The Subway Rants Chronicles (VERY Long and language warning)

[Evil Queen]

WTF indeed. Ketchup? On flipping Subway food?! I think I'm not alone on this when I say VOMIT.

I like Ketchup on ham. It kills the taste of the ham.

I hate ham.

[Broomjockey]

WTF indeed. Ketchup? On flipping Subway food?! I think I'm not alone on this when I say VOMIT.

We've already had one person say they actually like it, so can we stop with the "Oh em gee, your gross, gag me with a spoon plzkthx" stuff?

[Digitalpotato]

Alright, The Tigress....I'm goign to add my own Subway Rants Ripoff I put on my deviantART.

I don't get some of the things oyu do, but you don't get some of the things I do either.


The top 35 weirdest things ordered at (this) Subway

We get some weird requests, and I asked some of my coworkers what kind of weird requests they experienced....believe me I was actually quite surprised.


35 - Pico De Gallo
34 - Peanut Butter and Jelly
33 - Burgers
(we do get requests for veggie burgers)
32 - Fettuchini
31 - Coffee
30 - Double Bread
29 - Okra
28 - Spaghetti
(Pizza place with Spaghetti about two feet thataway....)
27 - Oatmeal
(you want an OATMEAL SANDWICH?! this definitely wasn't a cookie...)
26 - to toast a dozen cookies
25 - Beer
24 - Broccoli
(To give them a little credit, it was a salad)
23 - Tabasco
22 - Ice cream
21 - Sea Salt
(Maybe if Martha Stewart were on the vein.)
20 - Pineapple
(I've been told they did this in Australia though)
19 - Elk and/or Venison
(Thank you "R" for the Venison request.)
18 - Tacos
17 - Green onions
16 - Grits
15 - Lemon Juice
14 - English Muffin
13 - Just a plate full of something like banana peppers
12 - Doughnuts
11 - Maple Syrup
(Even if it was a breakfast sub)
10 - For "The Women's Discount".
(Yes, someone asked "is that with or without the Women's Discount?")
9 - Blueberries
(it WAS a breakfast sub though
8 - Strawberries
(I'm sorry...you want STRAWBERRIES on a MEATBALL?!)
7 - Lemon Cake or Spice Cake
6 - Alfredo
5 - If he could use the empty Subway Gift Card like a credit card.
4 - Banana or Zucchini bread.
3 - For a salad to be toasted.
2 - For a salad to be stir-fried.
(Yes lemme just walk this upstairs to Panda Express and stir-fry it.)
1 - Subway Deliveries.


$5 footlong edition!


"The $5 footlong song"

I hate this song Especially since people kept singing it. DON'T SING THAT STUPID $5 FOOTLONG SONG! For that, we should be able to charge you double. It's annoying, it's unnecessary, and overall assholish considering how many people can't and should NOT sing.


Chicken Bacon ranches

This of course is the most expensive sub on the menu not counting the Feast. And since this was only $5, they would of course save themselves $2 and get this. They take forever to make, we would often run out completely and then everyone would pick the expensive subs like TEriyaki Chicken.


"I'll have a $5 footlong"

WHAT KIND DAMMIT?!If you just say you only want a $5 footlong on White, then I will just leave the bread blank, since we CLEARLY need to know what we want to put ON the sandwich. We're not Telepathic, you know!


People who don't know tax.

The reason your $5 footlong is more than $5 is because of sales tax. EVERYONE has to pay that, and it's the price without tax. Do you seriously think we're trying to scam you by taking on a whopping 34 cents onto your purchase? What're we gonna do with 34 cents per sub?! Buy a $5 footlong? We're making reduced profits considering how much veggies you're loading on your chicken bacon ranch in the first place.


"Does the $5 footlong work on 6 inches?"

...this seriously happened at least once or twice a week when every sub was a $5 footlong. :faint: READ THE BLOODY DEAL! It says "$5 footlong." You're in college, you should be able to read that! *headdesk*

"Does the $5 footlong work on wraps/flatbreads/Salads?"

See my above complaint.


"are you still doing the $5 footlong?"

90% of the people who asked this walked past a 6 foot banner with the $5 footlong logo on it, are standing in front of another banner advertising it as well as in front of a menu-board that has said logo, and for good measure, two of the three people in front are wearing yellow shirts with the $5 footlong logo of COURSE we're not doing it! (The girls didn't lke wearing it because it was designed by a male. The handprint was right on their right breast.)


"That's not $5!"

Helloooooo! You added Guac, Double Meat, double cheese, and you added a meal deal! We have to charge you for that, and you're lucky we aren't charging you another $5 for all the veggies you put on there.


WTF Why aren't you doing the $5 footlong anymore?!"

Dude, we continued it from Feburary all the way until August, and during that period all you gold-diggers who bought all our expensive subs and loaded them up with $10 worth of vegetables each. we actually LOST money despite the amount of traffic it attracted. We were supposed to stop it in May, but guess what? We got enough of those complaints they actually continued to put the $5 footlong deal until August.


People who think the $5 footlong stacks with coupons.

After one week when we got maybe 40 people trying to get a $5 footlong with a buy-one-get-one-free or buy-a-footlong-for-the-price-of-a-six-inch, we put up a sign saying it doesn't stack both for the customers and the cashier. (The computer doesn't allow us to stack those discounts, the $5 footlong was considered a discount) It's bad enough when you don't read, since they say "not valid with a $5 footlong"

[fireheart]

Yeowch. That's gotta suck. Digitalpotato, yes, we did have pineapple on our subs for quite some time, although I never had it...made the ham too weird.
And dammit, now you've made me crave a chicken fillet sub

[iradney]

The first experience I ever had with Subway was in Edmonton (about 6 years ago when I visited my mother's clone in Canuckistan). I was still on my vegetarian kick at the time - and the server was super cute *drool*
We have a couple of Subways in South Africa...I like the idea of building your own sandwich, but as far as I have seen, the majority of SAfricans are pretty good at listening and saying "yes, I want whole wheat, with mozarella and rosa tomatoes thanks".

[blas]

I usually go to Subway once or twice a week.

My biggest pet peeve as a customer.....the idiots who walk in and don't understand the concept of "The line starts HERE" and as I'm beginning to order my sub, someone wanders in, goes up to the register, and yells "IWANNAFOOTLONGHAMONHONEYOAT!"

[TheTigress]

I usually go to Subway once or twice a week.

My biggest pet peeve as a customer.....the idiots who walk in and don't understand the concept of "The line starts HERE" and as I'm beginning to order my sub, someone wanders in, goes up to the register, and yells "IWANNAFOOTLONGHAMONHONEYOAT!"

Yep, that happens quite often. It's highly irritating because we even have signs hanging that says where to start and where to pay.

[Peppergirl]

we even have signs hanging

*head tilt*

Signs?

[Kiwi]

I havent had a subway in Canada yet, I used to get them fairly often in NZ but they got more and more expensive suddenly my $4 sandwhich was $7 and I just couldn justify that anymore.

Then I would just get it as a treat but they changed the bread... I dont know what they did to it, but it went from being fresh tasting soft tender bread to this over dried crumbly day old tasting crap.

I could never understand why people got so upset about their sandwhiches, its JUST a sandwhich!

there is way too much anger in this world when someone freaks out over a sandwhich!

[cawaker]

I was never sure what the etiquette was when ordering more than one sammich.

but now I do.

[TheTigress]

I could never understand why people got so upset about their sandwhiches, its JUST a sandwhich!

there is way too much anger in this world when someone freaks out over a sandwhich!

Trust me, it boggles my mind as well. A sandwich apparently has the power to revert full grown adults back to their toddler maturity and behavior in public.

[Voldine]

Ahh, Subway. I remember the few months I spent in your minimum wage hellhole. Heck, the franchisee of the store I applied at and was hired for owned five in the area at the time, and I was constantly shuffling between two stores. One right near a local speedway/racetrack and the other a couple towns away, next to a 'Gentleman's club'. I ALMOST wish I could say I had the figure to have been told to apply there instead, but I digress.

I've seen my fair share of SC's, SCW's and SM's when I was working at Subway. I had a natural talent for braiding so guess who always got to make the 'party bread' all the time? Hell, I did it so often in just four months that I still braid things that way. Definitely makes Twizzlers Pull'n'peel more entertaining though.

SC's that don't understand that they cannot place an order for a 10AM pickup of two 6-foot party subs at 6PM the night before, in part because we already have a party platter of Deli-style sandwiches scheduled for a 10AM pickup? Too often to count. For starters that means pulling extra dough out to the fridge to thaw, and there may not be enough room to do this. Secondly there was NEVER anyone scheduled before 8AM and never more than one scheduled before 10.

SCW that decides to give all 'exotic dancers' a free sandwich if they lift their shirts or otherwise expose themselves....while working with me and without being able to tell if they actually are employed as such all the time. (Was apparently fired a week after I quit when one of the dancers complained to management the next day.

SM's that tell you to take the phone order for 50 sandwiches, all foot-longs, and then didn't want to listen to you say that you had no bread left.


There's a reason most Wal-Marts have a Subway in them now people. Associate!

[TheTigress]

Voldine's post reminds me of the other spectrum of why Subway sucks so bad. It's not only the customers, the management can be just as bad if not worse at times.

It's a serious case of you vs SCs or you vs spineless sucky management. Either way you lose.

[Voldine]

I probably have a Subway SCW story to top them all if anyone wants to hear it.

It definitely qualifies as a ride on the WTF-train.

[Munkie]

i worked at a subway... all those things happened to me at some point in my rather short 4-month employment there...

i remember once, during a heatwave, our air conditioner broke. Now, i was wearing the only uniform shirt they had given me - a winter-weight, heavy cotton one - during lunch rush - by myself, another story later there - while making bread. Now, I should point out that this was *the* hottest day of the year (32C in the shade), i was wearing winter-weight cotton, *and* I was making bread.. inside a store that registered 31C. By myself with a lineup of about, oh, two dozen people. Literally dripping sweat, doing my best not to drip on the subs i'm making.

anyway, the quick note of the manager from Assholeville who left me alone just about every single day during rush... his excuse was that he was "going for change" at the bank. A trip that should take all of 20 minutes... always took him 3 hours. and he had a car. the bank was at the end of the block. i could walk the distance between bank and store in just under 8 minutes. i should know. i used to work at the car wash between the two.

yeah, he got fired shortly after that. and bumped me to supervisor... though no higher pay, and stupid hours. well, i think thats enough rant for today, i have to get up in four hours. pleh.

So, yeah, Tigress, i feel your pain. I have been there.