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30 Things Employees Absolutely Hate And Love About Their Customers, Shared In This Online Group Dedicated To Subway
The chances of visiting a Subway at least once in a lifetime are pretty high. Whether trying to find something fast to eat and stumbling upon the green and yellow signs quickly and efficiently dealing with your hunger, or searching for hangover relief—this sandwich palace seems to always be nearby when you need it. And it’s run by the glorious sandwich artists, toasting your bread, spreading the tuna mayo and complementing everything with scrumptious chipotle sauce.
It’s no surprise that out of all the fast food chains out there, Subway has a dedicated community on Reddit with 16.2k sandwich artists—talking, sharing, and loving (as well as hating) everything to do with the birthplace of your footlong chicken teriyaki dreams.
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A Customer Just Left This On A Table For Me. I Was Having A Really Crappy Day, And This Made My Day
The truth is that even the best seasoned employees eventually start hating the customers for doing certain things and they are sharing their love/hate relationship with their customers online. Bored Panda has picked the funniest, tastiest, most hateful and most loving posts to illustrate this well-known establishment.
Customers Trying To Find Something Wrong With Their Sandwich
Duh
So true... My cousin worked as an employee at Subway, and she had so many people who demanded to have an order before the store closed. And I mean 5 minutes before it closed
Loki On Subway Doing His Thing
They Need Their Fix Apparently
Every Time I Do A Weekend Open
Anyone Else Feel This?
I Can't Be The Only One
Devils
Subway adds spinach like it's a garnish. I always request more, and they add one or two more leaves like it's gold leaf.
When People Leave Not Only Their Rubbish But Rubbish From Other Places Brought In
Eat Fresh With This Fresh Meme
Listening To Your Whole Life Story
Having worked in electrical retail, I find is hard to work out why some customer felt the need to share random bits of information about their lives or themselves with someone they've never met before.
Feels Like Forever
I Didn't Set The Prices
Ha...ha...ha....
I Want A Sub
That's me in a place I never went, followed by a what's the most requested one ? Then I want it too. with my most beautiful smile to his "she's crazy" face.
O Boy
When A Regular Customer Asks If You Live At The Store Because He Sees You Working There Every Day
Imagine How Much You Could Save By Making A Ham Sandwich At Home
Right At The End Of The Line, Second Sandwich Time
I Always Cherish The Customers That Tell Me Everything In The Order You Do It In
Umm
Cucumbers, Green Peppers, Lettuce, Red Onions, Spinach, Tomatoes, Avocado, Carrots, Guacamole, Sweet Peppers, American, Monterey Cheddar, Feta, Mozzarella, Cheddar, Pepperjack, Provolone, Swiss, Chipotle Southwest, Mayonnaise, Ranch, Oil, Subway Vinaigrette, Mustard, Vinegar, Sweet Onion, Barbecue, Buffalo, Creamy Italian, Golden Italian, Honey Mustard, Savory Caesar, Sriracha, Tzatziki Cucumber, Pepperoni, and Bacon on Italian Bread pls and thank you
Happened Today During Our Lunch Rush
Best Tip Day I’ve Ever Had !!!! Usually Only Get $1-$3 A Day
Every restaurant worker deserves to be paid enough not to rely on tips
Subway workers don't rely on tips, they just appreciate it. You aren't obligated, they get paid minimum wage
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Shouldn't have to tip for counter service. I remember when tip jars were not the norm. Shouldn't have to tip for wait service, either. Both should be paid a decent wage.
Or realize shits broke so giving a 5 or 10 that won't send you spiraling into bankruptcy actually helps. Or keep being bitter.
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Oh wow. You work in a fast food restaurant and expect to be tipped.
And I thought those lyrics in the B.o.B. song Airplanes ("trying to get a tip at subway") were nonsense. Subway workers really do expect to be tipped?!?
Yeah, in America most fast food employees don't get paid enough without tips. Even some sit down restaurants have 3-4 dollar an hour wages which is nothing.
Load More Replies... Tipping is stupid and the U.S. needs to do better to pay people proper wages.
You are right, they do. But untill they start, support the worker; give them a tip.
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Tips are for servers, though, because they make quite a bit less than minimum wage. No one tips at McDonald's or Subway, because y'all are already making minimum wage.
I haven't been to Subway in years. When did it become a custom to start tipping them? I've seen this in a handful of restaurants that only do take-out (even pre-pandemic), but I've never heard of it at a chain store. I take that back - Starbucks has tip jars. But that's the only other chain place I can think of that encourages the customer to tip.
Tipping is for servers (and bartenders) who make quite a bit less than minimum wage, though. No one tips at McDonald's, so why would they tip at Subway. Y'all already make minimum wage.
They generally don't, they just have a tip jar. So that's totally optional.
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We go by the numbers printed on it. Pro Tip: Those same number help when we're counting it up.
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I just converted your tip into South African Rands - you can feed my whole family for a week! congratulations!
I don't work in places where you get tips but knowing humans I would get like 10 cents for every person I serve :l
Don’t Worry Just Take Your Time
The Struggle Is Real
That’s not fair. We don’t get avocado here in their. If we did > I’ll have a foot long avocado please, with extra avo sauce
Many of these customers are accidentally me.. :( Social anxiety + trying your best to please the worker (like thinking that saying the whole order with veggies etc right away would be good) + problems with desicion making = I like to order online without human interaction...
I think it's ok as long as when they ask you to repeat it slowly so they can get it right, you don't yell at them. :) Don't be too harsh on yourself, social anxiety can be a real pain.
Load More Replies... Many of them make the workers sound very petty and unkind. I get that ordering 6 sandwiches a minute before closing time is not ok, but ordering in the wrong order???
Worked at Starbucks, same deal. Because of how we were trained, we had to interpret their order into the protocol we used which could get exhausting when you have 20 people in the line out the door--the pettiness goes along with McBurnout...
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This can be avoided by just not going to subway. I can confirm, it works great.
God I forgot how annoying customer service used to be when I worked in the States. I live in a European country now where people are super chill. Even at the Burger King. If people don't have something, they ask gently and wait. There's no yelling, no cussing. God I do not miss being shat on because people think customer servers have no feelings
This kind of attitude is why people don’t think you guys deserve more money. Being angry that customers order a salad? Don’t know exactly how to order things? Sorry we aren’t all crappy sandwich experts.
Nah, you have to be able to separate those two things in your head. Some of them do behave like twats, and I fully endorse pointing out that ordering a salad is not a hate crime, but twats should still have basic rights.
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Idk about this... if a place is open til 9 it's open til 9. Why is it wrong to go in and order something just before they close? They must have very bad planning if they can't deal with that.
There are procedures for closing that have to be done, no matter what line of business you're in. I was in health care and the lab and pharmacy had time consuming stuff to do in order to shut down completely, so we had to notify them when we had no more patients.
Load More Replies... I work at Chipotle. Basically the same deal. The worst for me is not saying you have more orders until the very end and we have started with another costumer. Also list off everything you want because I don't have the best memory and I feel bad asking them to repeat several times
I usually agree with a lot of Bored panda posts but no.... you are paid to do a job....your duties are written into the contract... so I'f someone wants 3 cheese toppings with spinach and anchovie guts then you do it! Because it's your job!!!! It might not be the best job but it's a job and you can always work towards better job and future for yourself! Just stop whinging when customers ask you to do your job!
I rarely eat lunch at a regular time, as a result the store is often well staffed and empty when I walk in. This makes for an above average subway experience. :-)
I can imagine how frustrating working at a takeaway restaurant like this can be... too many chooses for waffling customers. I stopped eating Subway when the young woman serving me used two sets of plastic gloves to complete my order when I, on principle, refused the plastic bag for the well-wrapped sandwich... found that very wasteful.
I find that these issues stem from people lacking the absolute basic organizational skills. It's like they can't even keep their own thoughts in order to draw a conclusion or make a decision. Can't get their ducks in a line, as a manner of speaking. I don't know how it has come to this. I cannot fathom living like that.
Many of these customers are accidentally me.. :( Social anxiety + trying your best to please the worker (like thinking that saying the whole order with veggies etc right away would be good) + problems with desicion making = I like to order online without human interaction...
I think it's ok as long as when they ask you to repeat it slowly so they can get it right, you don't yell at them. :) Don't be too harsh on yourself, social anxiety can be a real pain.
Load More Replies... Many of them make the workers sound very petty and unkind. I get that ordering 6 sandwiches a minute before closing time is not ok, but ordering in the wrong order???
Worked at Starbucks, same deal. Because of how we were trained, we had to interpret their order into the protocol we used which could get exhausting when you have 20 people in the line out the door--the pettiness goes along with McBurnout...
Load More Replies... This can be avoided by just not going to subway. I can confirm, it works great.
God I forgot how annoying customer service used to be when I worked in the States. I live in a European country now where people are super chill. Even at the Burger King. If people don't have something, they ask gently and wait. There's no yelling, no cussing. God I do not miss being shat on because people think customer servers have no feelings
This kind of attitude is why people don’t think you guys deserve more money. Being angry that customers order a salad? Don’t know exactly how to order things? Sorry we aren’t all crappy sandwich experts.
Nah, you have to be able to separate those two things in your head. Some of them do behave like twats, and I fully endorse pointing out that ordering a salad is not a hate crime, but twats should still have basic rights.
Load More Replies... Idk about this... if a place is open til 9 it's open til 9. Why is it wrong to go in and order something just before they close? They must have very bad planning if they can't deal with that.
There are procedures for closing that have to be done, no matter what line of business you're in. I was in health care and the lab and pharmacy had time consuming stuff to do in order to shut down completely, so we had to notify them when we had no more patients.
Load More Replies... I work at Chipotle. Basically the same deal. The worst for me is not saying you have more orders until the very end and we have started with another costumer. Also list off everything you want because I don't have the best memory and I feel bad asking them to repeat several times
I usually agree with a lot of Bored panda posts but no.... you are paid to do a job....your duties are written into the contract... so I'f someone wants 3 cheese toppings with spinach and anchovie guts then you do it! Because it's your job!!!! It might not be the best job but it's a job and you can always work towards better job and future for yourself! Just stop whinging when customers ask you to do your job!
I rarely eat lunch at a regular time, as a result the store is often well staffed and empty when I walk in. This makes for an above average subway experience. :-)
I can imagine how frustrating working at a takeaway restaurant like this can be... too many chooses for waffling customers. I stopped eating Subway when the young woman serving me used two sets of plastic gloves to complete my order when I, on principle, refused the plastic bag for the well-wrapped sandwich... found that very wasteful.
I find that these issues stem from people lacking the absolute basic organizational skills. It's like they can't even keep their own thoughts in order to draw a conclusion or make a decision. Can't get their ducks in a line, as a manner of speaking. I don't know how it has come to this. I cannot fathom living like that.
