boytoyrule (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 
working in the drive-thru  me: and would you like a hot wheels or barbie toy with that, ma'am?  woman: uh... it's for a boy.  me: okay congratulations  me: do you want a hot wheels or barbie toy  woman: i want a boy toy please  me: haha dont we all  woman :  me:  me: so do you want a hot wheels or barbie toy you have to choose

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[–] 126 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don't determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The third group of us secretly want both toys

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn't learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Interesting question, is anarchy better than Kleptocracy? How does money function without the backing of a government, would you have to go back to a bartering system? Could you even have a global supply chain in the absence of a stable government? Could people be able to self actualize in an unstable society?

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    [–] 199 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This triggers a memory!

    Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does it have to be fashion police or can it annihilate anyone?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    So... give them a Ken? Lol

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald's. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it's not your fault.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    "Bless your little heart sir. I know it's not easy choosing the "boy toy" when one isn't pink. But I need to reach deep down into those man genes and deduce which one is the boy toy. If you choose poorly then you and your kids are super gay now. Dems da rules sir!."

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Kid in the back seat playing with a pair of Barbies

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I love that lol

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I know entire places where thirsty people would offer to be boy toys, but something tells me they'd change their minds instantly upon seeing them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'd be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk “ Candy bar closed in 10 minutes” Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk

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  • [+] 18 points 1 year ago (18 children)
  • [–] 140 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I used to fuck around like this all the time when I worked a fast food drive thru

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Same. Same in call centres too. Did some fun stuff like getting colleagues to say a word you have to work into the next call like “spoon” which is easy with a little “good afterspoon”. Or doing dumb shit like pretending we had Tourette’s.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Damn that's hilarious- I wish I knew about that game when I worked at a call center!

    My favorite when I worked drive thru was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I'd put on my announcer voice- like Stamets level shit- to greet them, and then say "to place an order, press 1" but there was no keypad, so they would just say "uh...one?" And then I'd be like "para español, marque dos"

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Am I mistaken in assuming that most of Lemmy's long-standing users have heard at least one of your voice recordings?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    I always cheated at that one and pretended someone had asked me a question next to me. Or that I had misheard them.

    "Oh yeah you can have my spoon sorry about that it's crazy here anyway..."

    Or "I'm sorry WHAT about a dragonfly?"

    My favorite was finding new ways to accuse chiropractors of fraud.

    "Oh yeah it looks like you had the wrong diagnosis code in there, see this is for kidney failure. Haha I know you're just a chiropractor and you're not trying to treat the kidneys DOCTOR." Really lay it on thick with the doctor, because if the chiropractor is calling himself he's almost guaranteed to be one of the pricks that insists he's a real doctor and not a street magician with a degree.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I want to know more. Sounds hilarious.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My favorite was pretending to be a robot/prerecorded message. I'd put on my announcer voice to greet them, and then say "to place an order, press 1" but there was no keypad, so they would just say "uh...one?" And then I'd be like "para español, marque dos"

    I would be super petty when Midwestern transplants would butcher the word "quesadilla" as "cassadila" by responding "sorry, a what? Oh, a quesadilla, okay" which got really funny (to me) when they would order several different kinds of quesadilla and I would do the same schtick every time within a span of 2 minutes

    This was before I got woke, so sometimes I would put on an Indian accent and act like I was taking their order from an overseas call center


    I used to fuck around in all sorts of ways there: putting a sign on the drive-thru menu telling people to yell bc the mic was damaged; not turning on the lights at night so people thought we were closed;

    My favorite thing though was doing customer surveys (which would get printed and pinned in the back) and leaving insane reviews- like one went on and on about how the cashier was sooo hot, and then at the end mentioned he reminds me of my dad (that employee was a babyfaced teen which made it extra bizarre)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I think you're underestimating what service workers will do for a small amount of entertainment.

    Being very subtly snide is a great way to pass the time.

    Source: I used to refer to milk as cow's milk when working at a cafe, because very occasionally it would trigger someone, and I found that mildly amusing.

    (Everyone else didn't bat an eye, because that's what it is).

    Triggering snowflakes is pretty fun

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    However, this assumes that the customer knows what the brand names "Barbie" and "Hot Wheels" stand for. Perhaps she just had to bring such a menu of toys to a boy and didn't have the cultural knowledge behind the terms. It would have been helpful: A doll or a toy car?

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  • [+] -26 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    Why be difficult though when you clearly know what the customer is asking for

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Why not pick one of the answers provided when you're clearly in a made up scenario?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Because I've got infinity time to argue when I'm in a made-up scenario.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Okay, this does bother me because embellished? Sure. Made up? This is entirely believable.

    Not to mention, this specific meme is ooold as fuuuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    [briefly checks if this scenario is real]

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    To clarify: By believable, I don't mean real. I mean not worthy of suspicion.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But "made up" doesn't imply unbelievable, just not real in the specific instance. While based on very believable interaction, it's pretty likely this specific interaction is indeed made up

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It can. You've gotta read between people's words.

    Mostly, it just bothers me that the r/thathappened crowd spend so much time trying to get the upper hand on instagram influencers, and so little time actually engaging with the content.

    You can make a point about how such and such behavior is just fine, actually, and it glances off their head like it were steel armor because the meme isn't real.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why be difficult , though, when you clearly know what the employee is asking?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If it was the customer telling the story I'd be asking just that

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They're not being difficult, the customer is pushing a sexist agenda rather than select one of the choices named. It's perfectly reasonable for boys to want a Barbie-themed rock band figurine, or a girl to want a van for her Barbie rock band to pretend to drive to their next gig.

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  • [+] -24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Employees like this are even more annoying than these types of customers. You knew what toy she wanted so just hand her the toy and move on. It's such a waste of everybody's time when someone who has a job with customer service tries to ack slick with the customers.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I worked retail for decades and I'm genuinely offended you'd side with a customer. those shits don't get enough guff for their garbage ass behavior. you wanna come in a scream at me because your mad about "duh gubbermen"? well I'm gonna detect your dumb ass talking points and fuck with you for the duration of our interaction. I'll tell you the toy car has pink hair and rainbow flames on the side and the license plate says "Bi or Die" and the "Barbie" toy is a MtF school teacher named "Claxison" that lives on government assistance. Come in here again and tell me you think "happy holiday's" is an attack on Christmas, I dare you!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I worked in retail too before. You're going to meet every type of person, and a lot of them aren't pleasant. It's in the best interest of everybody to simply complete the transaction as quickly and smoothly as possible. I don't want to see their ugly mugs nor do they want to spend time with me. If I let every customer like this get under my skin, I would gone insane long ago. The people in retail who actually do spend the time messing with customers usually just end up provoking them, which leads to the crazier ones to flip out and cause problems for everybody else.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    My favourite thing today.

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