Young Turks: Teens Arrested For Rapping Order In McDonald's Drive-Thru!!!

[CherylK]

Run time: 06:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXxzCBS36Q   Posted on YouTube: October 30, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 30, 2009 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 2311

 
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/teens-rap-order-mcds-then-get-cited-3102495

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Huh? I'm gonna have to see this, when I get off work. nt

[ProgressOnTheMove]

2. Thanks for posting, lol. +1

[Lorien]

3. A humorless employee and overzealous cop in authoritarian America

bad combination.

[KansDem]

4. Sorry, I have to take another position on this...

Yeah, rapping during a business transaction is "kids just having fun," and I really don't have a problem with this if:

1) When the customers' orders aren't correct because the employee received a great deal of information without the opportunity to clarify, they don't bitch and moan to management;
2) When the employee just turns off the speaker and waves them on through in a "Yeah, that's funny, now get the hell out of here so I can help the next car," the rapping customers do just as they're instructed.

As someone who has worked with the public daily for some 20 years now, there's a right way and a wrong way to conduct a business transaction. You want to get funny with me? Fine, then "adios!" I won't put up with it, and I don't subscribe to the "the customer's always right" bullshit.

And I tell "customers" when their behavior is inappropriate.

It may have been funny to TYT and the news reporters who sit behind desks talking to a camera, but I suggest they work the counter of some junkfood palace and deal with the public for hours each day for say, oh, a few years at least. They may come away from their experience with a different attitude.

Oh, and I think the McDonalds excuse was bullshit too; McDonalds and the police over-reacted in this case.

[lakercub]

6. I see your point,

but disagree. Back in my retail days, I relished anyone who came in and did something creative and who was having a good time. As long as no one got hurt and no other customers were forced to wait, then the creativity broke up the monotony of the day very nicely.

It can certainly be done to death, but with the right timing I would have welcomed this.

[Ferret Annica]

9. I won't use drive through because most won't recognize my bicycle as a vehicle and serve me.

The right way to conduct a business transaction is to recognize that you can't chose which vehicle you will serve and which you won't. I have just as much right to that service as any idiot too stupid to take a car to the road instead of a decent vehicle like a bicycle.

Cute post, but flawed to doom as most are on this issue because drive throughs are discriminatory and capricious any damn way.

[KansDem]

13. While this example involved a drive-through, the same thing applies to "walk-up" service

If you want good service, treat the employee with respect. Wasting his/her time with childish antics is not respect...

[izquierdista]

20. Um, these WERE children

But when we want crotchety old fart antics, we'll be sure to give you a call. Maybe you can be asking "Where's the beef?!"

[Xicano]

11. I couldn't disagree with you more. Sorry.

Basically the excuse you're giving on being intolerant of innocent behavior sounds similar to some of the excuses cops give to justify their intolerance of some innocent behavior. Your "the customer's always right is bullshit" comment is correct. Sometimes customers are out of line. However, in this instance you would be the one out of line. And working years having to deal with people who annoy you isn't justification not to do what you're being paid to do.

:eyes:

[KansDem]

15. Sorry, making minimum-wage employees jump through hoops is unacceptable..

...to say the least. Call TYT or a news station, or even the CEO or McDonalds, and rap to them for awhile. See how long they deal with you.

Low-wage workers have a rough job: in this case, taking orders and getting them right. If you give a string of requests without allowing the employee to clarify ("Let me rap slower so you'll understand"), be prepared to get your orders wrong. And if that happens, don't bitch and moan to management. I've had "customers" pull crap on me; I set them straight and when they demand to speak to my supervisor, I remind them to "tell the whole story" and include the disrespectful comments/actions they made to me as well as their "complaint." There's a small segment of society that like to play power trips with low-paid workers. I've encountered them and they are the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned: treat you like crap while making you fear losing your job. I tell them off whenever I encounter them, in a respectful manner. I simply point out what assholes they are and that's that.

...being intolerant of innocent behavior sounds similar to some of the excuses cops give to justify their intolerance of some innocent behavior--I never equated "being intolerant" of innocent behavior was an excuse for police action. Just that, if you pull stunts like the one depicted in the video, then expect less than satisfactory results. And don't be "surprised" or "insulted" when that happens. And don't be upset if that worker refuses to deal with you...

I also said arresting them was out of line.

[tempelton1]

17. Your answer makes me shudder. Rationalising the ridiculous.

[chadmak09]

19. no way.

If I had a low paying job at mcdonalds and had to deal with disrespectful customers all day, I would be happy to have a customer come up and rap thier order. It would add a little entertainment to the day.
Now, If it happened all the time, it would be different story.

[TexasLady]

22. There is an employee here that has a colorful way

of taking your order at the drive thru. We have a lady that works mornings at the MickyDee's, and she always greets us, and everyone else, with a song, or a silly ditty, then proceeds to let you know at the end of the order that it will cost $ One thousand, four hundred and 32 dollars, or $14.32, and we get a real kick out of it. I suppose it has pissed off a few in--a-hurry customers that have no sense of humor, but the funniest part of all is that when you drive through to the window to pay, she will still keep joking, and act like you are her long lost relative! "OH WOW, I see your car is all detailed!, or "hey, the kids have really grown, how's that uncle of yours?!" etc, she does this to everyone, and it wouldn't be the same without her.

[booley]

23. I have worked behind the counter

And mild annoyance does not justify what this lady did.

To me being professional means not flipping out when a customer does something weird.

Personally I would have kind of liked if some customers had done this when I worked in retail or fast food.

[WileEcoyote]

5. Strangest thing is...

I'm getting a smell sensation of fries and hot apple pie. Haven't had either one since 1972.

[juno jones]

12. They're not the same now.

They got changed in the late 70's, early 80's which was about the time I quit eating the stuff. Last time I had any of their fries (mooched off of a friend) they were nasty and I was in the bathroom for hours after. (I suspect rancid fryer oil)

Just not the same. Who knew beef tallow would make such a good french fry...

[TheEuclideanOne]

7. I say arrest them, throw the book at them

Why not just completely demonstrate how messed up this country has begun.

a) First, the McDonalds employee that called the cops should be fired and not allowed to hide behind such a stupid excuse.
b) Second, the Police Officer should be fired for actually arresting these teens and charging them. Do police officers not have any brains at all today? I have been speaking with some cops lately and learning that they are really not that bright. I believe that the only thing that you need today to become a cop is courage and belief in the law, but I am starting to doubt that they have to pass any type of IQ test.
c) McDonalds itself should be shamed for having the nerve to publicly make that statement that the employee thought he/she was in danger. Geez, the employee took down the license plate as the teens were leaving. Yes, leaving! But McDonalds is sticking with their story.

So I say, why stop here. Why not just continue and have the judge and a jury of their peers sentence them to life in prison.

Lastly, throw me in there with them for being so upset over this story. :)

[20score]

8. Every day in every town and city in the country a cop tell someone, "no we're not going to follow

up on that." Or something to that effect. And the cops followed up on this? Damn, what's wrong with them?

[Nay]

16. Ain't that the truth? Try getting robbed and see how the cops

"follow up on that." They won't even dust for a fingerprint. Or have a neighbor with a 24-hr-per-day howling dog in the yard -- the cops can be there and hear it all, and they"can't follow up on that" either. Effing ridiculous.

[sasquuatch55]

10. I hate rap; but this is ridiculous.

nt

[juno jones]

14. From the company who would give us a break on big macs

if we could chant that "two all-beef patties, special sauce, etc" ditty back in the day.

[edc]

18. Disorderly conduct as defined in Utah:

conduct that is likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency.

In all fairness, being black or being white and sounding black in Utah probably meets the definition of the statute.

[ihavenobias]

21. I guess truth really is stranger than fiction. n/t