Have you ever wanted to.....

[Guest -Cutthroat-]

[Guest M Nyland]

actually...I wish that was B.S.

[Guest AM The Kid]

Ughhhh, I was at a Mcdonalds a few weeks ago just to pick up a quick bite to eat for dinner. Well, they have two newbies working the counter, both of them have no fucking clue what they're doing. My mom and I waited TWENTY minutes to get to the front of the line. The guy is doing nothing, one of the guys infront of us asked for just a Coke...it took five minutes! Anyways I ordered 9 Mcnuggets, Supersize Fries and a Supersize Diet Coke. I get it ten minutes later, with a medium drink and fries with the dumbass newbie telling me "thats as big as they come". I could have cholked him to death!

[Guest redbaron51]

hey the chili is frozen and is cooked the next day...

 

so its not as bad as it sounds like

[Guest AM The Kid]

Oh, and I'm also strictly a plain burger fan.

[Guest DrTom]

The McDonald's around here isn't too bad. The one where I used to live was awful. One time, I got the worst newbie of all time. I couldn't tell if he was human, since I couldn't see his eyes thru his coke-bottle-on-crack glasses. Of course, he can't find the little pictures for anything I want, even though I could see them plain as day from across the counter. It took me five minutes to order, and another ten to get it, but at least they got it right. Somehow.

 

I don't order cheese on anything, which is apparently quite confusing to fast-food folks, who obviously own much stock in the cheese industry. I'm not lactose-intolerant or anything like that; I just don't like it save mozerella, provolone, and Monterey Jack, and the shitty American cheese those places put on every fucking thing they serve isn't even close.

 

"6.45 is minimum wage here in Canada."

 

Yeah, but that's only about $2.00 USD.

[Guest Kinetic]

It might be the fact that I live in a relatively rural area, but I'm totally perplexed by where this notion of pictures on the keypads comes from. Do you mean actual pictures of the product or just the word, which wouldn't be a picture at all? At the McDonald's where I work, we have abbreviations on the keypads. "Cheesburger" is "CBR." No pictures, though.

[Guest alfdogg]

I could go on ALL DAY about this.

 

I worked at McDonalds (off I-69 in Anderson, Indiana in case anyone cares) for three years, and was a manager for about nine months.

 

The day shift was full of retarded people, the night shift was full of potheads. It was a no-win situation. (no offense dreamer )

 

Unless it was on the weekends, then you got to work with the 14 & 15 year olds all morning. They were fun to work with, as far as messing with them & what not, but they were dumb as shit.

 

The positives are that you could get away with murder there. I've seen people show up two hours late and get nothing said to them. We could get away with smokin a J in the break room during lunch rush.

 

Overall, my job sucked ass, but the most fun part of it was doing truck. Not so much unloading it, but the fact that we could just dick around for as long as we want pretty much. We couldn't make any food though, we either had to go to the supermarket or eat their mediocre cinnamon rolls or leftover breakfast burritos.

 

One night me and the guy I usually did truck with were supposed to train a new guy to do it. Well, the other guy didn't show up, so me and the new guy egged his Blazer. I don't think anyone ever found out who did it (they can't do nothin about it now anyway).

 

But from a customer's perspective, I've had one messed up order at Taco Bell and that's it.

[Guest Incandenza]

It might be the fact that I live in a relatively rural area, but I'm totally perplexed by where this notion of pictures on the keypads comes from. Do you mean actual pictures of the product or just the word, which wouldn't be a picture at all? At the McDonald's where I work, we have abbreviations on the keypads. "Cheesburger" is "CBR." No pictures, though.

When I worked at BK, we didn't have pictures on our registers, either. But then that was five years ago, and since I rarely step inside fast food places now, I figured times had changed.

[Guest Flyboy]

It might be the fact that I live in a relatively rural area, but I'm totally perplexed by where this notion of pictures on the keypads comes from. Do you mean actual pictures of the product or just the word, which wouldn't be a picture at all? At the McDonald's where I work, we have abbreviations on the keypads. "Cheesburger" is "CBR." No pictures, though.

Must be that damn Abilene.

 

Here they have the pictures on the keypad. I don't work at McDonald's or Burger King, but you can clearly see them over the counter.

[Guest MrRant]

Yeah they got the pics here and I just want to slap the bastard. How hard is it to push the picture of the hamburger WITH cheese?

[Guest jimmy no nose]

The one thing that I don't like about McDonalds is that because of this Dollar Menu all of the $.99 stuff is now $1 and THERE ARE NO 49 CENT CHEESEBURGERS! What the hell? 4 people working there told me that they don't have them because there is a dollar menu consisting of stuff that used to be 99 cents.

[Guest Incandenza]

On my break at work today, I went over to a nearby McDonalds and had the Grilled Chicken Flatbread for the first time, sans tomatoes. It was pretty good. I have no complaints about the service, either, though I can't help but point out that the cashier may've been the fattest person I have ever seen that was not bedridden and washing themselves with a rag on a stick.

[Guest M Nyland]

i work at a Long John Silvers and we have the Flatbreads too...and ours are better I think...every time I eat one from McD's it falls apart on me

[Guest Kinetic]

Yeah, those things are fragile. We've gotten new bread for them can be most accurately described as looking like a giant Ritz cracker. It's pretty good and more durable. I still hate making the fucking things, though.

[Guest Incandenza]

I still hate making the fucking things, though.

 

But your toil is not going to waste, my friend. The Grilled Chicken Flatbread is the only thing I like at McDonalds outside their breakfast items.

[Guest M Nyland]

I will eat them...but I hate it when they fall apart...yuck

[Guest Retro Rob]

McDonald's seems to hire the stupidest cashiers. I had to wait 20 minutes a few weeks ago only to get the wrong stuff. Then in HUGE LETTERS they advertise these new Triple Thick Shakes. I ask for one and the lady gives me this parfait shit because they the milkshake machine is broken. If the machine is broken don't advertise in HUGE LETTERS that you have milkshakes. None the less, I got a milkshake the next week and it was the exact same milkshake as before, just now it costs a dollar more.

 

As for Wendy's, the food is good, but the service can be slow, which is understandable. The one thing that really pisses is that Wendy's doesn't have a "Medium" size. When I order a Biggie, they give me a Great Biggie because supposedly Biggie=Medium or something like that.

 

Funny story, last time I went to Wendy's this woman comes in and she's PISSED. She ordered a salad through the drive thru and some food for the rest of the family. She went home and noticed they didn't give her any salad dressing, so SHE COMES BACK. The bitch goes on and on about how her family is eating dinner and she isn't. What kind of an idiot returns a salad 20 minutes after they bought it because there was no dressing. Does this women not own any salad dressing in her home?

 

The only fast food place I never had problems with is Taco Bell.

[Guest lomasmoney]

There must be sometype of universal malfunction in the milkshake machines at the mcdonalds around where i live. There are seriously 8 mcdonalds that are 15 minutes or less from my house but none of the places seem to have a working milkshake machine. and then it pisses me off that the prices are different for mcdonalds in the same area. One place has a Big Mac combo for $3.19 while the closest Mickey D's has it for $3.59.

 

Then there is the Taco Bell where they ruin your orders and never seem to ask if you are dining in or out so they just hand u your food in a bag and basically say piss off. Then we have all these albainian ladies who work there and they unleash the biggest farts in history and act like nothing happened.

 

And then there's the Wendy's in Lincoln Park where the the guy who looks like a homeless version of the dad from Alf and has rotten teeth and wax pouring out of his ears mangages to screw up our order really bad. My brother asks for honey mustard sauce for his nuggets. So we look in the bag to make sure we have the sauce and it turns out to be bbq. I tell this bastard that he gave us the wrong sauce and forgot my fries so he takes the bag goes and puts in the fries and then he gives me the bag and TELLS me he put in the honey mustard sauce. So when we get home i realize there is no honey mustard sauce. So i drive all the way back to Wendy's and i tell the guy he messed up my order so he gives me my order again with double what i ordered and then again he forgets the honey mustard for a 3rd time. This is why i choose to drive the 15 minutes to the Wendy's by my school where they know my order by heart.

[Guest treble charged]

This is why, when I was looking for a job, I refused to work at a fast food place. Instead, I held out, and got a job at a grocery store, and, after working there for a year, I make $7.70/hour (CDN, but still).

 

A 40 hour week means a $300 paycheck, which isn't too bad for someone who still lives at home and has very little to no living expenses.

 

Staying on topic, though, I've had my fair share of problems at McDonalds and the like. For example, I can't stand standing there and watching my burger sit out in the open, while my cashier gets sidetracked. Happened to me once, I think I waited 10 minutes before someone paid attention to me. Another time, the newbie cashier couldn't make my friend's soft serve cone for him, after three tries, he had to get someone else to make it for him. However, the one that takes the cake is me going to the drive-thru at Dairy Queen, and ordering a "medium Oreo blizzard, please", and getting a "medium order of poutine".

[Guest Bosstones Fan]

I run a tight ship, Dames. Come to the McDonald's on Buffalo Gap in Abilene, Texas. We'll make your burger plain.

Kinetic, I've BEEN to the McD's on Buffalo Gap in Abilene.

 

I only went there because the damn Taco Bell nearby took over 10 minutes to serve me three measley soft tacos, so I got pissed and went to McD's instead.

 

Surprisingly, McD's didn't fuck up my order, which is a little unusual for them. Must have something to do with your influence....

[Guest MaxPower27]

I just hate when the people in the BK drive thru yell at me for ordering Honey mustard sauce before I get to the window.

 

Me: Hi, how are you

Drive Thru Operator: ---- (silence)

Me: Ooo-Kay. Can I get a chicken tenders meal, with a large coke, and two honey mustard sauces

DTO: SIR! YOU NEED TO ORDER SAUCE AT THE WINDOW!

Me: OK. That'll be it

DTO: OK, I have a chicken whopper with a large coke.

Me: No. Chicken Tenders meal, with a large coke.

DTO: (silence)

Me: Hello?

DTO: PULL AROUND!

Me: OK.

 

This happens almost everytime, the time I have above, I got attitude from the manager because I asked for honey mustard sauce, and asked her to not give me the honey sauce she'd already given me.

 

As far as burgers, I can't eat anything with Mayonaisse (Devil's semen) because it makes me vomit. About 95% of the time, I get mayo on the sandwich. This happens at McD's mostly, as well as Wendy's. Taco Bell has no beef (no pun intended) with me, as the girl at the window is hot. Also, they never mess up my order, and they've mixed Regular Mt. Dew and Code Red Dew for me before.

[Guest treble charged]

Another thing I hate about McDonalds is there inconsistency. Lately, they've been giving out coupons for free medium fries if it takes more than 30 seconds at the drive thru. Last time I went through, I got one, but when I went through tonight, it took even longer, and I didn't get one. Stupid fucks.

[Guest MrRant]

Another thing I hate about McDonalds is there inconsistency. Lately, they've been giving out coupons for free medium fries if it takes more than 30 seconds at the drive thru. Last time I went through, I got one, but when I went through tonight, it took even longer, and I didn't get one. Stupid fucks.

Yeah... its like you go from halfway competent to shit for brains. Next time you should demand your coupon.

[Guest TheDames7]

Wow, i'm surprised there are so many plain burger eaters. Usually I get TONS of "your weird" comments for eating it that way. I mean, I don't like ketchup, mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomatoes.....I really am weird.

 

Dames

[Guest NoCalMike]

I think a lot of the problems with making food is because of miscommunication between register and grill workers. When I worked at McD's(98) We didn't have a grill button for every specific change. So for instance, the register person would press a general "grill" button to indicate that the order would be modified, but they had to yell to us what had to be changed, or we would have certain buttons like, "no chees" "no whatever" yet sometimes there was not buttons for "light mayo" so if the register person didn't come tell us, we had NO IDEA what to do.....

[Guest MrRant]

I think have the problem is the order takers (be it drive thru or walk in) are so concerned with taking your order in like 30 secs that they don't LISTEN to the person. They hear you but they actually don't LISTEN to what you said.

 

You say you want a cheeseburger plain.. they hear cheeseburger and not the plain part.

 

My theory at least.

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

I'm pretty much a plain burger eater as well. Especially with cheeseburgers.

 

I remember one time I went to this nearby BK for a couple of plain double cheeseburgers(I was hungry as fuck) and I quite clearly said the word "PLAIN" after "double cheeseburgers". I pull around, get my food, and since I was in a hurry, I didn't check out the food until for some reason, I smelled pickles in my car. At the next stoplight, I open up on of the burgers and seem that BOTH of them have everything on it. Man... I was REALLY fuckin' pissed that night.

 

That's pretty much why I mostly go to Hardee's now since their Monster burgers don't have anything I hate at all(well, maybe all the artery-clogging stuff.... heh) and I can just say "I want a Number 5 and get what I want without having to force the person manning the drive thru to actually THINK for once in their lifetime...

[Guest The Flying Dutchman]

I work at Pizza Hut part time and I was there the other day to pick up food.

 

I'm in line behind a guy who obviously doesn't understand that you pay your bill and leave. Trust me, I work at Pizza Hut...all the charges they give you are correct. You don't need to question every single thing, unless it's something blatantly obvious.

 

Anyway, the guy FINALLY leaves. I am CLEARLY the next person in line...

 

But what does the cash register lady do? She lets some woman who was trying to be sneaky by standing next to me cash out next!

 

Stupid bitch!

 

The funny thing was that both of them were black women. Has the Flying Dutchman been the target of RACISM~! ?

 

In all seriousness though, it was annoying as hell. It was a miracle I didn't yell at both of them.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"Customers can be fucking intolerable. The absolute worst is when they wait until the last conceivable second to mention that they don't want"

 

What always pissed me off was that a stupid customer would ask 20 questions, take 5 minutes getting "exact change" and while the line behind him backed up to the door he'd make all his orders "special." On top of that he'd tap his fingers on the counter impatiently for the 3 seconds it took you to give him his receipt.

 

Dutch, when stuff like that happens, you need to take action. I'm not saying you should throw a fit, but I always let it be known that some shenanigans have been going on and I don't approve of it. (My most common gripe are the people with 30 items who pay by check in a market's EXPRESS LINE! I commonly remark to my fellow customers in line that that local school system must be poor because it seems that the locals can't read or count!)

Haven't been killed yet.

 

Another time this bitch with 2 screaming brats cut in front of me at the video store and I proceeded to remark about white trash incapable of standing in line and how if perhaps one of kids fathers (the brats were of different skin color) were around that he could instill some values into the screaming brats.

 

Man did she get red-faced...