Melissa ([info]myrosesaredead) wrote,
@ 2004-11-23 01:10:00
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Current mood: exhausted
Current music:Bob Dylan

To all you fuckers that come into panera
This is hysterical.

Furthermore... I have no sympathy for people who do not read the menu before ordering. If you order a dozen bagels and two tubs of cream cheese, that's what I will charge you for. When you go to denny's you don't ask for buttermilk pancakes, eggs, bacon and sausage. You ask for an Original Grand Slam. Likewise, if you want a bagel pack, then ask for a f---ing bagel pack.
The same goes for a UP2.

Standing in line: The menu is there while you're standing in line. You CAN read it instead of staring at the floor. Waiting in line is also a great time to call and see what mom wants instead of waiting until I'm ringing you up.
Don't apologize to me when you take six hours. I'm getting paid by the hour. Apologize to the people behind you who have to wait.

Absolutely do not ask me what kind of soup we have. It is on a menu that is clearly titled SOUP.
A seven year old knows how to spell soup.

Don't ask me for a frappuccino.

Don't ask me what kind of cream cheese we have. The menu is FOUR FEET TALL.

If you buy three mochas with a one hundred dollar bill, you should give me a dollar tip, you cheap bastard.

Being so close to the canadian border, we often get some candian change. This is not at big deal, as local banks accept canadian change as american. So don't give me back a fucking DIME after I have shut my drawer because it has boats on it instead of a president's head. Get over it.

Please, yell at me when we are out of cinnamon crunch bagels. I really did eat all 12 dozen of them by myself and it is my fault that they are gone.

Also, it's a great idea to come in at 7 AM and buy all of our muffins. No one else will want them-don't worry. Placing an order would be too much of an inconvienence for you, I know.

Don't come in five minutes before we close and get mad because we're out of something. Did you really think you were the only person in town that wanted to enjoy a cobblestone today?
If you have been waiting ALL DAY for broccoli cheddar in a breadbowl, then maybe you should have called at nine when you got to work in the morning to have us save you one, or you should have come in on your lunch break.

-Melissa

P.S. ah-see-ah-go




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[info]drawerfullofslu
2004-11-22 11:19 pm UTC (link)
Sometimes I wonder what people who work at retail think they're paid to do

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[info]bridgedawg
2004-11-23 06:45 am UTC (link)
oh melissa...you make me smile :-D

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[info]becka1818
2004-11-23 09:54 pm UTC (link)
I think thats the best journal entry ever...

and as for drawerfullofslu people who work in retail are not paid to save things for people unless they ask, we are not paid to read the menu to people, and we are not paid enough to give a shit. :-D

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[info]drawerfullofslu
2004-11-24 12:12 am UTC (link)
No, but what you are paid to do is put up with those kinds of requests. I hate going in to a place like Blockbuster or Best Buy and having to deal with some punk who acts like he's reluctantly doing me a favor by doing his job. That's just the kind of attitude that I think of whenever I read something like that link :P.

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yeah panera (sarcasticly)
[info]b_razz
2004-11-23 10:07 pm UTC (link)
Oh melissa how you put a smile on my face especially with the ps. Oh yeah its brenden from work.

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[info]venez_ici
2004-11-24 01:58 am UTC (link)
hahahahaha.

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[info]piseasmoon
2004-11-24 07:37 am UTC (link)
hey this is sarah, i got your link from becki's lj. i work in retail too. if we are paid to put up with those people we're not paid enough! and you forgot to mention coworkers who hate you. they don't make things better AT ALL.

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[info]myrosesaredead
2004-11-24 11:04 am UTC (link)
I'm glad that all of you enjoyed this with minor exceptions.
I would also like to say it is much easier to appreciate the humor in this if you have actually worked in retail and had to put up with these people who I feel shouldn't even be integrated into the general public.

I have no problem answer questions like "what is in the muffin with the oats on it." I have no problem telling people what is in our soup, or how much cream cheese is in a take home container.

But when the menu is four feet tall, and you're just too damn lazy to look at it, why should I help you?
When you go out to eat do you ask your waitress to read the menu to you?
I am paid to help the customers, not babysit them.

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[info]shaydummy
2004-11-24 02:16 pm UTC (link)
funniest post ever. i've got a few more for ya...

When people ask for crackers. CLEARY we're a bread shop. Not a 24 hour coney island.

When people place and order, WATCH you make their sandwich, and then tell you that they didn't want any sauce on it. Cause we're fucking mind readers at panera bread...

"Do you guys serve waffles? How about pancakes?" A man asked me this last week and was dead serious.

When people call and say, "I'm on Telegraph, how do I get to your store?" Did I say, "Thank you for calling Panera Bread Southgate, this is OnStar, how can I help you?"?

And finally... true story... a woman got pissed off at me and demanded to talk to a manger cause she couldn't figure out why the ice tea machine shot tea AND THEN WATER!!! into the ice tea bin...

but yes, props to your post. major props.

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Classic
[info]nepster
2005-03-10 07:49 am UTC (link)
Thanks for sharing. Your list is so spot on, it cracks me up.

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wow...
(Anonymous)
2006-04-10 09:05 pm UTC (link)
maybe you should find a job that you actually enjoy. life's too short to be so angry and unforgiving. sometimes people are overwhelmed with 4-foot menus.

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