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I solemnly swear to make your life a living hell
Nov 19, 2017 12:22 PM
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TheGreyKnightsBANNED
Whenever I go to a McDonald's the ice cream machine is always fixed. Working. Wtf are you talking about????
SeenTheWolf
My Girlfriend used to work at Maccies, she backs this up.
Gavener
looks Xcom2ish from the loading screens
yippee4x42000
And give you exactly 2 packs of salt for your entire crew
Tezunegari
Never a problem for me. Straws are at a self-service desk with napkins. The icecream machine... once out-of-order because it got refilled.
dsggsghshhdh360
Third mall from the sun!
ikindacarebutimostlydont
Sometimes I think they're fucking with me. I always order whatever with no tomatoes/cheese, but sometimes there's extra
swedishmetalhead
Eating at Micky Ds is like buying an EA game.
NonWellKnownImgurian
Damn it Tracy, your mother raised you better than that
OddityOstrich
They never give me enough fucking ketchup...
D3athsm3sseng3r
Wheres the pic for taco bell, their frozen baja machine is always down for some stupid reason.
teknrd
I'm beginning to think my McDonalds must be on point because the ice cream machine always works
rza33boo
Fucking Tracy
WhatisaYute
The one by me in Brooklyn NEVER has Diet Coke. Ever. I have never successfully purchased one there in 2 years of being in this neighborhood.
Seethreepeeoh
From this day, till my last day
glitternova
For how little they're paid and how customers treat them, I wouldn't give a fuck as a McD employee either.
KarlMoebius
Meh, I've stopped going to McD's for ice cream, it's always broken whenever I go. I'll hit up braum's or sonic down the street.
RasmusBirch
In Denmark you have to get your own straws
SlightlyNormal
Fixing icecream machine is not part of their job, whoever installed/services it is in charge of it.
jayone
You should credit the artist @OP, his name is Chris Woods.
breakingcode
On the off chance it IS working and I'm in the drive-thu could you wipe off the extra ice cream you drizzled down the outside of the cup!?
MrsF1nch
Your life is a living hell when they forget a straw in your order? I mean, just drink, like from a regular cup.
chefchris357
Never forget, if a fast food restaurant messes up your order once you can bitch about them forever. Mistakes happen. Get over it.
nibbley
If a McDonald's worker can make your life a living hell you might have issues before you walk through those doors just saying
meganical
You’ve never been threatened while waiting in the drive thru since staff fucked everything up & took 40min? I have by 1 car behind me
CaptainMiffles
Mcdonalds workers never want to make your life hell, because then you yell at them and it's a pain in the arse. trust. me.
ShootYourGooMyDude
For customer service in general, it's usually the other way around. Customers make the employees lives miserable.
theycallmeMrGlass
Ordered root beer, got lemonade. You know what it feels like to take a big swig, expecting root beer and getting sour lemonade???
CaptainMiffles
As a brit, why the FUCK would any sentient creature willingly subject themselves to root beer? Shit tastes exactly like Corsodyl mouthwash.
theycallmeMrGlass
I like it!
CaptainMiffles
so does my girlfriend.. i think she's an alien.
DontAskMeAboutTheDeadKidsInMyTrunk
Worst thing MD has ever done to me is forget NO CHEESE. But that's minor, one time Taco Bell forgot to give me my soda. I didn't realize
DontAskMeAboutTheDeadKidsInMyTrunk
Until I was half way home, so that's half on me. Dangit
Usernameisalreadyregisteredwasalreadyregistered
Having worked in similar places, I can at times understand forgetting to hand out a drink. Dozens of near-identical orders in busy (1)
Usernameisalreadyregisteredwasalreadyregistered
periods can do that. Forgetting to ask for your drink, though? That's always been a mystery to me.
DontAskMeAboutTheDeadKidsInMyTrunk
They always give you your drink before you even pay. You pull to the window, they give you your drink, you hand them your card, then they
DontAskMeAboutTheDeadKidsInMyTrunk
give your card back then give you your food. This time they handed me my food, took my card, then gave my card back. Completely out of order
minkuschild
Ice cream machine is always down because it takes like 5 hours to sterilize everything everyday. UNLESS, you want diseases....ecoli and such
MoodyMoose
Two ice cream machines on a rotational basis? McFlurries can stop homicides.
Octobermode
The employees at McDonald’s can’t fix the machine. They have mechanics for that. If the thing breaks, it may be down for days.
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
I've never once been unable to get a shake at BK, mcdonalds is at least 1/3 of the time it's down.
spetcnaz
I highly discourage BK shakes. I am love milk shakes so I try it at every place possible. BK has one of the worst ones.
EnvelopeOfDoom9000
Or... have two sets of parts, swap one in while the other is being cleaned. Or fuck, just bring in an entire separate machine. God knows the
EnvelopeOfDoom9000
price doesn't cover it but for the profit margins they've got and the alleged pride they take in the operation they can do it.
WizardyDinosaur
You can't reason with the type of people who eat McDonald's on the regular
SuperSaiyanSasquatch
Lawwie
Also it runs 24/7 so it does break down.
Octobermode
Two machines = double the $ spent on ice cream / repairs for one single McDonald’s location and you need extra space in-store for that.
johnvictor
Let me tell you from experience, nobody got room for that.
Lawwie
I second that.
mineovermatter
Then you have a flawed system since you're losing sales. Have 2 separate machines so they can be sterilized separately.Or reduce cycle time.
ExplodingTacos
They're supposed to be cleaned at the end of the night, and it really only takes like an hour, but the night people always are "too busy"
johnvictor
Worked closing/thirds at McDs, we get other third shift workers. As well a list of cleaning that has to be done on top of customers.
theycallmewillywonka
Night shift person- keep your same customer to employee rate but here's a list of stuff that will take 4 hours. also no break.
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Skizzlesnap
Can’t expect your closing shift to break it down to soak overnight or anything. Wouldn’t want them to have responsibilities for that $15/hr.
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rbudrick
Cost of living is so high a pay wage increase would have little effect in this. Things balance out.
hardytardigrade
That's not what economic studies have shown. The costs of goods rises at a much lower rate than wages.
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hardytardigrade
They will if it's the law.
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hardytardigrade
It has worked, though, in cities that raised the minimum wage. http://voxeu.org/article/minimum-wage-increases-and-earnings-low-wage-jobs
LilNugget2016
Is the ice cream machine thing a running joke or is it genuinely always broken in other countries? I've never seen one break in England.
RheaButt
It breaks so often that I gave up on my life for McFlurries because I only got it 10% of the time
hambobolubia
Our machine goes in to an automated self cleaning state at 2am and isn't able to serve until 11am and it get cleaned manually once a week
katmckiv510
I wondered that too, like McFlurrys are one of the most sold things?
HarryPotterReferenceProbably
This has only happened to me like twice in my life.
OnePunMan69
It's not broken, they just have to clean it after a certain time at night and if they run it again they must reclean it. Just laziness
D3athsm3sseng3r
When i worked at mc ds long time ago ours always ran, but it was a private owned resturant not corp.
KlaatuBaradaMumbleMumble
I read somewhere recently that there's an app now where you can see if the ice cream machine really is broken. Don't know what it's called
PunchItChewy
Most of the time it gets closed and cleaned a few hours before shift ends. So staff get away earlier.
sbow242
It's on a timer that we have no control over, usually goes down about 1-2 in the morning
PunchItChewy
This was in the UK a few years ago. Before the newer machines and 24 hour stores. Timers a good idea though.
BurntAndBranded
It's not broken it just automatically goes into heat treat to kill bacteria. If they tries serving you it, it would be like hot milk lava
valen00
Add some fudge to that and we have ourselves a deal
Sapotaattori
Our machine heat treated at night. But we were not open at night and you might not get ice cream at night.
Bebert1932
I go to my local McDonalds every now and then, and I've definitely seen the ice-cream-machine-is-broken sign a few times
Sapotaattori
Expensive to replace so they run them as long as they can.
meganical
They honestly never clean it so it breaks down frequently. It’s a blessing since I got a bad bacteria from it once. Sick for 2 weeks
Sapotaattori
Machine i had in my place didn't work if it was not cleaned in 2weeks. And that's twice as often as required.
SirReginaldVonBartlesbeid
Where I work, nobody on grill duty wanted to clean it for a week, so we turned it on one morning, put a burger on it, and flames...
TheGreatAnhey
One time I ordered a chocolate milkshake and I think they barely cleaned it because it tasted like bleach
BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerMushroomMushroom
yeah i work in maccies and this thing is a $15k piece of shit
FreakinSatan
As someone who also works at McDonalds it really isn't a meme. The fucking thing breaks down at least once every two days or so.
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ImAfraidYoureAllPsychosSoIMadeThisAccount
Australia?
Certney
I don't know... we say Macca's, I've never heard Maccies before.
bloodtypeinfinity
Has to be. Any other English speaking country just calls it its ACTUAL NAME AUSTRALIA! JEEZ...
Xandelle
"Broken" or "down" is what they tell us when they don't feel like recleaning it later, so it just doesn't get used. And it happens OFTEN!
Sapotaattori
Depending on the place. I had morning shift to clean it every 2weeks and if it went down i would be called to fix if i didn't have a shift.
PrincesssButtercup
Two weeks? We have eight machines at my work and we clean two every day
Sapotaattori
Full clean? When you take out all the mass and parts and wash them? Maybe it's about volumes or do they heat up in regular cycle?
PrincesssButtercup
Take them apart entirely and wash them. They hold 5 gallons each. Takes two hours every morning. I kinda hate it