My first EW of note

[fastfoodvassal]

Hey, first time poster... LONG time lurker, visit this place everyday.

Anyways, a little back ground, I work for a large fast food corporation, as a manager. It has it's good days, and plenty of bad ones.

Just yesterday, when I was working, we got an e-mail from head office for a mass recall of all of our tomatoes. We were to throw them out immediately, and inform customers that we had no tomatoes. It was an FDA recall for all tomatoes that came from the US that were sent anywhere in North America for My Company.

The night went fairly uneventful, most people, when told that "I'm sorry, but we have no tomatoes today" either said " That's fine" or "Okay, I'll take *blank* instead"

Right around 10pm, when the closing staff were almost ready to leave, one guy comes through Drive through, and was told that we had no tomatoes, and said "Well, I'll only take that sandwich then if you'll give it to me for free". He was told "I'm sorry, we can't do that, would you like something else?" Huffed, and went "Ugh, fine I'll get *blank*"

This is the first time it's happened to me, and I'm still rolling my eyes at it. From what I've read, this sort of thing is quite normal, but I felt like I had to share my piece.

Thanks for reading!

[Apathy]

"Well, I'll only take that sandwich then if you'll give it to me for free."

Yeah, because we really really want to give you this sandwich. We're not trying to make money or anything. Dumbass.

[tropicsgoddess]

Right around 10pm, when the closing staff were almost ready to leave, one guy comes through Drive through, and was told that we had no tomatoes, and said "Well, I'll only take that sandwich then if you'll give it to me for free". He was told "I'm sorry, we can't do that, would you like something else?" Huffed, and went "Ugh, fine I'll get *blank*"

This is the first time it's happened to me, and I'm still rolling my eyes at it. From what I've read, this sort of thing is quite normal, but I felt like I had to share my piece.

Thanks for reading!

Tomato recall+ tomato-less sandwiches =/= free. Stupid EW. Welcome, Fastfoodvassal!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Really? You'll take it off our hands for free? Wow, thanks!!!!

Oh, and

[HawaiianShirts]

I've been seeing a LOT of this recently. At my store, while I'm shopping, on this board, on some other communities I visit... How does that make any sense at all?

"You don't have what I want, therefore, I get something free."

I mean, I know logic is totally foreign to most of our customers, but where could that idea possibly come from? If that was an actual business practice, I could have walked into the local Best Buy or Game Stop or wherever every day last year and said, "I want a Wii. What? You don't have one? Then I demand a PS2 for free for my 'inconvenience.'" I think someone else in another thread used a similar example involving car shopping.

It just... BAH!

...visit this place everyday.

Me, too. Addicting, isn't it?

[StormCMage]

what was his problem, if I went to that place with the recall I wouldbe saying in the happiest voice ever "Now all we need is a mayo recall and I can eat sandwiches as I see fit"

yes I hate tomatoes and had to say that

[fastfoodvassal]

Haha, thanks for the welcomes, guys. Glad I'm not the only one who thought this guy was off his rocker.

And yes, Hawaiian Shirts, painfully addictive.