various fast food entities in my life. I managed one for about 2 years, I was the general manager, which basically meant I worked 80 hours a week and everyone hated me because I "made a lot of money, doing the same job"

After I finally got a staff I could work with things were going great until the regional supervisor made me hire her grandson, who was an ass (still is) and forbid me from firing him. (even though he had such exploits as talking on his cell phone in the drive-thru and telling customers "shut up I'm on the phone", stealing money, and having a knock down drag out in my lobby where he hit a person over the head with a napkin holder and knocked them unconscious)

I was fired from that job when I refused to come in to work on my wedding day. ;)

Plates smashing: we're trying to kill the roaches

what takes so long: see answer #1

I was fired from that job when I refused to come in to work on my wedding day. ;)

:eek::eek::eek: so I take it working at McDonald's and such isn't the great work they make it out to be...

:eek::eek::eek: so I take it working at McDonald's and such isn't the great work they make it out to be...

oh, that wasn't at Mc Donald's. It was at another fast food place.

Mc Donald's was easy, all I had to do was get high, come to work, try to avoid the fryer.

If I could work drive-thru my high wouldn't wear off until half way through closing clean-up.

oh, that wasn't at Mc Donald's. It was at another fast food place.

Mc Donald's was easy, all I had to do was get high, come to work, try to avoid the fryer.

If I could work drive-thru my high wouldn't wear off until half way through closing clean-up.

*takes notes*

oh, that wasn't at Mc Donald's. It was at another fast food place.

Burger King?

Mc Donald's was easy, all I had to do was get high, come to work, try to avoid the fryer.

being stoned with that much meat around must take allot though :confused: (yes I've watched Buffalo soldiers:p)

I worked in KFC for two years. Loads of my friends and my sister worked in McDonalds (one of my friends must be coming up to his ten-year anniversary in a couple of months! :eek: He earns more than me too, the bastard).

Apparently, different cookers for breakfast and normal. They're getting new cookers in that can do both, so... all day breakfast? :)

The hash-browns are probably done in the fry friers; you can't do both at once.
The pancakes are done on the same grills as the burgers. Again, can't do both at once.

another big question is "what on Earth takes so long there, I thought this was fast food dammit!" :p (and how come you always hear plates smashing?)

"Quick Service" != "Fast Food".
In KFC the chicken takes 15 minutes to cook. Fillets were 4.5mins, zingers 8-odd minutes. Most things are supposed to be held for a couple of minutes after being taken out of the fryer, too. If they run out just before your order, and it ain't cooking, you're waiting or leaving. Nothing can be done.

Answers I Wished I Could've Given to Favourite Customer Questions:
Yes, I know I look miserable. I've been serving people like you all night. Why on earth would I look cheerful? Now fuck off.

No, we don't have a knife. No, not even to cut up the chickens; they come pre-portioned. And even if we did have a big, sharp knife capable of dividing a chicken into nine portions, would we hand it over the counter to somebody asking to borrow it? No. Now fuck off.

*Sigh*, there's nothing like National Service in a fast food/quick service place to teach you disdain for your fellow man. "The Customer Is Always Right" has to be the biggest lie ever told.

Worked at a Pizza Hut for years, I can answer several key questions people might have:

Yes, your waiter hates you. Hell, all the employees hate you.

Yes, if we thought we'd get away with it, you'd be eating snot (or whatever else we could come up with)

Yes, we realize the prices are high, pay them or leave.

No, we do not have *insert product from another chain*

Yes, if you actually treat the employees like people instead of servitors, none of the above will apply.

You know what... then I'm pretty well off. I am a regular customer at a chinese restarraunt around here. I always have at least a breif conversation with the waitress... actually the one Whinay (not sure how to spell it but thats how it pronounced) has sat down at my table to talk with me and my freinds on her breaks.

I have a reputation at Perkins for being a good tipper (sometimes I just pay with twice as much as the food is worth and leave without comment) and all the servers on 3rd shift know me by face (Like to go there, and play Risk or Axis and Allies on week nights and eat some pie.)

And I helped a waitress at Ponderosa with picking a college... strange no?

I worked at various fast food entities in my life. I managed one for about 2 years, I was the general manager, which basically meant I worked 80 hours a week and everyone hated me because I "made a lot of money, doing the same job"

After I finally got a staff I could work with things were going great until the regional supervisor made me hire her grandson, who was an ass (still is) and forbid me from firing him. (even though he had such exploits as talking on his cell phone in the drive-thru and telling customers "shut up I'm on the phone", stealing money, and having a knock down drag out in my lobby where he hit a person over the head with a napkin holder and knocked them unconscious)

I was fired from that job when I refused to come in to work on my wedding day. ;)

I would have simply called the police on him when he stole money and knocked out customers... they would have taken care of firing him.

I would have simply called the police on him when he stole money and knocked out customers... they would have taken care of firing him.

I did call the police, every time he did something illegal, I even called the police after he was selling coke (not the cola) out of my drive-thru.......they would arrest him, a few days later he would be out on bail and I would be told "put him back on the schedule, make sure he gets 40 hours" and I had to.

*Sigh*, there's nothing like National Service in a fast food/quick service place to teach you disdain for your fellow man. "The Customer Is Always Right" has to be the biggest lie ever told.

about 65% of the time they are wrong.... I worked at an amusement park as a game operator. I didn't serve food but I know the feeling.

I did call the police, every time he did something illegal, I even called the police after he was selling coke (not the cola) out of my drive-thru.......they would arrest him, a few days later he would be out on bail and I would be told "put him back on the schedule, make sure he gets 40 hours" and I had to.

Damn.. in my home county there is a statute that forces businesses to fire employees who commit crimes while working. I was hoping you'd have been that lucky. I used that law to my advantage when I worked at Conneaut Lake Park...

You know what... then I'm pretty well off. I am a regular customer at a chinese restarraunt around here. I always have at least a breif conversation with the waitress... actually the one Whinay (not sure how to spell it but thats how it pronounced) has sat down at my table to talk with me and my freinds on her breaks.

I have a reputation at Perkins for being a good tipper (sometimes I just pay with twice as much as the food is worth and leave without comment) and all the servers on 3rd shift know me by face (Like to go there, and play Risk or Axis and Allies on week nights and eat some pie.)

And I helped a waitress at Ponderosa with picking a college... strange no?

Even without the generous tips you'd probably be getting markedly better service than most other customers. All it takes is to treat them with a small bit of respect.

Most people immediately place the waiters and staff of a restaurant in the same category of sub-human that normally reserved for slaves or, at best, assume they're fuck-ups of some kind and they deserve to work in said place for minimum wage and have to deal with assholes all day. I had multiple people say, either to my face or behind my back, "If you'd gone to college you wouldn't be here." My usual response was to leave my college ID on the check tray.

Even without the generous tips you'd probably be getting markedly better service than most other customers. All it takes is to treat them with a small bit of respect.

Most people immediately place the waiters and staff of a restaurant in the same category of sub-human that normally reserved for slaves or, at best, assume they're fuck-ups of some kind and they deserve to work in said place for minimum wage and have to deal with assholes all day. I had multiple people say, either to my face or behind my back, "If you'd gone to college you wouldn't be here." My usual response was to leave my college ID on the check tray.

I worked at an amusement park after college...

I hate service jobs, I know what kind of hassle they can be. Mine was a nightmare... i would deal with almost 2,000 customers on a busy day on a personal basis. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I have some good stories... I have some funny stories, I have some REALLY GOOD sotries not suitable for NS, and I have some horror stories.

I worked at an amusement park after college...

I hate service jobs, I know what kind of hassle they can be. Mine was a nightmare... i would deal with almost 2,000 customers on a busy day on a personal basis. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I have some good stories... I have some funny stories, I have some REALLY GOOD sotries not suitable for NS, and I have some horror stories.

Worked in a music/movie store for a few months after college. The most common question I had to field was whether or not X movie was out on DVD before it even hit theatres.

Everyone should have to put in a few months service in one of these jobs. It should give them some perspective as to how they treat other people.

Or it'll just make them bitter and spiteful, like me. :D

I worked at Wendy's for about two years in high school. It was pretty repetitive, and I got back-acne, but it was fine for a high school job.

I worked at Pizza Hut (before it became quite so fast-food) for about half a summer. It was my first job waiting tables and my manager was a first-class idiot. It wasn't unusual for me (on my first night, even) to be the only server in the entire dining room. And yet the assistant manager would seat every damn table in the place. Guess who got shitty tips that night?

I like McDonald's hotcakes. I suspect they don't call them pancakes because there's no pan involved.

When I worked at McD's, we weren't allowed to refer to the shakes as milkshakes because there wasn't enough milk in them. I didn't last very long, either.

When I worked at McD's, we weren't allowed to refer to the shakes as milkshakes because there wasn't enough milk in them. I didn't last very long, either.

so what was/is in them :confused::eek:

so what was/is in them :confused::eek:
Some sort of dairy products that didn't qualify as milk. That was a long time ago, I'm lucky to even remember that short stint at the place.

I do remember that there was an amount of seaweed in them, though. That was supposed to do something beneficial to the texture, I believe...

*snip* No, we don't have a knife. No, not even to cut up the chickens; they come pre-portioned. And even if we did have a big, sharp knife capable of dividing a chicken into nine portions, would we hand it over the counter to somebody asking to borrow it? No. Now fuck off. *snip*

I love this. LOL.

I worked at a Wendy's for about a year.

The meat is NOT fresh like you think. Just like every other fast food place..it comes pre-shaped and frozen. The bacon is pre-cooked and frozen also.

The condiments that are put on the burgers don't come in bottles. They are put in little pans and clumped together and spooned on.. If some ketchup drips in the mayo..we just mixed it together.

The meat that is in the chili is the leftover burnt meat that we couldn't make into burgers from the day before.

If the fries are old we just threw them back in the frier to heat them up again.

The meat is NOT fresh like you think. Just like every other fast food place..it comes pre-shaped and frozen. The bacon is pre-cooked and frozen also.

Now if you'll just clarify who thinks that meat in fast-food places is fresh, i.e. not pre-shaped and frozen?!

Now if you'll just clarify who thinks that meat in fast-food places is fresh, i.e. not pre-shaped and frozen?!

Ok..like they said it was. I saw it on an advertisement on tv saying that the meat was prepared fresh and didn't come pre-shaped frozen.

Now if you'll just clarify who thinks that meat in fast-food places is fresh, i.e. not pre-shaped and frozen?!

Part of Wendys' commercial campaign is that their burgers are "fresh, never frozen." I doubt anyone actually believes that, but that's where he's probably coming from.

My Pizza Hut used to make its dough fresh every morning, but that changes long before I'd gotten there. Pre-shaped dough disks all around.

If the fries are old we just threw them back in the frier to heat them up again.

Most of what you said sounded about right from what I remember. But we definitely didn't do this at the Wendy's I worked at. Old fries either got served form under the heat lamps or thrown out.

Meanwhile, what Wendy's means when they say your food is fresh is that they don't make a whole bunch of identical burgers and then put them under a heat lamp for who-knows-how-long. The meat is cooked fresh (and, like you said, anything cooked so long it can't be a burger gets to be chili! hehe)

Some sort of dairy products that didn't qualify as milk. That was a long time ago, I'm lucky to even remember that short stint at the place.

I do remember that there was an amount of seaweed in them, though. That was supposed to do something beneficial to the texture, I believe...

well, most ice cream also has seaweed in it, they just don't list it as seaweed.

if things on ingredients lists were called their common names, it's a fair bet no one would eat anything.

Ok..like they said it was. I saw it on an advertisement on tv saying that the meat was prepared fresh and didn't come pre-shaped frozen.

Ah, I see. Last time I watched TV ads, I heard that when I carry that one kind of creamy cheese around in my bike's basket, a very handsome young man will cycle past in the sunshine and notice and we'll live happily ever after.


Look, I didn't say "Oh, where did you hear it was supposed to be fresh?", I said "Who do you think believes they are fresh?"

Worked at a Pizza Hut for years, I can answer several key questions people might have:

Yes, your waiter hates you. Hell, all the employees hate you.

Yes, if we thought we'd get away with it, you'd be eating snot (or whatever else we could come up with)

Yes, we realize the prices are high, pay them or leave.

No, we do not have *insert product from another chain*

Yes, if you actually treat the employees like people instead of servitors, none of the above will apply.


I usually treat the waiters and the cooks with all the respect I can. I work in an effin' movie store, so I'm stuck with all the customers with drab questions. I'm not gonna lie. I hate my job. it would be better if the customers were actually nicer, thoguh. anyhow, whenever I'm in a restaurant I usually give the waiter/waitress a fairly large tip thats well above the 15% line.

I don't have experience working in a fast food place... I've only had one job and thats in the said movie store...

Most of what you said sounded about right from what I remember. But we definitely did do this at the Wendy's I worked at. Old fries either got served form under the heat lamps or thrown out.

Which would be WHY I now go into the place and tell them I want the fries fresh out of the oil..and I stand there and watch them do it. Actually had one girl fight with me about it.

"But the fries out there are only a few minutes old!"
"I don't give a rats ass..I said RIGHT out of the oil and that is what I will get"

Don't think she liked me after that lol.

Those of you who've worked in fast food, do you eat fast food?

I've never worked at a place like that and I'll eat from a place like that maybe once or twice a year. I've not had McDonald's in almost two decades, that crap doesn't even smell like food anymore.

Those of you who've worked in fast food, do you eat fast food?

I've never worked at a place like that and I'll eat from a place like that maybe once or twice a year. I've not had McDonald's in almost two decades, that crap doesn't even smell like food anymore.

when I worked there it was all I ate, because you could get a free employee meal for every 8 hours worked.

I don't anymore, but for mostly other reasons. I do still have about 2 sodas a week and I prefer fountain sodas over bottled so I go to Sonic for those.

Those of you who've worked in fast food, do you eat fast food?

Nah. But that's 'cos I don't really like McDonald's and all the other burger places.
I'd eat some KFC if it wasn't so hideously expensive. I'd only eat the normal chicken if they let me prepare it myself, but I'm paranoid like that. It's pretty hard to get disasterously wrong.

Now if you'll just clarify who thinks that meat in fast-food places is fresh, i.e. not pre-shaped and frozen?!

KFC's chicken pieces are (or were, when I worked for them) fresh chicken portions, not frozen. Fillets (actually chicken breast fillets) were frozen then defrosted before breading and cooking, everything else cook-from-frozen.
Some stores did get frozen chicken bits, I think, but they might've just been for emergency stock-shortages. Dunno, don't remember ever seeing them.

That was ~8-odd years ago, though.

Those of you who've worked in fast food, do you eat fast food?

Yeah, I'm really bad about it. I get in a hurry and need to eat on the run (read: in the car), so I just stop by a place with a drive-thru and little to no need for a fork.

Yeah, I'm really bad about it. I get in a hurry and need to eat on the run (read: in the car), so I just stop by a place with a drive-thru and little to no need for a fork.
Chick-Filet is pretty good--especially the lemonade. Arbys does some good sandwiches and salads, too.

Chick-Filet is pretty good--especially the lemonade. Arbys does some good sandwiches and salads, too.

oh, I do go to chick-fil-a like once a month, I forgot that......they will make me unbreaded chicken nuggets and their waffle fries are made in a dedicated fryer so I don't have to worry about crumbs to make me sick and they have that lovely Polynesian sauce......

yeah, I love Chick-fil-A

I once worked at a Roy Rogers family restaurant (http://www.royrogersrestaurants.com/). The nice thing about that job is that I could show up stoned or drunk and not get fired. They were just glad I showed up at all. The pay sucked though.

here is a funny little story I came across yesterday:




I won't give away the ending but its very amusing :D (http://www.ioljobs.co.za/article_view.php?fArticleId=3854290&fNewsletter=2676a17a20070530ah)

so what are your experiences with working/doing fast food, I currently don't have any beyond the McDonald's that put man milk in the sandwiches (yes I have been the the exact McDonald's many times:p)

LOLZ I love that ending......and....damn, fast food jobs suck....

Chick-Filet is pretty good--especially the lemonade. Arbys does some good sandwiches and salads, too.

Yeah, but you can only eat Chick-Fil-A so often....

And it's hard to eat cole slaw (one of my favs there) while driving. =)

Yeah, but you can only eat Chick-Fil-A so often....

And it's hard to eat cole slaw (one of my favs there) while driving. =)
That's when it's time to get creative and just eat it out of the cup. Kinda squeeze it out until you can get some in your mouth...

That's when it's time to get creative and just eat it out of the cup. Kinda squeeze it out until you can get some in your mouth...

Hehe. I have scooped it up with waffle fries before when they forgot to give me a fork.

I have been to McDonald's restaurants and I have been to a McDonald's built inside of a Walmart. I think there is at least 1 McDonald's that has waiters and waitress.. Recently actually I was in a very nicely decorated McDonald's, there was a mural on the wall, designer lighting and paint scheme... of course it had the same old junk food, but hey, that's why you go to McDonald's isn't it? Now they have weird fancy salads and crap that people who are health conscious like (even if its not healthy it seems that way)
McDonalds' serves low quality, high calorie, inexpensive, hot cooked food, and they give it to you quickly. They can bullshit all they want with a guy sitting peeling potatoes, but I doubt anyone is really fooled. You know you're getting your fries broken off a frozen brick of potato that arrived last week on a tractor trailer. But you still order that combo with the medium fries, because hey, its 2/5ths of the calories you need for the day, and its only 5$

I currently work at Tim Hortons which is sorta like fast food in that you have to deal with jackass customers, minimum wage and being bossed around by people whose lives hit a dead end in their late teens.

Actually, today I got yelled at by three different people because the lady who "trained" me on how to clean the bathrooms doesn't clean them right. She used papertowel to wipe down everywhere but the sink, which she used a cloth on so that's how I had been doing it. Apparently I'm supposed to use the cloth everywhere except the mirror (which does make more sense, but I figured "hey, what the hell do I know about Tim Hortons and their bathroom cleaning policy?" so I went with what I was told to do). They've also been fucking around with my hours. Initially I had been hired as full time to work Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30 but then this other girl who happens to know the supervisor wanted that shift and started refusing to work any other shift... as a result, despite the fact that I am much more compotent, they've taken me off that shift and are now giving me random shifts that aren't likely to add to 40 hours a week (next week I'm scheduled for 16 hours, but I can apparently expect more since at least one person has been calling in sick every day for the past several weeks... which means that if I want my 40 hours I'll have to babysit the telephone which I'm not willing to do... so instead I'll use my newfound time off to look for a new job, imo.)

Oh and also today, some guy came up and ordered the egg salad sandwich. I finished taking his order and went to serve someone else. Meanwhile, the girl who is at the sandwich counter has made this man's egg salad sandwich. At this point, he claims that he ordered the chicken salad sandwich and that I got it wrong. The girl working at sandwiches then proceeds to yell at me in front of all the customers because apparently I'd been punching things in wrong all day (I hadn't, the lady at the other til, the one who didn't know how to clean the bathrooms had been...) and she'd been making things wrong.
When he went to sit down, I went and spoke to this girl and told her that a) the man totally ordered an egg salad sandwich as I repeated his order to him (like I always do) to make sure that I got everything and that everything was right and b) another customer who was standing at the sandwich counter had heard him order an egg salad sandwich.

The joke's on him though because he works at the grocery store nearby and I'm going to find out what department he's in and fuck him over at work for being such a douchebag as a customer.

this thread is making me hungry

Which would be WHY I now go into the place and tell them I want the fries fresh out of the oil..and I stand there and watch them do it. Actually had one girl fight with me about it.

"But the fries out there are only a few minutes old!"
"I don't give a rats ass..I said RIGHT out of the oil and that is what I will get"

Don't think she liked me after that lol.
I know someone who always asks for his fries unsalted. His theory is that since most places seem to salt the fries right away, if he asks for them unsalted he's more likely to get them fresh out of the oil. Seems to work most of the time, too.

Tonight (6/7/07) from 8 P.M.-12 midnight Sonic is serving FREE Rootbeer floats!! :D
Really? Cherry limeade is my favorite there.

when I worked there it was all I ate, because you could get a free employee meal for every 8 hours worked.

I don't anymore, but for mostly other reasons. I do still have about 2 sodas a week and I prefer fountain sodas over bottled so I go to Sonic for those.

Tonight (6/7/07) from 8 P.M.-12 midnight Sonic is serving FREE Rootbeer floats!! :D

I currently work at Tim Hortons which is sorta like fast food in that you have to deal with jackass customers, minimum wage and being bossed around by people whose lives hit a dead end in their late teens.

Actually, today I got yelled at by three different people because the lady who "trained" me on how to clean the bathrooms doesn't clean them right. She used papertowel to wipe down everywhere but the sink, which she used a cloth on so that's how I had been doing it. Apparently I'm supposed to use the cloth everywhere except the mirror (which does make more sense, but I figured "hey, what the hell do I know about Tim Hortons and their bathroom cleaning policy?" so I went with what I was told to do). They've also been fucking around with my hours. Initially I had been hired as full time to work Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30 but then this other girl who happens to know the supervisor wanted that shift and started refusing to work any other shift... as a result, despite the fact that I am much more compotent, they've taken me off that shift and are now giving me random shifts that aren't likely to add to 40 hours a week (next week I'm scheduled for 16 hours, but I can apparently expect more since at least one person has been calling in sick every day for the past several weeks... which means that if I want my 40 hours I'll have to babysit the telephone which I'm not willing to do... so instead I'll use my newfound time off to look for a new job, imo.)

Oh and also today, some guy came up and ordered the egg salad sandwich. I finished taking his order and went to serve someone else. Meanwhile, the girl who is at the sandwich counter has made this man's egg salad sandwich. At this point, he claims that he ordered the chicken salad sandwich and that I got it wrong. The girl working at sandwiches then proceeds to yell at me in front of all the customers because apparently I'd been punching things in wrong all day (I hadn't, the lady at the other til, the one who didn't know how to clean the bathrooms had been...) and she'd been making things wrong.
When he went to sit down, I went and spoke to this girl and told her that a) the man totally ordered an egg salad sandwich as I repeated his order to him (like I always do) to make sure that I got everything and that everything was right and b) another customer who was standing at the sandwich counter had heard him order an egg salad sandwich.

The joke's on him though because he works at the grocery store nearby and I'm going to find out what department he's in and fuck him over at work for being such a douchebag as a customer.

You Canadians are a silly bunch. :p

I know someone who always asks for his fries unsalted. His theory is that since most places seem to salt the fries right away, if he asks for them unsalted he's more likely to get them fresh out of the oil. Seems to work most of the time, too.

My aunt does that.

I had tried that line before but when I did..the girl just said.."oh..we don't salt our fries". So I just flat out tell them I want them fresh.

Chik-Fil-A's chicken sucks.

Chik-Fil-A's chicken sucks.
LOL. Of all the posts I could ever imagine, this one surprises me the least.