This has to be one of those "Darwin Award" or "Here's your sign" experiences.
This happened last night on my shift at Subway.
It was an extremely busy Friday and for some reason everyone decided to order like 5 sandwiches at once to top it off. (how I managed to keep the bread supply stable I do not know).
Some time in the middle of our rush the phone rings so I go answer it. On the other end is this woman who barely understands a word of English who wants directions on how to get to our Subway. Which basically means she has no idea where it is.
I tell her the best I can to get her to understand the street name we are on and also what the other "main" stores make up our strip mall. (after we tell them the main stores we are by people almost always know where our Subway is located).
SC: "Ayee Street?!" (in very broken english)
Me: Yes, "A" Street and we are by Albertsons and Bartell Drugs.
She didn't sound confident that she knew where that was but this next thing is what really takes the cake. Even though she basically had no idea where our Subway was, she decides to place an order for two footlongs anyway!
I managed to get out of her that she wanted two footlongs through her barely able to understand English. I knew what was going to happen but there was nothing I could do. I knew that she would order these sandwiches and then would never be able to find our store, essentially wasting two sandwiches and my time.
My prediction was 100% correct.
About an hour later she calls back but this time my co-worker answers the phone. I knew it was the same person because when she got off the phone with the lady, my co-worker tells me that this was the person who called to order those two sandwiches and that she was all the way on the other side of town and couldn't find us.
Ok, is it just me or does it seem INCREDIBLY STUPID to call in a food order to a store that you obviously have no freaking clue where it is? Especially considering that there are NUMEROUS other Subways that she could have chosen that she might have had a chance at knowing the locations of.
I gave her the best directions I could considering the language barrier, but in the end I knew that it was all for nothing.
This happened last night on my shift at Subway.
It was an extremely busy Friday and for some reason everyone decided to order like 5 sandwiches at once to top it off. (how I managed to keep the bread supply stable I do not know).
Some time in the middle of our rush the phone rings so I go answer it. On the other end is this woman who barely understands a word of English who wants directions on how to get to our Subway. Which basically means she has no idea where it is.
I tell her the best I can to get her to understand the street name we are on and also what the other "main" stores make up our strip mall. (after we tell them the main stores we are by people almost always know where our Subway is located).
SC: "Ayee Street?!" (in very broken english)
Me: Yes, "A" Street and we are by Albertsons and Bartell Drugs.
She didn't sound confident that she knew where that was but this next thing is what really takes the cake. Even though she basically had no idea where our Subway was, she decides to place an order for two footlongs anyway!
I managed to get out of her that she wanted two footlongs through her barely able to understand English. I knew what was going to happen but there was nothing I could do. I knew that she would order these sandwiches and then would never be able to find our store, essentially wasting two sandwiches and my time.
My prediction was 100% correct.
About an hour later she calls back but this time my co-worker answers the phone. I knew it was the same person because when she got off the phone with the lady, my co-worker tells me that this was the person who called to order those two sandwiches and that she was all the way on the other side of town and couldn't find us.
Ok, is it just me or does it seem INCREDIBLY STUPID to call in a food order to a store that you obviously have no freaking clue where it is? Especially considering that there are NUMEROUS other Subways that she could have chosen that she might have had a chance at knowing the locations of.
I gave her the best directions I could considering the language barrier, but in the end I knew that it was all for nothing.
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