Responses I get at McDonalds When I ask customers if they want ‘crispy’ or ‘grilled’ chicken
Responses I get at McDonalds When I ask customers if they want ‘crispy’ or ‘grilled’ chicken
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lol. you have some retarded customers. hopefully it doesn’t wear off on you! =O
haha, serves u right for working at McDonalds
*laughs along*
hey, it’s a job. May not be the best job in the world, but it’s better than nothing.
PS No I don’t work at McDonalds. I’m just saying.
Actually, with American minimum wages being as they are, it probably IS better to do nothing in Europe than to work in America.
I ran the numbers, and if you work 42 hours a week, you earn $1550 per month for working at McDonalds.
In the Netherlands (where I live), the money you get for doing absolutely nothing (the bare minimum) is €212, or $300 a month.
So actually, what I just said wasn’t true at all.
If you work 189 hours a month at McDonalds, you earn only 4 times as much as you get for doing nothing in the Netherlands : )
obviously bragging.
do not forget that if you are a student in the netherlands you can get study financinf – €250 a month.
But hiring a room costs you at least E300,- a month alone, let alone paying the university, your books, your beer, etc. I know, I’ve been one (and currently I’m an employee at McDonald’s), both in The Netherlands.
I worked 157 hours last month and it got me E1100,-. A lot better than sitting at home doing nothing useful all day (I’ll just do that on my days off).
Yeah, but how many benefits do they get for living in the Netherlands that we Americans don’t?
well they do have fairies and the ability to fly but you have to constantly be on the look out for pirates. it’s a toss up.
seriously, augusta, this comment for the win
Everybody has to be insured by law, which means we can afford to give everyone health care.
You can legally grow your own pot.
Everything in the Netherlands is less than 4 hours drive from eachother.
Almost everything is subsidized.
We’ve got great football teams (you know, the game where you kick balls with your foot. Not the game where you throw it around and wear 25 kilos of armour because you occasionally ram into eachother).
We have the metric system (so we can calculate distance, weight and content more easily than you).
We’ve got a language nobody else can speak, or cares to learn.
We’ve got (almost) free military protection from the NATO (which means you pay for our safety : ) )
We get €212/mth for doing nothing, and 75% of our last-earned income if we pretend to be going to do something.
We get to drink when we’re 18.
We’ve got a rich cultural heritage
We don’t get wiretapped by the government.
We don’t torture.
We didn’t have Bush for the last 8 years.
We’ve got a political system at least 80% of the people is content with.
Our political system allows for multiple parties (with multiple ideas from multiple groups) to be in power, so the people get more of what they want. (a political party must try harder to appease their target audience than in America).
We don’t have a jury in courts of law.
We don’t sue eachother.
Sounds like you’d like Canada, just don’t go to Alberta.
why is having a jury bad again?
Because juries are not truly comprised of your peers… or at least not your intellectual peers. They are entirely comprised of people who were too stupid to figure out how to get out of jury duty.
… That has got to be the most epic comment on this site…
and what does all that cost in taxes?
it is cool though, I actually wonder why we can’t get pot legalized here. I would like to add how your countries absorbtion of our war refugees is pleasant, thought stifling your ability to satire a cartoon image of (HEWHOSHALLNOTBENAMED)
Actually… in California it is legal to smoke heroin/weed on a “medical basis” with a “prescription.” … and there’s vending machines for it, too!
so does this mean you think its a GOOD thing to pay people to sit on their butts?
$1550 a month? Um, no. I don’t make that a month and I’m making WELL above minimum wage. Try again.
Douchebag.
Nobody actually listens or cares to what macdonalds employees say.
Nobody actually listens to what anyone trying to assist them in making any kind of order says. I work as a graphic designer and it is the same BS.
Nobody actually listens or cares what inconsiderate a-holes like dardub say because some of us are respectful and decent people. I’m a data analyst but that doesn’t mean I can treat anyone like sh1t.
lol lighten up. maybe people reply yeah because we can’t understand what most of macdonald’s employees say. that’s why they’re working there.
Are you done insulting a job that puts dinner on the table for a lot of hard workers in this economy?
puts dinner on the table… Lawl
dinner on the table…in more than one way.
thanks, Petra. it’s to get a job these days of course, so i can’t blame those that take a fast job.
i don’t work fast food, but i am looking for a job and sometimes i wonder if i should just settle for fast food.
i meant “i can’t blame those that take a fast food job”
not that i would blame them anyway. somebody’s gotta give us out burgers!
Don’t be a brat, at least they’re working instead of riding the welfare gravy train, and for all you know, it could be a summer job or something.
That’s a new meaning to the word “dinner”.
Beg to differ. I worked fast food myself, I spoke very clearly, and still got similar responses. The problem is that people just don’t listen. I run into the same problem now.
Since when is having a job of ANY kind, especially during the recession, such a bad thing? Fast food resteraunts attract dumbasses, assholes, and people like you who are in between. I think they deserve the right to vent sometimes. Sorry if it didn’t fit within your standards, O’ great one.
Woah people, chill. Although I don’t think it’s necessarily right to disrespect people based on what jobs they have, dardub is TOTALLY and COMPLETELY correct: generally speaking, no one cares what McDonald employees say. If people cared to listen, they wouldn’t say “yeah” to the employee once he/she asked a question. Isn’t that kind of the point of the graph? You people are attacking one comment that doesn’t even necessarily reflect an opinion. Dardub never said, “I don’t care…” He said, “nobody actually listens”, and obviously they don’t, hense the graph.
Way to fight intolerance with more intolerance people!
Of course, graphs created on the internet are always accurate…
I think “I don’t care” would be a lot less offensive than “nobody actually listens. Then, he wouldn’t be insulting a whole class of people. I definitely respect someone who works at McDonalds more than someone who sits on their ass all day in the Netherlands (which I know wasn’t you). I’m not trying to insult the person who lives in the Netherlands; I respect both types of people. However, I think it’s ignorant to disassociate yourself with a group just because of their occupation…
I know that some people do not listen at fast food counters…but I have never seen that occurrence. I give the employees my attention as well as I would with any other. Not to mention, the graph isn’t saying that NOBODY listens…just that some people don’t. Otherwise, the only category would be “yeah”.
The graph is simply highlighting an experience the submitter had. dardub stated a claim that completely discredited a whole class of people. What I am upset with is that people are so easy to discriminate. People have discriminated based on gender, race, class, occupation…and this is an obvious case of discrimination based on occupation. What are we going to do, force all McDonalds employees to ride on the bus because they shouldn’t be allowed to ride normal cars like us non-McDonalds employees? Of course, that is an exaggerated example, but the same type of discrimination is most definitely prevalent in dardub’s comment.
The graph does not discriminate; dardub did. That is the difference and is what people are getting upset for.
I’m not going to call him an asshole or anything…I just find it sad how people can have such ignorant views of the world. A McDonald’s employee could be as intellectually-gifted as anyone else, especially in a recession like the American one where people are going anywhere to get jobs…it’s ridiculous to discriminate against them because of their occupation.
Well, nobody should be ragging on McDonald’s employees as human beings, but the fact is that it’s not a high profile job. Most people actually working there will tell you that; plus they’re not being “discriminated” against when they ride the bus, they’re on minimum wage.
It may not be a high-profile job (okay, it ISN’T a high-profile job, or even a medium-profile job for that matter), but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I think the person who made and submitted this graph is probably cleverer than the persons in the red category on it.
I worked at mcds, and hey, somebody’s gotta feed your lazy tails, might as well be me, though I deserve more than minimum wage for putting up with the idiots. This does happen quite a bit, with the chicken. I could go on, but just remember we do have direct control over your food. Ask the brats who lipped off to me when I worked at Hardees. There was twice as much mayo, ketchup and mustard than it needed. You people who don’t respect those that do work for $7.25 an hour and try to survive on it and treat us like dirt piss me the F*** off. You work there, and you’d understand.
For such a sloppy salary I wouldn’t even THINK about working there, dude… you must have been hopeless to work there?
“And which drink would you like?”
“Ketchup.”
Okay then!
Recessions tend to do that…if there is no where else to work, what would you do? I personally wouldn’t choose McDonalds; I would prefer to do entrepreneurial work. However, that opportunity is not available to everyone. There are fathers and mothers out there with children to feed. Do you think they are going to let their children starve just so they don’t have to work in a fast food restaurant? Not to mention, fast food work is much better than working in a sweat shop or mine field…
Amen, but how do you “work” in a Mine Field? Farming Mines?
>_>
clearing thim out u dubmass
Exactly why should someone make more than minimum wage for something that you could train a monkey to do? And I am not trying to be an ass, I worked at Wendys through high school so I do know what it is like to work in that environment.
My guess is that you were the guy who (barely) helped customers and then just sat back and waited while the rest of the employees, whose welfare depended on it, did all the real work. Most fast food workers do more physical work in one week then any CEO’s, whose Daddies paid their way through college, have ever even had to think about doing. Why should they make more than minimum wage? Because they do the dirty work for the owners who, in most cases, just sit back and make money while complaining that they have to pay anyone at all. Because they put up with biased jerks like you who immediately pass a judgment based on there environment and treat them like crap. Because their supporting multiple people on a few hundred dollars every other week and without more money will never be able to progress in another field (but hey, that’s the idea isn’t it). I’d love to write more, but I have to go to work at my high school retail job. Yeah, I know what it’s like to work in the environment.
The Business world is very elitist, I found out a year into community college business that it would be good for opening a bar or File Clerk, that’s it.
I got into a BA program now and trying to get an office temp position, but they’ve been putting through all these filters to make sure I can perform basic tasks and be mentally capable of putting on some khakis and a polo shirt in the morning, even though the awful warehouse/factory jobs i’ve been doing required many times the energy, quick thinking, prudence, punctuality.
That’s my story, I agree with you that this is not fair. The thing is that people with “skills” (i.e. Undergrad degree minimum) command much more money for their time, it’s not about how hard you work, it’s what you can do and what that’s worth to “them.” My point is that no, as Josh said it’s not worth it to pay more than minimum wage to (for example) McDonald’s cooks, but people should really not judge/disrespect other people of lower “station” like you described.
OMG AMEN TO YOU!!!!! I just finished my year long spout with McDonalds and god are you right…theres no respect for what we have to put up behind the counter
First off, thanks for doing a job that some people apparently feel is beneath them. And I mean it. It’s work, you get paid for it, and it’s better than sitting on your a** and collecting someone else’s money.
Second, I agree with the part about the idiots. I end up in line behind the woman (with 15 kids) who wants to know if the chicken is organic, where it came from, who plucked it, what it tastes like, etc. Then she just gets coffee.
Third, how do you keep fast food servers from giving you crappy fries? I’m as nice as I can be and I still get soggy re-fried fries.
the best way to get fresh fries is to ask for them without salt. and then just ask or take salt packets if you want them salted.
Seriously. In the last two month’s of my McDonalds stint, we FINALLY got a fry holder…thinggie…that it was possible to do no salt fries with (it was seperated into two parts) but before that, I died a bit on the inside when people ordered no salt fries and I was stuck on fries
Eh, then you get the canned response “They ARE fresh” when you ask for anything like that. And I know, because I’ve given it too. :/
For what it’s worth, I have not in the 3-4 years I worked at McD seen or even heard of someone who’s done this. At all.
I can’t say it never happens, and I’m sure someone will chime in with anecdata to prove that it does, but it’s just not as widespread as people seem to think.
Let’s see…
Works at McDonalds
Knows how to use Graph Jam
You must be a teenager.
And theres something wrong with teenagers working at McDonalds to put themselves through college? Sorry we would like to do more with our lives.
Did I *say* there was anything wrong with it?
It was clearly implied.
No, MK1K and Petra, you’re concluding that he has a negative opinion on it because generally people do have negative opinions, and yet there is no evidence to support your assumption.
If it’s such a great place to work, then stop being all touchy because people say things that aren’t even negative statements.
I’m twenty and putting myself through college. I have a sense of humor, so yes I know how to use graph jam.
When I used to work at a restaurant and asked that same question, one answer I got was, “What’s the difference?” *Headdesk*
I feel your pain. Worked too many hours at McDonald’s. My biggest pet peeves were when someone ordered a .99 double cheeseburger or a ‘regular’ size anything. There is no REGULAR on the effing menu
And it’s the customers’ fault you worked too many hours..how? Oh wait, it’s not!
And if we didnt work those hours, customers like you wouldn’t be served. Not that we would want to serve customers with attitudes to begin with! (aka, attitudes from customers made our days go by a LOT slower.)
Or anything small when it comes to the extra value meals! And hold on…my fries arent hot enough! It was times like that when I wondered why I took the job to begin with lol
Regular = Medium. Everyone knows that.
No, regular for McDonalds is the SMALL fry, as it’s the most commonly ordered as it is $1. Besides that, when you specifically ask “Small, medium, or large?” they should have the intellectual ability to answer the question with the options given, not resort to their comfort zone of “REGULAR!” Same with damn coffee. Medium is not the regular, the SMALL is what comes with breakfast combo’s as well as is the most commonly ordered. Regular isn’t necessarily a size. If regular isn’t on the menu, it’s technically NOTHING at that specific restaurant.
I work at McDonalds, and I’m 25 years old. Trying to save money to get some college in, not that it will help since there are no jobs anyway. So all you haters go work at McDonald’s and deal with people like yourselves for 8 straight hours and tell me how easy my job is
“Would you like Medium or Large?”
“No! I want regular!!”
Or
“Small.”
Yeah sure, I’ll just create a small combo..
Maybe McDonald’s should dispense with the marketing BULLCRAP and call “crispy” what it actually is — FRIED. IT’S FRIED CHICKEN, CALL IT FRIED CHICKEN. FRIED. FRIED. SAY IT. SAAAAAY IIIIIITT!!
When they ask me: crispy or grilled?
I say: fried
And what about those old school McD’s apple pies. They fried the heck outta those. Ummmmm……
Now “baked” apple pies, and they taste like particle board.
They package the pies in boxes, you need to take the pie out of the box before eating it. That should fix the problem.
….
Lightbulb!!!
:O They changed the apple pies? (Showing how long it’s been since she’s eaten at a McDonalds.) The only thing I like (or ever liked) there were the apple pies and hot-cakes.
p.s. I hate “marketing words.” Can you tell?
how often do you get “both”?
also, grilled for me
Ahh customers…
Me: Im sorry we dont have any Whopper’s left.
Customer: … Ill have a double Whopper then.
Or this one:
Me: Sorry, due to technical difficulties [=no power to the grills] we can’t make hamburgers right now.
Customer: Oh… can I have a cheeseburger then?
Me: *facepalm & headdesk*
Check more stories on notalwaysright.com, it’s hilarious how stupid customers can be.
we once had a man ask if he could get tater tots in stead of fries in his kid’s meals because his children were allergic to potatos
Lol… and then you get the people at Taco Bell: “would you like a crunchy or soft taco?”
“yes, please.”
…herm :/ don’t even get me started on ordering chalupas.
Well, Taco Bell does make that double-decker…
***runs out of house to Taco Bell***
***then immediately to toilet***
I am far more condescending to the people who order at McDonald’s than the people who work there. A job is a job, and sometimes you don’t have much of a choice. The customer on the other hand…
..have bad days just like the self-righteous employees do.
I’m gonna have to agree with Rebel on that one.
self-righteous employees? Do explain to me more about these employees.
Seriously, do honestly believe that a person can take a job at McDonald’s and still be self-righteous? You’ve clearly never had to put up with that crap. Don’t let the people here fool you, it’s not just the customers that suck, everything about that job is miserable and depressing. I could only put up with it for two months before I stormed out, never to return.
Oh, and just so you know, having a bad day is not a good excuse for being stupid. It’s not even really a good excuse for acting like a jerk. Is it really that hard for you to remain civil and pay attention to what’s going on around you?
Exactly! We get paid crap money to do crap jobs, to get treated like crap by crappy customers. Lots of crap to go around. Try working one week behind the counter and come back and talk to us about being self-righteous. I’ve been told to go to hell by customers, cursed out…almost anything possible, it’s happened. Because of crappy customers. I’ve had customers insult me to my face, to my managers while I’m standing right there…hell even had my own managers insult me! And other employees.
If you can put up with that and not lose it. Then you’re not self-righteous. You’re a real human being.
Oh my god, every day at work was a bad one, if they want to use the excuse “had a bad day”, that means I can be a bitch to you every single day of the week.
Uhh let’s see, I woke up early to go to a job I hate because I need the money, my co-workers are mostly retarded, my boss is some kind of sex offender who won’t leave me alone, and I’ve got children AND adults screaming at me?
Meanwhile, the customer is on lunch break from their cushy IT job and they got stuck in a red light on the way to order lunch from me. Whoa, dude, I’m so sorry, you can take that out on me!
Except I’m pretty much the nicest person ever. I will smile while you curse at me, and be helpful to you until the end. I won’t even spit in your food, I promise, and I hope it made you feel better that you got to yell at someone who did absolutely nothing to you other than breathe the same air as you. Would you like fries with that?
Just remember that karma’s a bitch, and if you can manage to be kind to people that aren’t kind to you (for no good reason), then you’ll get some kind of reward in the long run.
/overly optimist rant
*wants to meet Alex*
yeah, i’ve worked fast food in the past, and some customers are crazy.
Since when is it ok to take out your bad day on a perfect stranger? Didn’t your mother teach you better manners?
and that gives you the right to take it out on them?
Yeah.
Oh right.
LOL. It’s even funnier when you’re behind a customer who replies with “Yeah” and the cashier has a weird look on their face…
I used to work at Micky D’s now I work at Arby’s. I have seen nothing to reaffirm any sign of intelligent life among the customers. I spent 5 minutes yesterday explaining that there is more than one kind of chicken sandwich…they still never got it.
I totally agree with that statment. I worked for Arby’s for 6 years (3 in high school and 3 more in college). One of the things I hated was when we would be out of an item like the jalapeno poppers and people would think that meant we were also out of any item that was similar to it.
Me: I’m sorry, sir. We are currently out of the poppers. Would you like to try the mozzarella sticks instead?
Sucktomer: You jain’t got none of dem, Ja-lop-eno poppers? Does that mean youse outta the mozzarelly sticks too?!?!?!
And when we had salads…
Me: And what kind of dressing would you like that with today, Ma’am?
Lady: Wrench!
Me: I’m sorry. Did you say “ranch” or “french”? (very clearly enunciating the two words)
Lady: WRENCH! I SAID WRENCH! WRENCH DRESSIN’!!!!
Shifter spanner dressing?
WREENCH!
OMG, I worked at Arby’s for a little over a year. I swear I would rather clean out Port-a-John’s than go back. One of my favorite converstations:
Me: [standard longass DT greeting]
Customer: Yeah, I want a cheeseburger
Me: I’m sorry we don’t sell burgers, would you like to try a beef n’ cheese?
Customer: I said a CHEESEburger! Not a burger! (Followed by incoherent swearing as he/she drove off).
I think the graph would be better if “crispy” and “grilled” were the same amount.
Yeah, except “crispy” is waaaaay better.
And, as with most things, not as good for you.
People ask for crispy way more often than they ask for grilled where I work.
Maybe you should ENUNCIATE, you damn peasant.
Ahh, the cries of the fool the graph illustrates… how ya doin’? What did you end up getting, crispy or grilled?
So you hate me because I have an alleged speech impediment, or because I am poor?
Either way, your comment made me laugh.
I love how whenever one of these graphs comes up having something to do with customer service positions, there are automatically all the folks who jump in saying, “OMG ur job SUX and u must be STOOPIT to even work there, OMG ur lame, I hate u, I’m so much better then u.”
(Yeah, I get that nobody typed it that way. But it’s still what you sound like.)
So because a janitor has a job cleaning toilets, that means it’s ok for people to sh*t all over the walls? Because it’s his job to clean it up? Or how about if a person drives a bus — is it ok for people just to run out into the street in front of them? Because it’s the bus driver’s job to drive safely, he is responsible for everything that happens on the road. Or when a teacher doesn’t give a kid an A because he never does his homework and screws around during class — is it the teacher’s failure, or is it the kid’s fault for being a screwoff?
Yeah, it’s the person’s job at McD’s to TAKE YOUR ORDER and to do it with a smile. But conversely, it is the CUSTOMER’S job to not be a douchebag and put down the person who is doing you a damn service. You’re so much better than the people who work at McD’s? So fine. Don’t mingle with them at all. You wouldn’t want any of their lameness to rub off on you, after all. Eat at home and save us all the embarrassment of watching you act like a jackass in public.
Just like throwing litter on the highway just because some prison detail is going to come along and pick it up.
Why can’t people just stop jettisonning their McDonalds wrappers from the cars we’d be so much further ahead in the game.
*crying Indian*
The Game, eh?
justsomechick for President!
When I go to McDonald’s I’m always happy with the food, service, etc. Why? Because I have no expectations. The only way I’d get annoyed is if the wait was long, but if it looked crowded, I wouldn’t go in. One time I went through the drive-thru and after placing my order, I moved up half a car length and then sat there for seven minutes before saying “screw this” and driving off (something you can’t do at Taco Bell because they always curb you in). I wonder if they’re still one order off. But seriously, whenever I go to McD’s, I’m always all nom nom nom nom nom.
Oh, yeah, I won’t go to my local Taco Bell anymore either. I order all my tacos supreme. Seriously, without that tomato and sour creme, it just totally sucks. So, after the fourth consecutive time they don’t get the order right, I take my food back, deal with their weenie manager and get my money back. It’s not like it was a special order. Soft Taco Supreme is on the menu in all caps. I was paying for it, but not getting it. Makes me so mad (mashes face with hands). However, the Taco Bell in the next town over is run beautifully. Best, friendliest service you’ll ever get and the order is always correct. I love talking about fast food. Next topic: Wendy’s.
I F—ING HATE THIS. It’s an either/or question, not a goddamn yes or no. I seriously want to punch the person when they respond like that
Best is when you say “We don’t have X” and the customer says “Yeah yeah, I want X.”
Maybe I should just piss in a glass and give it to you if you aren’t even going to listen to me.
You’ll want to drink a LOT of water that day, or you might run out of that too.
So bloody true! I take pizza orders over the phone in Australia (for most of the country) and people don’t listen!
“Was that pick up or delivery? — Um, Delivery — What’s your address? — Oh, I don’t know. Hang on. BOB!!! WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS HERE??”
Because when you ring up to order a pizza, why the hell would you bother to remember the address you want it to come to??
Oh, and all you scumbags who think it’s OK to sneer at people working behind the counter in McDonalds or whatever? You suck. I hope someone spits in your burger.
I worked at McDonalds when I was in high school. My favorite thing was when customers would ask me, “How much is the dollar burger?” Which only goes to prove that people come in three flavors: Smart, Stupid, and Completely Impaired.
I love that one! I also love it when they mistakenly add a Mc in front of everything. This one lady said “Can I get a McCoffee and a McEgg McMuffin? Made me smile.
Hell yes! God that annoys me. I work at Sizzler (woo) and we have to ask “Would you like chips, baked potato, mashed potato or risotto?” and the answer I ALWAYS get is “Yes”. I also like the people who swipe their eftpos card the wrong way after being told the right way and reading the sign. My job makes me mourn for the human race.
And to the people who commented “Thats what you deserve for working at maccas”, we’re in an economic downturn. A job is a job. Don’t be so snobby.
Having worked at a gas station for the past 5 years, I can honestly say that there’s not much hope for the human race if the customers I see on a daily basis have already procreated, or are planning to. Everywhere you go nowadays there are a variety of signs which explain how to do what you’re trying to do, so I’m a bit baffled when people come in to yell at me because they didn’t know they had to put their points card in the pump prior to pumping their gas. It’s not written on a bright yellow sticker right next to the card slot or anything.
*ROFL*
Ok, so, sorry for the fatasses who are too lazy, dumb or poor to feed themselves healthily. And sorry for the pimple faced tards who work there. Someone made a comment about teenagers only working there through college. Ok that’s a truly informed statement. You can go to the McD’s in the ritziest of neighborhoods and still find people working their way through parol or supporting their weed habit while welfare pays their housing. Facts are facts and the lies you feed yourself and your children are disturbing.
I think the point people are trying to make is that not ALL of the people behind the counter are deadbeats. Some are, sure. But some bankers are deadbeats. Some airline pilots are addicts. Whatever. It’s irritating when people make sweeping generalizations about people just because of their job.
You sound like my insane cokehead friend.
Why, you got some?
She does it all before I get there.
Yes I did mention working through college. Dont tell me how informed my statements are. I worked with teenagers putting themselves through college (like myself) and then even past college, even ending up becoming a manager (yes I’ve seen it happen), people who took it as a second job, people who this was their main income. I’ve worked with every walk of life, so dont put my comment down. That comment was just mentioning the teenage employment area of McDonalds. My favorite manager that I worked with could have easily been retired but he kept the job to help put his kids through college (and that’s while working with major health issues)
And do tell what lies we’re feeding ourselves and our potential children? (this coming from an 18 year old)
EACH JOB IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT.
Honestly, when I started working at the Arcade, I expected a lot more geeky, pimple-faced kids to be working there. I’ve seen maybe two. I’m 19 and in college too, working to keep my parents off my back and to support those tuition fees. I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS TOWN! LORDY! lolol
With the economy as it is now, most people should be glad to have any job. Both my parents are unemployed right now. And this Arcade deal is my first job ever. :S Minimum wage too, but better than nothing!
Working at a fast food place is good, honest work and means one must put up with a lot of idiots. BUT…it’s training for the rest of life where putting up with idiots is par for the course. The difference is that while working at a fast food place, the skills required aren’t as high (thus the pay isn’t as high) and the potential exposure to idiots is much higher than at most jobs because of 1) the larger population of customers required to keep a fast food place profitable and 2) the general clientele of fast food restaurants. Still, customers of any business should pay attention, be friendly, respect the employees and be pleasant if there’s a problem.
I like to think that working fast food helps shape you into who you are as you get older. If you worked at fast food, it teaches you how to put up with crap of the worst kind. You learn how to deal with people and make it through the day. THen when you move on into bigger and better things in life, when you come back to eat at fast food, you treat the employees with the same respect you wish you would have had when you worked there.
I can usually tell who has never worked fast food or retail/service in their life just by how they treat me and their peers.
Can you see their necks? They should be red.
this reminds me of when i worked at Arby’s and a customer ordered coffee and i asked “caffeinated or decaf” and they said “just coffee”
okay…that might mean “caffeinated”…or it might mean “i don’t care…”
It’s because McDonalds has some of the worst microphone/speaker systems ever, and people can’t understand what the hell you’re saying. Try speaking slower, and pronouncing your words better. Then it won’t come out like “ghispeakorgrileh”
You mean no one ever says ‘please’? Damn.
Jeez, what’s with all you McDonald’s crybabies on here? If you don’t want to put up with sh*t jobs, get qualified for something better and go get it. Until then, this is your lot in life. Working at McD’s sucks balls — I know it, you know it, even Sasquatch f-ing knows it. The very idea of a McD’s employee getting indignant at a customer is preposterous. It’s like a turd getting upset at the bottom of a shoe.
I understand your point completely (and sorry if I read that first bit wrong about putting up with sh*t jobs) but McDonalds tends to be one of the few options. I know as a teenager, with no other place hiring (trust me, I applied everywhere I passed), it’s the only thing you can do. And plus, corporate gives you great benefits. I may hate the job, but I’m thankful for what the corporation’s given me.
How are they gonna get better jobs without money (for college or whatever kind of training) or work experience (that they are getting at McD)?
Sounds like it was working for Sub Connection. Or a dumbass I went to grade school with who said “No” at a taco place when the waitstaff asked if he wanted corn or wheat tortillas.
Or better yet when they say “I want a number 2 with no ketchup or mustard but add big mac sauce.” Then after you grill there order they add “Oh and make that large.” >< Love it when they do that.
ARRGGGHH!!!! I work at McDonald’s as well, I HATE it when people say that.
Welcome to my life!? People are ridiculous!!! And how about people on their cell phones while trying to order? Take TWO seconds out and tell me what you want, then go back to your damn phone!
I hate it when people give that kind of answer to a “choice-question”.
Yeah.
I doubt this is true. In fast food restaurants, they don’t take your money until after they’ve run up your food, and it takes a special kind of moron to wait until AFTER ringing the order up to inform the customer that they don’t have that food available. (Not to mention it is OF COURSE possible to refund a customer, any manager has the authority and know-how to do it. If they say otherwise they are lying.)
I’ve met that special kind of moron. He works (or at least did about 10 years ago) at the Chicken Out in Oakton, Virginia, who not only took my order by phone, rung it up and gave me a total, but didn’t call back to tell me he didn’t have what I ordered. I didn’t find out until I arrived at the store. :/
lol i no how u fell its sooooooo anoying after a while
I am worker in a mc’d restaurant in germany – i know this question…
but this graph and the answers are pretty cool!
Grilled
I’m an 18 year old college enrolled student and I work at McDonalds, and I must say, I laughed my damn-ass off when I saw this. Eff the people that are dissing on Mcd’s. I mean, what the hell? I’m not even going to touch on that. I just know that this is so true, and no one listens, even when ordering food that THEY’re going to be eating. Like, shouldnt you make sure it’s right? Or that you’re polite so we don’t spit in it?
“Surprise me” needs to be bigger.
I work at Tim Hortons.
Besides “where are the napkins?” (they’re over on the garbage cans, but no one ever seems to notice) and “I’ll have a ham and swiss BLT” (the listing of sandwiches has the BLT under the Ham and Swiss, but most customers don’t seem to understand that means they’re separate sandwiches), the stupidest thing I hear at work is “sure” when asking a customer if they want Chocolate or Caramel drizzle on their Ice Capp Supreme.
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I think that most people don’t seem to even register that they’re in a restaurant until they’re actually at the counter.
You should have gotten an education, then you wouldn’t have been confronted with this “problem”.
I’m starting my third year of college today, but thanks for playing.
sure you are.
Newsflash: Mc Donalds University doe not qualify as a college.
how about you get off your holier-than-thou ass and pay their tuition? oh wait, they are doing that themselves working at those places. you might know that if you were paying attention. you are probably one of those who answers “yeah” when asked grilled or crispy.
Nope. According to Professor, if you work even 1 minute at McDonalds, you’re a failure for life.
EXACTLY! iWorked at Bojanqles 4 2 yrz && iGETZ DA SAMEE ANSWER…Yeah! LMAO.
mcdonalds “food” doesnt qualify as food, and people who “work” at mcdonalds arent providing any valuable service to their customers… they are actually causing a detriment to society.
Um, show up at McD’s after the show/match/party/gig when you’re starving because it’s 1:30am and you haven’t eaten since noon and no place else is open, and tell me again that they’re not providing a valuable service.
Yep, I worked my way through school by pumping gas. Same type response. Want regular, plus or super.
the reply was always the same….
UNLEADED!
Try explaining that leaded gas hasn’t been sold in the state since the late 1970’s to the average customer.
Hahaha I work at mcdonalds, same exact thing! I laughed pretty hard when I saw that.
My dad tends to go off if ONE THING is wrong with his order when we cruz through the drive-thru. My mom and I are normally, well, normal and shrug it off. We tend to go through only when we have a LOT of people, so orders may get mixed up. The only time my mom’s idiot ball switched on was when pretty much everything was wrong, and I had to calm her down.
“Honestly, crispy is NOT THAT BAD.”
“*Random gibberish that I have to speak over*
“WORK IT OFF, THEN! IT’S NOT THAT HARD! Most of the food is fried in some way anyways.”
“Blubber flabber jib?” (Yes, my mother tends to do this.)
“It’s not their fault that we have packed ten people into our car, all wanting completely different things.”
Thanks for everyone sharing their experiences, to give me insight to exactly how stupid so many people are, and what I’ll have to deal with when I’m working to pay for college.
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You work @ McDonalds… LOL
Every time I ask what size the customer wants on drive through, they avert the question like it’s going to embarrass them completely if they say “large”
OMG it’s the same where I work when people order fish, I ask them “Do you want tarter or cole slaw?” And their answer most likely is “yeah”. Why don’t people understand the word OR?