This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald’s. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.
Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it’s not your fault.
“Bless your little heart sir. I know it’s not easy choosing the “boy toy” when one isn’t pink. But I need to reach deep down into those man genes and deduce which one is the boy toy. If you choose poorly then you and your kids are super gay now. Dems da rules sir!.”
Well obviously the boy toys are the ones I use my penis to play with.
I know entire places where thirsty people would offer to be boy toys, but something tells me they’d change their minds instantly upon seeing them.
Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don’t determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.
Some of those “morals” need to decay.
I wish they just didn’t give out crappy plastic toys at all.
The third group of us secretly want both toys
The rest of know it doesn’t matter, the toy will be broken or lost in the car by the next block!
I don’t think that’s a third group. I think it’s a subset of the first one.
There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn’t learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.
I’m glad I wasn’t sober when someone incidentally compared happy meal toys to the invention of movable type.
anarchy and moral decay can’t happen at the same time
I’d be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.
Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?
Does it have to be fashion police or can it annihilate anyone?
It can annihilate any kind of police
As the holder, you get to decide what is a fashion crime.
Tasteful suit? Annihilation. Sandals & socks? not a problem.Sandals & socks? not a problem.
Phew! I’m safe for now.
deleted by creator
Damn, that’s a tough choice. Gimme an extra happy meal and both.
Yes
This triggers a memory!
Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the “girl or boy toy with your happy meal?” question. We were both girls so we automatically answered “girl toy.” After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said “one of each please” we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.
I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.
Hot take is hot!
😂
Bot reply is bot!
😂
neither of them are boys. One is a doll the other is a toy car.
Oh a boy**'s** toy? Well both if them belong to the company until you choose. I dont think the company is a boy or a girl, and i think most of our shareholders are adults
So… give them a Ken? Lol
I love that lol
ThisHappened.txt
I think you’re underestimating what service workers will do for a small amount of entertainment.
Being very subtly snide is a great way to pass the time.
Source: I used to refer to milk as cow’s milk when working at a cafe, because very occasionally it would trigger someone, and I found that mildly amusing.
(Everyone else didn’t bat an eye, because that’s what it is).
Triggering snowflakes is pretty fun
I used to fuck around like this all the time when I worked a fast food drive thru
Same. Same in call centres too. Did some fun stuff like getting colleagues to say a word you have to work into the next call like “spoon” which is easy with a little “good afterspoon”. Or doing dumb shit like pretending we had Tourette’s.
Damn that’s hilarious- I wish I knew about that game when I worked at a call center!
My favorite when I worked drive thru was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I’d put on my announcer voice- like Stamets level shit- to greet them, and then say “to place an order, press 1” but there was no keypad, so they would just say “uh…one?” And then I’d be like “para español, marque dos”
Like Stamets level shit
I… Wat
Am I mistaken in assuming that most of Lemmy’s long-standing users have heard at least one of your voice recordings?
Probably. I’ve only posted it a couple times and deep in comment chains usually lol
Ah- well, it’s what I know you for lol
that’s fuckin hilarious!
That’s so funny
I always cheated at that one and pretended someone had asked me a question next to me. Or that I had misheard them.
“Oh yeah you can have my spoon sorry about that it’s crazy here anyway…”
Or “I’m sorry WHAT about a dragonfly?”
My favorite was finding new ways to accuse chiropractors of fraud.
“Oh yeah it looks like you had the wrong diagnosis code in there, see this is for kidney failure. Haha I know you’re just a chiropractor and you’re not trying to treat the kidneys DOCTOR.” Really lay it on thick with the doctor, because if the chiropractor is calling himself he’s almost guaranteed to be one of the pricks that insists he’s a real doctor and not a street magician with a degree.
When I worked at Taco Bell as a teenager our headset was on the same frequency as the burger king across the street. We could hide out in their parking lot and fuck with their customers. We did that a lot.
I want to know more. Sounds hilarious.
My favorite was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I’d put on my announcer voice to greet them, and then say “to place an order, press 1” but there was no keypad, so they would just say “uh…one?” And then I’d be like “para español, marque dos”
I would be super petty when Midwestern transplants would butcher the word “quesadilla” as “cassadila” by responding “sorry, a what? Oh, a quesadilla, okay” which got really funny (to me) when they would order several different kinds of quesadilla and I would do the same schtick every time within a span of 2 minutes
This was before I got woke, so sometimes I would put on an Indian accent and act like I was taking their order from an overseas call center
I used to fuck around in all sorts of ways there: putting a sign on the drive-thru menu telling people to yell bc the mic was damaged; not turning on the lights at night so people thought we were closed;
My favorite thing though was doing customer surveys (which would get printed and pinned in the back) and leaving insane reviews- like one went on and on about how the cashier was sooo hot, and then at the end mentioned he reminds me of my dad (that employee was a babyfaced teen which made it extra bizarre)
Omg, this has me cracking up.
Nothing ever happens
Makes me think of that “aceggot” story
Kid in the back seat playing with a pair of Barbies
However, this assumes that the customer knows what the brand names “Barbie” and “Hot Wheels” stand for. Perhaps she just had to bring such a menu of toys to a boy and didn’t have the cultural knowledge behind the terms. It would have been helpful: A doll or a toy car?
Fucking no. Any customer at a fast food drive-through for their kid knows what a fucking Barbie and Hot Wheels are, that is some stupid fucking mental gymnastic bullshit levels of pandering.
Lemmy wants a toy bicycle because fuck cars also will it run Arch?
Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk “ Candy bar closed in 10 minutes” Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk
My favourite thing today.
Employees like this are even more annoying than these types of customers. You knew what toy she wanted so just hand her the toy and move on. It’s such a waste of everybody’s time when someone who has a job with customer service tries to ack slick with the customers.
It’s not a waste of the employee’s time at all. Don’t start a “be difficult” contest with someone working hourly.
I worked retail for decades and I’m genuinely offended you’d side with a customer. those shits don’t get enough guff for their garbage ass behavior. you wanna come in a scream at me because your mad about “duh gubbermen”? well I’m gonna detect your dumb ass talking points and fuck with you for the duration of our interaction. I’ll tell you the toy car has pink hair and rainbow flames on the side and the license plate says “Bi or Die” and the “Barbie” toy is a MtF school teacher named “Claxison” that lives on government assistance. Come in here again and tell me you think “happy holiday’s” is an attack on Christmas, I dare you!
I worked in retail too before. You’re going to meet every type of person, and a lot of them aren’t pleasant. It’s in the best interest of everybody to simply complete the transaction as quickly and smoothly as possible. I don’t want to see their ugly mugs nor do they want to spend time with me. If I let every customer like this get under my skin, I would gone insane long ago. The people in retail who actually do spend the time messing with customers usually just end up provoking them, which leads to the crazier ones to flip out and cause problems for everybody else.
☝️ Found the customer from the post.
Have you ever actually encountered a cashier like this, or just read so much copy-pasta about them that you feel like you’ve encountered dozens
