[geeks] rant in e minor.

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:18:44PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > second.  I HATE pre-recorded greetings at drive-through fast food places.
> I have yet to experience this new frontier of stupidity.

You've not gotten food at KFC, Burger King, etc, lately?  The BK on Lamar
and Rutland is the worst about this.. 

<white_college_boy_voice>
"Hi, thank you for coming to burger king.  Would you like to try one of our
 $latest_combo's today?  We also have two tacos for 99 cents"

Then, the person who actually takes the order hardly speaks english.

> The sad part is that probably nobody saw this throughout the
> implementation of this brain-dead idea.  Or the one techie who did was
> fired for "not believing in the company vision" or some such bullshit.

It makes sense, *IF* the person who did the recording is the person who is
working the drive through, and they're not trying to pimp things like
tacos... "Welcome to $fastfoodplace, can I take your order" works.  Making
it a question about a specific food product *doesent*.

The local BK used the same recording for about a month once...

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
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Austin, TX