Situation at Subway - was I wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What an awesome typical DC thread.

I WANT MY SUBWAY SANDWICH NOW!!!!!!

Seriously OP, you need to go to yoga - take some "me" time or a valium. It's just a sandwich, no need to scare some teenage girls because you must have your fast food fix.

Life will be ok if you don't get a snack right now.

Only on DCUM is there so much drama involving fast food. We have the Chipotle Stinky Eye, the Starbucks Cookie Crumbler, and now the Subway Situation. Not to mention umpteem toddlers running around restaurants, breastfeeding at restaurant tables and in cake stores, diaper changing on restaurant floors, and so much more!

Oh, don't be fooled. It isn't the food. It's the "Was I right or wrong?" premise. DCUMs LOVE to tell people they were wrong. The food is merely a vehicle for these dissertations in why OP is bad/ignorant/stupid/high strung/cheap/poor/ill-mannered/entitled, etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

"My favorite. I'm a vegaterain. Special rules for me."
Are you serious?!? The expectation that a business is indeed open during its posted business hours constitutes special treatment?
God, i have got to stop coming to dcum. When am i going to learn that 99% of the people drawn to a site like this are losers.

[Anonymous]

The managers will fire them if you snitch to them. I worked at a Subway in high school. They left me - a 16 yo, 100 pound girl - alone in the store to close on Labor Day. A man came in 5 minutes before closing, visibly or odiferously drunk, and became irate when I didn't have what he wanted (we were just out of it, I hadn't put anything away). He was drunk, angry, threatened to come back, so I locked the store and called the manager to tell her. I got fired two days later. Granted, my situation was different, since it sounds like they just wanted to close early, but I would have just gone somewhere else and I would not escalate it at this point. Getting these kids fired will prove nothing other than that you are making a mountain out of a molehill.

[Anonymous]

^^That should have been visibly AND odiferously drunk, not or. All of my senses were offended by this wretch.

[Anonymous]

OP for future emergencies 7-11 sells cheese pizza, cheese sticks, fruit salad, smoothies, hard boiled eggs, and muffins. I think I've seen those single servings of hummus with things to dip too.

[Anonymous]

Interesting thread. I have worked retail in the past(although not fast food), and my understanding was the same as yours -- the employees may not love it when people come into the store in the last 10 minutes before the official closing time, but the doors are to stay open until that time and customers are to be served. I don't think you were wrong at all. While I don't necessarily think the girls are lazy, particularly if their manager suggested to them that they do this, I do think it's a bad policy/practice for an establishment to adopt.

[Anonymous]

OP- You were right!!!

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I think OP certainly could complain to the owner, and then to Subway headquarters. This isn't the way a business that wants to keep customers behaves.

[Anonymous]

I probably would have been annoyed that they had closed early but I would have gotten over it and just gone someplace else. They are the ones losing the business, and, potentially, since it sound like you're still mad about it, a customer. It is annoying to see them in there serving others and not be let in but the do have to close eventually and who knows, maybe it said 8:00 on their clock inside. Either way I think there are bigger problems in the world. It's not like it was the last place on Earth serving food ....

[Anonymous]

I just can't believe someone would be so annoyed about this that they would post on DCUM about it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just can't believe someone would be so annoyed about this that they would post on DCUM about it!

Yeah. Because people only ever post about things that really annoy them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I probably would have been annoyed that they had closed early but I would have gotten over it and just gone someplace else. They are the ones losing the business, and, potentially, since it sound like you're still mad about it, a customer. It is annoying to see them in there serving others and not be let in but the do have to close eventually and who knows, maybe it said 8:00 on their clock inside. Either way I think there are bigger problems in the world. It's not like it was the last place on Earth serving food ....

I probably would have done this, too. But I think it may not be so great that we're mostly so busy/pre-occupied/passive that we tolerate an unfortunate amount of mediocrity-- or even abuse. I think this was more mediocrity than abuse, but it's still a shame that a business wasn't fulfilling its schedule commitment to its clientele, and its clientele has bigger concerns, so the business will never be pushed to improve.

[Anonymous]

OP, I haven't read the whole thread... 10 pages... my god. But my first thought was that you are an ass. Have you ever worked retail or food service? Closing time is for the people who are already inside so they can know when they need to get their asses out of there, not for idiots peering through the glass on the outside. When I worked at a bookstore (not B&N as another poster stated, but a similar experience) closing time was like a joke to the customers. A bad joke. We would have to turn off the lights and start cashing out to get people out of there. It was ridiculous. And people trying to get in five minutes before? Forget it. The door was locked. Food service is even worse. I worked at Burger King in high school and we wouldn't believe with the abuse we had to put up with from customers. So no, the customer isn't always right. You acted like an entitled ass and those girls were cursing you out after you left. And another thing, don't mess with people who prepare your food. Just a word to the wise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a supervisor comes to at 4:55 and you have already shut your computer down, are you going to gladly restart your computer and do an assignment that might keep you in the office for another 30 mins? Probably not, even though you should stay and be ready to work until 5.

If I want to keep my job, yes. Are you serious with this question?

You are missing the key word "gladly". Obviously you would disguise your annoyance better than a teenager would, but I know most of us wouldn't be happy about this. If you hire young people you can expect some immaturity and if he/she did indeed tell em to close early, which doubt, you can expect this kind of snotty attitude. That's why you should supervise them when it comes to this.