'Self-inflicted stupid tax': One cashier's tiny slice of revenge on crabby Karens

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 23, 2023 3:00 PM EST

Faced with hangry Karens one too many times, this cashier has had enough. As they wrote to r/MaliciousCompliance, u/iceariina often rings up customers who don't quite know what they want. Lots of customers will come in to the burger joint they work at and order a cheeseburger, no cheese. But actually, you can save a quarter if you just order a hamburger. Does a Karen want to hear that? No, they never do! They just want a cheese-less cheeseburger. 

Since these Karens at the OP's workplace decided the customer is always right, the OP agreed. Ok Karen, have it your way! The malicious compliance makes the OP feel better while also giving them the satisfaction of knowing they screwed over a Karen. As they noted, they also probably got like $2 extra for their employer, so good job for that too, u/iceariina. 

After that, read about one institution's email crash that caused a massive meltdown, all because one person sent an email to everybody.

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    Hairstyle - 'I wasn't getting paid enough to stupid-proof hangry people's fast food orders. So I started ringing them up exactly the way they ordered.'
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    Font - r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/iceariina 14 hours ago Cheeseburger with no cheese S OC
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    Font - Yeah. I know. That's a hamburger. But try telling that to every single Mrs After Church Karen a hundred times and let me know how much you want to press the point.
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    Font - A cheeseburger was 25 cents more than a hamburger at Fast Food Restaurant where I worked back in the day. Eventually I got tired of being yelled at for correcting/explaining that what people really wanted was a hamburger. This happened multiple times a month, mind you. I wasn't getting paid enough to stupid-proof hangry people's fast food orders. So I started ringing them up exactly the way they ordered.
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    Font - At first I'd ring them up for a hamburger, cuz I knew that's what they meant. But I got chewed out by someone who read their receipt, so no more going out of my way to save people from their self inflicted StupidTax.
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    Font - The first time I rang up "cheese burger, no cheese", the cook came up to tell me I rang it up wrong. I just said, "That's how she ordered." My dead-on-the-inside tone said all that I could not express in mere words, and the kitchen employees caught on right away. They never questioned the orders rung up that way again.
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    Font - It was a win-win, I didn't have to get yelled at for trying to save people money, and the restaurant made an extra buck fifty every month from customers ordering cheeseburgers with no cheese. I don't mean to brag, but sometimes, the restaurant made a whole extra two dollars a month thanks to me. It was a little thing, and petty, but it made my retail-weary heart a little glad.
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    Font - Laser716 13 hr. ago There are people out there who don't know that a cheeseburger is just a hamburger with cheese on it? I'm ready for the asteroid to hit... Reply Share Vote iceariina OP +2 - 13 hr. ago Not only that, but they'll argue with you about it.
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    Font - Ares4991 6 hr. ago Some fastfood chain came out with a third pound burger, which is obviously more than a quarter pounder burger (the industry standard). They didn't sell, because people thought three is less then four so they were getting stifled. People are stupid.
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    Font - Insect Flesh. 4 hr. ago I remember seeing a sign posted on here that was like this. Burrito: $3 Chimichanga: $3 Deep Fry the burrito: +$1
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    Font - +2.6 hr. ago I recently had to listen to a waitress explain to a customer at the next table that a double cheeseburger is not two separate sandwiches. Hokulewa
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    Font - mesembryanthemum 6 hr. ago When I worked at Taco Bell people would order separately what was a combo. So I'd tell them "that's combo X; I'll ring it in that way so it's cheaper". About 40% would be "cool, thanks!" The other 60% would go on a rampage about how I was trying to cheat them.
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    Font - Death MetalMochi. 13 hr. ago I used to work in fast food and ALL the time I got customers like this. I got to the same point as you, where I stopped correcting them and rang it up more expensive just like they demanded. The last straw was a lady screaming at me that "no a cheeseburger no cheese and a hamburger are NOT the same, just do your job and put the order in like I've said" Sigh Vote Reply Share iceariina OP +2 - 13 hr. ago Yup. I got to a point where I decided I was paid to work,
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    Font - talrogsmash +3 11 hr. ago I've ordered at places where the cheeseburger combo was cheaper. I've ordered from places where the hamburger add cheese combo was cheaper. I've had employees at both places screw up the order and charge me more. Sometimes the customer has been burned just as many times as you have and doesn't listen for the same reason. Best way to handle it is as you have though, teach those who will listen and screw the rest of them. Keep doing good work for your own sanity.
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    Font - 020Wombat 4 hr. ago . Should've made both a "cheeseburger no cheese" and a hamburger and made her pick which is which.
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    Font - preciousbodyparts. 13 hr. ago I genuinely, genuinely wonder what the heck these people think the difference is between a cheeseburger with no cheese and a hamburger.
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    Triangle - Thi iceariina OP +2. 13 hr. ago One of life's great mysteries, that
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    Font - thefuzzylogic 9 hr. ago I have encountered a nonzero number of people who think a hamburger means it's made of ham instead of beef.
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    Font - Excellent Tone +1.7 hr. ago I used to go to $fastfood restaurant and order a double hamburger, they would go "a what? We don't have that." If I ordered a double cheeseburger with no cheese, no problems. Until this one girl who, when I ordered a double cheeseburger no cheese, rolled her eyes and went "You mean a double hamburger?" I couldn't even get mad, as I too have worked in "the hole" at $fastfood restaurant and after a while it does start to feel like customers are ordering wrong jus
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    Font - +1 - 13 hr. ago . Iceroadtrucker2008 I ask for a hamburger. Comes with cheese every time. I ask for a hamburger with no cheese. Comes with cheese every time. I don't care anymore. Someday I will be in a mood and they will know I want it with NO cheese. But that burger I will be afraid to eat!
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    Font - WolfMan8899 hr. ago I asked for a hamburger at my local McD's and got blank stare followed by her ringing up a cheeseburger. I can see the screen. I said, "no, I said hamburger. No cheese. Meat and bread." "...We don't have that button" /Facepalm
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    Font - OnlyPaperListens. 6 hr. ago I feel this pain. I've tried ordering a hamburger, a hamburger without cheese, a burger, and a burger without cheese. People do not stop putting the d may resort to cue cards and puppetry at this point. ed cheese on. I I cannot scrape it off, it's melted and fused together. Excuse me for wanting to not s myself.
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