My brain can BITE ME

[beandelphiki]

Okay, people. If we are doing fast food, and you want to tell me something in that environment, YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE RULES:

RULE 1

You must speak LOUDLY and CLEARLY. You have to be louder than all other sounds. If you aren't, I might not even realize that you're speaking. And even if I know you're speaking, it can be hard to understand. For example, you might say, "Clean out the meat pot," and all I hear is, "ean ou ee ot." Then I spend two minutes re-running the noise in my head until it makes sense. (Well, actually, I might hear all the sounds, but they won't make sense, even if I do. It's like you're speaking another language.)

It wastes your time AND mine if I have to ask you to repeat things three times.

LOUDLY. And don't bloody mumble, it makes things harder.

RULE 2

If it's at all possible, FACE ME. Or turn your head in my direction. The worst position ever is facing away from me, especially into something that's making noise. Most people would have a problem with that anyway.

It really helps a lot if I can see your facial expressions, the movement of your lips, the directions you look in. I need visual clues.

RULE 3

And if you have your hands free, PLEASE GESTURE. It'll speed things up a lot. If I hear, "ean ou ee ot," I may not know what that means, but pointing to the meat pot gets me half-way there. Ultimately, you save several minutes by taking a few seconds to gesture.


Thank you. This has been a Public Service Announcement

Comments

[benthecube.livejournal.com]

Clean out the meat pot? Is this just a sentence you made up or is it a sentence you've actually heard/used?

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

It's a real sentence. I work at Taco Time now, and we prepare meat in a big meat pot in the back.

[emptygirl.livejournal.com]

I get so annoyed by people who won't speak up! I work at a Subway chain and it gets so tiresome prompting the customers as it is, so when I have to ask the same question three times it's bad. As you said, the various machines are always humming and stuff, and people need to understand this!


I hope it was nice for you otherwise :)

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

It wasn't horrendous. :)

[carinmlp.livejournal.com]

I "hear" you there. Ahaha.

Stumbled across your journal via your comment recently in bad_sex, and I think we're pretty similar. I'm a 1984 baby, I firmly believe that public education rots the brain (hence why I left - that and gender issues with my fembitch flute professor,) ADD and depression both run in my family, though I've yet to determine if I have either, and my directional hearing was shot to hell from age 2 on ... I ought to tack this up on the "partner communication board" at the Starbucks where I work. The constant sounds of water running, dishwashers washing, espresso grinding, and coffee brewing makes "please restock the chinese mugs" into ... well, SOMETHING in Esperanto.

Great writing - keep it up. I don't write in this journal, but comment in my "I'm making this friends-only" post in my other one (www.greatestjournal.com/users/i_lady_byron) if you like sex journals. Since it's become friends-only it's more of a life journal now, with occasional posts about the joys of fisting. See you around.

-C-

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, I have a GJ - same journal name, beandelphiki, although I don't really use it. I'll check yours out a little later when I have time, but I have to dash to class now.

Nice to hear from you.