Please help. I know this is a small petty annoyance. Now I find myself getting ticked off about something so petty. The story: Broward County Florida fast food tax is 6%. I order items off the McDonald's menu and the total was $7. That being the case the tax should have been .42 cents. Instead the tax was .43 cents. When I told the girl at the check out the tax should be .42 instead of .43 cents she replied "there's nothing she can do about it, that's what the register says". I told her to get a manager, I had no intention of giving McDonalds my penny. The girl was furious. Slammed her drawer closed and closed the drive through window. She went and told the manager who must have told her to just give me my penny. She returned, gave me my correct change again saying "it's not my fault it's the register". This was about a week ago. Today I went back to the same McDonald's and order the same menu items totaling $7. The exact same thing happened, cashier was upset and nasty. I had to get a manager to get my penny. But now I'm thinking if this one price is off, how many more prices are off. This is a very busy McD. How much more are they skimming from people? Stop me before I fire off letters to MCD, City, State and Federal tax agencies. After all it's only a penny and they did give me mine.
Okay. Take a deep breath and then repeat after me - It's a bleeding penny. It will not cure cancer. It will not protect me from evil. It is so worthless there is talk of discontinuing it. And that's all on account of it being a bleeding penny. I've got to get a hobby, because someone ends up dead in a back alley. If that doesn't help try remembering this - they make your food... and they can spit in it. They can rub their genitals on it. They can step on it. They can wipe filth on it bodily or otherwise. And they most likely will if you keep doing this. So stop it or learn to go elsewhere.
You're lucky it was only one penny. I posted on here a while back about getting ripped off at McDonalds several times in a matter of a week or so. Long story short, the employees were "accidentally" ringing up all the items in combo meals separately, overcharging me by almost $2 each time. And when I confronted a manager about it, she pretended to be refunding me the difference. However when I checked my online banking, she actually had the nerve to *charge* me the difference instead. I did send two letters of complaints to McDonalds about it, the first time they sent me two "free $1 menu item" coupons - whoopty doo! That wasn't even the equivalent of what they ripped me off for. My guess was they were ringing them up that way, then later voiding the check and re-ringing it correctly, and pocketing the difference. The instanced that set me off was when an employee tried to charge me $7+ dollars for a freaking chicken nugget combo meal. How do you work at McDonalds all day and *not* know the price of items off the top of your head? I couldn't believe I even had to point that out to her in the first place.
Well, the meals are labeled on the cash register and the machine does all the work. So, there is no actual need for the employees to know how to do much of anything at all. That's why folks say if you can't get an education go work at McDonalds.
Interestingly enough quite a lot of students work at McDonalds. But yeah, I agree with ohio tom; I've seen people working at fast food restaurants pull some shady stunts. Once a worker at McDonald's charged me the small price for a medium item and actually rang up something that was a dollar cheaper than that. I didn't stop her, though, because apparently I'm a bad person.
