Massive A&W screw-up!

[Mr. Security]

Ok this was told to me today by this cleaner where I work, real cool person by the way.

A few days ago she decided to go to A&W for some food and goes threw the drive-thru. So she makes her order, pays for her food and the women at the window gives her drink and bag. Now when she got the bag from the employee she wasn't really paying attention because she was tired so she put the bag beside her and drove off. Well a little wise home she gets hungry so she grabs the bag and when she looks into the bag, there is no food in the bag. What is in the bag is several thousand dollars!!! so she knew of course she had to take it back. so she drives back and pulls up and taps on the window and this is conversation the ensures. admitatly she's a bit SCish but the worker come off as a bit of a bitch

CC: cool cleaner
SAWW: Snotty A&W worker


CC: *Taps on the window*

SAWW: Yes

CC: You guys messed up my order

SAWW: No, we did not

CC: Uh...yes you did I need to speak to a manager now

SAWW: Whatever it is I can help you

CC: No, you can't, I need your manager

SAWW: Fine

So the manager comes and CC said to him

CC: Hey can I get my food please and oh by the way here's the money back you gave me insted of my food

The Manager just stood there stunned. she then got her food and left


Me thinks someone got fired over that

[the_std]

Uh... What? Cash? Really?

... Methinks I should go there.

[Evil Queen]

..How does a restaurant have that much money not in the safe?

[Jack7957]

So what did she order? I want to try the same thing at my local A&W and see if they give me cash also.

[JustADude]

..How does a restaurant have that much money not in the safe?

Daily deposit from the day before wrapped in a plain bag to avoid drawing attention? Add that with them being idiotic not to put it in a locked security bag first, and there you go!

[StanFlouride]

When I was night manager at a Texas pancake restaurant (ca. 1972) I used to make deposits every Monday morning of between $10- $15,000.00.
I always carried it in a regular to-go bag, through some of the worst parts of San Antonio, without a worry.
(I also thought, every week, about heading straight for Mexico... in those days that was serious coinage)

[Rapscallion]

Hmmm - anyone think it would be an easy way to give the company's takings to an accomplice who ordered just the right thing, or do I just have a criminal mind?

Rapscallion

[RetailWorkhorse]

Hmmm - anyone think it would be an easy way to give the company's takings to an accomplice who ordered just the right thing, or do I just have a criminal mind?

Rapscallion

It wouldn't kill people to think like a thief some of the time. I do it constantly.

[Imogene]

It wouldn't kill people to think like a thief some of the time. I do it constantly.

Same here... mostly, because my mind works in multiple angles at once... I see the way the average person would see a situation, but my mind's already looking at clues, turning things over and over in my head. I don't act on the criminal thought side, but it is there.
I think I can prove this by quoting one of my group partners from when we read Young Goodman Brown in English in college (It was a tech college, that's why we were in groups). One of my partners asked me what my interpretation of the story was, and I went on for about five minutes explaining how I thought perhaps that Brown was dreaming, and saw his neighbors as sinners, I didn't think he took a trip through the forest to actually meet the devil... blah, blah, blah. Both of my partners stopped to look at me, and one of them said, "Man, you really got more out of the story than we did." And then, I hear the teacher say, "Well, sounds like some of you guys got the idea behind the story," from the front of the classroom.

[RedRoseSpiral]

Hmmm - anyone think it would be an easy way to give the company's takings to an accomplice who ordered just the right thing, or do I just have a criminal mind?

Rapscallion

That was my first through after reading the OP. It reminds me of how back in the 90's if you went to a certain 24hr. fast food place and gave a certain order you could get weed.

[bainsidhe]

Hmm, I think your friend should have called the cops first. I also wonder about the the employee being an accomplice in theft. Besides, even if nobody had ill intentions, a call to the police wouldn't be as easily swept under the rug and heads would roll for such stupidity. I have to wonder if the general manager even heard about this "little" hiccup.

[PCGameGuy]

Same here... mostly, because my mind works in multiple angles at once... I see the way the average person would see a situation, but my mind's already looking at clues, turning things over and over in my head. I don't act on the criminal thought side, but it is there.

Yeah, my friends and I do that. He was at work one day, and they brought up the Oklahoma bombing. Someone said how awful it was, and my friend agrees and start telling them how it could have been much more efficient if they had armored the one side of the truck to direct the blast.... he is a chem major, and a bit absentminded at times.

[PepperElf]

if you went to a certain 24hr. fast food place and gave a certain order you could get weed.

which would suck if you really did want that food order and not the "herbal supplements"

[JustADude]

Someone said how awful it was, and my friend agrees and start telling them how it could have been much more efficient if they had armored the one side of the truck to direct the blast.... he is a chem major, and a bit absentminded at times.

Well, that'd be a Guinness record for Worlds Biggest Shaped Charge, eh? Just demonstrates an extreme case of why you never want to piss of a chemist, engineer, geek, or anyone else that knows mojo you can only guess at.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Now that's what I call a Happy Meal!