Shop assistants who don't bl**dy listen

kaflinkle

"Yes" is an acceptable answer to the question asked as they might want a large or regular drink.
If however you had asked "which would you like, a large or regular drink?" then you would expect an answer specifying one or the other sizes.

Just stop it.

This thread should be named to 'The literal use of the English language and how to be a Pedant'.

Hermione_Granger

kaflinkle wrote: »

Just stop it.

This thread should be named to 'The literal use of the English language and how to be a Pedant'.

If I was being pedantic, I would point out that in the quote above, there was no need for "pedant" to be capitalised.

[Deleted User]

Customers that are on their phone but then get annoyed when they didn't get asked for their points card. Well if you had some manners and weren't on the bloody phone then you would have been asked.

geerex

Deleted_User wrote: »

When McD's hand me over a cup full of ice with a little bit of liquid in I hand it back and say I didn't ask for ice.

Yeah, that's a pet hate too. "Coke, no ice please". Comes back with ice. Aarrgh.

Obviously, I'm saying it wrong. I await JReacher1 to correct me.

I probably should be saying " Coke with ice without ice please" or some similar crap.

daytona0

geerex wrote: »

Yeah, that's a pet hate too. "Coke, no ice please". Comes back with ice. Aarrgh.

Obviously, I'm saying it wrong. I await JReacher1 to correct me.

I probably should be saying " Coke with ice without ice please" or some similar crap.

Well, one legitimate point is that the burger may be called a "quarter pounder with cheese" and a coke is NOT called a "coke with ice". Makes your comparison a bit wide of the mark (not to mention unnecessary, unless you wanted to re-open a silly argument).

geerex

daytona0 wrote: »

Well, one legitimate point is that the burger may be called a "quarter pounder with cheese" and a coke is NOT called a "coke with ice". Makes your comparison a bit wide of the mark (not to mention unnecessary, unless you wanted to re-open a silly argument).

That is totally brand new information which adds so much to this thread, thanks!

I should add, although it does seem a little pointless, that this thread is about customer facing workers who don't listen. It would appear that a number of you on this very thread don't actually read things either.
Whether you agree at not about the grammatical accuracy of the aforementioned burger order is moot. I'll reiterate one final time for the hard of thinking:

The accepted terminology (amongst McDonalds staff in my area) for this particular order is a " plain quarter cheese". Thats what the serving staff refer to it as when relating the order to the grill staff, and that's what the grill staff refer to it as when telling the serving staff that it's ready ("that's your plain quarter cheese ready").
Now, I am an occasional patron of said eating stablishment, so I asked which would be the most efficient way to procure said burger in a way both parties could understand. This is what I was told, also evidenced by observing the communication between workers.
Like I have said, I dont care particularly if the terminology is flawed, as long as I get what I asked for, which in general, i do.
My vent was simply about, on occasion, the staff member not, (in my opinion) listening. Whether they were simply confirming out of niceness, or indeed out of surprise that a member of the public knew their top secret terminology, I don't know. What then annoyed me was that they would then use the EXACT SAME phrase that I just did to convey the order to the grill staff.

I'm sorry if some of you find this too difficult a concept to grasp.

pendragon_arther

daytona0 wrote: »

Well, one legitimate point is that the burger may be called a "quarter pounder with cheese" and a coke is NOT called a "coke with ice". Makes your comparison a bit wide of the mark (not to mention unnecessary, unless you wanted to re-open a silly argument).

It's good to see your humour bypass operation was a complete success.

pendragon_arther

PLog86 wrote: »

Oh, do grow up!

Many people refer to companies by disrespectful nicknames. It doesn't mean they hold either the staff or customers in disrespect. In fact it's very often the case that it's the staff that have the most unappreciative names for the companies they work for.

You've had some weird bee in your bonnet from the moment you started posting in this thread and it's just making look more and more foolish.

It must be a younger generation thing then. I've worked for many companies in various industries in a 45 year timespan and have never bitten the hand that feeds me. What a shame our society has sunk to this level.

pulliptears

milliemonster wrote: »

My pet peeve is if I am ever buying shoes, I'll hand a shoe to the assistant to ask if they have them in a size 8, they go off to look and then come back with a pair of shoes, I get all excited, they then say 'no 8's but we have them in a 7?

Well my feet are the size they are, an 8 and if I could squeeze them into a 7 and still be able to walk I would have asked for a 7!

Not such a daft question though is it? Shoes, like clothes have variables. What Primark classes as a size 12 dress can be quite different to what Dorothy Perkins class as a size 12 dress and the same applies with shoes.
Depending on shoe style, brand and store there can be as much as a size difference either way. If you read the Ugg threads they recommend you order a size down. I'm a pretty average size 7 yet have bought a size 8 and 6 from shoe zone a few times as they vary that much.

The assistant probably has no idea whether this style and brand of shoe sizes a little large or small so is offering you the chance to try it and see. She's trying to be helpful.

Azari

PLog86 wrote: »

This can all be sorted out very quickly if you just post links to a few posts where Azari has been disrespectful to McDonalds' staff. Not to McDonalds, to their staff.

Not going to happen, is it?

Presumably he sacrificed his lunch break to see if he could find me being rude about McDonalds staff. Of course, he won't, because I do not hold them in contempt.

I've said that several time in this thread, in response to his continued statements to the contrary, and he's not once attempted to back up his nonsense.

I suppose he thinks that if he repeats a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. I think he's deluded.