My Spidey Sense Isn't Tingling!

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:54 pm

I have one of those Burger King Spider-Man game pieces. Which area should I scratch, top or bottom?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:56 pm

Toss a coin.

tron 2.0 · Post by **tron 2.0** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:58 pm

the top and the bottom.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:00 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:Toss a coin.

Ok, here goes...

Tails.

Free Small Shake. This pleases me.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:01 pm

But now you'll never know...

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:02 pm

It'd've been better if you'd won a TV or something.

tron 2.0 · Post by **tron 2.0** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:03 pm

plasticwingsband wrote:
Segaholic2 wrote:Toss a coin.
Ok, here goes...

Tails.

Free Small Shake. This pleases me.

good for you

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:15 pm

Delphine wrote:It'd've been better if you'd won a TV or something.

Yeah, it really would have. I was actually hoping for the million dollars, but I guess a shake isn't bad.

Although, seeing that I already get shakes half price since I work there, I do feel a little gypped.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:19 pm

Did you ever notice that the only people who ever win those "million dollar" contests are, like, in their 80's? So they'll die long before they ever actually collect their million dollar's worth in yearly installments. It can't be coincidence, these things have to be rigged.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:24 pm

You get shakes half price for working there? Is that the only item you get discounts on, or do you get everything half off?

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:27 pm

I agree. I'm tired of winning meager food prizes while some old man gets a cool mil that he won't live to see! Let's storm the castle! Anyone with me?

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:28 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:You get shakes half price for working there? Is that the only item you get discounts on, or do you get everything half off?

His profile says he's unemployed, so he must be lying.

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:33 pm

Heh... rules must vary from franchise to franchise. I used to work at a BK and got a free meal each day out of it, with a shake if I so desired.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:39 pm

His profile says he's unemployed, so he must be lying.

I only got the job 2 weeks ago. Nevertheless, I fixed it. Happy now?

Segaholic2 wrote:You get shakes half price for working there? Is that the only item you get discounts on, or do you get everything half off?

Everything on the menu I get for half price. All drinks are free, except for shakes, which I get for half price like all other "food-stuffs."

I don't really mind though, as I like Icee's better anyway.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:39 pm

His profile says he's unemployed, so he must be lying.

That's some high class sleuthing there, Pep.

Edit: That's what I get for going and getting a drink.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:27 am

With all due respect, working at Burger King and being unemployed are not vastly different things.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:32 am

Actually, seeing as how Best Buy apparently demands I have at least one year of experience in a "hectic service environment" (I failed their "online interview") and I blew the interview I got at the bookstore, Burger King seems to be my best bet for employment at the moment.

Incidently, it appears that the manager lives on the same street as me.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:04 am

Could be worse, you could be a grocery bagger/cart bitch like I am. I don't mind to bad though, it is 230 bucks a week that I didn't have before.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:34 am

Light Speed wrote:Could be worse, you could be a grocery bagger/cart bitch like I am. I don't mind to bad though, it is 230 bucks a week that I didn't have before.

Yeah, I've done that before. Not horrible. Just mind-numbingly dull.

Green Gibbon! wrote:With all due respect, working at Burger King and being unemployed are not vastly different things.

While that may be true, I didn't get a paycheck for being unemployed.

I was down to the wire because my parents were going to sell off our extra car if I didn't get a job by the 20th. I noticed that BK was hiring, so I went down and they hired me on the spot. While I can think of quite a few other places I'd rather be working, it beats not having a car.

Post by **Popcorn** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:02 am

Anything that requires any kind of rigged questionnaire isn't worth trying for. A couple of years ago myself and a friend applied for a job at the Co-Op on the high street (they'd been looking for part-time staff for about a month), and they took us into this little back room where we had to conduct this fucking exam amongst piles of unsorted receipts and stationary and stuff. It had questions like "'It is okay to steal from the shop if you really need to'-- do you agree with this?". We both failed the exam, and we're not even communists or anything. The shop was still looking for staff as of last time I checked.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:25 am

I failed their "online interview"

How do you know? Surely they don't tell you?

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:54 am

Popcorn wrote:Anything that requires any kind of rigged questionnaire isn't worth trying for. A couple of years ago myself and a friend applied for a job at the Co-Op on the high street (they'd been looking for part-time staff for about a month), and they took us into this little back room where we had to conduct this fucking exam amongst piles of unsorted receipts and stationary and stuff. It had questions like "'It is okay to steal from the shop if you really need to'-- do you agree with this?". We both failed the exam, and we're not even communists or anything. The shop was still looking for staff as of last time I checked.

I had a similar experience when I was fourteen or fifteen and got an interview at my local Media Play. They usually only hire people seventeen and older, but because I was friends with the daughter of one of the managers, I was able to get an interview. Now, I didn't know shit about what I'd be doing there; I just wanted to work there because of the discounts I could get on video games and comics!

Anyway, I was very nervous because I hadn't really worked before, except as a dishwasher or other similar bitchwork, and I never had been involved in any kind of real interview. Needless to say, I bombed. I was not prepared for any of the questions they threw at me; the kind of questions Popcorn just described. Only in my case, I didn't have the luxury of being able to sit and think about the questions before writing an answer. Instead, it was a face-to-face interview and I had no answers for the weird shit I was being bombarded with and the manager just watched me writhe in my chair, sweating bullets, completely aware that I was doing horrible with my feeble responses. And the manager had no mercy.

I remember a few of the questions pretty vividly...

Interviewer: "If you caught a friend stealing, what would you do?"

Me: "uh... well.... uh... report him... I guess..? Right?"

Interviewer: "Have you ever been involved in a dispute with a co-worker? What did you do to resolve this?"

Me: "um... uh... we'd... uh... talk about it and.. you know, work it out..."

Interviewer: "I see. How would you try to make a new co-worker feel comfortable working here?"

Me: "Well...uhhh...... be nice to them..?"

Interviewer: "Uh huh. Well, Grant, I want you to do one more thing for me. See, we pay partially on commission and every one needs to sell a certain amount of things by a certain date. I want you to sell me this CD player."

And this was the part where I knew I was really dead in the water. I was not prepared for this shit. I remember my response very well, though I try to expunge it from my memory..

Me: (after a good minute and a half of silence) "....uh... do you... want a CD player?"

It goes without saying that I didn't get the job.

Segata · Post by **Segata** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:07 am

Rub the other one. A shake isn't worth not being able to pull your hair out because you stupidly passed up a thousand dollars.

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:14 pm

Only thing is, you scratch the second and you lose that shake.

Post by Bo » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:41 pm

And if you find out you could've won the money, it would be crushing. So don't do it.