I'm a former fast food worker. People really were so hurtful when I was working fast food and it affects your self esteem after a while. Thanks for always respecting and standing up for us in your videos. It means a lot.
I currently work at an arbys and bro, it’s so bad. People are such dicks for literally no reason sometimes. They’ll lie at you and scream at you about things that either didn’t happen or were out of your control. The amount of times I’ve had someone blatantly lie to my face about stuff and insult me and my coworkers about it is crazy… someone once cussed us out for 5 minutes straight over putting ham on a brisket sandwich when we don’t even serve ham (made that sandwich myself and watched it get bagged too, nothing was wrong with it.)?? I’ve had people straight up lie about not getting food that I remember making, bagging AND handing out myself just to try and get a refund. It’s BS.
@@panickedshearsthis is why I don’t wanna work at another fast food restaurant anymore and I’ve worked at a couple the entitlement will be so far up ppl’s asses it’s ridiculous!! Truly sad and deplorable. sorry to hear man hope things get better
When I was working in fast food, my GM said to me, "Everyone should work 1 year in fast food and 1 year in the military." While that maybe wouldn't work out perfectly, it would knock a lot of people off of their damn high horses.
The dude made several TikTok videos in response to you, apparently he thinks he can sue for defamation and has federal agents investigating the incident lol
Imagine the police come investigating you for not giving you a refund and you have to explain to them what happen, and then you all laugh for the stupidity of the guy
Was a manager at mcdonalds for a year and a half, this happened once. When they wouldn't leave the window, we started walking outside and giving the food to the cars behind them because they wouldn't move. The people behind them ended up bullying them enough that they finally left. It's like we had to make the people outside mad at them for them to finally move.
@@kimishere2slayidk what it is about mcdonald’s but they love saying they’re not moving…. ok miss girl i’ll just walk around u and help ppl at the back window. have a good day
This is kind of genius. You stop engaging with the asshole, you serve the other customers, making the situation one where you're not holding up the line, the asshole is.
she most likely covered the short drawer from her own pocket so not only did he waste her time and ruin her shift, he also took her money and got her in trouble for his own shortcomings
if this is true then we need to get 4Chan on this, harass this man with sleepless nights and lifetime's worth of paranoia until he goes back, apologizes and returns the money twice the amount he got back originally, sickening
@@casper2694yes. if your till is short you have to pay whatever isnt there. its the stores, and without paying you can get terminated. so its either pay or lose your job p much.
thats not true lol i worked countless fast food if its a refund it doesnt come out of anyones pockets. even though he was being an asshole, they could have processed a refund n got him out of the way quicker.
@@bigmayathe company policy at Arby’s doesn’t allow them to process a refund, she literally has no choice and probably no controls on the system to process the refund
Beth needs a raise and a promotion. Any company would be lucky to have an employee that can maintain professionalism in such an annoying situation. She kept her cool when lots of people like me would have found it impossible.
For real. Really hard to keep your cool when a customer or a person continues to push. I bet deep down he knows this is trivial but he's just looking to blame and argue
@@Mr-pn2ehYou can’t, they are required to issue refunds when requested and she lied to him. Supervisors are authorized to give refunds, you don’t need a manager much less a General Manager for the refund authorization.
@@GodDragonLich They are absolutely not required. At least not unless that's literally in Arby's code of conduct or something, because it's not some legal requirement at all that you have to refund people when they complain about something they paid for. There is no "15 minutes or I get a refund" law. The food was brought to him, they delivered on the part of the transaction. Zero legal liability here. I worked as a manager over the entire non-grocery side of a large Walmart and I turned down refunds constantly. Extremely common in retail.
Not only will she get in trouble for taking money from the register, but also her car times will be high and not be up to standard because he decided to hold her up in the drive thru and not come inside at least. Plus, the people behind will be upset and short because, most likely, their food is done and sitting there waiting to be handed out. It's all around a lose-lose for Bethany, and I feel for her.
ive never had this experience in 2 years of working fast food in 3 different places, except the time someone called me the FA word because i accidentally had him wait 10 minutes for his change, which i totally understand. dollar general is a different story, hell the employees there were worse than the customers themselves
I worked in a McDonald’s for exactly 1 day and quit. That’s when I decided to study, get a few IT certifications and pick up a remote job. Best fucking decision I ever made. I absolutely feel for the fast food workers and I only needed 1 day of experience in a McDonald’s to realize that isn’t for me 😅
I work as a manager in a retail store and I genuinely love these kind of interactions. Telling angry customers that they are wrong about the thing they are angry about genuinely makes me happy. I also never understand why they say something like "I'm never coming here again". Like i could give a single fuck about that.
@@AwesomewolfpicI had a guy claim that his son is the manager at another location, good for him however that means that you have no excuse for being 3 months past our return policy
@@Shuttergun1I had an old man at Taco Bell yell at me, he said he used to be a United States Senator as if it was a flex to get me in trouble or something idek. Like maybe bro was but I can't do anything about us being physically out of food
I used to work at Ross when I was 18 and I feel you. When it was something the customer is generally wrong about, I would argue back. The adrenaline would kick in and for that short amount of time it would turn the job from mundane to exciting lmao And then afterwards your co-workers are all on your side and hyping you up. Also I LOVED when customers would say "I'm never coming here again".... Thank God for that.
A man destroyed our card reader and threw it at an employee fracturing his nose because we didn't have the button on the Kiosk for the Enchirrito. He fled the scene and we still haven't found him. The worst part is before this the higher ups gave us a staff meeting on what to say when "customers are unhappy we don't carry their favorite items anymore" like giving them a coupon is going to stop them from assaulting my staff over a $3 burrito
These experiences are incredibly common by the way. I have had to defend myself with a metal spatula dipped in scalding fryer oil against an aggressive homeless man coming behind the counter because we didn't have a veterans day discount. He scratched one of the crew members and kept trying to grt close to bite us and spit on us while saying "I'm gonna give you aids" "I'm gonna make you bitches pay"
One of the managers had hot coffee thrown back on him because it "took too long only to taste like shit" (it's taco bell coffee what do you expect) and he got second degree burns on his neck and jaw. Same guy also tried to throw chairs through the doors unsuccessfully and was later stopped by the police, where he pulled out a knife trying to stab an officer, and was gunned down and killed. The funny thing? I don't even work in a terrible part of town. This is just normal america
I work at an arbys. I work drive thru maybe 50% of the time. The amount of pissy, childish people I’ve had to deal with is crazy. Been cussed out over asking what drink order someone wants, been handed a coupon someone licked, verbally berated after telling someone we were waiting on chicken to cook, and told to go to hell over prices that I don’t control. If you ask nicely, and you’re not a dick, i will do everything i can to fix whatever i messed up. We can in some cases refund orders if something is messed up, like if you ordered a sandwich and we gave you the wrong sandwich or put something on it you didn’t want, we can refund or replace that specific sandwich. (Usually we will not replace a whole order). However, some districts are more strict about refunds, discounts and voided orders. This girl may also just be a shift manager, and while shift managers can give discounts and refunds (at least, at my store in my district), she may not be allowed to without authorisation from her assistant or a general manager. Most of the time on a night shift, which is what I assume this is based on how dark it is outside, the GM or an assistant will not be there and it’ll just be one shift manager running the store. Also, that man is sitting in the drive thru, potentially holding up the people behind him, and running up their drive thru times. If someone did that to me I would have not been so graceful about it, let me tell you. That is genuinely the most selfish, “me me me!!”, childish bullshit you could ever do. If that happened in my drive thru that window would’ve been closed the second he pulled out the phone and started recording, cause ain’t no way I’m dealing with that shit.
Past QSR worker at 3rd place that's sadly 24/7 i bust my ass off and take way too much verbal abuse and no security which gives major anxiety and dread. sadly when the weather can play into "good" days as in the homeless stay away (given some still come out cause yea) to even new ones and you gotta play a moral game of "do i make this person starve or resort to stealing" it's a lot these officials gotta do something holy shit! My QSR jobs weren't bad but omg the manager i wish i reported for being a bitter old dick to then public transport screw me at the other kinda sorta and miss that bomb company discount and being at places that close omg!
Well get the food orders correct and out faster! And guess what? You all won't be dealing with angry stressful customers. Why do you all think half of those people are going to fast food places? They're tired, on a 30 minute lunch break, and/or too lazy to cook their own meals at home. I shouldn't come to your KFC and get a order with burnt chicken, lumpy mash potatoes, and cold wedges that I've wait 15 minutes for on my 1 hour lunch break.
@@disguiseddv8ant486what kinda kfc you goin too my man?😭 you fasho cappin. I work at kfc and we don’t even sell wedges no more. And hello??? The chicken is freshly made and cooked in a pressure cooker, it takes 20 minutes for it to be fully finished. You think delicious chicken just appears outa thin air. Get yo old ahh outa here😂😂
She did. I can feel her pain. Had she more courage though she should have threatened to call the cops on him for obstructing business, but who knows if that call would have gotten her in worse trouble.
I worked for blue cross customer support on the phone, and I had a guy say he hopes someone blows our workplace up, because an offer he wanted wasn’t available in his area. Crazy people.
I hope Bethany sees how much support she's getting online from pretty much everyone who sees the video. She deserves WAY more money to deal with pathetic idiots like that guy!
ive worked in fast food for a few years now. i try my hardest to never appease these kinda people because it just reinforces this kinda behavior. never go against your refund policy. tell them to leave and if they dont, call the cops
Alot of people often don't have a choice but to put up with abuse and mistreatment because they don't have the qualifications to get the job they want. So even if the pay is low there are no better alternatives.
I really hope she didn't get in trouble. She was being harassed and belittled. Not only that, he was holding up the line and hurting their business. It's absolutely ridiculous
She won't get in trouble if the franchise owner or upper management has any sense. She handled it the way she should have. True shift management are people who can exercise proper judgement.
She didn't follow protocol and really messed up this customer interaction. She should hopefully get reprimanded, or fired if this isn't the first time.
She should. Hes completely in the right. She wants to give him cold food he spent 20 dollars on and say they cant give refunds when they can. Its not against policy. She offered to let him sit in line another 15 minutes or eat cold food....id be pissed.
As a former food service manager and employee, I can’t even fathom the number of times I’ve bent or broken the rules in order to make an angry customer leave. They never appreciate it, and I’ve been lucky enough to never get into trouble myself for making that choice. I can’t speak for others. Different companies enforce their policies in different ways. I hope that nice lady doesn’t get in trouble
I hope Arby’s goes out of business for understaffing while overcharging for the food. Then denying people refunds when they can no longer wait. Garbage
The problem is they don’t teach you or tell you that you can call the police. You are only required to do what the rules say breaking them to make someone happy like refunds you can’t will only hurt you
I work at a McDonald’s and there are so many times that someone’s insisted that they got something they didn’t pay for and we gave it to them just to get them the hell out.
@@tonypringles2285 15 minutes is not that long, he won’t starve to death because he had to wait 15 minutes for a Arbys order. A lot of fast food places are understaffed anyways, so it would make sense
As someone who just started working in fast food and got sent home YESTERDAY because I was crying thanks to a rude customer, it makes me happy knowing at least Charlie understands that I'm a human being Edit: for those being rude, keep in mind that it was my second week at my first real job and I have extreme social anxiety. You're making judgements on me based off of the fact I cried ONCE because I was overwhelmed, and I only gave the bare minimum of my story. For the record, I have been much stronger ever since the experience and haven't come anywhere near tears in far more stressful situations, so I have learned and grown from it, as all humans do. And for the people defending me/sympathizing with me, thank you. You don't have to do that but I appreciate it. Being insulted behind a screen doesn't affect me like it does in real life, but I'm glad some people still care
Been working fast food for a couple years now and you deal with these people incredibly often simply put if you can’t handle that you might need to find a different occupation or work BOH not saying it’s not ok to cry bc trust me I’ve been driven there too
@@necroshq1448lol they said they just started working there yesterday its a new experience that doesn’t mean they should just immediately find a new job
Bethany is such a good person for putting her ass on the line and going against the code for some jerk bag like him. Mad respect for her to do what she needed to and keep the day going
As someone who’s been in Bethany’s position, it’s hard to take them seriously or take it personally when they go off like this. We’re getting paid to listen to their shit. So we go through our NPC voice lines about giving replacement food or whatever
Nah, I would be bothered having customers go off on me, calling me names, then saying they're gonna go to a manager because of something I didn't do. Publix is a trash company too so they'll always side with the customer and it's my fault they were out of products that I can't order and they wouldn't accept an apology. Don't work for Publix, it's a horrible company.
As soon as he said he won't leave and make the long backed up until he gets a refund I'd simply say "then I'm calling the police, you can explain to them why your trespassing on this property cause we're now gonna refuse service. Good luck"
Her patience shouldn't be used up by a-holes like this guy. You're not wrong, I just want to remind people with lots of patience that it is valuable and most people who are willing to test it are not worthy of it. It wears thin eventually, especially if no one's there to remind you of this.
What a sad situation. It's frustrating how some people act so entitled. The fast food worker was just trying to do her job, and as you said, errors can happen. Absolutely no need for filming and attacking someone over a small issue. Fast food workers have it hard enough already.
she's still just trying to do her job. a rule of thumb everyone should follow is if someone is trying their best to resolve an issue, then why the fuck are you mad or yelling at them? it could be the most backwards ass company rule there is but if the person I'm on the phone to is just a cog in the wheel, why would I pry out that cog instead of contacting the engineer? Absolutely 0 reason for the dude to act the way he is. He and possibly yourself is part of why the world is so bitter and negative. Putting down those trying to help you due to inconvenience from a corporation but taking it out on the guys who's job it is to try and help you it's fucking gross and I don't even work in service industry anymore. Shit happens. The guy in the vid needs to grow the fuck up and stop being an entitled man baby. Can she give a refund? No. Why? No general manager. She can give him his food? Yes. Take the food and complain to corporate for the feasibility of a refund. It's that easy. @@disguiseddv8ant486
@@disguiseddv8ant486never ever justifies treating someone like dirt. Also, grow up. 15 minutes isn’t much. If you are worried about losing 15 minutes of your life, you are a sad individual
@@disguiseddv8ant486 What he's asking her in the video is something she's stating is out of her skillset, she's offering a solution, he's not accepting it. You can't be serious
We should get rid of the whole "The customer is always right" mentality, the full quote is literally "The customer is always right - in the matter of taste" Being in fast food, I feel this so much, I hope she's doing better knowing people are on her side.
The phrase isnt for customers. Its for the company when developing their services. Customers often ask for a certain bbq sauce? Then we make sure we buy in enough. Customers like wiping their shoes before entering the restroom? We make sure we have that thing. "Customer is always right" is never to be used by customers when they complain.
I work in a supermarket and it's the same kinda thing. Customers will completely insult you on a daily basis and you can't say shit back or else you'll get punished. This country encourages being an asshole, and I fucking hate it.
As a customer service and food industry worker, I can speak for most of us when I say we deal with entitled people all day, every day. It’s so exhausting. All that stress for a mere $400 a week. And for everyone in the replies thinking $400 for a 40 hour week is a lot, I’m 16 and I pay for my own things (like food) and saving for my apartment, so it’s barely enough to survive.
im so thankful for your videos standing up for people in customer service. ive had too many breakdowns dealing with stuff like this, and i was known as the happiest most optimistic bitch in my store lmao but it broke me too
She'd be lucky to just get a write up if not a verbal warning, pulling money out of the till like that could be seen as theft and could lead to her being fired over this, I hope the GM understood in the end
I'm in college and work fast food part time. There's a strange societal enigma that makes people think that fast food employees are subhuman. So often I get told the nastiest things for little reason.
literally the worst lol had a 30 year old woman curse me and my other 16 yo co-workers out because she got mad at us for giving her one less fish strip (it was at the bottom of the bag)
Yea worst other working people get angry at me for some reason to older people thinking cause their old they can get away with being mean. and omfg people need to hand cash to people and not toss it to us that shit is annoying and gross! i simply put out my hand and still some people complain not knowing i got like 4+ other task to do! And consistent state of mentally prepping for what might happen since me and whatever co-worker i'm with are left alone with no security!
i had a customer tell me to kill myself because she thought i put my hands inside of her food bag. all i did was drop the napkins into the bag while in view of the window. i also make a point to wash my hands every ten minutes or so. @@suetan
I had a woman literally dive bomb into the front of line, nearly hitting the store because she wanted to order another medium fry. I told her that I could not do that for her, you have to go and wait in line like everyone else and she flipped shit on me. It is actually insane how entitled some of these people are
@@bendover5438Yeah it's absolutely ridiculous. Worked at McDonald's for 9 months and almost got into like 3 fights cause of customers trying to start stuff like come on it can't be that serious 😭😭
As a fast food employee of 6 years, I can sadly say that shit like this is so common of an occurrence and each time it happens it just drains away a little more at your soul. My heart goes out to all my fast food brothers and sisters. EASILY is one of the toughest jobs to deal with on the planet for SO many reasons. I'm so thankful that Charlie is someone who stands with workers like us and is truly appreciative of what we do/hurts for us for what we go through. Much love, brother.
I've never worked fast food but it doesn't take much to realize how overworked you guys are, and how much shit you have to take from entitled assholes. My mom worked in fast food growing up and it would stress her out so much. All it takes is the smallest amount of basic human empathy. I appreciate the work you do for whatever it's worth.
It's the clientele. The cheaper the products sold are, the worse the customers are. The poorer someone is, the more likely they will be stressed, uneducated, and trashy. Dollar stores have the exact same problem as fast food. They both attract the poorest and most classless people. If you don't want to deal with that, you gotta work for a company with high class, high dollar customers. Or just don't work in an industry that works with the public.
As a teen whos worked fast food, other cars get theirs first because we bag the food that we have up. If you order a less popular item, we make it to order. We give out the food we have up cause there is no reason to let food go cold or more stale so we can make you feel special. This sort of thing happens everyday where people treat us like dirt because their fries weren't the perfect temp or people just straight up change their mind because they don't care or they think its funny to make our job harder. Thanks for sticking up for us man
Do y’all get mad if we come back and ask for fresher fries? Or y’all just like whatever sure about it? Lol I only ask cuz it happens a few times to me and I always feel bad having to do it 😂
@@ZinalaG59 personally just be nice about it, too many times people came back with an attitude or ask for it early “can I get fresh fries? I don’t mind the wait.” But if they give you attitude they definitely had someone before you that was a pain in the butt to deal with.
@@solxce yea I’m always nice about it especially with fast food and retail employees. I just hate to be made out to be a “complainer” if I ask for it lol it’s just a me thing I know the employees are probably not like that
@@Realaccount29l993Honestly, I’d agree but, how crazy people are nowadays with shootings in irrational situations like this, I would try my best to make sure that I don’t make the person even more angrier. Get them on their way as safe as possible.
@@SmileyAdventuresi’m closing the window and calling the cops to have his dumb ahh trespassed, i cannot be paid enough to handle this after working in a busy restaurant for a few months 😭😭
Worked at a Wendy’s and it was truly abysmal. Not just in terms of the work being so demanding and having to be insanely fast always running around doing stuff but the way we get treated by customers (and sometimes managers like in my case..)
I don’t think they would punish her, if there one good thing about social media it’s that now days companies know better than to go against the public opinion on things like this
@@deadinside1777a lady at a Waffle House was defending herself from a fight in the restaurant and everyone was on her side when the video went viral and she got fired and blacklisted from working at another Waffle House again
I got fired for doing exactly what she did. This was pre-Tik Tok, about 2008. All I wanted to do was stop the yelling and cursing inside the restaurant. I gave the woman her money back out of the register, I kept her receipt. Was told "No wonder you all have dead end jobs" on her way out as the exit zinger. My register was short by her exact amount. I told my GM that the money could be taken out of my check, I just didn't want the kids to keep hearing that language. I was told that wasn't my decision to make and was immediately terminated. I appealed to the district manager, she thanked me for giving her my name to add to the "do not allow for rehire" list. $15 and up shortages were auto-termination. Takes me a couple weeks to get into another job, that job holds the first paycheck, rent falls behind, lose my apartment, move back in with parents. ALL over a couple nasty roast beef sandwiches, fries and drinks. Edit: Got back on my feet about a month after, just showing that there are consequences for actions, even the ones involving doing the right thing. Justice is fake in the working world.
As a retail employee, there is nothing more annoying than arguing the store policy on refunds relentlessly with someone, and then the manager coming in and just giving the rude customer a refund to avoid escalation. This just teaches people if they act up they get what they want and it’s so frustrating.
@@mythicalmonsterman1651 It's a bot, Charlie's videos are riddled with them because he's popular. Just report any comment like this. I see another one all the time that's like "My farts are stinkier than Charlie's"
As a person who worked at Popeyes, that shit is MAD ANNOYING. The GM has to count the money made, if it’s short, cashier gets backlash for missing money. Even if you mention they wanted a refund, you still get in trouble. I’ve seen coworkers get part of their checks cut to remake the money, and myself included. Idk if that’s a universal thing. Regardless, refunding if you’re not a GM is one of the biggest no nos a cashier can do
I mean when the register was over by $2 the GM complained, abandoned change. When it was short by like $20 because of an improper invoice for a toilet, my GM blamed everyone but himself.
Sure it differs with work places and sure the amount matters given to take (haha get it missing money) but yea walmart don't play so for real don't try it with them to most places QSR's mostly to convenient stores got tons of camera's mostly aimed at the register so why even bother! My store can do refunds just we need the receipt which as a code we need current store has it where the managers numbers are needed.
Not in fast food, but during the summer I work at my “home away from home” Cedar Point, it’s an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, at their restaurant “BackBeatQue” and there are so many rude, disrespectful, and ungrateful, miserable people that go through there. I’m only 16, yet last season I got in several “arguments” with people and explaining to them that either their meal plan isn’t ready to use yet and stuff like that, and I’ve been yelled at for just telling people that. I work on register and I consider myself a pretty fast worker so there’s really no reason for them to get mad at me about their food, but god damn do some people got some nerve.
@@thecalham"sir, the rules say no refunds for this, but you've gotten to the point where I'm more than willing to refund you out if my own damn pocket just for the privilege of not putting up with you, so get out of here."
When I worked at burger king, we had a grill fire and I was told to evacuate the customers. One of them demanded a refund and a gift card because she didn't like how I told them there was a fire and they needed to evacuate. Her husband later apologized to me and said she does this everywhere she goes.
I had a coworker like that. He himself wasn’t bad but he would constantly tell us stories about his wife complaining in public and how embarrassed he feels because of it. Those feelings of regret and despair he has every day must be unbearable
Props to the Bethany! They’re def lucky to have someone as patient as her. If it were me, the police and/or ambalance would be on the spot in 10 seconds
i feel this. its so frustrating when a customer wants you to do something you are physically not capable of. They'll yell at you for as long as they can and theres nothing you can do to get them to have some basic empathy. Even though I do understand how frustrating it can be to be in a situation like this as a customer, I wish people would understand that employees and managers under a chain business have so little control.
Years of experience in retail has taught me that the only way to handle a situation like this is to get right down to brass tacks and say something like “giving refunds requires a code that *i don’t have*.” That’s the only thing that’s ended up working for me
@@MatthewNope You need to go look up what scam means. And even if Arby's is scamming people, why would you place the responsibility off a whole ass company on her?
As someone with +8 years in the food industry fast food and fine dining, she handled it like a champ. At that point every manager I’ve worked for and myself included would say it is worth refunding just to solve the problem. She won’t get in trouble with her bosses at all
If she has a boss with any kind of brain then she won't get into trouble. But unfortunately that level of lower management is chock fucking full of Karens and Kevins who are bitter that they're 40 years old and not further along in life so they make it their mission to make everyone around them as miserable as they are. I really, really hope that Bethany has a manager with some level of intelligence and empathy, but it's far from a guarantee.
If a manager can't refund a couple coupons go a long way. Take the name and number down for your general manager and they can take care of it. The problem here is when you don't even give your MODs autonomy. Give them all the responsibility with none of the authority. Guy was an asshole, but it's obvious Bethany has been made to feel that she doesn't have the leeway to make things right. Shit policies and shitty training
@@travisleabeck2572 agreed and I only learned how to handle people like this after about 5 years. It’s something you learn over time and a shitty situation to be in. But she did a good job. I’m sure her managers will give her the same talk I got eventually. “Yes you are right you can’t give a refund BUT people like that in the business are not allowed. Defuse it anyway how” the business will make their money eventually. Especially a damn Arby’s🤦🏻♂️
@@disguiseddv8ant486 yeah that’s any business but that $8 he spent don’t mean shit to anyone. And I was looking for work for months up until recently. It’s not worth the hassle in the end
Well, if we know one thing about the internet: that guy probably got hella flamed and might be doxxed at this point so… karma? Fast food is not for the weak, keep being strong Bethany!
I'm a pharmacy tech. People treat me like garbage sometimes, but they can also be sweet. The kindnesses that people DO give means so much because It's uncommon. The kindness that they get is even less. My heart goes out to food-service workers. It's an essential service in the modern world, It's incredibly difficult, and people don't even grant them the most basic respect.
I know deescalating these situations is the most important thing, especially because you have no idea if a customer will suddenly become violent (I have actually had somebody lunge over the counter and try to grab me literally for “taking too long”) but it still bothers me SO MUCH that employees are forced to concede to this kind of behavior and end up showing these awful people that their terrible behavior will be rewarded. It just teaches them to do the exact same thing next time so they get their way.
@@JustWowNick That is the ONE thing I've loved about working at a gas station compared to other forms of retail. The customers that go in there and throw a fit to try and get free stuff and all I had to do was tell them to leave or I would call the cops (Had the right to refuse service to anyone.) Meanwhile they go to Wal-Mart or any other big name retail store, their fit gets rewarded with a gift card and a manager coddling them like they're a toddler.
As a McDonald’s employee, this is is exactly why I work in kitchen. Not having to deal with customers is a huge bonus but I do feel bad sometimes. Customers think they know more than they actually do and believe they are right against people who work at the place
Yeah. A customer made a coworker of mine cry. This older lady ordered a chicken sandwich except she said it looking away from the cash register so the person couldn’t here, and when they apologized and asked if the customer could repeat herself she said she wanted her order cancelled and was going to take her business elsewhere.
I worked at Wendy's back in 2014 and had a crazy lady come in and call the cashier a hard R-N word. Most people are great but when you serve SO many people and interact with so many there's always one or two every day who are brain damaged. These people's lives are so trash they have nothing better to do.
This is why I changed my career from sales to service. I love customer interactions, but I'm telling you people tend to be in a much better mood when you bring them their beer vs when you sell them a shelf!
he didn't have to be mad at her she doesn't make the rules she just enforces them, reminds me of the time a group of elderly ladies lectured me because our store didn't take cash, only card
Right? Like sure, I just work here and don't even care about this pos job but yes, thank you for the lecture, I'll be sure sure to change the policy as soon as you leave.
I work at Walgreens and I get yelled at because the pharmacy is closed. I work up front. I don't control shit about the pharmacist having jury duty or being sick.
Well, it is the companies fault. Cash money is still a valid method of payment. I will not go to Ikea anymore for this reason because the employees get mad if you want to pay cash. Not the employees fault but the company.
I work in fast food, had something like this happen to me last night. I don't understand why people think they can treat us like trash just because they've paid us.
Because shit like tiktok and snapchat have given too many people an inflated sense of self-importance. It basically main character syndrome on a generational scale.
As someone who's also worked that job, because you're representing the company that pushes you guys to do this kinda stuff. If you're called out on it accept it and apologies. Don't get your back up because nasty business practices get you put on blast. Its just a job.
I used to work at McDonald’s (2021-22) and it makes sense that wait times are getting longer and orders are coming out wrong all the time (sorry ya’ll) bc at least when I was there, there would only be ONE person in the grill (me) manning the grill and the fryer and constantly having to replenish the trays bc orders are coming up too fast. It’s all about numbers for the companies. There were literally magnets posted everywhere about how many SECONDS x task should take. We were constantly being watched by the manager and being told to go faster. Stores were being pitted against each other with a leaderboard in the kitchen. There was virtually no temperature regulation back there either and I got heat stroke once. I was told to leave early after sitting in the office trying not to pass out bc “I wasn’t getting paid to sit on the floor.” Was totally lovin’ it
One time my dad and I went to go get some ice cream and the lady that took our order informed us they were all out of a specific topping that we asked for. When we laughed and told her it was okay she literally heaved and sighed in relief and thanked us over and over for not giving her a hard time over it and told us she usually gets customers that yell and scream at her constantly for such things. My heart broke for her tbh I hope she's doing okay right now
@@Slenderslayer351 My dad was mad on her behalf. Constantly reassured her that she was more than okay and that kindness and understanding was the bare minimum. We joked and laughed with her to make her feel better and throughout the ride home my dad kept complaining, "Who the fuck yells at someone for being out of ice cream toppings?". We still joke about it to this day. If I ever see the ice cream lady again I'm going to thank her for all her hard work.
@@nicknackpaddywacks I'm sure you two made her day, and I can agree with your dad, like who does yell at someone for something that isn't in their control or their fault
@@Slenderslayer351 What's strange to me is that the people in these positions having to deal with people going off with them seem like they are in positions that pay the least. I was a medical biller that on occasion had to send people to collections, though often I wrote off large amounts if I could tell they genuinely couldn't pay for a surgery etc even if they didn't ask for the bill to be reduced. Even sending people to collections I got less backlash than I've seen fast food workers get for an order being incorrect etc. At the time I was making double what my friends in fast food were making and billing people for thousands, and yet my friends got yelled at for the stupidest things but I got treated with respect, it's just odd. I think maybe some people take their anger out on them because of the way those type of jobs have been kind of stigmatized as sort of unskilled easy work so that some people end up feeling like they are better than the people working there. When I was growing up a lot of adults around me talked about ending up working in fast food like it meant someone had failed to get a good education or were lazy so they were unable to get higher paying positions. Luckily the adults around me didn't think it was okay to treat the people working these positions poorly, they thought people working these positions should be treated with more respect if nothing else because they saw the jobs as being underpaid for as much as the people had to deal with. It's ridiculous because most of the hardest working people I know had to work a lot of minimum wage positions including fast food.
@@nicknackpaddywacks It is definitely a shock when you first go into working Fast Food. I never realized how many angry and entitled people there were until I got my first job at Jack in The Box. I've had a customer screaming and throwing things at me and my employees because the cook accidentally put mayo on his burger when he asked for no sauce. We would have gladly remade it for him but he came in yelling and cursing up a storm.
Needs to be illegal to record people in public like it is in places like Germany. Maybe bar public servants like police officers, bcus yknow corruption and stuff. But even that could be solved with better body camera requirements for cops.
@@chromberries7329there need to be stipulations on that though. Plenty of creators (myself included) make content in the public and people just happen to be around. If there were laws saying no one can be filmed in public then more than half of RU-vid and many television shows would simply cease to exist. If we do this, it needs to have a “malicious intent” clause attached.
This happens so often. A goofball will place an order online and then cancel it after finding out we have a long wait time, or are out of something. After placing the order AND cancelling it through an app they come into our independently owned store demanding a refund on an order that goes through the app. These people are genuinely so frustrating, and I hope Bethany's week goes better.
Why is it goofy to want to cancel your order if you only find out something you ordered is out after you place the order? Sounds like the company needs to get itself figured out.
@@osculant I never said it was goody to cancel your order. I called them goofballs for doing everything online and then still demanding a physical refund
To be fair, if a store is out of a product, the app should reflect that. Plus, some apps/online ordering do not specifically state to contact the company itself instead of the restaurant. It’s a misunderstanding. If they cancel online and demand a refund in store as well, then that’s ridiculous. If they come by and are frustrated that a product isn’t available, and they were not made aware of that, that’s incredibly frustrating for the customer. It’s just business. There’s a difference between shitty customers and having poor customer service - coming from a previous fast food worker and manager.
I feel for Bethany. I worked in customer service for years, and trying to follow the rules while appeasing an angry customer *and* keeping lines moving fast is extremely difficult. Hopefully her manager didn't come down on her too hard, but it is fast food.
Having worked fast food for almost two years at one point, I wish I could say this was out of the ordinary… maybe we don’t get recorded all the time but people act like this all the time. People just don’t understand fast food or customer service workers. I think people just need someone to punch down on, and they have to go do it to someone who can’t argue or fight back.
Back in the day I used to work at a gas station. One day I was working by myself because the other person called in sick and some guy came in wanting propane. The thing was, the propane was outside and I couldn't leave the store unattended to get propane(for OBVIOUS reasons) which I explained to him. He didn't care. He stood at the register unwilling to move and threw the biggest hissyfit ever. So after a few minutes I gave up and kicked everyone out of the store so I could get him his precious propane. The remarkable thing was, after I got him his propane and walked around the corner to go back into the store I heard him talking to his buddy joking around saying something like "Sometimes you gotta go into N-er mode to get stuff done.". Which is to say, he wasn't even really upset. It was all just a deliberate ploy so he could get his way.
@@BrandonHeat243that’s fucked up he thinks he can treat you like that. If I ever saw him again I would go out of my way to make his life hell. He isn’t even grateful for what you did!!!
I love it when you and other large RU-vidrs call these people out. This manager did the right thing. She deescalated the situation and got him out of there. Her GM would be an idiot to give her any trouble. She had to have been questioning their safety at some point. He’s lucky she didn’t call the police and a tow truck.