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07 August 2006
#44: Eat anything. McDonald's employee makes a list of things that customers to do irritate her. Then she posts it to a public LJ community. Then it gets quoted on Consumerist (part of the Gawker blog empire). I'm wondering what, if anything, will happen next.
I almost felt for the MickeyDee's employee, until I realized she just liked to bitch about everything. Having too many years working retail, myself, I can understand the feelings of inferiority and frustration. The public does look down on people who work at certain jobs, but hey, someone's got to do it, right? I just find it ridiculous to be that bitter. Hate it that much? Get another job! Don't have the skills to find something better/no money to go to any kind of schooling? Get a grip on yourself, and make the best of it. Yeah, you get jerks when serving the public, but you also get some absolute gems.
24. If your card is declined.. dont ask why and assume its our fault. Put some damn money in the bank cheap ass.
hehehe - yeah why the heck do people do that? It's about as useful as the Dallas-Sue-Ellen dramatic acting style of staring down the telephone after JR hung on you. If cards are declined the card issuer does not tell the vendor why for reasons of privacy I assume. Ask your bank why. Duh.
It's because people usually don't want it to seem like they fucked up their finances and are overdrawn, even if they're dealing with some retail schmo. So they make a big scene about how it can't possibly be right that the card was declined. I guess they think it's embarrassing. At least that's what I always took away from it whenever it happened to me. I liked it a lot more when they would just say "oh, sorry. Try this card instead." or just paid with a check or something.
Hmm, your theory is probably party right court siem , but people do it to Adland all the time, and it's a website so it's not like they need to pretend they didn't eff up their finances to anyone that was looking. The funniest is that after emailing us accusing adland of doing all sorts of wrongs, hollering that their card MUST work and/or demanding my help IN ALL CAPS, in the end maybe 10% later come back later saying "it was some mistake at the bank *ahem*" which just means "I was overdrawn."
I think the same thing still applys, even if they're just dealing with someone online. Couldn't tell you though, I've never dealt with it over the internet. But I would guess it's the same, people are fucking weird.
No tomatoes: two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun.
I got paid $5 to order that from the McD's cashier when I was 4. How sad is it that I still remember the jingle 34 years later when I can't recall the last time I ate at one of the places (20+ years?).
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