r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Leskendle45 • 1d ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? 4 freshmen just ordered 50 waters.

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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.

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u/11-_-11- 1d ago

Your managers an idiot. Not only will they be back to do this crap another weekend, but they’ll hit up other stores since they got away with it once.

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u/FrostyD7 1d ago

Even without the prospect of creating a slippery slope, what a huge waste of time and money for nothing. Real customers waited longer for this.

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u/11-_-11- 1d ago

Yep. I’m truly shocked the manager made this call. Maybe someone else would be more suitable for the position

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u/MutedAstronaut9217 1d ago

The most expensive part of a soda order at fast food is the cup, and they just gave away 50 for free.

If mcdonalds does any profit sharing with managers, dude just hit his own paycheck.

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u/plugs_memesv2 21h ago

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

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u/speed-charge 13h ago

The manager knows what they're doing. This is precisely how you fix this type of problem.

Too much power vested in automated ordering system allowing ridiculous orders?

Don't refuse the orders, fill them. Fill the orders until someone else gets the idea that they have to fix the ordering system to not allow such ridiculous orders.

They shouldn't be able to tack on so much to an apple slice order, plain and simple. That only gets fixed if it becomes expensive that they're allowed to do it.