...It's... just... sauce...

[fireheart]

Indeed.

Herbed or otherwise flavoured bread, plus optionally a meat, plus a cheese, plus assorted veg - and you need *sauce* for your sandwich to have a flavour? WTF?

I prefer my sub with Mayo. But I usually then add pepper just to give it a bit of a spice.

No case of hoarding from us-yet. Although management seem to do it on occasion. And thankfully my store is not a breeding ground for EW's (in comparison to Old Store)

[Red_Dazes]

I went and told the guy in Starbucks about the situation and he just said:

"You think that's bad? You should have been here the day the frapuccino blenders broke down... The shopping center's security had to escort a guy out."

W.T.F?!

....As crappy as that would have been for the poor workers... I totally would have paid to see that......

[Indigo]

I had a customer accuse me of being too lazy to look in our back room for a particular Luna bar flavor - never mind that I told him we hadn't had it in for several weeks and I had no clue when we'd get more.

As far as hoarding, I had picked up some chairs from our Garage sale on my break and just put them behind the register with my receipt stapled to the tags so I wouldn't have to carry them upstairs. I overheard a customer demanding that my CW sell them the chairs and claimed that we were hoarding all the good stuff for ourselves.

[Android Kaeli]

People tend to get even more bitchy when it comes to their food, because they don't like it when something goes wrong with their food even if it is something as simple as a sauce that's not in stock. I worked in fast food before, and I wish I had been there when a former co-worker of mine had a cup of sour creme thrown at her for some stupid reason or another.

[Dreamstalker]

See, life is too easy now. Everything is on demand, stuff is just too convenient to get. People start thinking running out of sauce is some sort of problem.

It's not a problem.

But it is a problem...with the customer.

Here in my area we see constant ads for a cable service called "MyLife On Demand" (overhyped 'wellness' shows). I wonder just how many SCs are interpreting that to mean "anything anywhere on demand".

[Midorikawa]

People seem to have this sense of entitlement. If only I had the pay to afford that sense. :-P

In all seriousness, I've had crap thrown at me as well. I was 16 at a restaurant, and working as a busser. I had just cleaned the bathroom, and was headed back to the back to the employee bathroom to wash my hands when some "father" - some stereotypical white trash looking guy, his stereotypical wife, both complete with mullets, and about 5 kids running around the table screaming demanded I get him a beer.

In Texas, or at least where I grew up in Texas, you have to be 18 to handle alcohol in a server type setting. My hands had been all over the toilet, and I wasn't about to go contaminate anything by grabbing a beer, nor was I going to risk my job over that, plus handling alcohol underage. When I explained that to him (or tried to), he lobbed his burrito at me. O_o I dodged, and it made a mess all over the windows I had cleaned an hour prior. :-(

...then the asshat owner backed the customer up and yelled at me for not bringing the guy a beer underage with shit-stained hands. When I got fired from there when my car quit it was the best thing to happen to me. :-D

[Peppergirl]

Again I ask...

WTF is it about subway that brings out the absolute worst in people? I just dont get it.

[Pagan]

Again I ask...

WTF is it about subway that brings out the absolute worst in people? I just dont get it.

I don't know either. I'm thinking that maybe I should go walk across the street and find out.

[malmalthekiller]

God, all I ever put on my subs are oil and oregano. I don't think the world will run out of those anytime soon.

[Pagan]

God, all I ever put on my subs are oil and oregano. I don't think the world will run out of those anytime soon.

Have. to. bite. tongue. Not going to make bade BP joke here....

[ThirdGenRetail]

Being out of something isn't the end of the world for me.. Right now, the Wawa next to my store can't do the sausage sizlies(I'm sad, for I LOVE the sausage, egg, and cheese croissant sizli), but oh well. That doughnut is cheaper, anyway.

Or getting an order wrong... True story, I went to IHOP one evening, ordered the garden omelet.. I got a mushroom and spinach omelet instead. Didn't really complain, since we were paying the same exact price for it, anyway, and I got to try something new. Discovered that spinach is tasty when wrapped up in egg...

... Wow, my life is very boring, I haven't got a truly SC story to compare that to... Though the sauce lady story is pretty epic...

[fireheart]

Again I ask...

WTF is it about subway that brings out the absolute worst in people? I just dont get it.

I think it's the fact that you can make your sandwich any way you want it.

There's a place in my state called Myo-short for Make Your Own. And it's as it sounds-you can choose to make either a mini-pizza, a salad in a noodle box, a sandwich or a sub roll. Then you go around and put whatever you want in it. When you pay, they charge according to weight.

[Seshat]

MYO is good.

Midori: geez, I think you did absolutely right. As you said, asshole owner.

[Sleepwalker]

The yellow arches had similar situations when the sweet and sour ran out. Assault via sauceless chicken nugget, even.

[TelephoneAngel]

If the subway I go to ever ran out of Ranch sauce, I would scream and scream and throw things and break things and ............. mmmmm subway Ranch sauce.