The Horror the horror
Banned
1.) Fast Food
There's a Chipotle near where I live, which is usually packed; the line stretches from the register and snakes around the restaurant to the door on the other end. In the past, the wait time to get a buritto or whatever was 20 minutes; these days, with ONLINE ORDERING, the wait time is easily doubled. First of all, what dumbass thought it was a good idea for customers to order online, come into the restaurant, and cut in front of everyone else to get to the front of the register to retrieve their meal? The worst part about it is whenever a customer makes an online order, that order is immediately transmitted to the employee, and that employee arranges the order on the spot, stalling the customers that have been waiting in line for forever. WTF is this!?
2.) Barbershops
They're the worst. The absolute worst. You can't get a quick haircut these days without an 'appointment.' Last week, I walked into a shop and asked the barber if his chair was available, to which he asked, "You got an appointment?" and to which I responded, "No." Yup, back to the waiting chair. 30 mins later, some guy walks into the shop and plops right down onto the barber seat, no waiting or anything. I mean, you've got seated customers waiting 30-45 minutes to get their haircut, and they don't take priority over some asshole who just happened to call ahead of time from the comfort of his home, without paying his dues? If traditional barbers (not hair-cuttery hacks) weren't so good at their trade, people wouldn't put up with them and their endless jive talking, interrupt-this-customers-shave-while-I-make-my-point-about-the-Dallas-Cowboys-to-this-other-baber ways.
Now, before common-sense GAF inserts their $.02 and reminds me of the merits of comforming to the common practice being vilified in my rant, as opposed to complaining about it, which ultimately yields nothing, let me add that I've online ordered Chipotle in the past and I've made haircut appointments, but I always felt like shit afterwards. Maybe it's because I've worked in retail and as a customer service representative in my youth that I've come to hold a greater appreciation for FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. A concept that is being flushed down the toilet apparently.
There's a Chipotle near where I live, which is usually packed; the line stretches from the register and snakes around the restaurant to the door on the other end. In the past, the wait time to get a buritto or whatever was 20 minutes; these days, with ONLINE ORDERING, the wait time is easily doubled. First of all, what dumbass thought it was a good idea for customers to order online, come into the restaurant, and cut in front of everyone else to get to the front of the register to retrieve their meal? The worst part about it is whenever a customer makes an online order, that order is immediately transmitted to the employee, and that employee arranges the order on the spot, stalling the customers that have been waiting in line for forever. WTF is this!?
2.) Barbershops
They're the worst. The absolute worst. You can't get a quick haircut these days without an 'appointment.' Last week, I walked into a shop and asked the barber if his chair was available, to which he asked, "You got an appointment?" and to which I responded, "No." Yup, back to the waiting chair. 30 mins later, some guy walks into the shop and plops right down onto the barber seat, no waiting or anything. I mean, you've got seated customers waiting 30-45 minutes to get their haircut, and they don't take priority over some asshole who just happened to call ahead of time from the comfort of his home, without paying his dues? If traditional barbers (not hair-cuttery hacks) weren't so good at their trade, people wouldn't put up with them and their endless jive talking, interrupt-this-customers-shave-while-I-make-my-point-about-the-Dallas-Cowboys-to-this-other-baber ways.
Now, before common-sense GAF inserts their $.02 and reminds me of the merits of comforming to the common practice being vilified in my rant, as opposed to complaining about it, which ultimately yields nothing, let me add that I've online ordered Chipotle in the past and I've made haircut appointments, but I always felt like shit afterwards. Maybe it's because I've worked in retail and as a customer service representative in my youth that I've come to hold a greater appreciation for FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. A concept that is being flushed down the toilet apparently.
