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TheOtherMike posted...

And I definitely don't believe you were a fast food manager. No one who's ever worked in food sevice has your attitude towards service workers.

Well I was, for the chain where people make the 'in the Crack' jokes. And I have this attitude towards the average worker because I was in their shoes and could figure simple shit out. But the average teen worker these days is often too busy staring at their phones to even be present.

As I said, it's literally as simple as 'take the meat you're about to dump on sandwich A and put it on sandwich B instead'.

To take another example it's the same reason when I go to a place like Subway and they ask what I want on the sandwich I simply say, "Skip the lettuce" and wait because 4 out of 5 times the dumb employee IMMEDIATELY reaches for the lettuce. But after a second or two my words tend to sink in and they stop before the lettuce hits the sandwich. Only then will I tell them to put on 'everything else'.

The average fast food worker is indeed as dumb as a bag of bricks. Maybe they hate their job, maybe they're daydreaming of being a streaming celebrity, maybe they're just not that smart. Whatever the reason, 80% of them get tripped up on the simplest of requests because they're fixated on following a script; kind of like call center employees who literally follow a script.