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[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

My experience in the food service industry says something that many of you should already know: never be rude to your server until after you've received your food.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I was a waiter for a couple hours one time.

[Ripper 0]

Reporters really do pick the most ignorant minorities to put on televison because ignorant black and mexican people are funny. Really...they are.

 

 

Those computer parts that you pay all that money for are mostly refurbs although they are called new. And it only cost about 10 bucks, and you are charged about 500.

[bob_barron 0]

Reporters pick them because crime is cheap, easy to do and = ratings which is why you'll only see minorities in a negative light most of the time.

 

The joys of taking a covering diversity class

[Ripper 0]

Exept in the real world, they pick people they think will be funny or attention getting on camera. Well dressed articualte white people, they feel do this, and dumb minorites because they are funny. It has nothing to do with where they are. Even the the ghettoist of ghettos you will only find one or two people that will get on camera and say "Dem dudes right deah, dey went in the sto, right? Den I saw dem shoot dude and run out da sto." Right next to him was another black guy that would have said. "Those guys they have in the car, they ran in the store, I heard gun shots and then they came running back out."

 

There was this perfect example of it this weekend that had me laughing, but it was kinda sad at the same time. Oh the media...god I hate'em.

[Ted the Poster 0]

Hey Ripper, check this out.

 

I'm not sure if that is a home movie, newcast or what, but damn.

[Guest BDC]

Checkout clerks in supermarkets are the laziest group of bastards you've ever seen. I had this desire to stay at my register in case people showed up, so the folks with their aisles open? "Oh yeah, register 2 is open." So I had a line that went halfway back the store while they left their open spots and dicked around.

 

Also, as a cashier, I don't have to honor a damned thing you give to me. I can find a valid reason to void any coupon you give me. And I'm always right to, so complaining to management won't get me blackballed at all.

 

Oh, and don't ask cashiers a damn thing about the rest of the store. We never go back that far and we don't know. Nor do we care. Most of the time they're just pleasent to you to get you to go away sooner.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Tell you something else, people will ALWAYS think that they can take liberties with people in a uniform. I had to cuss out a guy who was in either his 50's or 60's today. I was in my store and getting ready to open it this morning and the guy came up and pulled on the locked door. While I was opening the doors he was trying to push his way past me. I politely asked him to wait a second for me to open the doors. His response was, "I guess I missed the boat. Why don't you go fuck yourself?" Of course he said the last part while walking away. I was shocked for a second and really was wondering if I should let him get away with being rude as shit to me. It took me about two seconds to get my coworker from the back room to come out front. I knew where the guy was going as soon as he walked away so I went up there after I got my coworker out front. He saw me coming as he was leaving the other store and looked like he was going to shit on himself. The guy was apologizing and saying that he just came out of the hospital and all this other horseshit. I was like, "if you just got out the hospital, why the hell would you try me like that? You can save your apolgies because you shouldn't have talked to me like that in the first place." I told him that he was a bitch for saying that shit and running away and that he was a bitch for quivering and begging for me to leave him alone when I confronted him. I never thought that I would have to cuss out a man old enought to be my father. I told him that he was too old to be doing shit like that and that he should know better and have more sense at this stage in his life. At this point, he couldn't even look me in the face and he was still apologizing. I told him to never come around my store again. Go fuck myself indeed.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Well then!

[Modern Man's Hustle 0]

Someone's full of shit in this thread.

 

If you ask me for a double shot decaf nonfat iced latte with sugarfree vanilla, I'll be giving you a plain old iced latte and you won't be able to tell the difference.

[JHawk 0]

Circuit City's motto regarding how to run their stores: "No sense makes sense." For example: It doesn't make sense to put something in the sales ad and not send it to the stores before the sale. Therefore, we're not sending you the sales product until after everybody's bitched that you don't have it.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Someone's full of shit in this thread.

 

If you ask me for a double shot decaf nonfat iced latte with sugarfree vanilla, I'll be giving you a plain old iced latte and you won't be able to tell the difference.

Well maybe except for the vanilla and the person having heart palpatations.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

I wonder if Ripper has seen Bubb Rubb

[Vyce 0]

I know almost everything there is to know about cigarettes

Please do tell. I just started smoking again, and I'd like to know exactly how long it's going to take to kill me.

 

From Long John Silvers - That shit can get pretty raunchy if it sits under a heat lamp for an hour or two

 

Jesus, though, I'm addicted to their hush puppies. It's more grease than fried batter, but still, goddamn.

 

I figure they'll kill me long before the cigs do, though.

[JST 0]

Wrestlers STOMP THEIR FEET while punching!

 

 

 

 

In all seriousness; a drunken booker can actually produce some crazily entertaining shit.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I know almost everything there is to know about cigarettes

Please do tell. I just started smoking again, and I'd like to know exactly how long it's going to take to kill me.

 

That's a myth.

[Guest Vitamin X]

If you ask me for a double shot decaf nonfat iced latte with sugarfree vanilla, I'll be giving you a plain old iced latte and you won't be able to tell the difference.

Amen to that!

 

I don't know how many times I've given customers nonfat milk instead of whole or vice versa simply because they'll crowd around the espresso bar impatiently watching me make the drinks and will get pissed when I have to heat up the milk again and take up valuable time.

 

I hate when people order cappucinos as well. Not lny because it takes extra time to make it, but because they don't know the difference between that and a latte.

[NoCalMike 0]

No matter how ill your opinion of Car Salesman are, they are even worse then you think.

 

If you go to McDonalds during off-hours, meaning more then a half hour before or after breakfast/lunch/dinner rushes, then you are more then likely to get meat/chicken/fish that has gone well past it's timer.

 

In a Warehouse, Never assume you every move isn't being monitored in some form or fashion.

 

Business casual dress code, is fucking vague.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

How many people in here work/have worked at a coffee shop?

[NYU 0]

If you walk up to the register in a fast food place and ask if the fries -- or the coffee - are fresh, the answer will always be yes. The batch could have been made an hour ago. The answer will still be yes. Don't bother asking.

 

People that work in a movie theater are strange. Very strange. Strange to the point where they slip off the side during their shift and decide to jackoff in the cleaning supplies room. The possibility of getting caught by a boss doesn't even scare these people off.

 

And it's been said time and time again, but the importance of it cannot be stressed enough. Don't scream and yell at the register person until you finally have the food in your hand. Otherwise, you might be better off just walking out of the store with nothing.

[Nevermortal 0]

I know a lot about AAA's road service policies.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

I know almost everything there is to know about cigarettes

Please do tell. I just started smoking again, and I'd like to know exactly how long it's going to take to kill me.

 

From Long John Silvers - That shit can get pretty raunchy if it sits under a heat lamp for an hour or two

 

Jesus, though, I'm addicted to their hush puppies. It's more grease than fried batter, but still, goddamn.

 

I figure they'll kill me long before the cigs do, though.

Chicken can look like plastic after about an hour. If you ever order hushpuppies in the middle of the afternoon (between 2 and 3) the chances of getting very dark burnt ones is greatly increased.

 

Another Long John's one.... the cole slaw they leave in open pans is the exact same age as the cole slaw already in containers. People constantly ask for "fresh" slaw (meaning out of the open pans) when i try to give them one already in a small cup. Hell, the cup ones are better cause they have lids and don't have to deal with any contaminants the air and surrounding areas might contain.

 

 

I also hate women who flush public toilets with their feet, breaking the small arm inside the toilet. I usually have to fix one every few months.

[teke184 0]

When a programmer says something can't be done, it's only true maybe half the time. The rest of the time, we're just lazy.

I'll second that...

 

 

In my particular office's case, our catch-all is "That's the fucking vendor's core code, we can't touch it", as we bought a Customizable Off The Shelf package to handle our business process.

 

Me and all the other programmers are supposed to tweak all this stuff to make it do just what we want, but sometimes that's easier said than done since some of the simpler stuff is done in the core code. Usually, we say "OK, that's what you want but, instead, this is what you're gonna get."

 

 

I also used to be in the mail-processing area of that place and it was a fucking madhouse... let's just say there are a lot of complaints about missing checks, unprocessed documents, etc.

 

 

 

As for my previous career, working at a movie theater fucking SUCKS.

 

Cleaning up the theaters was pretty bad because I was in a redneck college town and I must have turned over quite a few cups full of tobacco spit by accident while sweeping up.

 

Ushering in general wasn't bad, although it would have been less of a problem checking for outside food if we weren't part of a mall. People trying to sneak in a goddamn bag from Chik-Fil-A and so forth instead of the normal "bag of Skittles in the pocket" routine.

 

Concessions fucking blew. The company took "idiot-proofing" too far on the registers so, instead of ringing up an amount for each item, which would make sense, you have to hunt and peck to find keys for the proper sizes of popcorn, soda, candy, etc.

[the max 0]

How many people in here work/have worked at a coffee shop?

I co-managed a Dunkin Donuts at the tender age of 16.

[Guest CronoT]

Well, I didn't work for KFC, but my friend told me the habits of one he worked at.

 

 

 

Well, at that location, my god, they are VERY unsanitary with food. Chicken is cut on the same boards, whether its RAW or cooked. Nice one, because that's the perfect way to spread bacteria. They re-use oils, so like, sometimes, the food has the taste of the oils. People worked there with no gloves, and while they were sick. MEAT has fucking dropped on the floor, and all they did was wash it off.

 

That was in the location nearest me, and since he told me that 2 years ago...I have stopped eating at that particular KFC. I really hope that's not the case in every other KFC.

My Bro-in-Law used to be a General Manager for a regional burger chain called WhataBurger. He told me and everyone else in our family never to go to a certain location in my hometown, because all the poeple, including the managers, are always high on marijuana, and will always fuck up your order.

 

That location has since closed down; coincidence?

[Nighthawk 0]

Incy is gay with Whataburger.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

Well, I didn't work for KFC, but my friend told me the habits of one he worked at.

 

 

 

Well, at that location, my god, they are VERY unsanitary with food. Chicken is cut on the same boards, whether its RAW or cooked. Nice one, because that's the perfect way to spread bacteria. They re-use oils, so like, sometimes, the food has the taste of the oils. People worked there with no gloves, and while they were sick. MEAT has fucking dropped on the floor, and all they did was wash it off.

 

That was in the location nearest me, and since he told me that 2 years ago...I have stopped eating at that particular KFC. I really hope that's not the case in every other KFC.

I can definitely say that i've never seen anything like that at the KFC i work at. Neither raw or cooked chicken is cut in any way (shit, we are lucky to have ONE KNIFE in the store, and it's for cutting up blocks of vegetable shortening), though working without gloves some of the guys do, not me though...that shit is disgusting. The ole "sneeze into the armpit" is a good technique, as a few times i've sneezed so bad from the breading that my ribs hurt afterward.

 

Re-use oils... Yeah, the grease vats keep the same oil sometimes for weeks. I don't think it hurts the quality of the product, though I did have a batch of fries that tasted like Cinnamon Sugar cause some dumb bitch thought it would be a time saver to sprinkle that shit on the apple pies while they were still in the little basket (which is also used for said fries).

 

 

Also, I think most of the people I work with are rude pieces of shit. When I used to run drive-thru and I couldn't hear someone talk, I said "i'm sorry, i'm having trouble hearing you, can you repeat that?". At this store it's "What? I CAN'T...HEAR...YOU." And I just want to punch them. They also get attitudes toward the customers and when the customers bring it back to them it's like "well *I'm* not dealing with them" and they walk into the kitchen or something. (this is the drive-thru people, not the counter help).

 

The store I work at is inept. Almost as inept as the LJS I spent 5+ years at. At least at that store I learned (as a cashier) that if there are no customers to be waited on, go clean the dining area. Some days my boss has to scream her head off to get anyone to go clean the dining room (depending on the employees working).

 

Some days I leave my post as the cook and go do it cause nobody else will. I'm such a fucking overachiever.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

French fries sitting around too long? Pop 'em in the deep frier. Good as new.

 

And if you've never worked in food service, don't everevereverever sneak a peak into the kitchen. You'd never eat out again.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

Ha... the KFC/LJS i work at currently has the kitchen in full view of everyone that comes in. It really sucks, but I don't act any different than I ever did.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

French fries sitting around too long? Pop 'em in the deep frier. Good as new.

 

I think I'd perfer that to eating cold fries.

 

Though I have learned, that if you really want fresh fries, tell the cashier that you can't eat too much salt, and ask for fries that have no salt on them. Since most places salt their fries as soon as they come out of the fryer, they'll need to make fresh ones. I've never tried it myself, though I have seen other people do so.

 

At my job, I learned to never put anything on Layaway at Wal-Mart. I also learned to be really, really polite to everyone I see working in retail, because I know how much their job sucks. I also learned that if you find the exact spot where an item should be, and there's none there, DON'T ASK IF THERE ARE ANY. If there were some, they would be IN THAT SPOT.