'I would just act stupid': Diabolical fast food employee gets back at sneaky Karen customers, commenters then solve mystery of broken ice cream machines

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

Jul 7, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

We all know that the fast food industry is dirty in more ways than one. An obvious and well-known downfall to fast food is working for them.They are notorious for paying minimum wage and many even have their own lobbyist fighting to lower the minimum wage. It's disgusting. So most people know that working in fast food is painful to the soul. You are not only not making enough money to get by, but you are also constantly berated by Karen customers.

One fast food employee found a way to entertain themselves while working in fast food that simultaneously took a little satisfying petty revenge on those Karen customers. Basically, their soda machine did not dispense water and everyone knows that you can ask for a cup to get water for free and then usually sneak some free soda instead. But not at this location, if you asked for water, they would have to go out of their way to go fill up a cup in the back for you. This person had to deal with customers coming in, not buying anything and only asking for a cup of water. She would then see them dump the water and try to get free soda. But little did they know that this employee had a way of turning off the machine from her end. So when they would go up to it, ~click~ the machine all of a sudden didn't work anymore. She wouldn't have cared that they were stealing soda if they weren't total jerks to her. They would stomp over and freak out at her and she would just act like she didn't know why the machine wasn't working…

The best part about this post is not the satisfying petty revenge, but the mystery being solved In the comment section. Some people might already know that the ice cream machine that is always broken at fast food restaurants is a monopoly and has very decisive reasons why it breaks. But now we have actual employees and past employees of fast food restaurants getting down to the nitty gritty on exactly why they are always broken. See for yourself below.