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How customer service jobs be
Ironically I currently work at McDonald’s and could not give a single fuck less about what customers do anymore.
The burnout is real 😮💨
As someone who has never worked in fast food I’m curious as to what TF is happening when I ask for a burger with no pickles.
The McDonald’s near me has decided that if I order with no pickles I should get a cheeseburger with no onions, no pickles, no ketchup, and a ton of mustard. What’s up with that?
You say this but I find that orders are way more accurate today with app based ordering than ever before.
I used to have issues all the time with placing orders over intercoms or even face to face 10-30 years ago, but ever since I could enter in exactly what I want, the mistake rate went way down. I think it was just shitty intercoms combined with awkward terminals.
Can’t speak for McDonald’s but I did work for DQ for a while. I think this is true, some people don’t get close enough or speak up/clearly enough to understand through the shitty outdoor microphone.
Then you have a POS that MAYBE someone programmed conveniently, but most likely not. Some settings won’t be there at all for some people’s requests, so a custom note needs to be added.
If you ever look in the back of a lot of fast food places, they often are understaffed so you’ll have someone trying to fulfill multiple roles which easily leads to mistakes. In particularly stressful situations, there were times I prepared so many things at once that I had just forgotten to add meat to a hamburger, or just marked the wrong order number on something.
Usually understaffed and not paid enough to give a shit.
That line cooks life won’t change one iota whether you get pickles or not.
Likely they are just getting mixed up with other orders and someone else isn’t getting their pickles.
I wonder why it’s so different in the US compared to my country (Denmark). McDonald’s has been awarded “best workplace” for several years in a row.
We do have much stronger regulations on employee welfare, mostly from unions. And of course much higher pay.
I wonder why it’s so different in the US compared to my country (Denmark)… We do have much stronger regulations on employee welfare, mostly from unions. And of course much higher pay.
Truly, no one can know why things are better over there than over here…
Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, was the guy that coined the phrase, “the customer is always right.” The thing is, he doesn’t mean on the micro level. It was to combat the idea that consumers were ignorant of what they wanted to buy and needed the corperate executive to tell them. Walton accurately surmised that if you didn’t sell the product customers wanted, regardless of your opinions, they’d just buy it from your competitors. Unfortunately, every entitled dickbag hears the phrase and thinks it means them specifically.
An example of the original intention is when an executive decides we need AI in a product and that leads to a drop in purchases. The right thing would be to recognize the market does not want AI in that product and roll back the change.
What other societies have similar levels of customer entitlement? I think this is mostly prominent in areas with great inequality.
I have nothing to back this up with except for my own experiences though
This reminds me of a restaurant we have in Australia called “Lord of the Fries”.
So far I haven’t been able to find anything as good in the USA.
A hundred? I’ve not been to that place in a long long time but the last time I had fries from there it was a large serving -because I always got large- and even then I got, maybe, 50ish fries.
Very highly salted, slightly rubbery, thin slices of ‘potato’ filled with fluffy pieces of fuck all. I wonder why I don’t go there anymore…