6.11.2002
i got this from a friend
There is a certain knack to ordering at McDonalds in the United States that
must be mastered if you intend to eat what you have asked for.The Carry-Out Order:
The key here is to always keep your eye on the cashier. They have a sort of
game they play where they order you things you didn’t ask for and then when
you complain, they will show you exactly where those items are on the
receipt. You must learn the keypad they use to place your order with, so you
can know if they are trying to slip you a
McSomething-Noone-In-Their-Right-Mind-Orders.The Drive-Thru Order:
This technique is much more advanced as you aren’t actually able to see the
person entering the order, and you rarely get the receipt. Don’t worry about
what you say the first time they ask you for your order as they will repeat
back something completely random to you. If you are insanely lucky, what
they read back to you will be what you had wanted to order in the first
place and you can go on your merry way, but this never happens. You must
state your menu items one at a time, very loudly and clearly, and be
prepared to repeat them as many times as it takes for recognition from
inside. Once you are satisfied with your order they will tell you to pull to
the first or second window to pay. Some restaurants call the first window
“Two” and the second window “One” so sorting out exactly which window you
are supposed to stop at can be a bit of a riddle, but don’t worry, just try
to do whatever the car in front of you has done. Once you have received your
bag(s) of food make certain to look in those bags to check for every item. I
have been fooled more than once by a bag that looks “full enough” only to
realize that the sandwich is not there, it is just a pile of napkins.General Advice:
Sometimes it will be more fruitful to just apply to work for the McDonalds
you would like to eat at. They will hire you immediately and many locations
pay upwards of $7 per hour. If you time it right, you could take a nice
short lunch break and make your own food, get the employee discount, quit,
and have a few dollars left over.
posted by sara 6/11/2002 07:22:29 PM
1.23.2002
well i’ve been back to work for a few weeks over break. we have our store manager, mentioned below. i guess she’s doing alright. then we have a new 1st assistant manager, who came from some other store. she is just like Penny, the 3rd store manager i worked under. she sounds like penny, she uses the same catch phrases as penny, she has a short temper so she’ll get loud like penny, but she’s not as mean as penny was. so it’s cool.
well monday, one of the assistant managers slapped me. she slapped my arm, so hard, she left a hand print, and it hurt so bad. i’ve never been hit before in my life. and it was all over this green sticker she thought I put on her, which i didn’t. so me and store manager were making sandwiches, and assistant manager came over and just hit me. so i go, what the fuck! and store manager is like, what the fuck was that for? and so manager starts saying something about the sticker as she’s shoving me into the cabinet. so i’m like STOP IT! well i was almost crying BECAUSE IT HURT SO BAD! and so then she looked at my arm and saw the huge hand print, and was appologizing and stuff. well she got in a car accident today… karma anybody?as far as customers go, i don’t usually work up front. so i haven’t had much experience with any funny/bad customers. i don’t know what happened to them all. but i discovered today that the new 1st assistant manager hates the same old people customers that i do hahaha. hot tea guy, and the bagel ladies to name a few….oh and the messed up deluxe breakfast guy..
posted by sara 1/23/2002 10:07:45 PM
11.1.2001
IT’S A MCCRISIS!!!!!!!
Our really wonderful store manager, who was the best one I’ve worked for in my 5 years at my store HAS BEEN TRANSFERED! Our not so wonderful 1st assistant is now our store manager. Besides the fact that I HATE HER! she’s a FREAKING HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT!!!!! She CANNOT run the store by herself, NO WAY! Our store is going to completely fall apart. There is NO WAY she’s going to be able to keep it store the way it was with our last store manager. She’s NEVER on time…and i’m not talking 5/10 minutes late, i’m talking HOURS sometimes… not showing up for opening shifts, etc…WHO COULD POSSIBLY THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE HER AN ENTIRE STORE! I can’t even put into words how much of a bad idea this is….But on a lighter note, Amanda and I are currently running a “let’s get Bono from U2 in our drive thru” campaign… the planning is coming along nicely, although this change in store managers throws a wrench into it all….
posted by sara 11/1/2001 10:01:24 AM
9.29.2001
fat smelly man (john popper) has been spotted! my mom decided to call me this morning with “important news”…she saw him walking through Ames parking lot (where my McD’s is)…thought i needed to know that he isn’t in a home anymore, or never was to begin with…Amanda also spotted him today.
and my friend Eric found an mp3 of the McDonald’s Menu Song…. “big mac mcdlt a quarter pounder with some cheese…”…it’s funny. maybe i’ll post it, we’ll see.
posted by sara 9/29/2001 12:59:16 AM
8.17.2001
well today was my last day at my store for the summer. i’ll be back in january to make some more money between semesters, since all of it’s going to go to books, grad school shit and groceries. oh and gasoline.
it was this girl’s birthday tomorrow at work, and her friend brought me and her a cake. half chocolate, half vanilla.. and everyone signed a going away card for me. it was very nice of them.this summer was surprisingly lacking in the moronic customers department. it was really windy today, and one of the decorative flags on the roof was blown off and landed on a car in drive through. not just the flag, but the entire metal rigging it was attached to. yeah, could have killed someone probably. her car is scratched to the metal, but apparantly not all that bad.
so as a final entry until who knows when, a few updates.
unbelieveably smelly guy, aka john popper, no longer comes into the store. we thought he died, but found out he was put into a home because he cant take care of himself. he was too fat and had no energy to clean himself or take care of himself. the only thing he did was walk to mcdonalds for his coffee and walk home. ok, now maybe it’s just me, but if a person doesn’t have enough energy to even clean themselves, how do they have enough energy to WALK to a restaurant. He doesn’t exactly live close to the store either. how about you dont walk to the store, to get ur damn coffee and steal all our creamers, and just take a shower. but whatever, he’s in a home now, and we don’t have to deal with him.
the thalidomide victim also doesn’t come in anymore and i don’t know why. kinda makes me sad, because he was finally more open about letting me see his hand. he usually always hid it but he started to let it be more viewable when i was getting his coffee and stuff in the morning. i cant remember when he stopped coming, but it’s been a while. he didnt seem really sick or anything. no one else really knew him though, so i dont know where we could get info about him from.
the AC is not going to be fixed this year at work, because they need to replace the entire unit, or some bullshit. apparantly Burt doesn’t want to pay for it.
i think that’s it, i will post if i remember anything else, but until next time, enjoy what is on the site
posted by sara 8/17/2001 03:27:15 PM
8.1.2001
One of the more exciting days in my 5 years today…It was really hot, which was no surprise because our AC is still not fixed. My best friend’s sister works at my store, and was in grill. she has asthma. Today she almost died.
I guess she was having problems breathing so she went to sit down. Then someone went back in the crew room and found her laying on the chairs, throat all swollen, not really breathing, eyes rolled back in head. So everyone freaks out. Both managers and 3 crew people go into the crew room to help her. Then one manager comes out to call 911 because she can’t breathe, tells me to go back in there to see if shes ok, like I could do something to help…right.
Meanwhile we’re totally slammed. We had cars wrapped around the building to begin with, now the entire grill team left except 1 girl, who’s trying to do meat and orders. 1 person, maybe 2, remained on counter, and me in front booth. So obviously, that leaves me stuck taking care of everything up there, manager duty wise… fixing registers, entering codes, not to mention going in grill to make my own food so i can hand it out the window. I was mad…
Dont think that i’m cruel because I was pissed off everyone left to take care of the girl…I know her, like i said, shes my best friends sister. I was mad because there was no reason 5 people needed to go back there to help, when there was nothing they could do except wait for the paramedics to show up. I can understand 2 people maybe… a manager and a crew person, but really… 5 people hovering around a girl who can’t breathe… brilliant idea.
So her family came right after the paramedics did. Everything was fine. Rumor has it if we hadn’t called when we did she would have died, but I don’t know about that. They took her to the hospital and everything. Will find out more from sister later. But she’ll be fine.
It was pure chaos…the 1 girl who stayed in grill said that we really need to practice stuff like that, because really, it could have been handled much better.