Appalled by fast food customer laziness

I always return - I want my £1 back

Agree with the OP. Inconsiderate people make me sad and feel quite hopeless about the world. Littering, driving too fast, not cleaning up after themselves, generally not taking responsibility for their surroundings.

I always return it, but partly because I think the brief walk there and back is good for me. 😁 It's not exactly a chore.

Laziness is everywhere.

At my last job customers at the kiosk dumped their baskets on the floor when they had to leave by the front entrance right by the baskets. We didn’t have the time or staff to gather up the baskets and put them at the front.

DD and DS worked in a local restaurant for a while prior to Uni. Nice place, not cheap and they had a couple of occasions where customers left dirty nappies on the table unwrapped. I mean I cannot even begin to imagine the state of their homes if they think this is ok in a restaurant!

I worked for yrs in hospitality we always said if they leave this mess tjeir home must be ten times worse and always felt sorry for the kids being dragged up

I think when people behave like this, they're telling you a lot about their personal standards.

I wouldn't like to visit their homes.

@anxioussister I think the same about people who throw rubbish out of car windows. Except I wouldn't send them to another plane (they'd just trash that one too) - I simply wish they were all extinguished. I imagine the world without just those particular people.

Have you seen the state of the fields after a music festival? Its certainly not just fast food places and not just young chavs.

Whilst I agree to an extent. It’s a lot easier for someone with a broom to sweep it up than someone to pick up lots of little bits by hand ( I do always pick up the big bits )

Don't the ipads clean up?

Yep! Agree

Where appropriate I will put my rubbish in the bin. However if I’m out with my 3 year old and 16month old im not going to clean up the floor after them if it requires a dustpan and brush. Napkins etc i’ll throw away ofcourse but anything smaller I’ll leave for the staff. I used to waitress and I would have found it strange if someone asked me for a dustpan and brush. My job was to clear up after them

This litmus test (see image) reveals everything about a person...also what do they do when no one is watching/social pressure...do they self govern and do the right thing

My ds 16(not clean and tidy in the house ) works in McDonald’s and is shocked the mess that some people leave

Preach. I'm on a few panto shifts and it's diabolical

Agree op.its horrible. They are probably the same people who don't pick up.their litter when they are out.

The etiquette on this isn't entirely clear though, you wouldn't expect to clear your own table in a "normal" restaurant, or indeed in many cafes.

My local McDonald's seems to generally have staff just hanging around not obviously doing very much, so a rather different situation from the one you describe though.

Depressing.
My husband and I sometimes go to McDonald's and can relate to some comments, especially the
PP describing the job.
I get anxious if I leave some serviettes on the table 😁 but seriously, always sort the mess out and the employees notice.
Embarrassing not to (clean up after myself).
🤢😳😡

Absolutely. 👍

Some people do

I crashed into a car once (long story) and the home owner let me in while they got some paper and a pen for insurance details
The door opened and it was like someone had just ripped a recycling bin on the floor. There wasn't a spot that wasn't covered in papers, empty bottles
They said "oh excuse the mess we are just back from holiday"

One of the rented houses on my street was having to have a brand new bathroom after the tenants moved out, the landlord had tried and failed to chip the limescale off. I've lived here the same amount of time and mine looks perfect

I honestly think if we could just send all the people who don’t put their shopping trolleys back to live on a different island somewhere - the country would immediately have 50% of its problems solved…

I worked for McDonald's on the dining area as a customer care assistant and then a customer experience leader for ten years. By the end, I absolutely fucking hated it. Would regularly be told "I pay your wages" and "it's your job to clean up after me" by customers. Was groped by customers more than once too.

One older teenager saw me cleaning a table and deliberately poured a mix of ketchup and milkshake all over it while smirking at me. Closest I've ever come to punching someone at work. Joke was on him though - I used to throw chips on his shit box car so the birds would crap all over it. Also reported him for driving while off his head on drugs.

Not to mention the young scrotes coming in and trashing the place while the managers hid and left the customer care staff to deal with it (often alone- and my McDonald's didn't have security.)

It's a fucking miserable, relentless job and I'd never go back to it. I'd genuinely rather struggle for money than go back into that sort of job because it wrecked my confidence and mental health (and physical health too, developed a varicose vein from standing in one spot for 8+ hours a shift during Covid.)

I saw a woman get in her car the other day & leave her shopping cart there. I was parked opposite her, so she pushed it between the 2 cars. The cart return bay was literally 2 car spaces away! The laziness is astonishing

The mess left in the auditorium between shows is insane. A bottle or sweet package or ice cream tub, I could understand

The popcorn which has been thrown everywhere, sweets trodden into the carpet and ice cream smeared on the seats however....