Employees get even with unkind shift leader "Linda" by tossing her double cheeseburger order: 'WHO THREW AWAY THE DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER?'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 17, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Sometimes, the only way to prove to your shift leader that they are out of line is to ruin their day. After all, if this is the kind of individual who goes out of their way to consistently ruin your day, why not give them a taste of their own medicine? This fast food worker and their coworker knew exactly how to drive "Linda," their unkind and frequently difficult manager, absolutely crazy.

"Linda" was the type of leader who needed to feel her superiority at all times. Naturally, that brand of "main character energy" inevitably leads to making more enemies in the workplace than compatriots. Linda didn't seem to care. As long as she was able to cling to those temporary feelings of heightened status, she was content with everyone not liking her. Unfortunately, she did not necessarily anticipate that making enemies can cost you big time… even if you're in charge of everyone else. When the back is against your wall, they might not have your back.

This author and their coworker knew that the best way to enrage and infuriate dear old Linda was to mess with the food she prepared for her upcoming break. It was supposedly against the rules to use your shift time to make yourself a lunch order, something that Linda herself probably enforced time and time again. So when the author noticed that Linda had done precisely what she usually tells everyone else not to do, they couldn't stop themselves from sabotaging her precious cheeseburger. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of the online community!

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  • "Double cheeseburger revenge"

    Fast food worker hands a cheeseburger over to a customer.
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  • Maybe now, Linda has learned a valuable lesson to practice what you preach, especially at work. When you demand that the people on your team perform tasks that you yourself would never do, people might eventually catch onto that and become resentful, as these employees did. So no, Linda. You can't have your cheeseburger until break time!

  • When I used to work at McDonalds, I had this really awful shift leader. We'll call her Linda (not her real name). Linda made everyone's life there a living hl. Constantly yelling and screaming.
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  • Micro managing everything we did. Finding the smallest mistakes and calling you out for it. No matter what you did around her, she'd find a way to yell at you about it. One day she was talking
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  • to my work bestie when I heard her repeat what work bestie said but in a mocking tone. I had had enough. I was working with Linda in the kitchen and I noticed she had "accidentally" made 1 extra double cheese without pickles.
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  • She put a sticker on it to mark it had an alteration but the sticker was just a general one and didn't say what was different about it. I know Linda had made it for her upcoming break but tried to play
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  • it off like it was an accident (we weren't allowed to make out break food ahead of time). Once the double cheese had sat there for a few minutes, I look at work bestie with a smile and say "hmm, this has been here for awhile. I dont know even know
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  • what that sticker is there for. You think we should toss it?" Work bestie nodded in agreement and I threw it away. A few minutes later Linda is screaming in the kitchen "WHO THREW AWAY THE DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER" I
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  • immediately told her it was me and it had been sitting there for too long and I had no idea why the sticker was there anyways. She stared me down, angry but no right to punish me because I had technically done everything
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  • exactly according to policy. Reluctantly she let me go and returned to the kitchen to make another double cheese for her break. Still satisfying to think back on to this day hahaha
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  • delulu4drama • 23h ago Sorry ma'am, this ain't Burger King. You can't have it YOUR way
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  • Reinvent_m 23h ago I thought you were going to say that you opened it and snuck 60 pickles on, lol:)
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  • . idid_not_doagoo... • 23h ago Hey Linda, you're a b
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  • ZookeepergameF... 23h ago • I must be missing something because for all I can tell, this petty (but deserved) revenge ended in her getting checks notes a fresher burger on her break....
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  • Tired Of The OldLife 22h ago You should have opened it and put 20 pickles on it! What could she have said about that? Who made that burger? Who put pickles on it? Nope! She would have had to sit there and pull the pickles and eat it, still tasting the pickles. Hahaha
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  • National_Pension....23h ago Mustard. You needed to just cover it in bright yellow mustard. That stuff can choke the flavor right out of even the freshest of burgers.
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  • mr_martin_1 • 23h ago . Wonder how many Lindas there are out there, being shift leaders. Feel sorry for them.
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  • Independent_Bit... • 23h ago I may have made one with extra pickles to replace her "no pickles" or and put the mod sticker on it.
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