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Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer

Ozz81 posted:

I hate when people make drama about coworkers dating - at an old job I dated a lady in a different department and within a week, it was spread around the office. Even had one of her coworkers, whom I'd never spoken to or interacted with, call me a stalker with zero provocation :v: we kept dating but told everyone we split and played it up by avoiding each other at work, now I don't bother, too much hassle.

Dating someone you work will can be awesome, but so can some stages of cancer because you can get the cool drugs.

No seriously it is a bad idea because when poo poo blows up, it gets bad everywhere, and bosses should not date their underlings and vice versa, and like you said, hassle is great. Plus companies want to avoid the whole drama deal too, I bet.


I hate when you aren't allowed to be in a bad mood, even slightly, at work without people assuming "oh poo poo it's that time of the month for her." No, assface, I was pissed Friday because my usual dispatcher was out, the covering one hosed up my route and left halfway through unfucking it, and then the NEXT backup one had to fix things and was a bitch about moving poo poo around. But I can't be snappy or pissy at work because I am always the happy girl who passes out candy and some times, like Friday, I just want to slap a bitch. Meanwhile if one of the guys is having a bad day, that's allowed, I let them vent and try to help, but I never roll my eyes or tell them to "just calm down."


People who don't understand what a real emergency is. I've told my mom, who got her second knee replacement last year, not to call me during work hours unless it's an emergency. Like she fell down and she broke something, can't get up. So she calls me Friday morning before the above poo poo, and I'm half panicked already because of wondering how hurt she is, and she proceeds to whine about some Facebook Farmville free thing she tried to download and there was a virus scan warning AND NOW SHE CANT POST ANYTHING ON FACEBOOK OR PLAY FARMVILLE. It took every effort not to scream and ask how the gently caress this was an emergency. I've asked her, I've begged her, I've told her a hundred times to email me or leave a physical note but don't loving call because it's a miracle I can even keep my phone on me during work, and it's only for emergencies, Farmville not being one!

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Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Sinks with tiny-rear end faucets that require you to bang your knuckles on the back edge of the sink basin to wash your hands. I run into these things all over the place. How do people not realize this is a problem when installing the faucet?

I'm in a hotel right now that features this lovely faucet that extends approximately 1.5" into the sink:



I loving hate this so much.

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

On bathroom peeves: I am pretty sure my apartment was designed for some bizarre race of incredibly asymmetrical people. The shower head sits at about 5 feet off the ground, and the shower curtain rod is at something like 8.

Rolo
Nov 16, 2005

Hmm, what have we here?

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Sinks with tiny-rear end faucets that require you to bang your knuckles on the back edge of the sink basin to wash your hands. I run into these things all over the place. How do people not realize this is a problem when installing the faucet?

I'm in a hotel right now that features this lovely faucet that extends approximately 1.5" into the sink:



This sort of thing but in the kitchen sink because I didn't look at it when signing my lease :unsmigghh:

Maggie Fletcher
Jul 19, 2009
Getting brunch is more important to me than other peoples lives.
I hate it when people who don't know anything about what you do and try to give you advice on it. The other day I mentioned how I ordered a pair of running insoles online and they sent me two rights instead of a right and a left and was bombarded with "WHY are you buying insoles from Amazon?! Go to XYZ run store in suchandsuch and get those, they're way better!" And when I explain that thank you, but I've been using these for a decade and they're just fine, they still insist that they know better. Bitch, I've been running long-distance for 25 years and I know the name and location of every run store in a 100-mile radius of here. You're a pack-a-day smoker who can't run a mile, don't tell me you know what works on my feet better than I do. Are you going to give me legal advice too?

mostlygray
Nov 1, 2012

BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

Death Zebra posted:

I hate that my favourite food items are often temporary...

This is a thing that almost all QSR/Fast Food restaurants do. It makes no sense at all. They often kill big sellers for no reason. They see that they can make 1 cent more in profit per item by dropping a high food cost item but they forget that it may chase customers away. I used to get breakfast at McDonalds quite often because they had the steak breakfast burrito. Once they dropped it, I haven't been back. Tripping over dollars to pick up pennies is no way to run a railroad.

Rabbit Hill
Mar 11, 2009

God knows what lives in me in place of me.
Grimey Drawer
I hate it when people come to me to complain about other people who do nothing but complain, and then don't listen to any of the advice I give them and just keep on complaining. :ironicat:

ESPECIALLY when I've been successfully dealing with the complainers for 6 years, and you've only been here 7 months and have already started burning bridges you can't afford to burn by refusing to work with people you don't like.

Like, I know you don't respect your boss, and she genuinely doesn't know 1/10th of what you know, but SHE IS YOUR BOSS. You have to treat her with respect, at least to her face, you fool! Otherwise, you'll find yourself in the position you are now! People are closing ranks against you because they (rightfully) see you as a poo poo-disturber who doesn't know his place as a new hire, and you may be fired before you've even been here a year.

At the same time, I'm sick of myself for falling into the old dysfunctional family role of the Peacemaker/Ambassador/Soother when coworkers fight, because that is some serious Codependent poo poo on my part and I've got to stop trying to manage other people's emotions for them. If they want to continue to fail to get along, that's their business, not mine.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

Cowslips Warren posted:

I hate when you aren't allowed to be in a bad mood, even slightly, at work without people assuming "oh poo poo it's that time of the month for her." No, assface, I was pissed Friday because my usual dispatcher was out, the covering one hosed up my route and left halfway through unfucking it, and then the NEXT backup one had to fix things and was a bitch about moving poo poo around.

I combat this by being a curmudgeon 100% of the time.

Seriously though, even if it IS your time of the month, so what? Forgive me for being snappier than usual when I feel like I have soccer cleats in my uterus. Or don't, I don't care?

So I guess one of my pet peeves is also people who think periods are just some excuse people use to be assholes, like keeping a straight face when you feel like your entire lower body feels like it's going to explode for multiple days in a row is some minor feat.

Indolent Bastard
Oct 26, 2007

I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!
More bathroom chat. Forget short necked taps. I miss actual hot water. Now that most sinks seem to use motion sensors to run the temperature never seems to get above barely not cold because I can't regulate the amount of hot versus cold. I don't need near boiling heat, but warm water would be nice. Plus hot water is better for cleaning my hands. I miss you actually hot water :(. (In public washrooms and the like obviously)

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Indolent Bastard posted:

More bathroom chat. Forget short necked taps. I miss actual hot water. Now that most sinks seem to use motion sensors to run the temperature never seems to get above barely not cold because I can't regulate the amount of hot versus cold. I don't need near boiling heat, but warm water would be nice. Plus hot water is better for cleaning my hands. I miss you actually hot water :(. (In public washrooms and the like obviously)

Come to my job, where you can't get cold water out of the taps. It goes from hot, to scalding. Got dust or something in your eye? Well, better go buy a bottle of water from the cafeteria to flush it out.

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

My own faucet peeve: the bathtub faucet in my apartment is super-sensitive, so finding that sweet spot between 'uncomfortably chilly' and 'burn a layer of skin off' can be super-tricky, especially first thing in the morning.

On the bright side, we've got a building-wide boiler or something (my building used to be a high school) and it may be physically impossible for us to run out of hot water. To the point where, about a year ago, we had a plumbing issue that left the faucet running hot water most of the day until maintenance could get it shut off (it was draining fine so more of an annoyance than a threat of water damage, thank Christ) and the temperature, as far as I could tell, never wavered even slightly.

Bast Relief
Feb 21, 2006

by exmarx

YeahTubaMike posted:

soccer cleats in my uterus

Ooh, that's a good one.

I used to say "wood planer" or "melon-baller" but no one knows what the hell I'm talking about.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
Ohh, bathroom fixture peeve... gently caress the overflow drain hole thing found in most bathtubs. Thanks for letting me fill this 20 inch deep tub with 2 inches of water. I love little bits of mildew coming out of the cover crevices into the bath too, that's great.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Crow Jane posted:

The hosed up thing is that I've had girlfriends in the past who have encouraged me to go out with guys I had no interest in, because they seemed nice and I shouldn't hurt their feelings. Because leading someone on is somehow better? For some mysterious reason, those ladies and I aren't friends anymore.

This post is from a while back, but my pet peeve is something similar. I really hate it when someone takes it upon themselves to try to set you up with someone else without taking no for an answer. I was at this party a few months ago, and my friend* was like "are you interested in _____" and I told him "sorry, not really" and then for some reason he got it into his head that I was just being shy and ends up mentioning it to this girl who is a mutual friend, and she ends up asking me why I'm not interested in the aforementioned girl. There was no correct answer! I tried to say something about not looking for a relationship right now (which, to be fair, is half-true), but the main reason is that I just wasn't attracted to this girl. The mutual friend I was speaking to seemed really confused as to why I wasn't interested in this girl (the friend is lesbian, so it's possible that she personally thought the girl in question was cute and that was coloring her judgement).

* For some context, this friend actually was interested in the girl he was trying to set me up with, but he was about to move far away for a job. So I think he was motivated partly by some bizarre desire to help someone else out with this girl he personally found desirable.

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

Ytlaya posted:

I really hate it when someone takes it upon themselves to try to set you up with someone else without taking no for an answer.

Why is it that when our friends pull this poo poo, we're either not looking for a relationship at the moment or they manage to choose someone with whom we'd be completely incompatible?

"Come on, Fai, she's super cute. You two will get along so well, I swear. She likes big trucks and deer hunting and Kenny Chesney!"

"Dude, I drive a Geo Metro hatchback, contemporary pop-country music makes me physically ill, and the last time I went deer hunting I was twelve years old and almost shot a cow. How the gently caress did you come to the conclusion that she and I would get along in any way?"

CatStacking
Jan 9, 2010

~A Purely Preposterous Pussy~
I'm on my lunch at work and I'm probably disproportionately annoyed at customer stupidity. Though maybe it's my fault for expecting anything else in a retail environment.

These two older ladies come in, one is a boss for the other one and is buying her a laptop for work. And she seems really intent on throwing her weight around. Maybe she's trying to prove herself as a big boss? I dunno.

First, she actually blamed me because we were out of the cheaper wireless computer mice. I wish I was exaggerating but she literally blamed me for it. I shrugged it off, helped them find another wireless mouse that was only $10 more or so. GASP.

So we get over to the laptops. And I get blamed and yelled at some more because the demo for the computer they wanted wasn't there so they assumed we were out. This included loud demands to see a manager so they could reduce the price on another laptop because they called 45 minutes ago and were told there was one.

I didn't talk to them on the phone. Also all of this is occurring while I'm ferociously checking stock and finding more for them. And instead of saying thanks or being a little nicer, this lady is bitchy to me for the whole transaction.

Bad customers in retail are a huge pet peeve of mine. Especially if they're rude and aggressive and blame me for things beyond my control.

I can't believe the other lady (who was nicer) would agree to work for that hag. If I saw my current/future boss treating anybody like that, I would probably have huge doubts about working for them.

I really hope she trips and drops/breaks the laptop on the way to her car.

Parasol Prophet
Aug 31, 2012

We Are Best Friends Now.
This is probably my own fault for subjecting myself to nostalgia-driven listicles/discussions in the first place, but I am so goddamn tired of hearing about goddamn Ecto Cooler.

Every single time! If anyone so much as mentions discontinued drinks, it's "OMG Ecto Cooler man, that was the best, I miss Ecto Cooler, I wish they'd bring back Ecto Cooler, I want some right now!" I'm tired of hearing that name, and I'm tired of seeing that same photo of the packaging every time it comes up.

Logically, of course, I get that nostalgia is a powerful thing, and it was a huge tie-in that a bunch of people probably have fond memories of. It just irrationally grates on me at this point, more than any other popular discontinued food/drink item for some reason.

And I know that they're re-releasing it due to the new movie, so I'm just preparing myself for the inevitable week-long joy explosion/outrage over some change to the formula that makes it taste, shockingly, not as good as it used to.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

my pet peeve is friends who ask you to be honest with them and then make you feel bad when you are honest

also people who make you feel like everything you do is wrong in some way and you as a person are a constant failure because your being does not live up to their expectations

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Why is it that when our friends pull this poo poo, we're either not looking for a relationship at the moment or they manage to choose someone with whom we'd be completely incompatible?

"Come on, Fai, she's super cute. You two will get along so well, I swear. She likes big trucks and deer hunting and Kenny Chesney!"

"Dude, I drive a Geo Metro hatchback, contemporary pop-country music makes me physically ill, and the last time I went deer hunting I was twelve years old and almost shot a cow. How the gently caress did you come to the conclusion that she and I would get along in any way?"

Back in the day, someone suggested I try to ask out my roommate. Who had a boyfriend. Who I also worked with. What planet do you live on does that seem like a good idea?

Have I mentioned people who bike on sidewalks? Rrrr.

Thin Privilege
Jul 8, 2009
IM A STUPID MORON WITH AN UGLY FACE AND A BIG BUTT AND MY BUTT SMELLS AND I LIKE TO KISS MY OWN BUTT
Gravy Boat 2k
Game complaint: Steam people who make a lot of stuff on Workshop but make their profiles private, so I can't find their items easily. For 95% of people I follow them and just click on "workshop items" on their profile but obviously I can't do this if their profile is private, and you can't search by creator name in the workshop for some reason.

Real life one: people who drive super slow because they're looking at their phone, or into their purse, or glovebox, or whatever. Just pull over! I was driving behind this moron who kept digging around his passenger seat and randomly slamming on his brakes AND going less than 10mph.

OH another one: people who don't just say what they're thinking. It's so irritating when you can see someone is feeling bad/frustrated/etc and you ask "what's wrong" and they say "nothing/it's okay/I'm fine!" E: actually I'm guilty of this sometimes, I am my own pet peeve :(

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EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

SciFiDownBeat posted:

my pet peeve is friends who ask you to be honest with them and then make you feel bad when you are honest

also people who make you feel like everything you do is wrong in some way and you as a person are a constant failure because your being does not live up to their expectations

Once a friend introduced his girlfriend to the group on a night out and at the end of the night asked another friend of ours the usual "so what do you think?". Instead of "wow she's great" the friend told him point blank he loving hated her. It was terribly awkward for a long time but very funny.

Parasol Prophet
Aug 31, 2012

We Are Best Friends Now.

Thin Privilege posted:

OH another one: people who don't just say what they're thinking. It's so irritating when you can see someone is feeling bad/frustrated/etc and you ask "what's wrong" and they say "nothing/it's okay/I'm fine!" E: actually I'm guilty of this sometimes, I am my own pet peeve :(

I think everyone is guilty of that at least once in their life-- sometimes there's something bugging you but it's not relevant to the other person, or you don't want to change the mood of the conversation, or it'd take too long to explain, or you're trying (and failing) to forget about it, etc. and you just don't want to go into it right now. But yeah, it is still annoying when people say "fine" and obviously aren't fine. Just say there's something bothering you and you'll handle it later, no big deal.

Of course, one of my pet peeves is when people ignore that and insist on making you talk about it.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

Working at a Deli my pet peeve is people who come in and only have a basic idea what they want. Coming in and saying "I want turkey" doesn't help one bit when we have at least a dozen kinds, and yet these people will come in at least once a week without thinking about what they specifically want.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

bobjr posted:

Working at a Deli my pet peeve is people who come in and only have a basic idea what they want. Coming in and saying "I want turkey" doesn't help one bit when we have at least a dozen kinds, and yet these people will come in at least once a week without thinking about what they specifically want.

In fairness, that can be a difficult thing to answer because they've probably never had to consider more specifically than 'turkey'. There's a fish and chip place really close to my apartment, and despite loving fish and chips I struggle to order from them because I have no idea which fish I know as 'fish'.

Danger Mahoney
Mar 19, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
When people try to make future plans with people at a party, looking for firm commitments. Like you are having a great time, probably drinking, and someone says omg we should all go to some event three weeks from now. We're all feeling great and our judgment is impaired, of course we're all going to say yes. I guarantee every single person who agreed to those plans regrets it the next morning.

I know the old saying is "don't make decisions when you're angry and don't make promises when you're happy" but please don't set the trap.

Senator Sprinkles
Aug 16, 2008

Adhesives that are stronger than the materials they're holding together. This is especially irritating in cheap consumer packaging that you'll open, re-seal and re-open a lot, like breakfast cereals or boxes of granola bars or whatever.

I've got a lot of mangled cereal boxes looking despondently at me every time I open my pantry door :(

Bast Relief
Feb 21, 2006

by exmarx
Just pour it on the floor and eat it like an animal. Christ.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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Danger Mahoney posted:

When people try to make future plans with people at a party, looking for firm commitments. Like you are having a great time, probably drinking, and someone says omg we should all go to some event three weeks from now. We're all feeling great and our judgment is impaired, of course we're all going to say yes. I guarantee every single person who agreed to those plans regrets it the next morning.

I know the old saying is "don't make decisions when you're angry and don't make promises when you're happy" but please don't set the trap.

I hate this too but it's easy to get out of - never mention it again and hope they forgot they asked, or if they do, say "oh sorry I checked my schedule and actually that's not going to work".

On a somewhat related note - in conferences you'll hear "let's talk about that later/during the coffee break" a lot, only for them to completely ignore you for the rest of the event. I've even started using it as my "I don't know the answer so I'm going to pretend it's too complicated to explain right now, please don't ask me about it later" response to hard questions. The problem is sometimes I actually do want to talk to them about it more later, but if you hunt them down you get "that sounds like an interesting project, let me think about it and I'll email you" only to never hear from them again. It feels like if you want to start a collaboration lately your only option is to be incredibly annoying and pester them into submission.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


bobjr posted:

Working at a Deli my pet peeve is people who come in and only have a basic idea what they want. Coming in and saying "I want turkey" doesn't help one bit when we have at least a dozen kinds, and yet these people will come in at least once a week without thinking about what they specifically want.

I've done this with ham. Usually I look at what's there and say something specific, but sometimes I'm just not really thinking about it. And I really don't care what sort of ham you give me, it's all pretty much the same. Same goes with quantity. I just want some ham. However much you pick up and put in a bag, that's how much I want. I just want some meat for sandwiches, it's not important.

Thin Privilege
Jul 8, 2009
IM A STUPID MORON WITH AN UGLY FACE AND A BIG BUTT AND MY BUTT SMELLS AND I LIKE TO KISS MY OWN BUTT
Gravy Boat 2k

Senator Sprinkles posted:

Adhesives that are stronger than the materials they're holding together. This is especially irritating in cheap consumer packaging that you'll open, re-seal and re-open a lot, like breakfast cereals or boxes of granola bars or whatever.

I've got a lot of mangled cereal boxes looking despondently at me every time I open my pantry door :(

I have containers similar to these, no more sad cereal boxes.

http://www.rubbermaid.com/en-US/modular-cereal-containers

Doesn't solve my Trader Joes granola boxes problem though. Seriously, what kind of design is this? My cat could have made a better design, he wants easy access to food.


Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Thin Privilege posted:

I have containers similar to these, no more sad cereal boxes.

http://www.rubbermaid.com/en-US/modular-cereal-containers

What does "modular" mean in this context?

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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Tiggum posted:

What does "modular" mean in this context?

I think it means they connect to each other in some way i.e. the bottom to the lid of another so they're easier to stack and it "saves space".

mostlygray
Nov 1, 2012

BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

bobjr posted:

Working at a Deli my pet peeve is people who come in and only have a basic idea what they want. Coming in and saying "I want turkey" doesn't help one bit when we have at least a dozen kinds, and yet these people will come in at least once a week without thinking about what they specifically want.

I respect that. I have to deal with my boss who only gives me half of their request with no details and then they turn their phone off and disappear.

I have an opposing opinion about sandwich shops. I always say "whatever you like", "Dealers Choice" when I go to a deli. I don't want to think about it. If you were to put a dead mouse on top of a whole tomato served on a cutting board covered in a slurry of raw meat drippings and whipping cream, I'm OK with that. If you like it, I like it. All I would like is a lot of horseradish.

Usually, when I say, "What do you like? I'll have that.", I get the dull eye'd stare of a dairy cow. Then I suddenly have to coach them on the concept of a sandwich. Yes, bread on the bottom, meat and/or veg in the center, covered with more bread. A pickle is nice. I actually once watched a dude in a cafeteria put a halved tomato on top of a piece of bread with some provolone on top and stare at me, questioning their whole existence. I had to explain that the tomato should be sliced and perhaps other things should go on the sandwich. I had asked for a Reuben but that seemed to be too much for him. Please understand that I knew the gentleman well and he was no fool in general. Quite talented as a DJ and very charming when he tried. He just couldn't handle making a drat sandwich.

I get frustrated when I order an "Italian BMT" at Subway, and they ask me what bread, what meat, what vegetables, what dressing, would you like eggplant or extra Cheeze Whiz... For the love of Christ, you're the "Sandwich Artist"; Art me up a mother loving sandwich! You ask for a Tuna sandwich and they still ask you what meat you want.

Thin Privilege
Jul 8, 2009
IM A STUPID MORON WITH AN UGLY FACE AND A BIG BUTT AND MY BUTT SMELLS AND I LIKE TO KISS MY OWN BUTT
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I worked at a popular sandwich shop and that's very annoying (sorry). We were trained to a) make sandwiches based on the recipe and 2) make the customer happy. Those two don't go together in a "whatever you like" scenario. If we actually did a "whatever you like", it'd be something I like which is lots of mayo or whatever, and then the customer would get angry due to too much mayo. So we didn't do "whatever you like," even though we theoretically could. People are really finicky about their food so we're not going to risk a call to corporate because we put too much mayo on a "whatever do you like" sandwich.


God I said "whatever you like" too much now I want a sandwich how I like it (lots of mayo) :/

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GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice
Yeah, and the reason you got the cow-eyed stare was because you broke script and the employee didn't know how to respond. Once you've made sandwiches the same way over and over all day for a while, a request to deviate can make you lock up for a second while your brain switches from "auto sandwich mode" to "oh poo poo I need to stop daydreaming and ask this customer what the hell he's talking about mode."

When I'd get a "make me your favorite" request, I'd automatically make a turkey with provolone on white, with lettuce and a little mayo--the most bland, inoffensive sandwich I could think of--because (like Thin Privilege said) if I actually made you what I like to eat, you probably wouldn't like it (few people are keen on the idea of a cheeseless veggie sandwich with lettuce, tomato, black olive, a smidge of onion, extra jalapeņos, every banana pepper ring that I can get my hands on, salt & pepper, and Italian dressing).

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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I'd get pretty frustrated about that too unless I was working in a real restaurant. Yeah subway workers are called "sandwich artists" but they aren't chefs, you can't expect them to know how to put a good sandwich together without a recipe. I mean you're going out, paying specifically for a custom made sandwich (instead of just buying from the pre-made ones which almost every store has), but you just shrug and say "whatever" when they ask what you want? At least say roughly how much you want to pay - going to a bar with beers ranging from 2 dollars to 8 and saying "gimme a beer, I don't care which one I have literally no preference for some weird reason" is just going to make the bartender hate you because you'll either complain that you were given something too cheap/gross or too expensive and "taking advantage" of them. I just think it's expecting too much to go to a place where they are only trained to ask "what do you want" and do that thing following a strict procedure and expecting something more than that.

I do get annoyed at subway though where they have pre-set menu options and try and over-customize them. Just make it how you were trained. When you do tell them to just make it the standard way you end up with something that is 90% bread and hardly anything inside though, which is why I never go to subway unless I have no other choice. I'd rather go to publix, at least their sandwiches are good without having to ask for extra x y and z.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


mostlygray posted:

I get frustrated when I order an "Italian BMT" at Subway, and they ask me what bread, what meat, what vegetables, what dressing, would you like eggplant or extra Cheeze Whiz... For the love of Christ, you're the "Sandwich Artist"; Art me up a mother loving sandwich! You ask for a Tuna sandwich and they still ask you what meat you want.
This is the reason I never go to Subway. Well, that and the weird smell. If I go into a burger place they don't ask me which ingredients I want, I pick something off the menu and that's that. Why do I have to tell you, the sandwich shop, how to make a sandwich? That is your only job! I don't even like that Grill'd asks me what sort of bread I want. If they asked me to pick out each ingredient as well I'd never go there again. You don't go to a restaurant and tell the chef how to prepare your meal.

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


I always hated the "I'll have what you like," order. I always freeze up because I'm terrified they have secret expectations for their food/coffee/beer. My ex used to do this all the time, and in all fairness, he literally didn't care at all what food came out and always ate it without complaint, but you could always see the server freeze up a little. Just ask, "What would you recommend?" Servers have a script for that, and it doesn't force them to pick one item that you may despise.

Speaking of food industry, I am in the middle of job hunting and 90% of food/bev ads on Craigslist are fake. They're for restaurants in other cities that don't exist, or they promise high wages but won't tell you where they're located, etc. I replied to one of them out of curiosity and I got a very "I am a Nigerian prince in need of assistance" type reply.

Magic Hate Ball
May 6, 2007

ha ha ha!
you've already paid for this

mostlygray posted:

I get frustrated when I order an "Italian BMT" at Subway, and they ask me what bread, what meat, what vegetables, what dressing, would you like eggplant or extra Cheeze Whiz... For the love of Christ, you're the "Sandwich Artist"; Art me up a mother loving sandwich! You ask for a Tuna sandwich and they still ask you what meat you want.

They're not a sandwich artist, they're a minimum wage employee trying to not get fired, which is really easy to do in a "customer is always right" type of atmosphere. You'd be impressed what people will freak out and demand to talk to the manager over. "This mongoloid you hired didn't put cream cheese on my tuna sandwich I want to see them FIRED RIGHT NOW!!"

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Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

mostlygray posted:

I respect that. I have to deal with my boss who only gives me half of their request with no details and then they turn their phone off and disappear.

I have an opposing opinion about sandwich shops. I always say "whatever you like", "Dealers Choice" when I go to a deli. I don't want to think about it. If you were to put a dead mouse on top of a whole tomato served on a cutting board covered in a slurry of raw meat drippings and whipping cream, I'm OK with that. If you like it, I like it. All I would like is a lot of horseradish.

Usually, when I say, "What do you like? I'll have that.", I get the dull eye'd stare of a dairy cow. Then I suddenly have to coach them on the concept of a sandwich. Yes, bread on the bottom, meat and/or veg in the center, covered with more bread. A pickle is nice. I actually once watched a dude in a cafeteria put a halved tomato on top of a piece of bread with some provolone on top and stare at me, questioning their whole existence. I had to explain that the tomato should be sliced and perhaps other things should go on the sandwich. I had asked for a Reuben but that seemed to be too much for him. Please understand that I knew the gentleman well and he was no fool in general. Quite talented as a DJ and very charming when he tried. He just couldn't handle making a drat sandwich.

I get frustrated when I order an "Italian BMT" at Subway, and they ask me what bread, what meat, what vegetables, what dressing, would you like eggplant or extra Cheeze Whiz... For the love of Christ, you're the "Sandwich Artist"; Art me up a mother loving sandwich! You ask for a Tuna sandwich and they still ask you what meat you want.

Without even having worked at one of these places before, I can tell having customers do this would drive me absolutely insane.

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