Pet Peeves club?

[LadyAndreca]

In the last college town I lived in, there were several stores that were open 24 hours, including CVS, McD's, Dunkin Donuts, and a local bagel/deli place. I loved that bagel shop because the night guy there always gave me extra meat on my sandwiches...sometimes I'd have to sing for it, though. (I have a bad habit of singing to whatever song is in the background without realizing it, and he heard me singing his favorite song one night and never forgot it. Plus even though I was a poor starving college student I always tipped him my change.)

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Only if it's the chocolate frosty.

Hot salty fries and sweet chocolate shakes go SOOO well together no matter where you get them.

That they do.

But then, so do waffle fries and BBQ sauce from Chick-Fil-A.

[daisychain]

Hot salty fries and sweet chocolate shakes go SOOO well together no matter where you get them.

Oooh I thought I was the only one who liked that!

[trailerparkmedic]

Only if it's the chocolate frosty.

It's not a frosty if it's not chocolate! I refuse to believe their vanilla stuff is a frosty.

And now I can tell my boyfriend I'm not the only one who does this! He always teases me for it.

[Naaman]

It's been really difficult, because I've been having these horrible cravings for super cheap burgers from the dollar menu and I really REALLY hate McD's. :-\

I used to get that when customers walked in with a takeaway bag (not eating) and you end up getting a waft of McDs fries.

The other one was I used to work in a store near the entrance of a (small) mall, every Thursday when the market was there a burger van set up next to the doors. Even though I knew just how nasty the burgers were the smell of frying onions for 3 hours just made me crave one of those greasy things

[ohsobitter]

try the frosty on the saltines

Gives you a much bigger surface area!

[MadMike]

5) it would be appreciated if you didn't sit at the window rooting through your bag of food making sure you have everything when there's massive amounts of cars behind you at least have the decency to pull into the lot for that.

I've been known to check it while I'm still at the window, although I try to do it quickly. I've had too many problems with places fing up my order, and I'd rather be able to tell them right then and there then have to park, walk inside, wait in line, and then have to tell them.

they gotta be stiff and hot.

Hmm, not gonna comment on that one.

It's bad when you work third shift and your "lunch" is at 4. I don't want breakfast, I want a burger(-sque like substance)!

I keep weird hours, especially on the weekends, and I recently found out the hard way that they switch to the breakfast stuff at 3. I don't really care for breakfast stuff either.

[Chattyaholic]

I will usually quickly check my food at the drive-up window, to make sure I got what I ordered, because too often I have pulled ahead and out of the next person's way only to find I was missing something then had to find a parking spot, go inside and wait in line to let them know my order wasn't correct. So I'm sorry if fast food workers like the OP doesn't like that. If the orders were always correct there would be no need to check.

And I always ask "is the sweet and sour sauce in the bag?" because again, so many times they "forget" to put the sauce in for the chicken nuggets. So, if I ask the question and they did put it in the bag a simple "yes" is sufficient but if they did "forget" then they can put it in the bag and I don't have to park the car, come in, wait in line, to ask for it again.

[jerkface11]

I've been known to check it while I'm still at the window, although I try to do it quickly. I've had too many problems with places fing up my order, and I'd rather be able to tell them right then and there then have to park, walk inside, wait in line, and then have to tell them.

Yeah that's not too big of a deal. Rooting thru your $40 order and checking every sandwich (each one a special order) for 5 minutes is likely to cause some form of homicide.

[calulu]

I just wanna know why it always takes my Mickey Dee's 25 minutes to work 10 cars through drive through? I used to work for a marketing company that did McD evaluations and their own manuals give under five minutes being an acceptable time but not a great time.

What sprockets get out of wack to make certain McDs like molasses?

[jerkface11]

Usually if the drive thru isn't moving it's customers causing it. At least at my store. Some stores just suck though.

[Peppergirl]

When someone calls to have me change a reservation and I ask fror the spelling of the name, please don't be a smartass and spell BOB or MARY or whatever your INCREDIBLY COMMON first name is.

You know fucking well I'm referring to your last name.

[LadyAndreca]

Yeah, that one annoys me. If you've got an unusual variation ('Merry' instead of 'Mary'), sure, but otherwise most people will assume it's the common one. I have to spell mine anyways, because there's four common variations and sixteen uncommon ones that I'm aware of.

I hate the reverse of this too, spelling an uncommon last name only to have someone write it down, go 'oh, it's (x common name)' and then spell it as (x common name) from then on. Didn't you LISTEN, I JUST SPELLED IT!!!

[Mike Taylor]

There are McDonalds open at 2:30 am? Around here, the latest they are open is 1 or 2...and that's only on Friday and Saturday nights! The rest of the week it's either 11 or 12.

Down here, we have a McDonald's that's open for 24 hours.


Now for my pet peeve's:

1. PEOPLE WHO TREAT STORE FIXTURES AS THEIR OWN PERSONAL FURNITURE. The clowns who think it's okay to lean against rolling displays, clear merchandise off tables (and onto the floor) so they can sit, or that it's okay for their kids to use my store shelves and ladders as their own personal jungle gym.

2. CUSTOMERS WHO INTERRUPT YOU AS YOU ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS. I had one of these guys the other day. I got so aggravated with him that I had to excuse myself and hand him off to the associate who was taking my place.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Another one of my pet peeves is people who have to monkey around with our furniture displays, taking them down to look at them and not putting them back when they're finished.

This week, we had one of our display sofas taken off its display rack (it was on the top part of the rack with another sofa underneath it) so whoever did it could sit on it or something. And of course they couldn't put it back. The store has people to do that, you know.