Mind boggling experience at McD'sFollow

In this instance, by virtue of being a customer waiting at the counter for service.

I'm certainly not in the "customer is infallible" camp, but when your JOB is to serve people food, you owe those people a certain amount of respect the second they walk in the door. They're the reason you're employed.

HAHAHAH

My sentiments exactly.

Additionally, if you disagree, I'll just take pride in knowing that I really am better than you. Especially that self-loathing moogle fucker, Sanothewhatsit.

As an aside, I've been known to ask for store numbers from employees when they've offered great service because I think those people should be recognized when it comes time for promotion. The ***** knew she fucked up and got everything she deserved.



Edited, Oct 14th 2007 10:03pm by Elderon

I just wanted to add, I had to google barista. I guess I'm not part of the pseudo-intellectual self important crowd that frequents overpriced coffee selling joints like Starbucks. Or at least, not enough to know there is actually a "title" for someone who pours the damn coffee into the cup.

I have only been to a Starbucks once and it was because it was an integrated cafe with a Chapter's book store. I looked long and hard at the menu since nowhere did it list any regular coffee offerings. I told the guy, I'd like a large regular coffee. He looked at me as if I was like I was speaking some foreign language.

PS. That coffee was one of the ********* I've ever had, so I stick to Tim's.

Yet, somehow they can justify charging over $3 for a regular coffee.

There are a lot of things in this life that I have no chance in hell of understanding since they defy all logic and reason. Why people pay so much over and over for the ********* coffee on earth is one of them. Another is why so many people in the US voted for Bush. /boggle

I sense a disturbance in the force with this one.

Wow. This thread has drawn out many new retards to the Asylum. Hi there.

lol, you said Vessels.
This is getting quoted.


I hate fast food. I've never worked in it, and neither shall my child.
At least not in america or canada (i'm assuming it's the same, only been to 1 in canada). In japan, fast food chains are actually very well kept, and it is an actual job, not something that junior/high school kids work at for cash, under the "watchful gaze" of a coke-***** manager.


**note: no offense to anyone who's ever worked at any type of establishment like this...however if you have, and you weren't one of the better employees...i hope someone spat their burger at you after you spat in it to get back at them, not knowing they were going to get back at you**.

Burger King doesn't shred their lettuce. Don't remember who said it but obviously they haven't been to one.

Unless Burger Kings are wildly different from each other across the world.

Makes me gag to remember that one time I had a Big Mac. Lettuce tasted like I would imagine office shredded paper to taste. Couldn't wait to get a drink but that was a mistake too because that tasted like syrup.

McDonalds is nothing compared to the Taco Bell my husband and I went to near the border of Mexico. They refused to serve us at all. We got to speculating how long they would let us stand there and waited for 30 minutes. The manager wandered by and wiped down the counter and served all spanish people who came in and ignored us. It was an amazing experience. lol still makes me laugh. I honestly don't think they spoke english because spanish is all we heard.

Seems kinda harsh. Sounds like the woman was already under a certain amount of duress for whatever reason. Honestly, is it really worth all the fuss over a few ice cream cones latently received? I worked at McDonald's five years ago and the pay is honestly not worth the work involved and the stuff you have to take from customers and management alike. If you had been sexually harassed, or the woman had yelled at your children, or cursed in front of them, then I would understand. From everything you've said, you didn't appreciate her tone and you waited to get service. All in all as far as bad customer service goes, I can think of a thousand worse offenses off the top of my head.

Throughout high school and college, I've had my fair share of other customer service oriented jobs. I had a man scream and swear at me til I cried in front of his family on Christmas Eve because he forgot to order something and my mind-reading wasn't up to par. I've always made a point to be as polite as I possibly can regardless of circumstance, but damn is it hard when you deal with rude customers one after another. It seems the lower the pay and esteem of the job, the more people feel like they can use you as a personal punching bag for their bad days. If you had instead been visiting your lawyer or your doctor, and your appointment was late because they were occupied with other things, would you speak to them that way and expect them to serve you in the same way? I bet not. Having a little compassion and trying to see something from someone else's perspective goes a long way towards garnering positive outcomes. How would you feel if you were dealing with several things at the same time and someone blatantly disrespected you and was open about the fact they're going to report you? While I fully admit and agree that the situation could've been handled better on her end, but even your opening line ("Is it just me or are some of Canada/America's finest employed at McDonald's?") is dripping with contempt and arrogance, and it makes me sincerely doubt that you weren't equally as rude as she was and probably aren't telling an impartial story. I assume that you work as well, and regardless of what your profession is, it does not give anyone else the right to treat your subhuman and without general understanding.

Anyway, time spent at jobs like that has given me appreciation for the people who work the jobs that none of the rest of us would like to. Now if I encounter exceptionally rude or terrible customer service, I simply do not visit or support the offender, but I also don't go out of my way to ride my high horse and start a campaign against them.