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  • How to suck at the drive-thru

    1. Pull up to the drive-thru speaker with no idea what you want.
    2. When you are greeted, tell the order taker to hold on while you continue with your conversation. Be sure to use an annoyed tone of voice.
    3. Feel free to use many swear words and yell at the person on the other end of your conversation. It's not like anyone can hear you over the speaker system inside the building! Bonus points if there are small children inside.
    4. Mumble your order incoherently and then shout it when the order taker asks you to repeat it.
    5. Do not answer when the order taker asks you what flavor beverage you would like. Continue this until he/she punches in the most popular flavor, then shout that you want another flavor.
    6. Ignore the order confirmation screen and pull off before the order taker knows that you are finished giving your order.
    7. When you get to the window and hear your total, say, "WHAT? You must have my order wrong! Repeat my order!"
    8. Interrupt several times to argue. Demand to see receipt before you've even paid.
    9. Ignore the cashier's outstretched hand, or better yet, push it aside to toss a multitude of coins and crumpled bills on the window ledge. If some happen to blow away in the breeze, tell the cashier, "you'd better go get that".
    10. After you have received your order, remain at the window while you rummage through your bags and peruse your receipt. Frown continuously and shoot evil looks at the employees.
    11. Honk your horn to get the attention of the cashier, who is standing at the window with the next car's order ready. When he/she opens the window, shove your bag at them and bark, "Ketchup!" Do not say "Please" or add additional words, as this detracts from your EW appearance.
    12. Just before pulling off, tell cashier, "If my order's wrong, I'll be back!"
    13. Make good on your promise to return by stomping angrily into the restaurant. Ignoring the line of customers patiently waiting their turns, slap your bag down onto the counter. Do not wait for the front cashier to finish taking the order that he/she is halfway through. Shout loudly for someone to come "fix this mess!"
    14. Accept rudely the manager's offer of free dessert for your inconvenience. Do not thank them. Instead, inform any and all in the restaurant that, "It's not that hard to get an order right!" For added emphasis, insult the level of education of all workers in the restaurant.

  • #2
    Wow, you just described each and every horrible day of my former job at a fast food restaurant.

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    • #3
      Experience has taught me to not worry about #6, screen-wise anyway. I've never seen a screen in this area last more than a week or two, tops. Not one single drive through screen at the places I go to on a regular basis is working ATM, and that is out of around twenty I can think of off hand.

      I always let them know I am done, though--even if every one in this area still ask if there is anything else after I say, "...and that should be it."
      The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
      "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
      Hoc spatio locantur.

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      • #4
        Had a completely different vision from the thread title.
        "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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        • #5
          Quoth Sheldonrs View Post
          Had a completely different vision from the thread title.
          Okaaaaaaayyyyy . . . we've gone from blow to suck and back to blow again?

          Just make up your mind, would you?
          Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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          • #6
            Damn people suck. I usually turn off my engine (cuz it has to be hard to hear over) and try to speak loud and clear. I tend to talk fast so thats hard to work on. But damn, people are rude! I've always wondered why we couldn't tip certain fast food places like del taco and stuff, they work their asses off too!

            Subway gets tipped, so why not the other places too? But anyway, sorry for the detour in conversation lol Anywayz, people should know better not to act like children but alas my faith in humanity shrinks a bit everyday.

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            • #7
              How about this: change or add on to your order at the window, then as the hapless person scrambles to fill it, laugh and high five each other in the car. The people behind you would never ram your car!

              Bonus points if you laugh like Eddie Murphy circa 1984. I'll gladly kick you in the trachea if you think that laugh is cool in this context.
              Suckiness is reinforced up OR down at every transaction. Accepting BS makes them worse for all of us; firm fairness trains them to suck less.

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              • #8
                I once had some jackass who had been rude throughout his entire order ask if I had ketchup. My reply was of course "yes". Not really my fault he thought that meant I'd put it in the bag.

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                • #9
                  And when he's done with all that, he'll come right across the street to the clearance swamp because tomorrow is Yet Another Damn Senior Day. Even if he isn't a senior citizen. Watch this forum for tales of suck, blow, suck reversing back into blow, and fail.

                  Why yes, I am working tomorrow. 8:30 to 5. Please kick several imaginary cats for me.
                  Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                  "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                  • #10
                    Nothings Perfect

                    I've found, more than once, that the order screen being right is no guarantee that the bag will be right. I always check before pulling away.

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                    • #11
                      Well, I do number one sometimes (heh).

                      I like to try new things and sometimes look at the board for a minute or so to decide what I want.

                      Now, if more places had a "prespeaker" board like I've seen at a couple of them, that would solve the problem.

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                      • #12
                        Another who checks before going. But I hate going through the drive through. it's too much pressure for me. i'd rather just go inside, wait a minute and get my stuff, check it, and go home.

                        Plus, I'm secretly afraid my car will die if I have to wait too long in the drive through...
                        you are = you're. not "your".

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Lachrymose View Post
                          Now, if more places had a "prespeaker" board like I've seen at a couple of them, that would solve the problem.
                          We do have one. But that would require looking at pictures and talking at the same time! That's... multitasking.

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                          • #14
                            I do have an honest question here. I broke the window crank to my driver's side window, and I've been a little lax in getting it fixed.....and I've gone through several drive thrus by opening my door to order and pay and receive my food.

                            Do the employees really think I'm sucky, crazy, or stupid? I try to be polite about it...most of the time when I'm going through a drive thru, I'm in my pajamas or just got done tanning and I really don't want to be walking around like that.
                            You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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                            • #15
                              Blas, I've worked in fast food for over 25 years and have seen many people open their doors to talk and pay. My only thought " Oh, their window doesn't work"
                              As for the way you are dressed, as long as it is covering you and I don't see anything I shouldn't, who cares.
                              Last edited by Ree; 08-05-2009, 10:40 AM. Reason: Edited number at request of the member

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