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21 Fast Food Workers Reveal The Most Disgusting Sh*t They’ve Seen At The Drive-Thru

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1. When I was working the drive thru at Popeyes, we would always tend to get this one couple who would come by. Sure, we had plenty of regulars, but every employee knew of the Human Tables. There was always the four of them, the dad, mom, sister, and brother, and they always rolled up to the window with AT LEAST 3 big bags of food from other fast food places. Not bags of trash, but bags of uneaten food. We would call them the Human Tables because they all had their seats all the way back and would use their stomachs as tables. The smell was pretty horrid as well. I mean, imagine a family that eats 4 big ass bags of fast food from multiple fast food joints for every meal. Pure terror I tell you.

Or there was this one time when an 80-year-old woman was hopped up on meth or something and decided that you should be naked for a “better Popeyes experience.” So many wrinkles. So many.

- Uncle_Pockets

2. Working at McDonalds at 3am on a Sunday morning, I handed out food to a very nice gentleman. He must have been very nice because the guy in the passenger seat was giving him head, and he (the passenger) looked up and smiled at me as I handed them the drinks, which meant I got to see the driver in all his glory. He had no pants on at all from what I could see, so this seemed premeditated, which was the worst part of the experience. Ah, that was a wonderful place to work.

- Anonymous

3. At McDonald’s, a car full of naked people drove up and ordered food, with paper bags on their heads. I believe one of them referred to another as ‘Mom’.

- Anonymous

4. It’s not really too disgusting but I felt it should be shared. I was working the window at Tim hortons and one man ordered six small ice capps. When he came to the window I saw he had several children with him, all of different races. Then he leaned in to me and said, “Yep! I’ve got one of every kind! Black, Asian, Mexican, and way in the back there, I’ve even got a Jew!”

- Anonymous

5. I work in a tire installation shop. I’ve been there for 7 months and I already have everyone beat. 4 used tampons tied together, hanging from the woman’s rear view mirror. What made it really unsettling was that the woman was fucking gorgeous.

- Liquid_Milk

6. Working the McDonalds drive through at 11 am on a Sunday morning. A lady orders a Mcflurry (half M&M, half Oreo). Comes up to the first window where I am. Says hello and gives me her card to swipe. Completely ignores the fact that there is a crying teenage girl curled up in the fetal position in the passengers seat wearing nothing but a bra and panties.

Also there was this lady that had so much stuff in her old box style minivan passenger seat that it was almost formed to the shape that half of her body took when she sat in the car.

- Anonymous

7. I worked at Sonic as a carhop in high school. I don’t know if there’s Sonic up north, I’m from South Oklahoma, but it’s basically a drive in, you press a button, order, and your food is brought out to you.

Well, as employees, when we were bored, we would sometimes tune into the different boxes and just listen, usually get the radio, or conversations, nothing really interesting, usually. Well this night, we saw a car in the back of the lot who hadn’t ordered yet. So, naturally, we tuned in. It was quiet at first, then we heard a few grunting noises and realized “They’re having sex in our parking lot!” So we drew straws and decided I was the one who would bring the “Happy tray” out (basically a tray with condiments on it that you go car to car with).

It’s pitch black out, our lot isn’t very well lit, I get out there, peer in the shaking car and very innocently say “Would y’all like a mint?” (all the while I know my coworkers are listening in)

The car stops shaking, I see a shadow of a face look at me and say, “Back in my day, if a car was rockin, we stayed the fuck away.” I heard several giggles from the back as he flipped on an interior light. There were three women in the back pushing 80, no joke, and this stallion of a man was at least 90-years-old. I can never unsee that.

tl;dr: At sonic witnessed a 4 way with 3 80-year-old women.

- codycshell

8. While working at Arby’s this car FILLED with trash came up to the window….when he handed me the money I got a whiff of a putrid odor coming from the car, the guy was obviously homeless and lived in the car. As he pulled away I saw 3-4 six gallon buckets filled with urine and feces swishing around in the back seat.

- Anonymous

9. A pregnant girl was tweezing out hair from her belly. I was definitely not expecting to see that.

- vegjosie11

10. My worst story wasn’t something I saw but what I heard. I was taking orders at the drive through one evening. A man is doing the ordering and I can hear his wife in the background giving directions on what she wants, nothing unusual. Out of no where he screams, “How many fucking times do I have to tell you, I don’t give a fuck what you want!” Then their is a couple loud slaps and complete silence on both ends. They pull around and she has her head down, not sure if she was crying or unconscious. My manager had a headset on and came back a few minutes later and asked me if its what he thought it was and it was.

- tockcease

11. I watched the gradual decline of a customer’s car through drive thru other a couple of months. To start with he had trouble rolling down the windows of the rust bucket. That’s not too bad… Little while later, the window is completely fucked. It’s duct taped shut and he has to open the car door to hand over the money. Eventually he was standing on his seat and leaning out of the sunroof to get his food. I was surprised that piece of shit could even start – it was completely held together with brown paper and duct tape.

He was always well dressed and that though, seemed like he had money. It was just the car.

- dumbledorkus

12. I worked at Taco Bell once upon a time. It was about mid-afternoon, and it was hot as hell outside.

One of our registers was down, so I was taking the payment and giving the food out at the same window. A lady pulls up to my window and I tell her the total. I don’t remember exactly how much it was, but it was probably around seven or eight dollars and some change.

She was very large and sweating heavily, she looked dirty, but luckily I couldn’t smell her. First she pulls a couple bills out of her bra and hands them to me, they were moist but it wasn’t something I had never had happen. She then reaches deep down under her boob and literally pulls out a hand full of change. FULL! I looked at her, I looked at her boob change and I said, “It’s okay, you’re close enough without the change.” I handed her the food and she went on her way, but man there was no way I was touching that!

All I could see in my mind was that episode of Spongebob where Bubbles Bass hides the pickles from his Krabby Patty under his tongue, except it was coins on the underside of a sweaty fat lady’s boob. Ew.

- bugjuggler

13. Not a drive-thru, but similar. I worked as a cart clerk at a grocery store in a rural town and saw some disgusting stuff.

There was this massive guy who probably weighed 300+ pounds who was sitting at the end of the checkout lanes and shit himself. Some of it fell out of his pant leg onto the ground and sat there for 20 minutes until the janitor showed up. No idea where the guy disappeared to, but it wasn’t to the washroom.

There was also a regular who was probably 400+ pounds and was so heavy that he had to lean backwards and do a fast walk to keep his momentum up in order to stay standing until he got to the electric carts. He would drive around and leave stink trails all across the store.

- Anonymous

14. While working at my first job, McDonald’s: greasy, unshaven man who was missing teeth pulls up in your stereotypical sketchy white van. Hanging from his rearview mirror are 3 or 4 pairs of little girls’ underwear.

- caitydee

15. Disgustingly fat black woman in a very short dress wearing no underwear being fingered by old black dude. She is on her back and her disgusting cooch is visible being fingered as you look out the drive window. Nearly puked.

- Anonymous

16. While working as a minimum wage slave at McDonalds. I was the drive through window guy just passing out the food. Well, one night this couple pulled in and was waiting on their fries. We had to make a new batch so I told him he could wait for a while because it was unusually slow that night. During this time the guy proceeds to whip out his dick and get a blow job all the while his other half pleasured herself while they waited and this continued as I handed them their fries.

- Anonymous

17. I was going on 47 hours plus without sleep (don’t ask, it was a bet), it was just before closing, and I was working back cash.

This couple pulls up and places their order, I think it was a Big Mac combo and something else. I only remember the Big Mac because it comes into play later. I take the order, given them their total and ask them to pull up to the window.

Here they come, in a truck I swear was more rust than metal. The guy, who’s driving, rolls down his window as he’s fumbling around with his wallet, counting out the money. It seemed like it took at least five minutes for him to count out five one dollar bills. Did I mention they looked like the most hillbilly, redneck people on the face of the planet?

Okay, so he hands me five one dollar bills. I repeat the total to him, which is a few dollars more than what he handed me.

“Ahh shit, lemme look around and see if I can find some more money,” he says. Proceeds to dig in the seat, ask his female companion, shit you not, look in the bed of the truck, but alas, he can’t come up with the money. All this time, I’m waiting, trying to figure out if this is a dream, or a hallucination.

“Ah man, I don’t have no more money. Maybe we could come up with a trade,” he says. I tell him nope, it has to be cash.

“Yer sure it has to be cash?” I repeat that yes, it has to be cash.

“Well, my lady friend here gives the best blowjobs in the world, and I’m sure she would oblige and give you the best hummer in the world, if you would just let us have the Big Mac,” he says. At this point, the lady smiles at me from the truck, and I shit you not, there was only three teeth in her head.

I mentally shudder, and repeat that I need the cash, or we can’t give them the food, all the while trying to avoid looking at either of them, for fear I might puke spontaneously.

“Yer sure about the blowjob son,” he says. I tell him I’m fine without it. He shrugs, looks at his lady friend and says, “Guess we won’t be eatin’ McDonald’s tonite hon.” Puts the truck in gear and drives off, leaving me to wonder again if this was a fucked up dream, or reality.

- nunontherun

18. White Castle night shift, early 2000s.

A guy getting head from an obvious prostitute.

A recently bought pair of fake tits.

A dude getting jerked off by his girlfriend, not even trying to hide it.

Passenger passed out with needle in his arm.

Multiple drunk cops in their squad cars.

Driver with a lit joint in his mouth while paying me.

Dude who looked like he had been headbutted, driving drunk and bleeding badly.

That’s all I can think of now.

- IWillTongueYourButt

19. This isn’t fast food establishment, but a drive thru at a local convience store. I saw a man with one of those blue drinking fountain jugs HALF filled with snuff spit. I inquired about it and he told me he attempted to ‘recycle’ on the days he couldn’t buy a whole can.

- donqiote13

20. Working night shift in a McDonalds equivalent, 2am ish, there’s a huge line to the drive through. Up comes a car with a middle aged gentleman and an older woman. Nothing special here, should be an easy customer… or so I thought. Upon a closer look the old lady is tripping balls with some kind of greenish goo oozing out of her mouth. The man himself has a contact lense with a star printed on it. Kind of strange but hey, it’s late saturday, right?

Well this is where it gets interesting. Instead of your standard late night order this guy goes ahead and orders twenty nine (29) hamburgers, no fries, no drinks. Now this is somewhat unordinary but nothing we can’t handle. Such order takes a while to do and this guy starts talking (the older lady, who turned out to be his mother, still on another astral plane) about how he’s a psychic and can tell the future. He goes on a rant how everythings going to shit and we’re all gonna die and other standard crazy person talk. At one point he asks my co-worker if she’s thought about name yet. We think nothing of this and once his order is finished he leaves without a fuss.

An hour goes by and the same car comes around. Maybe he’s still hungry after those 29 burgers? Well, he drives to the window and flips his shit. Starts shouting that he didn’t order all these hamburgers but he wanted a big mac (still not a mcdonalds). Guy literally goes ballistic and starts throwing the hamburgers at us. After a long 5 minutes we get him to calm down, but not before threatening to call the cops.

The crazy thing about all this? My co-worker was few weeks pregnant at the time. No-one knew.

- omhak

21. Working at McDonald’s one fateful night shift this very drunk man makes an order for 2 Big Macs, I hear two other voices and assume its just his friends. After they order, I open the window for them to pull up. Four minutes pass they still haven’t pulled up. I’m confused at this point, so I look out the window to see a couple fucking in the front seat of a taxi…with the cab driver sitting next to them.

- blackreaper6

 

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23 Terrible Stories That Will Instantly Trigger Everyone In The Retail And Service Industry

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1. A guy came up to the register and ordered a cheeseburger (you cant mess that up right?), well I took his money, gave him his change and a minute later, his cheeseburger. A few seconds after I hand him the cheeseburger, he looks at me and goes, “You stupid inbred piece of shit! I wanted a big mac!” I was 16 at the time and was horrified that a grown man would shout at a freaking kid over something that was not my fault… My manager came over and ripped this guy a new one for being so stupid.

- Satan_McRapeypants

2. I used to work at Wendy’s. Once a woman came up and gave me the most complicated, ridiculous order I’ve ever heard.

She was so indecisive and couldn’t decide what she wanted, and kept changing things. Plus, we had the oldest cash registers in Wendy’s history (from the 1960s, I’m not kidding, it took 5 buttons just to order a small drink). Finally she finished, I ran through her order with her STEP BY STEP and she approved it.

It took us a while to get the order done, it was close to an $85 order.

I reviewed her receipt step by step again, made sure everything was in the bags, and gave her the food.

15 minutes later, she comes storming in, holding a bag of fries, saying “THIS ISN’T WHAT I ORDERED YOU STUPID BITCH, DID YOU EVEN FINISH HIGH SCHOOL OR ARE YOU A PATHETIC DROP OUT DRUG DEALING IDIOT?! YOU ARE SO BEYOND INCOMPETENT, I ORDERED 7 LARGE FRIES, NOT 6, GIVE ME MY OTHER FUCKING FRY BEFORE I SET YOU ON FIRE.”

I wish I was overreacting. I will never forget those words. Side note, I was an Honors Student at a Big 10 University at the time.

I was just shocked. One of my co-workers took the fries out one at a time and counted them (there were 7). I don’t remember exactly what he said, but it involved asking the woman where the fuck she learned to count.

I will always be respectful to people who work in fast food. ALWAYS.

- liveincolorr

3. When I worked in a call centre doing tech support:

“Go fuck yourself.”

Customer: “So you close in a few minutes?”
Me: “Yes, we do.”
Customer: “How do you get home?”
Me: “I take the train.”
Customer: “Well I’m going to keep you on the phone until you miss your train.” (They failed.)

- fudgemylife

4. I worked as a pharmacy tech in college, dispensing drugs to every kind of person imaginable, and some of those people were not very nice. A very large percentage of people didn’t understand their insurance plan or how deductibles work, and that makes them surprisingly angry.

One gentleman whose deductible had not yet been met had been given a prescription for a more expensive antibiotic and the patient cost was over $300. Seeing the price, rather than ask why it was so expensive, he went off on a tirade of anger. He yelled that he was going to wait for me and rape me in the parking lot that night; that he was going to find out where I was living and rape me in my home.

I was so upset and the pharmacist just stood in the back of the pharmacy hiding and didn’t say anything to this guy. No one at the store did anything at all, actually. After realizing that the guy was indeed sitting in the parking lot nearly an hour later, I called the cops on him and reported his threats to them. He was removed from the property, but it was a huge scene.

I ended up getting written up for calling the cops on this guy by the manager of the pharmacy. I transferred to a new store after that.

- Anonymous

5. This guy was trying to get insurance information from his ex wife over the phone. I was new to the pharmacy and didn’t realize I could get it off of her profile. She, not realizing she’s on speakerphone said, “What kind of fucking idiots do they have working there?” Everybody in the store heard her say it.

The guy saw how embarrassed I was, looked at me saying: “That’s why she’s my ex wife.”

- danimal90

6. I worked in retail and would often get shoplifters, but we couldn’t do much other than follow them around and if we saw them put something in their purse/bag/pocket offer to place that item at the cash register for them.

We technically couldn’t accuse them of shoplifting because if they dropped the item and no longer had it, they could sue the company for false accusations. Really messed up considering it was a Fortune 500 lingerie company.

One day I came out from the back and walked into a situation where a frequent shoplifter was having a stand off with my boss. Accused my boss of being racist and then threw cookies at her. Yes, cookies. It was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever witnessed, other than the time I caught a man shoving about 8 bottles of perfume down his pants.

“Excuse me, sir, can I offer you a shopping tote for those perfumes? I see they must be your favorite, can I interest you in our store card?”

Yeah, I don’t miss that job.

- silveringrid

7. There was a big line at my work and only two of us working. So I ended up being the only one on cash with a huge line.

I was going fairly quickly and still being cheerful so I thought I was doing fine, then this woman about two customers back says, loudly, “This retarded girl shouldn’t be allowed to be on till alone if she is going to be that slow.” She said this to her 8-year-old daughter.

- Lyzzteria

8. I worked as a customer service rep at a cell phone company in college and would hear terrible things all the time but, the worst would have to be when I heard a man literally almost beat his wife to death.

She was the account owner and had not authorized him to access it. They must have been having a pretty heated argument already because he was calling in to disconnect her line. She wouldn’t give authorization so, in response, he began to beat her. It was the most awful thing I have ever heard. I could hear each time he made contact and the sounds she made still haunt me when I think about them. I hit trace on my phone, muted and waved my supervisor over. She and I were able to get the police to their home in a matter of minutes but it felt like an eternity because there was nothing I could do except wait.

The police finally arrive and contain him, I hear the paramedics asking her questions but I don’t hear any responses – against my choice, I had to hang up, note the account and move on with my shift, but I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I spent the next month thinking about her, hoping that she was fine before I finally accepted the fact I would never know. But, one day when I came into work, I had a letter on my desk.

The letter was from her. I don’t even know how to explain how relieved I felt seeing her name as the return address. She wrote about how she was in the hospital for two weeks from her injuries, she is happily in the process of divorce and the husband is now in jail. She had called in after getting home to try and find “the girl that saved her life.” I am glad we were required to note every account or my name would have been lost and I would probably still be wondering years later.

- xl3lait

9. I used to work at the infamous Ponderosa Buffet as a line cook. Fun fact, you can actually order meals there other than “buffet, please.” So with these so-called meals, you get choice of side: either french fries, or baked potatoes. One day we got slammed with business and completely ran out of baked potatoes, and had some in the oven starting to cook.

In walks The Customer. He stands at an ample 6’4. He’s a wide man, clad in denim and full of beefy desire in his heart. His mustache, thicker than Sam Elliot’s. This is an American man made by and for his time. His lips part, and out come the words: “Buffet and a Ribeye.”

The host begins to speak, but is shut down. “With a baked potato.”

“We currently are all out of potato. We can offer you-”

The man’s face turns a shade of fuchsia not even Crayola could name. His eyes bulge, his lips tighten. The air blowing in and out of his mouth creates a rippling tornado of absolute fury around him.

“NO POTATOES.”

“WE-”

“NO POTATOES?!”

He moves faster than anyone of his girth should and ever has since. He pokes his angry face back into the kitchen.

“NO POTATOES! WHAT’S GOING ON AT PONDEROSA?!?!”

“NO POTATOES!!! YOU SHOULD BE FIRED,” he proclaimed, waving a finger at me.

His family had to pull him back to the front desk, him still hollering. He accepted the sad terms we had to give him. French Fries. The kitchen was on the other side of the wall from the buffet line, so I walked around to see him eating his steak.

He just ate it with pure spite. I’ve never seen anyone mow on a buttered well-cooked steak with just pure hatred. He didn’t even enjoy the buffet. He just sighed when he had to pick up the tongs/spoon/ladle like it wasn’t enough. There will always be a baked potato shaped hole in that fat man’s heart.

- Creepwood

10. I worked at the paint department at Lowes. And one time an older black couple said I was making them wait because they were black, even though they were behind three people I was helping.

I asked them how could they possibly think that, and they said, ” Your ears turned red when you talked to us. Thats how we know you’re racist.”

- LeftPocket

11. I was working my store’s service desk when this dirty (literally dirty) old guy walks up with some opened light bulbs. He’s muttering to himself for a minute or so before telling me that he wants to return them. Naturally, he has no receipt. Now, we’re not supposed to do anything with opened bulbs, but I told him that he could replace them if he wanted. He told me our return policy was communism before taking the bulbs and shambling away, muttering to himself. I honestly didn’t think he’d come back.

About an hour later, he comes back with the bulbs and a half dozen cans of cat food off the shelves. He scowled at me and asked if what he had was good enough. I told him that, again, all I could do was replace the bulbs. He yelled, “WELL, YOU CAN KEEP THE SON OF A BITCH AND STICK IT UP YOUR ASS!” and proceeded to throw all of the items at me. I’ve been called a lot of things and had various items thrown at me, but this is still the only time I’ve been told to stick stuff up my ass.

He missed, by the way.

- Anonymous

12. Elderly man told me I should be taken out back and shot…

Apparently not having a specific brand of milk is a pretty big deal…

- Anonymous

13. Woman walks up to my register with her 2-year-old.

Orders a drink.

2 year old reaches into our tip jar and pulls out a quarter.

I protest.

Mother responds, “It’s just a quarter. I give you people too much already anyway.”

Mother and daughter turn and leave.

- Trinilos

14. my first job was as a waitress and I had a particularly surly old man one day that spent the duration of his meal insulting me, asked me to turn around for him, criticized the way I styled my hair and overall just gave me a hard time about every little thing. He left without giving me much of a tip even though I tried my best to remain polite and professional. The lady sitting at the table beside me noticed how rude he was and went out of her way to compliment me and left me a 20 dollar tip on a 40 dollar bill. It was probably my first real life encounter when I realized that despite the grumps in the world, there are people out there that show genuine sincerity and kindness to strangers.

- Anonymous

15. I worked at a Steak ‘N Shake right outside the metro area of Atlanta for about 3 months with my best friend at the time, who is black. There was a customer she was serving who didn’t like something about the service (she didn’t get the customers drink quickly enough or something, during a rush) The customer stands up and yells “You stupid fucking n–ger!” in front of the whole service floor. My friend handled it the best she could and walked away, and the whole staff saw it, including management. What shocked me the most was that they didn’t ask this woman to leave. My friend finished her shift, and someone else served the psycho. People are crazy man, I work in retail and I get someone about once a week who is institution worthy.

- Anonymous

16. I had 6 middle aged females (generally, notoriously bad tippers) sitting at a table for lunch – they were celebrating one lady’s birthday. They were super demanding, dismissive, and condescending – basically had me running around all shift. At the end of the meal, they requested (read: demanded), that I split the check by seat and then allocate the birthday lady’s bill onto their tabs (so she wouldn’t have to pay). It’s not super hard, but time consuming and kind of a hassle (busy lunch – have to swipe cards / make change for 5 different tabs – but whatever, it’s my job).

In the end, I only made about 10% in tips off of the table. They all leave, I’m a bit upset about being treated like crap and not even being paid well for it. All of a sudden the birthday lady walks up to me at the door of the kitchen, hands me $20, smiles and says “I know how they can be. Thanks.” Faith in humanity restored!

- AryasNeedle

17. I was working register one day when this couple comes up with a bag of dog food. I ring them up and tell them their total ($40.34 or something like that). The wife says “Hold on I think I have the change… no never mind I don’t.” So I take what they give me, get their change, close the cash drawer, turn to hand their change to them and see she is holding 2 quarters to give to me. She has an angry look on her face and I said “Oh I’m sorry, you told me you didn’t have the change.” The thing that baffles me is that while I was getting her change, she could have spoke up and said, “Hey wait I have it!” But she chose not to. So in anger she turns to her husband and says “What does she have? Fucking downs syndrome?” They both start laughing and I’m standing there shocked that something as terrible as that would come out of someones mouth. And that’s when the customer behind them said “What are you? A fucking bitch?” The couple storms out and I’m just standing there still in disbelief that someone who is supposed to be an adult would say something like that.

- Anonymous

18. My friend and I were next in line at the concession counter of a movie theater and the customer in front of us was being an absolute prick to the young girl working behind the counter for no apparent reason, except that he was just a flaming asshole. She was so flustered and nervous that she was shaking, it was very sad to watch. So I began to comment very loudly to my friend something like “Look at this fucking guy, picking on a teenage girl.” So he looks back as if he is going to lay into me and sees two big guys staring him down. He quickly flips back around and stares at the counter. I then say something to the effect of “You know, people like this deserve to have the fucking shit beaten out of them. I hate fucking pussies.” My friend made some comment in agreement with my sentiment. Mr. Asshole became visibly nervous – it was a glorious turn of events! I felt like I had made the world a little better place that night.

- raoullduke72

19. When I was working at McDonalds a guy once came in to promote the new church/cafe he had opened. He went on about how they did mainly lunches and whatnot for the poor. Then he says “I assume since you work at McDonalds you must be really poor or not all there.” The girl in the drive through and I just stood there staring at him untill his meal came up and he left.

- StunNikpmup

20. I work as a hostess at a nicer restaurant in a Big-10 college town. It was my first time working on a football game day, and we were completely packed. We were on a three hour wait, which basically meant that people were camping out at tables until the game was over. A group of six or seven 60- to 65-year-old men barged through the door and completely ignored our hellos, pushing through a crowd of 20 or so customers standing around waiting and drinking beer. Before they got too far past the foyer to hear me, I told them that if they’d like a table, we could put their name on the list. One of the men turned back at me and literally sneered. I looked at the door guy for some help but he was trying to kick out a drunk mom, so it looked like I was on my own here.

I finally got through the crowd and found the men sitting at a table that had literally just been cleared off. I remember taking a huge breath to steel myself before asking them to move, because I’m already pretty put off by older men, and these guys were shitfaced on top of that. I said something like “Excuse me, I just need to let you know that right now we’re on a three hour wait and there are about 20 groups waiting to be sat right now. If you wouldn’t mind getting up and heading back to the entrance so we can put your name on the list, that would be great.” One of the guys stands up and is pretty much towering over me. I’m about 5’1″. He was roughly the height of a pine tree. Intimidating a young girl? Classic move, dirtbag!

“Listen, nobody ever told us we’d have to wait. We’re not moving.” So I said, “Well, with all due respect sir, you walked past about five hostesses on your way in, and we did actually tell you that there was a wait. You just ignored us. So I’m telling you again to make sure you understand.” The guy literally SPIT on the ground at this point and stares at me with the creepiest eyes in the world and goes, “I didn’t hear any of you lazy cunts say anything to me.” I am pretty sure I have never been more indignant in my entire life. I remember being in complete shock and just walking away.

One of the servers stopped me, saying that I looked like I had just seen a ghost, so I told him what happened. He stared open mouthed at me and told me to go tell our manager, so I did, even though I was pretty embarrassed that I had tears in my eyes. I just assumed this sort of thing was normal on busy days like this and that I just wasn’t used to it yet.

When I told him what had just happened, he got this look in his eyes that I have come to enjoy seeing, because it usually means it’s about to go down. It was pretty awesome. He had me point out which table they were at, walked up to them, and said, extremely calmly, “Nobody ever speaks to my employees like that, and nobody EVER speaks to a woman like that. You crossed a line. Get the fuck out of my restaurant.” The guys were extraordinarily pissed and said stuff like, “We’re alumni, we are important here,” and “You’ll never get our business again,” etc. and my boss says, “Eh, I don’t really care. Your money is worthless here.”

And then all was well again in the world.

My least favorite people in the world are middle-aged men who think they’re back in their fraternity house as soon as they arrive on their old campus, but my favorite people in the world are bosses who actually care about their employees.

- Anonymous

21. People are terrible to waitstaff.

I once had a man order nachos that had the whole shebang- salsa, sour cream, chili, lettuce, tomato, onion, butt load of shredded cheese, cheese sauce and two types of beans. This dish is a HUGE appetizer and can easily be split between 5 people. Well this man eats exactly half of it and then tells me it’s “too dry” so I offer to get him more salsa, cheese sauce, and chili and he said “Are you fucking STUPID? I said it was DRY not that I need more shit to put on it!” And I was a little dumbfounded so I just said something like, “Oh, sorry sir, what can I get you then?” He glared at me and said “Get me your fucking manager you incompetent bitch.” I do so and, it being a corporate chain, I expected my manager to side with the customer.

However, this manager must have also been told off because I over heard him say “Well, you ate half of it so that first half must have been fine. Therefore, if you are going to talk like that to me and my staff I demand you pay for this and get the hell out of here.” As the man was leaving he asked my manager if I was new to which my manager said, “Well she’s been here for a few months.” And the guy looked straight at me (I was cleaning a nearby table) and said “I can tell, she’s never going to last if she can’t figure out how to do the simplest tasks. She’s a complete fucking idiot. Save yourself time and money and fire her already.” He was promptly escorted out of the restaurant.

- downwithmoonlight

22. I worked in a movie theater back in the day and when I told a very elderly man how much his popcorn and soda cost he immediately erupted into a verbal blitzkrieg which basically accused me of being a raging antisemitic.

Granted it was expensive as fuck but he was literally claiming I was making up different prices for different creeds. He even brought Palestine into it.

Plus he was the perfect distance from the other customers earshot so when they all looked over, it probably looked like I was oppressing this poor old man.

It’s like come on, man. You look like an old bag of skin I can’t even tell what you are. Besides don’t feel special, were robbing everyone.

- BeatFiend

23. I work in customer service for a very well-known credit card company. I had a younger lady call in, very confused about her AMAZON account. I attempted to explain that I can help with her credit card, but I regrettably don’t have access to her Amazon account. She proceeded to mock me… everything I would say she would repeat back in this twerpy little voice. She called me a stupid bitch. Stating that I was nothing but a blood sucking whore. Seriously. I apologized, asked her to keep it professional, and proceeded to transfer her to Amazon for further assistance.

- sublimegames20

 

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23 People Who Have No Idea How Walmart’s Facebook Page Works

1. This person trying to beat the heat.

This person trying to beat the heat.

2. This hopeful member of Walmart.

This hopeful member of Walmart.

3. This person who most definitely did not work at Walmart.

This person who most definitely did not work at Walmart.

4. This person who’s fed up with you.

This person who's fed up with you.

5. This detective.

This detective.

6. This person who can’t find the pizza rolls.

This person who can't find the pizza rolls.

7. This person who just wants to wish Jon a happy birthday.

This person who just wants to wish Jon a happy birthday.

8. This photo sharer.

This photo sharer.

9. This person who’s flirting with the idea of shopping at Walmart.

This person who's flirting with the idea of shopping at Walmart.

10. This frantic caller.

This frantic caller.

11. This corn enthusiast.

This corn enthusiast.

12. This wise sage.

This wise sage.

13. This curious shopper.

This curious shopper.

14. This snack-food junkie.

This snack-food junkie.

15. This Sarah Silverman fan.

This Sarah Silverman fan.

16. This fashionista.

This fashionista.

17. This person who wants to unlike Walmart.

This person who wants to unlike Walmart.

18. This victim of humiliation.

This victim of humiliation.

19. This meta sharer.

This meta sharer.

20. This new retiree.

This new retiree.

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This person who will only speak to the president.

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This person who's just trying to brew some coffee.

23. And this concerned friend.

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