what's the idiot ratio in the service industry?

If you order anything different than they are used to making then they have no idea what to do. It doesn't matter if I go to McDonald's or the most expensive place I seem to always confuse them. At McDonalds they just look at me with a blank stare and in a nice place they tell me everything is fine and then bring me the wrong food. And usually what I want makes it much more simple to make than normal but it always seems to cause a problem.

 

The idiot rate in the service industries is about 80%
The idiot rate in the construction industries is about 80%
The idiot rate in the medical industries is about 80%
The idiot rate in the legal industries is about 80%

In fact, about 80% of everyone is idiots.

So, with 15,500 member here, there's about 12,400 idiots on here.....

 

100 is the IQ AVERAGE. And people don't work fast food because they are too smart to do anything else - unless they have not mastered English (I know some immigrant-degree-toting-taqueria cooks who haven't learned english yet).

 

A friend of mine up here in Hooterville has a Ph.D in Physics and is a garbage man. Go figure!

 

I stopped in McDonalds last month. Went inside because the drive-through had a lot of cars in it. The overweight, mouth-breather behind the counter started freaking out becasue the lady in front of me gave her $10.00 for a $2.89 tab. The problem was that she had entered $5.00 into the cash register and she couldn't figure out the proper change. She asked for help from some high-school gal that obviously had a brain in her head. I don't think I've ever been happier to see one of the high-school girl "God, you are SO lame" looks that they do.

 

HAHAHAHAHA.

owned!

 

I think the ratio of idiocy:competency you encounter at food service establishments is inversely porportional to how hungry you are.

 

Ah, the dangers of posting too early/late

Besides, I'm clearly part of the 80% -- I own a slow, expensive car and spend too much time on fchat talking about it

 

Tillman, you *have* to change your Ferrari's plate to FLPBRGR.

 

Once I was buying a little stuffed animal for my daughter and her friend. The sign said $2 each or two for $3. I picked up two and handed the woman selling them a five. She looked at the sign for about 15 seconds then handed me $3. I said "you know, you gave me the wrong change". She looked embarassed and then handed me another dollar. I said "still wrong" and she quickly handed me the last dollar back.

 

BAHAHAHAH!!! CLASSSIC!

 

Beautiful!!

I stopped for gas once. It was a pre-pay only place so I went inside grabbed a few items from the store and went to the register. I laid the items on the counter and told the cashier I also wanted $10 on pump #3. She rang up the items and said "that'll be $4.95" (or whatever it was). I figured she had to ring them up separate so I paid the $4.95 then said "and I need $10 on pump #3". She says "yea I already got it". I tried to explain to her twice that she hadn't gotten it yet. I then went and pumped my $10 worth of free gas.

 

LOL! It sure feels good to be a part of the majority

 

A few months ago I wanted some distilled water for the bike. Figured I try a few convenience stores first and got "Hmm that's like bottled water right?, we have some of that".

 

Speaking of distilled water. Last month I did my every couple of years run out of gas thing. I was in my Jeep and about one block from the gas station/convenience store. I walked over and asked the clerk to borrow a gas can. Of course they didn't have one. He then said "We sell some" and walked over by the motor oil rack and looked around. "We must be out" he said, "sorry, can't help you". As he went behind the counter I picked up a gallon of distilled water and told him to ring it up. He said, in all seriousness, "I don't think you want to put that in your car". I bought the gallon, walked out the door and poured the water on the ground as I walked over to the gas pump. When I reached the pump I looked back through the window and saw the clerk with a huge grin on his face pumpin' his fists in the air. You'd think I'd kicked a 75 yard field goal at the Superbowl.

 

If I go to the local Mc D's drive through, 80% of my order always get screwed up. When I hand them the bag back, they ask me to park in the parking lot and they will bring my CORRECT order out. I tell them that I will wait right where I am or they can give me my money back. 75% of the time, they forget you are in the parking lot awaiting your food.

 

well guys if you don't brings this to the attention of McD's corp. they can't help the next person, they actually take those things seriously.......plus one place less likely to screw up your order is Subway they make the sandwhich in front of you....unless you yourself are a total boob.....what pisses me off is when the manager at the fastfood place doesn't care about your order.......that's when you get his/her name and report them to corp.........I help the next man even if it requires a moron manager to be retrained or dissmissed no quoms about it....

 

you know garbage men make $25 an hour!!!!!!!!

lol

 

When I see the seriously retarded help at the local hardware or grocery store here in LA (uhh, i mean Carjackistan) I know the economy is fairly hot. When unemployment jumps a little bit, the help is a lot more competent. When help wanted signs are out everywhere, the hired help is on average, dumber.

 

Service folks respond to love that is directed their way. This is true even when dealing with the dumbest creature. When they sense love in their midst, they try to respond - they try to satisfy - they want, ultimatly - approval and appreciation for their (yes, feeble) efforts. Do the friendly, loving thing, and you will get the best that they have to offer. ****, these fries are raw!!!

Cheers, Hank

 

80 percent I think is quite generous.

If I make the right call on limited information 50 percent of the time I'm ahead in the end.