Tales from the Hood..
I have become addicted to Checker’s hot dogs. I know, I know… don’t judge me.
So I go to the drive-thru and order three of the 99 cent frankfurters. I am greeted by a rude Checker's employee.
Checkers Worker: Yeah.
Zack Kirk: Excuse me.
Checkers Worker: Yeah, can I take yo order.
Zack Kirk: Three hot dogs, please.
Checkers: Three chili dogs?
Zack Kirk: Three hot dogs.
Checkers Worker: Huh. Nobody orders hot dogs. $3.21. Drive around.
And I drive around and wait ten minutes while the car in front of me gets three bags of food. When I finally get to the window, I am greeted by weave all over the place and two gold teeth blinging brightly.
Zack Kirk: How much is it?
Checkers Worker: Huh?
Zack Kirk: How much is the order?
Checkers Worker: I told you 3.21.
I hand it over and take the bag.
Zack Kirk: Excuse me. Can I have some ketchup?
Checkers Worker: We ain’t got no ketchup.
How can a fast food restaurant not have ketchup? I am almost sure there was ketchup in the back, but she did not want to get it.
Why? Why can I not get decent customer service in my neighborhood? I know, I know… don’t tell me.
I have become addicted to Checker’s hot dogs. I know, I know… don’t judge me.
So I go to the drive-thru and order three of the 99 cent frankfurters. I am greeted by a rude Checker's employee.
Checkers Worker: Yeah.
Zack Kirk: Excuse me.
Checkers Worker: Yeah, can I take yo order.
Zack Kirk: Three hot dogs, please.
Checkers: Three chili dogs?
Zack Kirk: Three hot dogs.
Checkers Worker: Huh. Nobody orders hot dogs. $3.21. Drive around.
And I drive around and wait ten minutes while the car in front of me gets three bags of food. When I finally get to the window, I am greeted by weave all over the place and two gold teeth blinging brightly.
Zack Kirk: How much is it?
Checkers Worker: Huh?
Zack Kirk: How much is the order?
Checkers Worker: I told you 3.21.
I hand it over and take the bag.
Zack Kirk: Excuse me. Can I have some ketchup?
Checkers Worker: We ain’t got no ketchup.
How can a fast food restaurant not have ketchup? I am almost sure there was ketchup in the back, but she did not want to get it.
Why? Why can I not get decent customer service in my neighborhood? I know, I know… don’t tell me.
Until Santa Claus comes to the hood and hands out some manners,
-Zack Kirk
8 comments:
It's Checkers, what do you want! LOL. The one around my way is just as bad. But sometimes you do get a nice one. Maybe she had a long ass day. I worked food service once and people can be mean to you. Tho at least I'd be nice to the customers until they get rude first... then forget about asking me for that extra cherry on your sundae! lol.
this reminds me of the 1st time i ever went to Popeye's. we didn't have them where i'm from, so my 1st experience was at the one nearest the AUC. the girl got all mad at me b/c i didn't understand her pronunciation of "dirty rice." (gotta love that ATL accent!)
Hey Man, I feel you..I just wrote a post on simular bad customer service on my blog at an IHOP (See
"Pancake Flip") It was in a white neighborhood, but the server was Black. This just must be a bad week
for us bruh... You in Checkers and me at IHOP.
Customer service is the absolute largest example for circular logic that I have ever encountered. The people typically working in a fast food facility are those that do not necessarily want to be there, yet they have to be because either a] they are high school drop-outs who can never aspire to do anything further with their lives as a direct result of their lack of integral schooling throughout their so-called youth, or b] they are a bitter or indifferent teenager looking to make a decent bit of cash to buy the new Grand Theft Auto or something else that is equally beneficial and/or enticing. The irony lies in the fact that customers do not, under any circumstances, want to deal with these rude individuals. It would be so much more simple if the people working for Checkers enjoyed their line of work, but the reality is that they probably never will. And unless we make a line of Sarah Brown robots programmed to keep an everlasting smile, this will almost always be the case.
I feel you. I actually have found myself at "Rally's" and "Checkers" often the last few weeks (damn Bacon Double Cheeseburgers!)
hell, you shouldn't have asked for the cost twice. and ketchup, thats too much work to reach over and grab a handful of packets just so you can use one or two and throw the other seventeen away. think about the servant sometimes Kirk
Mr. Kirk I just wanted to tell you that i really enjoy reading your blogs. This is by FAR my favorite.
Elizabeth
I share a love/hate relationship with virtual memory because of how prices are always,and I domean always dropping. I hate buying SD Cards for my R4 / R4i at (what seems to be) a crazy bargain price only to see it become a whole lot cheaper a few months later.
(Submitted using N3T for R4i Nintendo DS.)
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