Frozen pop machine suckage

[mamawork]

Our frozen Coke machine was down for three days while we waited for service. Our customers reacted in such a way as to lead me to believe that there was actual cocaine in the frozen Coke. In December. In Michigan. These are the stories I haven't blocked out yet.


I refuse to listen to you!
S: Our usually polite and very helpful cashier
LRB: Loud rude bitch

S: Welcome to [Our Store]. Would you like to try a value meal

LRB: Large frozen Coke!

S: I'm sorry, our frozen machine is down right now, would you like a Coke instead?

LRB: Large frozen Coke!

S: Our machine isn't working, can I get you something else?

LRB: LARGE FROZEN COKE!

S: Our machine is broken. It's down.

LRB: LARGE FROZEN COKE!!!

S: It's BROKEN. It's NOT WORKING. We don't HAVE that right now. AT ALL.

LRB: Oh, well, nothing then! Forget it!



I cannot make the machine work. It is beyond my miniscule allotment of powers.

I had been called to the window by S, from above story. The customer at the window was demanding the manager.

M:
AM: Angry man

M: Hi sir, what can I help you with?

AM: Every time I come here the machine is down!!!Eleventy!!!Whyyy does this always happen!?

M: I apologize sir, I have called for service but the repairman hasn't arrived yet. Our machine is normally only down for its short defrost cycles.

AM: EVERY TIME! It's rediculous!

M: Again, I apologize. Service should be out any time now.

AM: I only came here for the frozen Coke! That's the only reason I come here! NOW what am I gonna do??? I really want that frozen Coke! You know, you guys really suck! Cancel the whole order! I'll go somewhere else!


Best idea yet

After listening to me relate these experiences to her, the other assistant manager said, "You should've told 'em that you'd call the [location two miles away] store and tell them to start pouring. Then tell the customer their frozen Coke was waiting for 'em so they better get going or it'll melt!"

She's awesome.

[trailerparkmedic]

Good Lord! I wish I could say I was surprised, but I've been on these boards far too long to be surprised.

Props to your assistant manager though. She rocks.

[bainsidhe]

December. In Michigan. Leave it in the car overnight!

[AnaKhouri]

Yeah, can't you just put a Coke in the freezer and then take it out until it gets slushy?

[ShadowTiger]

[SC] Because freezers are for FOOD, you stupid sales....thing! Coke isn't food. Honestly, you people are so dumb. [/SC]


Ehehe. Can't wait to hear that one. You just know it's coming.


I want to say "Eleventy!!" at the end of one of my exclamatory sentences. If nothing else, it'll remind them where they'll see their conversation end up. Right here, yuh. For all I know, there are people out there who are sucky just to have a tale told about them right here. How awesomely epic would that be.

[Sightings Reporter]

Maybe it was all that nice slush on the roads in the north burbs that made people want sluchy cokes.

[ShadowTiger]

It certainly looks like coke slush. >.>'

[Broomjockey]

Yeah, can't you just put a Coke in the freezer and then take it out until it gets slushy?

Hardly the same. Especially since whenever I do that, it doesn't become slushy, it just becomes a giant ice cube, and then the coke leaks out, leaving a giant ice cube and coke concentrate.

[mattm04]

What part of broken do SC's not get? Stuff breaks in stores just like in your house. Common Sense. Oh wait....

[TruthHurts]

I feel your pain. I used to work at a Burger King where the milkshake machine would only work half the time. The customers would yell at us and act like children all because they couldn't get their precious shakes.

[cinema guy]

The slushie machines at the cinema either breakdown or go on their defrost cycle a lot. Regular customers know enough to ask 'Which flavour slushies are working?'.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Hah! I know how this is. The Icee machine at the wholesale club NEVER works for more than a week at most. Hell, I count us as lucky if it lasts until the end of the day after it gets fixed!

Even after we REPLACED it, the new machine goes through the same mess.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Send them to the petrol station where I work; our drinks fridges are not working properly, so we often have to dig out frozen or partly frozen Cokes.

[depechemodefan]

I had a brain freeze yesterday, which gave me this idea.

Fast-food restuarant person: Sorry, we don't have ICEE.

SC: You never have ICEE!!!I come everyday and you never have ICEE!!!

FFRP: I'm sorry, the surgeon general made a pronouncement that brain freeze is hazardous to your health, so until they make a vaccine against brain freeze, our machine is out of order.

[Broomjockey]

so until they make a vaccine against brain freeze,

HA! You'd have to prove they have a brain, first!