Two closes ago, I pranked my dumb azz ASM who was opening.
I squirted caramel sauce on my hands and COATED the bottles, so when she picked em up it'd be all sticky.
Also I slit the soy box with a box cutter, just under the pouring spout. Man I wish I was there to see the soy milk go all over the counter.
Not too crazy, just vengeful.
@crucial_buzz we had a lot of cops/military guys at my store since i'm in a city and closeish to the water and they ALWAYS get some kind of venti frappumonstrosity. or...a tall bold.
I love the ones who just want a tall coffee. :D
But yeah, I'm in the same situation. Lots of cops, lots of military. Lots of "gorilla juiceheads" and stoners.
I can't stand the ones who want a frappuccino. I'm too manly to get a frappuccino, and I'm a woman. I don't know why it bothers me either. We all grew up drinking slushies. For some reason a man drinking a frappuccino is the least sexy thing I can imagine.
got super high before working the closing shift one day and ate a ton of things from the pastry case, then ended up throwing up in the bathroom after closing. hahaha fml.
The opener at our store refuses to put out cake pops because it's 'too much work that early in the morning'. As a result, we have MASSIVE amounts of cake pops. Another closer and I wrote over one hundred notes about putting out cake pops, including pictures, on Post Its and stuck them everywhere. Inside the register, coffee grinder, espresso machine, drawers, on the milk jugs, walls, ceiling, menu boards....pretty much any and everywhere. :)
Every once in awhile, my co-workers and I pull pranks on the openers. We taped down EVERY syrup pump in the store before close. Let's just say, apparently syrup in the eye at 5.30 in the morning isn't too fun. We also hid every single steam pitcher around the store for the opener to find...along with switching the contents of the fridges in the store. What can I say...we like to make work, uh, interesting.
Apparently my shift supervisors pull pranks on the store all the time. Get ready to receive 200 gallons of whole milk! And 30 half-dozens of each bagel!
i set timers to go off at opening every now and then. i once unplugged the oven and apparently blew a fuse and somehow that warranted calling services in the morning. w/e i don't care. i also put bullets of coffee all over the cafe POS and stacked the chairs in the lobby i don't give a what. on the reg i'm pretty by the book though man.
-Smoked weed with a coworker behind the store after closing up half an hour early.
-Drank beer with a regular in their personal garage which shared the alley with the back of our store on my break (actually, A LOT of my coworkers did that).
-Epic mealtime with the leftover breakfast sandwiches....don't even ask...
-Handling customers stuff after touching the floor mats with no gloves.
....and those are just the first few things that spring to mind....
There's a man who gets a bacon breakfast sandwich every day. I remove all but one piece and if he complains I just say "Yeah, scarce on the bacon today, huh?". ****. Not crazy, but spiteful and vindictive for sure.
Spartan kicked the backroom door open when I saw a regular I hated standing basically behind the bar, with drink in hand. "Oh, I'm so sorry, people don't usually stand there so I wasn't looking! So sorry".
Fellow closers and myself set off a time bomb. Set all 7 timers 1 minute apart so that they would go off right when we open at 4 AM and a new one at the opposite end of the store would go off just as the previous one had stopped. It was awesome. They couldn't find ANY of them. The coffees also had no timers... oh well.
Bump this bichh up
my little brother works for the bux (makes six months soon! GRATS BRO!) and he's been working as a borrowed at a few other stores. he had his first rude encounter with a customer and handled it with such class and passive aggressiveness that makes me truly realize how related we are.
a japanese girl ordered a grande GTF and so my brother makes it, tops it off with whip and hands it off. the girl shoves the drink back at him on the hand off and says, "no. not right." and huffs. he asks what's wrong. she says, "i said no. whipped. cream." he smiles, apologizes, and takes the whip off, relids it, and hands it back off. girl huffs again, "excuse me, there's still whipped cream on this. i won't drink this. this isn't what i ordered." he smiles, turns around to make a new one for her.
meanwhile, as he's prepping the blender with ingredients, the customer starts complaining about him in japanese to her friend, about how this barista is stupid, did he even go to high school? he doesn't even know how to read cups or make drinks correctly. so my brother, who understands everything this girl is saying, gets a bit angry. as he's finishing up the drink, pouring it in, she starts making fun of the way he looks.
what does my brother do? squeezes some sani liquid into her drink, swirls it around, holds it at the hand off plane. as she reaches to grab it, he pulls close, whispers in her ear, "next time you decide to talk **** about me, make sure you do it in a language i can't understand. wakarimasuka?" smiles, lets go of the drink, and says "have a great day!"
^^ win.
I've had that before. In Canada its not all that uncommon to speak French, but its pretty rare in my city. Two people complained loudly in French that we were being super slow (we were understaffed due to a snow storm preventing a bunch of coworkers who rely on public transportation from getting here). They then started laughing that we had to work such a low life job at university and we clearly would never get anywhere in life.
My coworker is Francophone, I'm bilingual. One look at each other and we immediately started chatting in French. The other great part was the SM didn't speak french so we didn't feel bad at all ripping on how the customers would all die from their drinks being so full of sugar and fat. Vengeance.
Spat in a carafe the day before I found out I had H1N1 (swine flu). It was only for one particular customer, so I switched it out right after she finished using it.
On a related note, I'm certain I got H1N1 from a customer too, who, days before, came up to the counter hacking and coughing and a chunk of phlegm came out of his mouth and landed on my cheek. Yeah I threw up.
Oh, and I have a long history of "accidentally dropping" till tags into dirty mop water.
I was really behind on my closing one night and had loads of trash to take out across the street to the dumpster. So I bribed a bunch of high school kids to take it for me (I threw it all outside behind the store) and gave them the old pastries to do it.
We hung out on the roof once. Nothing too big.
splashofsoy, your brother is awesome.
Came in with my coworkers in front of my manager and did gandam style... he thought we were on something... He is like 60ish years old and out of touch with present stuff... He said what the hell are you doing?
HAHAHA, you guys are brave! I've done some risky stuff, but I don't risk it too much. I need this job, even if I fukcing hate it.
Sometimes if I open I drop pastries on the ground and then put them back on the plates. That however, is pretty normal. I also like to use tap water for the ice teas, grind coffee for drip on espresso or turkish. I just DGAF, I decaf my shift because hes a **** and I smile as I hand him it. I always overcharge customers if I can. Oh you only wanted .5 pumps well for being a pretentious **** I will charge you. I will put cold water in the oatmeal from the tap and if they complain I will just say well if you didn't let it sit so long it would be hot and they feel stupid.
Have never done risky stuffs before just decaffing douchebags. I might try setting timers for openers, sounds very good. Heeheehee!
I can't say I've done too much but come to think of it I have done xD
- filled the espresso machine with all Decaf (no one ever notices)
- refilled milk carafes without washing them
- don't shake teas when I don't have b.c seriously why does someone want me to add air to their tea
- eaten things from the pasty case
- slid a few freebies to friends (like no else does it)
- just poured water down the drains to clean them b.c seriously sometimes I'm to tired to get down there and back up again
- set timers for openers xD (my store use to fun with pranks)
- drew pictures on box of other partners to LOL at
That is all I can think of at this time xD LOL
one time a customer ordered a drink and then I started making her drink and she's like I asked for soy, so I go yeah ok for sure, but could u please go back in line and pay the cashier 60 cents, and then she throw 60 cents at me, so I used 1/10 soy and the rest heavy whipping cream...she never came back
I'm not a store employee but I thought this was a pretty crazy thing I did for 2012 Christmas. I dropped 3 Bennies ($100's) into the tip jar. I expressed to the manager that I'd like every employee to be able to get a bit of that tip. Hopefully they followed through. Merry Late Late Christmas.
the tips get divided by how many hours a person works, so they should have been divided to everyone!!
@i-hate-tea-mistos, I hope so hehe, even if its not much more than $5-$10 it's still a little fun money. Go out and by a scratch off ticket and try your luck haha.
most people average 20.00 a week in tips for 40 hours so its not to shabby!
@i-hate-tea-mistos, thanks for that information! I hope the employees had a great time!
dear god martin. You had to have made that stores year. That would be a HUGEEEEE increase in the tips and I would have died and gone to heaven. my tip money is my gas/food budget money for the week... Im jealousssss.
@Captain Mocha, if for some reason you move or get transferred to a Cincy OH store (theres tons and tons) I'd come to see you :). Gas is a pain in the ****!
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