Stop Pranking Essential Workers 

ps I shaved my moustache yesterday :(

the barista who said "hope u get famous" in the saltiest tone ever def talked MAD SHIT about her when she drove off

Fun essential service worker pranks you can do yourself: - If they make a mistake, nod and say it’s totally okay! They’ll be so relieved, it’ll be hilarious! - Order efficiently and quickly, without hesitating too much! The look on their FACES when the line is able to move faster and they don’t have to deal with angry people because of the wait time, PRICELESS! - Compliment the service to the boss! That’s one of my favorite pranks, when you give positive feedback and highlight their hard work.

as a tiny seventeen year old working at yankee candle, a fully grown man attempted to vault the counter to punch me because i wouldn’t accept his coupon. still not the worst thing that’s ever happened to me at a customer service job.

9:43 i like to think he went up to jenna and was like “hey can i borrow a dress” and she was like why and he was like “cuz i wanna sing to the garbage man”

What makes that girls singing cringier is, it's going on for too long..... She's singing like the whole freaking song, just sing two verses and goooooo

“They could punch me in the balls over and over and I’d still tip that 20%”. That’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever heard

I mean I work at a clothing store and the amount of times that old women just start TAKING THEIR CLOTHES OFF in the middle of the store because there’s no fitting rooms available? Scary.

i work retail, specifically tech and gaming. the most prominent issues are: -sexism (people straight up will ignore me and go to a different FLOOR just to be directed back to me because i indeed know what i’m talking about) -being hit on by old men (despite telling them i’m 17) -having to be nice to the old men because they buy stuff and my sales don’t reach the minimum if i refuse service -people being angry at me for shit i have nothing to do with, like their kid telling them that we sell vbucks or that their car had an issue in the way and somehow that’s my fault never work in service if you can avoid it. that’s just a fraction of what happens in a day 😀😀😀

The baristas 100% roasted her the second they shut the window

the singing is giving me an EXTREME case of secondhand embarrassment lmao, i keep having to pause it bc i CANNOT take it

I once saw an instance of this where the “prankster” was not actually “joking” but literally catcalling a cop begging over and over for her to arrest him and she just shuts her window because he doesn’t stop and all the comments on the video were like omg nobody can joke around these days… why are you defending this in the comment section 😭😭 that post was messy i stayed away lol

typical things i had to deal with when i worked in a self serve yogurt place: - regular transphobia (im a trans man and at the time i didnt pass) - harassment because i looked like a girl and was “pretty” - people complaining about what they chose -awful managers -etc

Kurtis: "hey Jenna, I need to borrow one of your dresses." Jenna: "again? Ok, what is it this time?" Kurtis: "serenading the garbage man."

just because the barista is being so nice, doesn't mean they're interested

the whole reason i still wear a mask at work is so i can make faces at customers and quietly cuss them out or insult them for being annoying without anyone noticing. however, my eyes and eyebrows show my judgement too well and if anyone sang their order to me or pranked me i wouldn't even be able to control the disgust and judgment in my expression. props to the workers who smiled thru it, could not have been me love.

As someone with severe auditory processing issues, if someone tried singing their order to me, I wouldn't be able to hide my annoyance, especially if they still expected me to fulfill their order.

I think another MASSIVE point here, is that this caused someone to actually called the police, wasting time and resources which could have impeded a real emergency.

" that performance was so moving, so I'm moving " UNDERRATED JOKE

I work at a KFC restaurant and when I say people are so rude for absolutely no reason, I mean it. One time, I was working late at work and I was on drive thru headset and since there was no one available to help me, I was managing the drive thru on my own. This meant there was a bit of delay with food as I was literally taking an order, making the drinks, taking payment, running to prepare the food and then handing it to the customer. We had a wait on chicken so we were all waiting on food and parking up cars. Short staff, busy night. Some guy came up to the drive thru window and proceeded to YELL at me for waiting 10 minutes in a drive thru. He refused to pay for his food so I tried to reason with him by giving him a free drink or even free food, to which he took. After another 5 minutes, I finally handed this guy his food and before he had even looked in the bag, he immediately complained that it was cold. Before I could say anything, he started to throw food at me (chicken on the fucking BONE) and drive off with the drive thru in a state and even more angry people behind him for the amount of time this guy took up arguing for no reason. I understand his frustration, but when he can see a 17 year old girl loosing her fucking mind all alone in a drive thru, you did not need to throw food in my face. Especially since that shit HURT.

As a pharmacy tech before, during, and after the state of emergency, the respect and appreciation we got treated with was only temporary

Jenna: * just going about her day * Kurtis: can I borrow that red dress, the one with the flowers and v-neck?

I feel like half that singing ladies TikTok’s are not posted because the workers are like, “okay, and?”

I’ve never worked retail or fast food, but I have a huge amount of respect for them and feel bad every time they mess up my order having to ask them to fix my order because their jobs are hard enough and I can understand that.

If I was a barista at Starbucks and someone sang me their order I would repeatedly ask them to repeat it until they stopped singing

the first girl is definitely the type of girl to randomly sing in ur class and pretend to not be asking for compliments.

as a kidnapping survivor, doing that stupid 'prank' would be so harmful for someone with ptsd like me. but obviously they don't care about others so 🤷

8:35 this is an inside joke with me and my mom now, we’ll just drop a “spicy southwest salad” to the tune of Memories out of nowhere sometimes. Thanks for making family time -worse- better Kurtis

the baristas standing there listening to her sing are having flashbacks to those days in school when the class would sing you happy birthday and you would just sit there not knowing where to look or what to do with your hands

People who are working are trapped. They can't leave if they're uncomfortable because they're doing their job. Anyone who makes them put up with this crap is very selfish and socially inept. I'm a nurse. I'm also a person who can't leave my job. When a person makes that situation uncomfortable it makes me very angry because they know I can't leave my patients.

It's depressing to go back to videos from mid-2020 where we all thought the pandemic would lead to people actually giving a shit about service workers

My grandma is one of the people who are really rude to people in a drive thru one time there was a guy at mcdonalds that was somehow make through the day with smiling all day and being really kind then when we left she said “what the hell was wrong with that guy” changed my entire perspective on my grandma that day

dont- dont sing your order to employees. theyre not gonna care, they just have to be nice to you. youll be holding up the line

she’s the girl in middle school who would claim she wasn’t good at singing and then would sing all the time around literally everyone

10:21 bro my sister told me that someone started singing his order at her job and IMMEDIATELY after she got off she told me how embarrassing it was, like nobody was even recording he was rlly just singing just cuz

My auditory processing issues could NOT handle the singer. My first response would be 'I did not understand what you said could you please repeat that?' 🤣

that order-singing woman is literally only doing this to get praise from people who have no other choice but to be polite to her face, how desperate do you have to be

Kurtis looks like a bowling alley attendant from the 90s

For me the worst part are the co workers. Dont tell you anything, explain the minimum, say i should ask questions, i ask questions, they get mad or treat me like the dumbest person ever, so i dont ask questions, do smth wrong, they are mad at me.

Dude the reactions to that woman singing in the Starbucks drivethru feels like the real life version of those Reddit stories where people are like yea I did this totally awesome thing and at the end everyone clapped and gave me a high five. like those poor workers were probably like how do I react to this I’m literally just trying to get through the day and you’re sitting here holding up my line for a tiktok

you all have traumatised him from that time he forgot the extra greeting.

the only good drive-thru prank is that vine that's like : "hi may i take your order" "no." (drives away)

I hate how these people mess with people just trying to do their jobs

I’m watching this late, but I can confirm as a retail worker (in the U.K.) - people actually got worse. They were a little better when it initially started but once lockdown was lifted people treat us significantly worse :s

why does kurtis look like an off brand version of himself in this

I'm sorry mr. Mayor but you can't say things like "If you're gonna rub me, rub me the right way" while having a mustache like that. You just can't.

now I kinda wanna write a crime thriller where the kids of a family blogging channel go missing and the detective has to figure out if it was a coincidence or foul play that the parents are acting suspicious...

The girl at 7:50 should have done a cover pf a metal song. That would have been very entertaining. "Can I get a VIIIIIIIIIIIIIINTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ICED COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

“Essential workers” always get shit on, and I always found it a little insulting to be called “essential” because the pay never reflected that, nor did the respect.

They really need to get rid of, “The customers always right” slogan. The only time it’s even used is when people want to use it against the worker/company

Never thought a lack of social anxiety would be a bad thing but here we are

the girl that sung her order seems like that one kid that would always sing to themselves getting louder and louder until someone gave them a compliment

If someone ever tried to sing their order to me, I'd interrupt halfway through, like "What was that?" or "sorry we're out of that at the moment"

I love how ppl say “flipping burgers at McDonald’s”, we don’t flip our burgers (at least at my location) lmao

i can barely go up to the starbucks barista and ask for a frappuccino without passing out i dont know how that one girl SINGS IT.

You know the people who do this kinda stuff don’t even tip after.

The girl "singing the order" gives me big annoying theatre kid energy

That "fore!" Joke is going to be my favourite thing for all of eternity

12:23 i was trying but i had ice cream in my mouth :(

Why does Kurtis looks like a 70s dad that goes out disco dancing

I’m 99% convinced that RU-vid “pranksters” don’t pay their taxes

4:45 saul goodman?!

I work at a Starbucks thing and I can confirm that people regularly make me cry

I remember my friend who worked a McDonald’s and he actually had someone who sang their order. He simply says: can you please SAY the order? The woman went livid and drove away

Worst part about the Starbucks singing is that they don’t start the song with the cup size, so the barista can’t grap the right cup and write down whatever tf they’re saying

I worked at Tim hortons for about a year. People will get so angry about such tiny things.

Thank you for being on this platform. My dog passed today, and this channel always cheers me up.

only kurtis would rhyme “banana peel” with “discarded meal”

No one: Kurtis: *If you’re gonna rub me, rub me the right way* the moustache doesn’t help.

this is why i could never work in a drive thru like if someone sang their order to me i’d cry like my social anxiety couldn’t handle that💀

Curtis singing to the the garbage man(himself) in a dress is literally the best thing ever 😂😂

Singing your order is harmless yes, but the level of cringe that those poor employees have to endure is criminal.

The fact that Kurtis connected the firefighter stuck in the Starbucks line due to the singing order girl to the vlogger father who lost his 22 family members makes me wonder if all of his weird scenarios are in the same universe.

I just know that if I were the barista I'd be so taken aback that I wouldn't have heard her order properly and I'd have had to awkwardly ask for it again. I recently quit my restaurant job, but my anxiety there made it hard enough to pay attention to people's orders when they were just talking... Absolute nightmare.

As someone who works in hospitality and retail. I can tell you we don’t have time and energy to deal with this shit, work can be stressful enough and stuff like this just ruins our days and makes us consider if it’s even worth it anymore. Also pro tip don’t mess with people that make your food, I definitely agree in that working these jobs have given a new appreciation for these kinds of jobs. Just cause your job involves serving someone, doesn’t make you less of a person and give people the opportunity to kick you down. I definitely Gumball did a great episode on these kinds of jobs, and what we have to go through sometimes when someone decides to be an asshole to you cause they think they’re above you

the barista’s at Starbucks when the girl started singing: 👁👄👁

That singing girl is the type of girl in school who would burst out singing in the middle of class and when people would tell her to stop shed be like "oh haha sorry I forget I'm singing sometimes it's a habit haha" like shut up McKenzi we all know you just want attention

The amount of cringing I have done watching through this video, I did it for you Kurtis

clicked the link in the description, he tells one joke, and then they roast him for the longest time 10/10 would watch again

i think the best analogy for how to do a good prank is “confuse don’t abuse”

here’s my horror story: i was working as a barista in a cafe right when covid was starting to hit in NY and a guy comes in and demands his coffee and then goes “and i’ll also take one of these” and then REACHED HIS HAND INTO THE COOKIE JAR. I almost screamed, i was so shocked. I had to scold a grown man and be like “sir i’m going to ask that you NEVER do that again, for general hygiene and also we are in a PANDEMIC” and he looked at me like i was out of my mind. He did not tip me and I had to throw out all the cookies.

videos like this make me feel so bad for these workers because when i worked at wendys it was my managers and fellow employees who made it hell for me and the customers were so sweet and understanding and i only dealt with one bad customer and she wasnt even that bad i was just struggling with trying to change something and it wouldnt change and frusterating me but i didnt wanna call my manager bc they always yelled at me when i needed whem when i was untrained, first job, and 99% of the time i called for them it was to ring a $50. I am never working fast food due to it again since i nearly had a stroke from how stressed i was (12 hour days back to back with no break and no food, and someone SAing me all the time) not fun :/

I used to work at Starbucks too and we had a no foam lady as well Eventually we figured out she was trying to get extra free drinks because we’d let her keep the mistake. We started throwing the mistake away and suddenly she stopped having issues with her order 🙄

the definition of “ma’am this is a wendy’s drive thru”

I love how the small skits don’t end, they just keep going until they become a fever dream.

the guy laughing at the drive thru prisoner prank was insanely pretty and i’m upset we’re not mentioning it

Watching this makes me think about how one of my best friends who works in fast food would respond to this bs 😂 She’s no longer allowed to work at the front counter because she is “not customer service friendly” and I know damn well she would’ve just deadpanned a “the fuck are you doing?” in response to these situations 😂😂

The whole “singing your order” thing is a guarantee that I’m gonna get your order wrong, I barely have the attention span and listening comprehension to hear spoken words. I don’t even mean this out of malice, it’s just a natural consequence

The best drive through prank was when drew said "is wendy here?" because it was fake and he bothered no one

6:26 Imagine doing it with the speaker thingy Worker: "sorry could you repeat that?"

Shit you're right. They already ordered, paid, and received their orders. Then asked to film the employee, hold up the line, and sing a random order. If they were really ordering, we'd be looking at a menu and a speaker. How did it take me this long to realize. Omg.

_this is why musicals stay in musicals. if you suddenly burst out singing in mundane situations, it's just 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴._

I am a barista and we had a girl come through singing her order for Tik Tok. I straight up told her how rude and inconvenient she was being, especially since it was rush hour and we were understaffed. The girl who tried to take her order couldn’t understand what she was saying and it backed up our line. So, if you want to do this, DO NOT. WE HATE IT AND YOU WILL MAKE OUR JOB HARDER.

I have always enjoyed the magic of rahats channel the guy who dressed up as seat of a car. Like alot of his pranks are like the most unintrusive pranks you could do. Truly not bothering anyone besides maybe being a spectacle for a moment as people wonder where the driver is or the sight of him pulling a gigantic straw out of his bag.

Three years later, and that woman scream-singing her orders at baristas still haunts my nightmares.

Kurtis: “Please be kind to essential workers.” Me: *walks into Starbucks* “OH BARISTA! One holiday bagged air please!”

When Kurtis giggles after his joke , it makes everything like 10x funnier

I do hope the "pranking kidnapping" gets a cop called on them and charged

I’m gonna treat service workers nice now. Thanks kurtis

me:😔 kurtis conner: *greeting* me:😔 kurtis conner: *extra greeting* me:🙂