'He messed up pretty much every order he got': Wing shop worker baffles coworkers with inability to learn simple tasks

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 16, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

Everyone has that one coworker who can't do anything right. Messing things up because they're new is one thing. But then there are people like this guy Andy, whose coworkers are sick and tired of him messing up food orders over and over again. 

This dude doesn't seem to grasp even the most basic of restaurant rules, such as "don't eat raw chicken, even if it's only a little bit raw," and "always wash your hands before preparing food." These are things one should know even if they're not working in a professional kitchen. 

The turnover at some restaurants is so high that their standards are really low. You wind up with incompetent people working there all the time — until they eventually get fired, that is. 

Read this person's hilarious story of their most clueless coworker. Then, check out some regular folks who tried their hand at baking, and made some creative mistakes. 

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    Food - 'He told [his coworkers], "Oh, I don't like Sweet Chili sauce". Quinn had to explain to him that it didn't matter whether he liked it or not because the recipe called for it.'
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    Font - Oh Andy Small disclaimer. I work in a kitchen. Characters (all fake names): Andy (our Kevin) Me (Me) Steve (Coworker) Alexis (Coworker) Kayla (Coworker) Quinn (Coworker) Lucas (Coworker)
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    Font - So Andy. Oh Andy. Andy was a creature to put it nicely. The most frustrating thing about him was he was so d nice. But god was that boy dumb. Here's a few stories off the top of my head from myself and my other coworkers.
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    Font - I worked with Andy by myself on Mondays (Wing Night) for a while. This guy would sauce up wings with his bare hands (not a huge deal as long as he had clean hands) then would lick the sauce off his hands to which I would remind him to wash his hands afterwards before touching another order of wings again with his bare hands (I'm a bit germaphobic). He told me "oh thanks for reminding me because I would of forgotten". He messed up pretty much every order he got to the point where I would b
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    Font - On Taco Tuesday he would not add Sweet Chili to our Bang Bang sauce (as is in our recipe) and when my coworkers Alexis and Quinn asked him about it he told them "oh I don't like Sweet Chili sauce". Quinn had to explain to him that it didn't matter whether he liked it or not because the recipe called for it.
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    Font - Andy told my other coworker Kayla that it was okay to eat slightly raw chicken (I'm still baffled as to how he thought that was okay). He would also touch raw chicken, wipe his hands on a rag then continue on his marry way and touch other things with his raw chicken hands and would use the raw chicken rag to wipe things off.
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    Font - Lucas wants to learn to be a cook and was helping Steve and Quinn back on the line one night. Andy was back there. Andy somehow managed to annoy Lucas who doesn't even work on the line and for the most part is still learning about the things going on back there.
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    Font - Steve who has the patience of a saint usually almost lost it when working with Andy. It's okay to occasionally misread a ticket. It happens. However, it doesn't happen with every single ticket that comes up.
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    Font - Andy put a plastic tray that holds our metal plate of bacon cheese fries in the oven with the bacon cheese fries. When I asked him why the plastic tray was so hot he said "oh I put it in the oven with the bacon cheese fries, I forgot."
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    Font - We make some of our own wing sauces (Hot, Mild, Honey Cajun). Steve had Andy make HOT wing sauce. I didn't hear this whole conversation between them so when I walked by and saw one of the sauce bottles full I asked "Hey Andy what sauce is that, Hot or Mild?" To which he told "Oh it's Mild" Again I hadn't heard that Steve was having him make HOT wing sauce so I listened and labeled it as MILD. A few days later Steve had me get one of the two sauces out for wings and I noticed that the last
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    Font - He would go out and call the name of the person on the order ticket and my mom (who also works at this place but wasn't working that day) said "oh they're over there Andy" pointing out the customer that the food went to. Andy stared at her blankly so my mom repeated "Andy they are over there" and pointed them out again. Andy ended up finding the customer after my mom pointed them out the second time.
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    Font - Our 12 inch steak and cheese subs are two steak pucks each on there own sub roll. Steve told Andy this. Andy still messed it up and only made one steak puck on one sub roll after a 10 minute conversation/explanation from Steve about how the 12 inch steak and cheese was 2 steak pucks each on there own sub roll. When Steve reminded Andy of this after his mess up he looked at Steve like he had 2 heads.
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    Font - We got and order for a buffalo chicken wrap with no buffalo sauce. Andy put buffalo sauce on the wrap. Alexis reminded him that they asked for no buffalo sauce, Andy responded with "oh yea that's right". Andy went remake the wrap and again proceeded to put buffalo sauce on it and Alexis again reminded him that they didn't want Buffalo sauce on the wrap. Andy remade the wrap again and went to put the buffalo sauce on for a third time. Alexis stopped him before he could this time.
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    Font - Andy always had an issue with reading bone-in wings from boneless wings on the tickets for wings. Not a huge deal normally we work in a kitchen so mistakes happen. Andy however made this mistake with almost every single wing order and you usually had to watch him when he was putting the wings down to make sure he was putting down the right ones.
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    Font - Andy was a bit of a st ner but trust me when I say while the herb definitely didn't help that boy was in general just dumb. Steve who has experience with the herb straight up told me this. Like I stated before one of the most irritating things was that he was so godd nice so it almost made you feel bad for getting so frustrated with his stupidity.
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    Font - I'm sure I'll think of more after I post this. This is my first (official) Reddit post so I hope I did this right. If I think of anything else I might make a second post but Andy no longer works at the kitchen that I work at so no new stories will come up more than likely. I'm pretty sure he got a construction job (I think I overheard this so don't hold me to it). God help those people if it's true.
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    Font - Far_Administration41. The raw chicken rag/hands would have had me firing him on the spot. Massive health violation and if any customer got sick, lots of legal ramifications.
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    Font - Careful_Cheesecake48 OP My friend who works there told me about that one. I never saw him do it personally. But with the other stuff I saw him do I definitely believe that he would do that.
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