Tales from McJobland.
1. If you are "in a hurry," "running late," or "late for work," do not stop to buy breakfast at our store. Yes, I realize we are fast food, and therefore quicker and more convenient than just making your own breakfast, but if you can't budget your time in the mornings to include the ten minutes it takes to come in, wait in line, place your order, and collect your food and drinks, that's not my problem. It's yours.
2. When you are between the ages of 14 and 17 and hand me crumpled, smelly, moist money, I know that it has been in your shoe. Could you at least make an attempt to straighten it out and maybe put some foot powder in there?
3. Please go through the line only once. Do not make three separate trips for your sandwich, fries, and drink. It's not cute, especially when it's super busy.
4. Educate your children on how to behave in public, so that when they go out into the world as fresh-faced young teenagers they do not smear ketchup on the tables, have a fry fight, leave their wrappers and the wrappers from the food they bought across the street all over the tables, shout obscenities at each other, toss trays into a pile like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, and over turn the trash can. These were not "bad kids." They were polite when ordering, and respectful right up until the time they sat down in the lobby and started behaving like drunken badgers.
5. From this moment on, I am so done with customers who start out with an attitude. I'm sorry if you didn't get hot sauce for your burritos last time, even if you asked for it. But I'm even sorrier that you have to get snotty with the girl in back drive-thru, ask if we're "retarded," inform us that our jobs are "not hard," and then snap, "Are you sure there's hot sauce in here this time, Einstein?" at me. If you'd just come through and said, "Last time I asked for hot sauce and it didn't make it into the bag, so can you make sure it gets in this time?" that would have been just as effective.
Love, "Einstein."











