Yea..."Roseanne"? I never really watched that show. I just found Roseanne annoying for the longest time. Good one to bring up for the thread (albeit I did enjoy her National Anthem rendition). lol
I thought I had mentioned this and indeed I have so I just want to reiterate once again how terrible and annoying she is.
Last month took a trip to California to visit the beautiful Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. Arrived in LA from a late flight, bus to the rental car place (bc LAX is a nightmare and doesn’t have onsite rental car facilities), and there’s hundreds of people waiting for cars they reserved, and there’s no cars ready/available. Guy at the counter offered to “help me out” then proceeded to tell me he couldn’t cancel my reservation, I needed to contact the company, and then preached to me about how I was protected from being charged for this BS bc of “California law” and how this was normal for “LA on a Friday night”. Luckily I had the wherewithal to decide **** this, called and uber, and picked up a rental outside of LA proper the next day with zero issues after I got some sleep in. Learned my lesson with LAX rentals and we had an awesome trip after the fiasco. But but but… I still smh wondering how anyone in their right mind can accept that as “normal” or why everyone else in their joint wasn’t getting out of dodge just like me. California is beautiful but it might as well be a different planet they way they operate.
Dealt with a similar cluster in MN a few years ago due to staff issues. Walked over to another, smaller company car rental counter, got a car and was out within 15 minutes. Called the other rental place the next day and got a refund. Moral of the stories: don’t be sheeple and find a solution.
Yeah, I wouldve definitely done the same thing, but unfortunately the way LAX is setup, you get shuttled to a rental car place, and it's like 2-3 companies, but basically all the same company (Thrify, Dollar, Hertz, etc.), so none of them had cars, and there weren't other options except to shuttle back to the airport and then shuttle randomly to another place. So we just gtfo there bc it was already 1:30 in the morning. We really needed a car bc without one, no Sequoia, no Kings Canyon, which was the entire reason we went. Scarred me forever from dealing with LAX rentals, but ultimately in the end worked out (got my refund 4 weeks later lollllll).
When your delivery order has a missing or wrong item and they will only reimburse you for the missing/wrong items. Never mind that with delivery fees and tip, it costs an extra flat fee of 10-15 bucks. You forget 2 of my 5 items AND get my drink wrong , but all you’ll refund me is 5 bucks on a 30 dollar order from which I can only enjoy 2/6 things… I hate you. It’s especially frustrating because all these fast food places tape the bags. So the driver can’t quality check even if they wanted.
Without a plate? You're doing **** wrong, son. Any food-service person working tonight deserves a 20% tip.
20% would be $2.22 cents. I never tip less than $5 on those small orders. I don’t know that there were any leftovers, tbh. We do Lebanese food and it pretty much gets picked clean. I could have taken a vat of toum home, I suppose.
The pain of 1000 stabs to the skull. I fully understand and you have my empathy brother. happy thanksgiving
Giving a like because Lebanese food is great. I’m still digesting from two Thanksgiving dinners but could still go for some Kibbi.
What do you mean? It had been like 6 hours by the time we had eaten and I had gotten back to ATX and ordered food. There were no leftovers to take home + couldn’t leave in the car for 6 hours.
My favorite is when they forget a quintessential side, like ranch, which it’s already obnoxious to pay for, and then you get that 50 cent refund but your entire meal is essentially worthless without the ranch or blue cheese for your wings, etc. etc. etc.
These rental car stories remind me of my days working at Enterprise. They use to tell us to NEVER say we're out of cars and ALWAYS book the reservation. Even if we didn't have a single car on the lot. "We should have a car for you in an hour or so" even though we knew damn well we wouldn't. Then we would have to call around trying to find a car from thin air for a reservation that probably wasn't going to show up anyway. When we would finally find a car, someone else would rent it for a walk-in and we'd have to start the whole process over again. My area manager used to call my new guys to make a reservation when he saw we were out of cars just to make sure they didn't say we were out of cars. If they did, he'd ask them to speak with the manager (me) and ream me out.
