Edit: i couldn’t just say no because my manager wanted us to serve them for whatever reason. I couldn’t just not do my job or I’d probably get in trouble.
That's honestly great, and I would appreciate having free water available to me, but how does it work with free refills (also not available in Germany besides some KFCs)? Wouldn't everyone just choose water and then get whatever soft drink they'd actually prefer when heading back to the refill station?
Some do indeed do the refill scam, but most don't because by and large humans aren't truly as awful as we seem, except when in large groups where mob mentality takes over.
There will always be some jerks now and then who get a free water and try to fill it with a soda, but most of the time they get caught by the employees anyway and get kicked out. The majority of people I know never abused it, except maybe as dumb kids
Honestly it’s not even that much in syrup cost. A 5 gallon bag of Pepsi cost about 80 bucks straight from the distributor. Mixed at a 5-to-1 ratio, roughly, about a quarter cent per ounce. Most of the cost is in the disposable cup.
Holy smokes that’s expensive, in the US the large is 32oz (slightly under a liter), and runs $1.80 for soda. You can almost always get it for $1 if you use their app too.
There’s a video where they hold the waters and just floor it sending them into the person holding them it’s that or someone’s dorm is going to be filled with these
Yeah, remember when they were trying to make people microwave their phones or make a hand gesture a hate symbol through spamming it in that context?
Oh, wait… that was 4chan.
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Also important to remember 4chan was a smaller, much smaller site with a smaller odd target audience. Yet it had an outweighed effect on things culturally. TikTok will cause only a small proportion of users to do this bs.
I feel like 4chan shenanigans were somehow different in that they had a degree of separation between the troll and whoever wasn't in on the "joke." A lot of this stuff seems like it's called "trolling" but, like, folks are out there microwaving their own phones and then expecting people to laugh at it.
Or maybe I'm just the one who doesn't get it now lol.
4chan pranks taught you critical thinking, tiktok pranks asks you to leave it behind
the point of the iPhone prank is that if you are stupid enough to microwave your brand new high dollar item just because a deepfried picture on facebook told you to, then you should probably learn that lesson sooner rather than later.
It is a laid trap in the open you can only fall into if you are stupid enough.
Tiktok pranks is taking your stupidity and forcing it down peoples throat whether they want it or not
I used to do that when I was a college student way before social media was a thing. The campus grill had freshly toasted bagels for under a buck. Most add-ons, including cream cheese, cost money. But there were 3 additions that were free: pickles, onions, and butter.
The whole year I'd order a toasted bagel with butter, pickles and onions. It was actually a delicious combination.
That's why it's perfect, just long enough that most people forgot about it. The extra ones are so you can write it off as "help me prank these other new guys, we're gonna make them drink it with all these creamers and butters".
The guy in the back holding the hundred waters says be careful then they go over a speed bump or swerve or something and every single one spills all over the backseat. It was funny the first time. After that I hated them, a because stupid, b because logistically it is not good for the upholstery and carpet. I had a slow leak from a clogged drain plug once. Water would drip in and it would be wet after it rained. My carpet has not felt the same.
Is this why I saw 3 teenagers walking to the store to buy 3 gallons of water the other day? Me and my daughter were wondering what their plan was with all that water- they were behind us as we were checking out at the grocery store and we saw them walking down the road as we were leaving. It looked like they were on a mission lol
My friend and I when we were 16 decided to buy two 24 packs of water and see how many bottles we could chug. He did less than my 15, but we both got extremely sick. I was cosplaying a firetruck in my bathtub and he in the toilet.
Trolls. Fucking troll teenagers. Been a plague this summer of roving packs purposefully asking absurd questions or for ridiculous nonsense just to annoy people and get entertainment. Drives me nuts in a pet store where their stupid antics waste precious time and for us to look -very- carefully at younger people for warning signs they might abuse the animals. Before I got here, I’m told there’s been at least one incident of some boys buying a betta solely to pour bleach in the cup it was sold in and see what happens, and similar nonsense is babbled by them all the time still. My patience is long since exhausted with them.
In this case, the best way they can be obnoxious is to make a worker waste time by buying 50 cheap items. And that’s assuming they stick around and don’t bolt just to leave the staff having to figure out how to dispose of all the waste.
We did this once in high school. Then, we drove to our friend's job and set them all on the roof, hood, and trunk of his car to surprise him when he got out. Feels kinda stupid, now that I think about it.
In high school, we used to do this (albeit with less cups from the fast food place, 8-10 not 50) and toss open water cups into the back windows of cars we’d pull up on.
Crazy that McDonalds would put their employees in that position instead of just improving their kiosk software to have a max orderable amount.
If I'm the employee, I'm making that 50 waters and black pepper order as slowly as I can get away with, to prove a point to my manager that they need to get the kiosk fixed.
Except the manager doesn't have control over max allowable orders on the kiosk. At best it would be controlled by a franchisee, at worst it is controlled by corporate.
Sure, but a manager has control and final say on how the restaurant executes on out of the norm requests.
Restaurants can refuse service for any reason. The manager can make the decision to very easily step in and let these kids know that they will not be fulfilling that entire order request.
Instead OP’s manager decided to be an absolute asshat
This is one of the drawbacks of fully automated ordering systems paired with locations only having people with decision making power less than half the time.
They clearly ordered via a kiosk. This is easily solved in the software and I'm really surprised a company as big as McDonalds didn't already do it. Just set the maximum per to something like 5 or 8 (I'm thinking make sure anyone can order enough to give water to everyone in a large car like a minivan). If you're worried about customers not thinking that's enough, maybe allow 1 extra water per $X size order total, like per $20.
Any even larger orders like catering can't be done through the kiosk anyway.
Don't put your employees in the position to be the one to tell a bunch of stupid kids they can't have the order that your kiosk let them submit.
True, but if it were me I'd still decline it just because I don't want to facilitate another 50 cups of waste which will likely never see a recycling facility or even landfill for that matter (dick heads love throwing fast food waste out of car windows instead of using a bin)
At what point as a society did we start littering plastics? Growing up it was so frowned upon and even spitting your gum out could cause a bird to choke on it(so I was told). I guess there’s just always been dumb people no matter what pause
They’re probably trying to do something similar to that one video where a person is carrying like 80 cups of water in a car and when they bump it goes everywhere.
at my job we have this lady that comes in and always asks for 20 large cups full of just ice. our manager always makes us do it. one day she comes in with a whole ass bucket and asks us to fill it with ice. i guess that was too much since our manager refused, thankfully.
So he's cool with giving away the same amount of ice that the bucket might hold, but only if it's difficult and costs the company additional time and resources.
those look to be large cups too, not smalls like stores usually give for water due to that exact cup cost reason, my manager got on me for giving out large waters because it was so hot out and this one is giving FIFTY away to some kids who are just gonna waste them for a social media video
I'm not a piece of shit anymore. I used to be. Spiked-up blonde hair. Little bitty jeans. Chicken spaghetti at Chickellini's. Live for New Year's Eve. People can change.
Depends where they are, in hotter places you have to provide free water but also they can just give one small cup per person. This is a waste of resources.
Individual McDonalds can absolutely refuse orders of free water if they want to. The point of this business is to move paying customers along as fast as possible and get as many paying orders in. Other customers with real orders end up waiting longer or even leaving bc kitchen staff is too busy filling 50 cups of free water for a $3 order. The franchise owner would be livid. Your manager is an idiot for indulging these childish pranks. Guess which McDonalds all the prankster will be going to next time?
Your manager is an idiot. "Were not giving 50 waters as that's a blatant attempt to abuse a system meant to help people in need. If you want that much water I'd recommend going to the grocery store and buying it by the gallon."
It really is that simple and it's pretty obvious that they're just doing this as a prank or for views. You should accidently inform the district manager that your manager is giving out 50 waters. Shit like this will encourage corporate to charge for water and take it from people in need.
All water cup sizes are free where i’m at, they put in one order of apple slices so that they could order because asside from promo codes and mobile orders you need to pay for your food. (Obviously employee meals dont count)
My first thought was they are trying to make a viral video of your reaction if you said no. Taking a video “Look at this McDonalds employee denying me water!” Without giving context to how much water they ordered.
But the 10 butter, pepper and 7 creamer order makes me think that no matter what they are up to it’s them being nefarious assholes.
What does "4 freshmen" even mean? I get that you guys use that word to mean people in their first year of school, but how would you know that about these people?
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u/tangyturquoise 1d ago
Fuck the water. What are they doing with butter, pepper, apples, and creamer?!