Today, a customer at the fast-food joint I work at gave me a pitying look and asked, "How's that liberal arts degree treating ya?" FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, as I rung up a customer's groceries, he gave me a pitying look and said I'd have a "real job" if I'd only studied harder. FML
Today, working at a fast food restaurant, I was berated by a customer for a good two minutes. It's okay though because she ended with, "Sorry, I forget you all are real people." FML
Today, I was working the drive-through at McDonald's. I greeted a customer with a, "Hi, how are you doing today?" His response: "Better than you." FML
Today, at my new job, I took some food out to a customer. Walking away, I heard a lady mumble, "Oh my God, you could never pay me enough to wear that." FML
Today, a customer gave me the dirtiest look ever and muttered, "Goody two-shoes prick" after I asked if he'd like to donate a few cents to charity. FML
Today, while checking out a couple at work, I handed them their receipt and wished them a good day. The woman promptly pulled her husband to the side, and whispered to him about how much of a "fucking idiot" I was for making the prices so high. I work at McDonald's. FML
Today, at work, I put on a smile and went to take an elderly gentleman's order. He looked at me, asked if I'd stick a finger in his sweet tea to make it sweeter, then complained that it was a shame I wasn't "on the menu". FML
Today, at the store, I didn't hear the cashier when she asked if I had a loyalty card. She took one look at my naturally bitchy-looking face and muttered "It's my JOB to ask, jeez." FML
Today, at work, I’ll admit that I wasn’t in a good mood. I work in fast food, and I went to hand this guy his food without looking and he didn’t grab it. I got frustrated so I FINALLY looked. With an equally as upset look, I noticed the guy didn’t have arms, so I’d just been shoving food in his face. FML
Today, making small talk with my coworkers, I said a restaurant I'd tried recently was "superb". They all gave me weird looks, and one said, "Someone's trying too hard to sound smart." Now I've got a rep as a pseudo-intellectual douchebag. FML
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Top comments
moniculkin 19
Shoot back with, "how's that diet treating ya?"
Rgduncan 12
Well, how is it?
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Comments (85)
angryo5trich 13
You can't demand a service and then judge the people performing it that's ridiculous
hoosiergirl94 31
Ha
Sliver1991 26
How does his comment affect your life? If he's wrong about his assumption, why care? If he's right, then you are posting about your insecurity with your chosen field, not about him.
XtremeHeat 14
Use what you have learned from the degree and make his food a 'liberal piece of art.'
demshitz223 3
HOW DID HE KNOW YOU HAD A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE?
demshitz223 3
HOW DID HE KNOW YOU HAD A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE?
WriterB 3
And yet he'd be pissed if they spit in his food...douche bag.
DJDualScreen 4
Should've said you're in school for Pharmacology and had a fun lesson that day on chemicals that have a laxative effect, and then just handed him his food with a very big grin.
onesarcasticdik 8
Yeah. Someone would believe that a Pham student works at mccrackens??? Tampering with food drink or consumables is a huge felony. Geez no brains !!!!
bad_boyfriend 10
I have a liberal arts degree and I work in a technology field. Honestly 90% of people with a STEM education can't write or communicate for shit. You can talk up STEM all you want, but there is a reason not many math majors run fortune 500 companies.
onesarcasticdik 8
Let me guess. You want $15 an hour too??? I know. Your entitled to $15 an hour. If you look or are old enough to have a 4 year degree, step aside and let some teenage high school kid have his job back.
theamazingd 17
First off, everyone is entitled to a living wage. People in the service industry work long hours on their feet. Even if it doesn't require as many special skill sets, it's pretty physically demanding. And in this economy, not everyone can find employment in their field of study. Do you propose that someone forced to work outside of their field should not be able to afford a roof over their head and food to eat? And who do you propose works during the daytime hours when those high school students are, you know, in high school?