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Started by Dexter Morgan, February 22, 2008, 04:17:59 PM

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Quote from: Dexter Morgan on August 22, 2008, 08:29:37 PM
We have o keep the door unlocked for deliveries. The back door has no outside handle on it. There is no way for anyone to come in through the back of the store. The door has an alarm system on it, and if it's opened when the alarm is activated, it makes a shrill noise that can be heard 3 states away.  :biggrin: People think because the door is unlocked and the lights are on that the store is open. This is how that typically goes....

Me... "I'm sorry we don't open until 11."

Customer.. "Well... the door is unlocked, and the lights are on."

Me... "We receive deliveries through that door ,and the workers come in and out of that door."

Customer... 'Well... the lights are on."

Me.... " Well....we can't work in the dark." LMAO!!!

Most of the time the customers get very snotty, if they think we ought to be open when we're not.We've got big changes coming with one of our most popular products, and corporate has already decided that people are going to be sooo mad, that they're going to train all the employees, on how to deal with customers specifically for that problem.  :rolleyes: GOOD TIMES ahead.  :rolleyes:
If they know the change is going to be that unpopular then why are they changing it?  That don't even make sense.  Seems like a bad business move.
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Sandy Eggo

Do you think the Colonial would be happy w/KFC's product now? I watched a documentary on him and supposedly, back in the day, he'd personally do surprise visits to ensure the restaurants were doing things right.
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Dexter Morgan

 Basically, the reason for the change is an attempt to save money. The rising cost of food,and the decline in sales, has them scrambling to cut expenses. Fast food has been hit hard by our economic slow down. Fast food is the first thing people cut when prices go up. Hell, we've had times when the gas prices shot up in town, and that alone causes a slow down at the restaurant. When the price of gas reaches $3.50 a gallon, we know it's gonna be slow. When gas was at $4.00 it was soooo slow it was scary.  :spooked:

Sandy.... I'm sure the Colonel probably flipped over in his grave a long time ago LMAO!!!!  :spooked: :biggrin:
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Sandy Eggo

We had KFC not too long ago. I wanted to try the grilled chicken, they had a special and I had a coupon. It was tasty. Lil' Mojo and I both enjoyed it.
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Dexter Morgan

Quote from: Sandy Eggo on August 23, 2008, 12:33:23 AM
We had KFC not too long ago. I wanted to try the grilled chicken, they had a special and I had a coupon. It was tasty. Lil' Mojo and I both enjoyed it.
I love the Tender Roast chicken, but we don't have it in our region anymore.  :no:
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Isabelle

Wow Dex, I haven't read most of your post but I have read a lot of them. It sound like a "Little Peyton Place".
Everyone knows that I no longer work, but when I did, most of the things I hated about my job was the fight to help people in pain.
In my town they are trying to clean up drug abusers. That is all well and good and hospitals have to be on the alert for fakers, but what happens is that a person can be laying there with kidney stones .. screaming in pain or with a bone sticking out of there leg and a doc says. " you have have some thing for pain when we get the tests back.". which could take hours. I fought a lot about that.
But, the KFC has it all over E.R.
I would like to know if Kentucky Fried Chickens name was changed to KFC because it had something to do with how the chickens are raised. I have been reading a lot about that... Steroids and stuff.
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Dexter Morgan

Quote from: Isabelle on August 24, 2008, 07:43:25 AM
Wow Dex, I haven't read most of your post but I have read a lot of them. It sound like a "Little Peyton Place".
Everyone knows that I no longer work, but when I did, most of the things I hated about my job was the fight to help people in pain.
In my town they are trying to clean up drug abusers. That is all well and good and hospitals have to be on the alert for fakers, but what happens is that a person can be laying there with kidney stones .. screaming in pain or with a bone sticking out of there leg and a doc says. " you have have some thing for pain when we get the tests back.". which could take hours. I fought a lot about that.
But, the KFC has it all over E.R.
I would like to know if Kentucky Fried Chickens name was changed to KFC because it had something to do with how the chickens are raised. I have been reading a lot about that... Steroids and stuff.

I think it was changed to shorten the name. But they've gone back to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The bags and boxes all say Kentucky Fried Chicken. I'm not sure about steroid use. KFC corporation has no say one way or the other. They get they're chicken from contractors. KFC doesn't own any of the places it gets its chicken from. PETA tries to make people believe that they do, to further their smear campaign,and attack KFC. IMO... PETA is waaay too radical. They have stalked, harassed, and actually followed KFC upper management people home. They've even threatened worker's children!!!!!  It's one thing to try to get an opinion across, but entirely another when it comes to people's safety. Those people are dangerous individuals. Another example of theire radicalism.... they actually went and purchased the cemetery plot next to Colonel Harlin Sander's grave, and put up a headstone that says KFC tortures animals.  :spooked: Now... that is going waaaaaaay too far. Desecrating somebody's grave is completely insane.  :spooked:
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Isabelle

Yeah I agree, I love animals and I would do anything to help them except join PETA. They are way too extreme and like people against abortions, I think they could be dangerous.
Two wrongs can  never make a right.

Any way more with the stories about where you work. :yes: It is better than TV.
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tell [sic] you something about the person
who posts it.".. Auther unknown.

Dexter Morgan

There's always some sort of disaster here's one.... I wasn't there when this happened but have been told the story over and over....

One night a guy called the store to tell them he was missing a chicken breast out of his 20 pc. bucket. So, the manager told him to come back before 9:00, and he would replace it. The guy never came back. At 10:00 the girls were deboneing chicken, and a guy pounds on the drive thru window. They were afraid to open it so they went and got the manager. So, the manager goes to the window, and tells the man they're closed. The guy says he's the guy that called about the chicken breast. Well, they don't have it because, it's 10:00, and the store is closed. So this guy goes crazy, and says he's going home to get his gun, and he's going to kill everybody at KFC. He also states that he is going to be waiting for them, in the parking lot when they leave. :spooked: So, the manager calls the cops, and they come right away. They handcuff him, and put him in the car. Then they ask the manager if he wants to press charges? He tells them no... but the guy is NOT allowed anywhere on KFC property, and if he returns they will press charges. So, the cops brought the guy back to the window, and the manager told him "don't you ever come back here again, if you do we will press charges." They never had anymore problems with that guy again. I've got a million whacked- out customers stories.  :biggrin:
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Isabelle

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tell [sic] you something about the person
who posts it.".. Auther unknown.

Dexter Morgan

Here's a good one.....

One night in the drive thru a crazy lady screamed insults at the drive thru person,and refused to pull forward. My boss told her she needed to move out of the drive thru. The guy in line behind her got mad,and started laying on his truck horn, and started yelling at her to move. By this time cars were lined all around the building, and people were screaming and honking. The lady jumps out of her car, and runs up to the truck behind her, and starts banging on his window. He was too scared to roll it down LMAO!!! By this time my boss is in the drive thru, and telling her if she doesn't move she calling the cops. So, the lady tells her to go ahead. My boss has lost all patience by this time, and starts herding her into her car!!!! Get this..... at that point the lady bursts into tears,and screams that her father is in the hospital dying from cancer.  :spooked: My boss tells her she's sorry that her father is dying of cancer, but it's no reason to be out of control, and rude to people. I think my boss handled that soooo well. She pretty much kept her cool about it. She actually apologized to my boss. The sad part of this story is... customers that were around the building didn't see what was going on, and 15 of them called the 800 number, and complained ,and my boss got reamed for it.  :no: A fast food restaurant is NOT the proper place to have a nervous breakdown. That is..... unless you work there.  :biggrin:
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Isabelle

That was such a sad story, but I guess you get to see it all and maybe get blamed for a lot of it. :(

That reminds me of a story I heard one time.
A man was sitting on a bus and his 3 kids were just going crazy and driving everyone else crazy. The father made no move to make the children behave. He just sat there. One person told him what a bad father he was because he was allowing his children to act like that. The man looked up, apologized and said that they were on their way home from the hospital  and that his wife and the kids Mother had just died.

We never know what makes some people act the way they do. Of course there are just some rude and crazy people out there. :yes:
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tell [sic] you something about the person
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Dexter Morgan

Man, that would have made me feel like 2 cents, if I'd been the one who said it.  :-[
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Dexter Morgan

I'm gonna let my Zone friends in on the BIG secret....

On Sunday August 31st, KFC will no longer be selling Crispy Strips!!!!  :spooked:  Gasp!!!!!!! They are our most popular item. They are on the Snacker sandwiches, Twisters, and Toasted Wraps, as well as being sold by themselves. Now, they will be selling Original Strips!!! The customers are going to be really mad but, hopefully they'll try the Original Strips, and like them even better. I've tried them ,and they are delicious. They are marinated, and then breaded, and pressure fried like the Original Recipe chicken. They're bigger, plumper, and juicier than the Crispy Strips. I favor the Original chicken so I love these.  :smitten: This thread may get hot over the next couple of weeks. I'm going to get assailed repeatedly at work because of the change. I have no say whatsoever about anything but, my coworkers and I have to face the onslaught of angry customers. I'm sure I'll be on this thread frequently to vent my frustration LMAO!!!  :biggrin:
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Isabelle

Maybe you will be surprised and people won't be too hard on you. I personally never understood being rude to an employee. They can only do what there job allows them to do. I am sure most will understand that you had nothing to do with what the company decides to serve. Anyway I am crossing my fingers.
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tell [sic] you something about the person
who posts it.".. Auther unknown.