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.
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.
I’d be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.
I dont geht it… Why did she have Herr the Barbie? (Me remembering clearly playing with my sisters barbie dolls)
Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?
Damn, that’s a tough choice. Gimme an extra happy meal and both.
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.
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Sandals & socks? not a problem.
Phew! I’m safe for now.
Yes
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.
I wish they just didn’t give out crappy plastic toys at all.
The third group of us secretly want both toys
I don’t think that’s a third group. I think it’s a subset of the first one.
The rest of know it doesn’t matter, the toy will be broken or lost in the car by the next block!
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.
There was a moral panic in the 19th century where people were outraged that young girls from good families kept reading novels. They said it would lead to social self-isolation and bookishness and distract from apropriate activities like knitting, socialising, looking pretty and smiling.
And young women were thought to be largely unable to discern fact from fiction and hold their gentlemen callers to the same standards as the men in their novels. And you know, women having standards… the 18th century couldn’t have that.
Jokes on them, both men and women now isolate themselves thanks to C.AI (=
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
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.
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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
I love that lol
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?
So… give them a Ken? Lol
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I used to fuck around like this all the time when I worked a fast food drive thru
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.
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”
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.
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
Why be difficult though when you clearly know what the customer is asking for
Why be difficult , though, when you clearly know what the employee is asking?
If it was the customer telling the story I’d be asking just that
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I’m not sure how what I said is either of those things
Why not pick one of the answers provided when you’re clearly in a made up scenario?
Because I’ve got infinity time to argue when I’m in a made-up scenario.
Okay, this does bother me because embellished? Sure. Made up? This is entirely believable.
Not to mention, this specific meme is ooold as fuuuck.
[briefly checks if this scenario is real]
To clarify: By believable, I don’t mean real. I mean not worthy of suspicion.
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
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.
And then rocks fell and everyone was albert einstein.
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
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.
Lmao
Because if someone says something sexist/racist/stupid, don’t let them get away with it.
Ma’am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you’d like.
Sir, I demand to receive the toy that contains the XY chromosome and if you don’t provide it immediately I will be speaking with your manager.
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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.
They definitely are being difficult, even if you think the cause is just. Everyone knows what she wanted to get
Because you have values and the customer is trying to get you to affirm their being shitty to a kid.
Kid in the back seat playing with a pair of Barbies
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.
☝️ Found the customer from the post.
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.
It’s not a waste of the employee’s time at all. Don’t start a “be difficult” contest with someone working hourly.
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
