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    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.

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    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.

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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        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”

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          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.

        • 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)

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                But “made up” doesn’t imply unbelievable, just not real in the specific instance. While based on very believable interaction, it’s pretty likely this specific interaction is indeed made up

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                  It can. You’ve gotta read between people’s words.

                  Mostly, it just bothers me that the r/thathappened crowd spend so much time trying to get the upper hand on instagram influencers, and so little time actually engaging with the content.

                  You can make a point about how such and such behavior is just fine, actually, and it glances off their head like it were steel armor because the meme isn’t real.

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      Why be a misandrist when you clearly know the boy isn’t being given a choice because people like you and the mom don’t give a damn about what boys as long as the toy ‘matches’ the kid’s penis?

      Yeah I’m calling you out for being a creep.

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      idk dismantling the pointless notion of boys toys vs girls toys bit by bit at no cost to the interlocutor other than a slight annoyance sounds pretty based

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      They’re not being difficult, the customer is pushing a sexist agenda rather than select one of the choices named. It’s perfectly reasonable for boys to want a Barbie-themed rock band figurine, or a girl to want a van for her Barbie rock band to pretend to drive to their next gig.

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        They definitely are being difficult, even if you think the cause is just. Everyone knows what she wanted to get

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    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.

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      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!

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        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.

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      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

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      It’s not a waste of the employee’s time at all. Don’t start a “be difficult” contest with someone working hourly.

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        Working at McDonald’s isn’t bad at all - it’s just that people who are more difficult to work with often end up working in fast food by necessity. My comment implies that the OOP works in fast food due to a lack of professionalism and a tendency to make rude comments to customers, as evidenced by the post.

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          You have no idea what your talking about, McDonalds requires a stupid level of professionalism as far as employee interaction and behavior goes, it’s not a fucking Waffle House.

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      The fuck!

      I worked at McD what of it? If someone’s working and paying bills then don’t judge them.

      I’m a software developer now but not only through hard work as I recognise a certain amount of luck played into how I got where I am now and without that I’d still be working minimum wage somewhere.

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        There’s nothing wrong with working at McDonald’s.

        But it’s a fact that people often work in fast food because they can’t get a job elsewhere. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a living wage, but it does mean that people who alienate potential employers by being intentionally obnoxious are more likely to end up there.

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            Not at all. I’m quite gainfully employed, partially because I’m not intentionally obnoxious to my clients.

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                I appreciate your honesty and straightforwardness (here and in your other reply to the user below - sorry, I confused you with another user), but compared to the levels of vitriol being thrown at me in this thread for having the audacity to not just assume that a woman is a horrible bigot deserving of a bafflingly rude customer service interaction simply for asking for a “boy toy” for her son, I’d say I’m doing pretty well here, all things considered.

                I’m just not sure how I’m the obnoxious one in this scenario, instead of all of the inflammatory commenters and the really obvious fishing attempts for bigotry that are keeping this sub-thread going?

                Am I the obnoxious one just because I’m the one choosing not to go along with the ridiculous circle-jerk, even though my comments are an order of magnitude less antagonistic than the ones I’m responding to? I legitimately don’t know.

                You’re the other user is right, though - my mind’s not going to change, and the handful of upvotes I’m getting lets me know that others feel the same way, even if they’re understandably hesitant to speak up about it with all the personal attacks I’m getting here as a result.

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                  the handful of upvotes I’m getting lets me know that others feel the same way

                  LOL, I don’t know what the numbers were when you wrote that, but “appeal to upvotes” as an argument is hilariously bad for someone who’s being ratioed as heavily as you are.

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          people often work in fast food because they can’t get a job elsewhere

          It’s weird to conclude the story takes place during a recession.

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        Because they’re purposefully being an obnoxious pain in the ass to their customers. Other potential employers probably didn’t put up with that shit.

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          Is it not the lady for refusing to fucking pick? “I want the cool one” is just as useful of a descriptor, I’m sorry you have weird gender-based toy preferences

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            They’re both a little obtuse, but the drive thru operator is written to be puckish and the customer is just obnoxious. That our friend the professor over here has such strong opinions about the reasonableness of the customer makes me think that perhaps they are being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. Or are a bigot, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. In either case nobody here is going to change their mind.