"Let me show you how mentally and financially stable I am - by setting fire to an enormous pile of cash!"

I physically cannot watch that video. I might die.

Cornering someone in public, in front of a crowd, and hitting them with a surprise marriage proposal is not romantic. It is cruel, and a little bit manipulative ("they'll totally be less likely to say no in front of all these people!"). I really wish this would become A Thing That Never Happens Again.

Public proposals really put women on the spot. I think they're always a bad idea, and more about the guy's narcissism than his devotion.

That kind of proposal would just prove to me that my partner did not make wise financial decisions, and was probably not someone to commit to for life.

best day at that job ever. that letter and another one (from another VP of the same giant mouse based corporation,) about a huge customer service save i did for a little kid... well i now make 3x the pay i used to there and much better benefits, but still in customer service.

but it's only wafer-thin gratuity!

ugh, that sounds terrible.

Some places take these things VERY seriously. Kinda like customer complaints. I once got called into the office, because a customer was irate that we were out of stock of something. I very adeptly calmed the situation, but told her we'd been out of stock for a while, but, oh look! the California store has one, we can…

My store once had most of the staff call out, so we were stuck with a skeleton crew. Aka, one cashier, one floor sales person, and one shoe fitter (me). The floor sales person was on break, and I was helping about five people with shoes. I let someone into the dressing room, but couldn't really do anything else. Two…

Confession time: I once went on a second date with a guy who ordered a beautiful $40 steak well done. I ordered mine just shy of med- rare. I never went out with him after that and couldn't bring myself to tell him that it was because of how he ordered his steak.

As someone who performs hundreds of mystery shops per year (and is actually pretty damn good at it), you're 100% right. Any retard can sign up and think they're going to get rich quick. Guidelines are pretty friggen strict nowadays and it's way easier to have a report rejected than it is to have it accepted.

I think you could do an entire BCO about idiots not knowing anything about steak. I once had an older woman order a filet mignon well done; it was her birthday, so I avoided utilizing my "are you fucking kidding me" face and voice, and politely explained that the steak would just get tough, but she wanted it anyway.…

We had one of our cinema mystery shoppers phone us up to ask what film was on at about 8pm 'cos that as when she was "planning to come in and mystery shop us". Needless to say we got 100% on that shop and an extra £50 bonus in our pay packet for hitting top marks...

My job had a secret shopper come through who complained an employee of the store was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, had piercings, and refused to help them with anything. That employee and the store both were given a very low rating because of that.

I once had a customer order the filet mignon with red wine demi-glace, but only after requesting that we substitute the red wine for a chocolate martini.

oh man, that's a crazy one. but yeah, the people doing secret shopping aren't actually hired for their observation skills!

I can handle a secret shopper being mad about a toddler being illegally served beer-battered fish & chips.

So full from all the gratuities in mah belleh.

I politely let him know that I could have asked the kitchen to skip the red if he had asked me before the meal was prepared but that I was unable to accommodate him after he had started eating.