I hope some people out there who use drive thrus can find this tip useful: Line your freaking car window up with the speaker! I don’t know how many times I have tried to take someone’s order and I can barely hear them…. so I crank my headset’s volume to max and ask them nicely repeat their order, trying not to make them annoyed. I still can’t hear a damned thing! Then I look out the window at your dumb ass trying to give me your order at the window, your front bumper lined up with the speaker and your head stretched out your window so far I’m surprised you don’t just get out of your vehicle! Then you have the nerve to get pissy with me at the speaker, huffing and puffing, and then at the window saying I’m not “paying attention” to you.
How hard is it to line your window up to the speaker and talk directly to it? Does your neck hurt when you crane it out your window that far? Come on, most speakers aren’t that sensitive and can’t pick up a voice unless it’s lined up. I just hate it when people get mad at me for things I can’t control!
—I’m sorry, could you please repeat that?
This article appears in May 21-27, 2009.
Haven’t seen any comments on this yet, so I’ll bite. OP, people can be shitty and idiots, but hey, that is life, and unfortunately in your line of business, you’re going to get the shit end of the stick. Some asshats have a preconceived conception about people working fast food joints, and probably figure you’re not good enough to scrub their toilets. All you can do is smile and be courteous and maybe drop a loogie in their fries for a little revenge. Just don’t do it to me, please, as I will be the one being nice to you.
LOL BRoc you’re dropping that word like candy to see how many times I bite aren’t you? 😛
*chomp*
Here’s a further tip to those who use the drive thru. Get your fat ass out of the car, and go inside. What a novel idea!
OP: The reason their front bumper is lined up with the speaker and not their window is because there’s another car in front of them and they can’t get any closer. But they are close enough to trip whatever sensor there is that makes your headset beep, triggering your dumbass to say “Can I take your order?”
If you can see them out your window and they’re not lined up to the speaker yet, why the fuck are you trying to take their order!? Why don’t you wait until they’re pulled up all the way?
Your’re the idiot in this situation, not the customer. Noob.
I know!!!
and i CONSTANTLY ask for milk in my coffee and when im like hey is this cream there like wtf?
as usual, Fever’s dead on.
fuck the drive thru’s. close em all. they slow up the lines inside as well.
I’m the OP. In response to nevermind…Actually, there was nobody in front of the car I’m talking about. This customer had an entire drivethru’s length of space to drive in. And when my headset beeps, of course I respond, I get in shit if I don’t. If I get no response, I just wait or look out the window to see what set off the sensor.
I am nice to every customer even if they are getting mad at me, but I can’t help it but feel frustrated when someone who has room to pull up, just doesn’t.
Don’t tell us that Fever, the OP will then have to deal with people going in and yelling their order from the tables or the bathroom.
OP, are you allowed to say “I’m having trouble hearing you, can you pull up closer to the speaker?”
OP, would get yeleld at
well they’re going to get yelled at anyways….
Why would the OP expect someone to pull forward if there is already a car there, that makes no sense. Are you a “noob” at logic?
The funniest part of when I used to work in a Timmies drive thru was when people would seriously drive up to the drive-thru garbage can (which looked exactly like the inside cans) and try to give their order to it, and then get all frustrated that we weren’t answering (you need to go past the can to trip the buzzer). The best part was informing them of their mistake and hearing them get all huffy, red-faced and embarrassed.
HAHAHA Mole Rat : “I’m sorry sir/miss I was unable to hear your order because you were talking to a garbage can” hahahaha awesome.
We are allowed to ask them to pull forward, and I was going to tell her to do that until she pulled right up to the window to snarl at me.
I’ve also had people give their order to the garbage can, funny stuff!
They deal with that anyways (that being people yelling at them from random areas) so it’s no change for the poor person behind the counter. Fat people would actually think twice about going down to the closest McD’s to get a coronary in a bun.
just make up an order…who cares. it’s just food. the fat lazy pig will eat it anyhow. not as if there are not hundreds of jobs like your’s ready for the taking.