Thick Deli Workers

WindSock · 10-09-2010 12:54PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

It's not ****ing butter they put on it anyway.
It's ****ing evil vegetable oil crap or whatever.

I know and it's minging. There is an awful look of despair on my face when they dig the knife into the tub and slap heap of it onto the bread.

mikemac · 10-09-2010 12:54PM

Kinda offtopic but I always thought working in a Deli was a likely way to get a back injury.

Now I know it's not heavy manual labour

But you have to stretch and reach for stuff all the time while most are bending their back. Well that's what I see anyway.

Do it for a few years and bend your back like you never did manual handling course and it'll be a trip to to the doctor for sure

easyeason3 · 10-09-2010 12:54PM

mahamageehad wrote: »

I worked in a deli for 3 years and it was all Irish staff.

Also I made perfect sandwiches!!!

However... you can usually tell which deli worker is going to give you nice sandwiches/rolls. Find these people- usually under 30 and smiling with a good grasp of english- and only get served by them.

problem solved.

next problem...?

And you won't find too many in Ireland.

mahamageehad · 10-09-2010 01:00PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

And you won't find too many in Ireland.

oooh pick me pick me!!!

phill106 · 10-09-2010 01:00PM

Dam my eyes, I was wondering what the poor DELL workers did.

kelle · 10-09-2010 01:00PM

I worked in a Deli as a student, and encountered so many obnoxious customers it encouraged me to work hard on my couse, get my qualification and a good job - which I did.

As a result I'm always very kind to Deli workers.

conorhal · 10-09-2010 01:04PM

My Daily Deli Dairy:

*ahem, hello? Is one of the five of you standing behind that counter perhaps employed to make a sandwich? Any time when you're ready girls! You know, once you've finished talking amongst youselves and flirting with the builders in the high vis vests....

"What would you like?"

"A roll please, with mayo ,chicken, cheese and a bit of lettuce"

"Would you like butter"

"No thanks". I come here every friggin day, I order the same friggin' thing, have I ever taken butter on a roll?

"Now what would you like?"

Slowly.. because she has the memory of a bleedin' goldfish and stating more than one ingredient at a time seems to confuse her.

"Some chicken.... cheese.... and a bit of lettuce... please..

"Chicken.... lettuce...tomato"

"NO! no tomato... please.."

She scowels as if to say, I'm making the sambo mate, you'll get what I give you! And dumps some cheese on the roll

"No tomato... anything else?"

"...and a bit of lettuce"

"a bit of lettuce..."

She dumps a kilo of lettuce on the roll, then turns to get a price sticker for it and spends the next 5 minutes chatting to the checkout girl.....

"Your roll."

"Thank you..." Unfortunately, I now have only three minutes left out of my lunchbreak to eat it....

dr.bollocko · 10-09-2010 01:08PM

The problem here is not with the staff but with the entire concept. We have an entire group of working people getting their lunch from a petrol station deli. Fcukin cuisine de france feeding a working nation. You think that's reasonable? I sure as hell don't.

WindSock · 10-09-2010 01:14PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

The problem here is not with the staff but with the entire concept. We have an entire group of working people getting their lunch from a petrol station deli. Fcukin cuisine de france feeding a working nation. You think that's reasonable? I sure as hell don't.

That's it, really. The reason why the foreign staff don't pay particular attention to their creations is becuase they probably think it's all shite anyway as we clearly couldn't give a toss what we put into our bodies.

kraggy · 10-09-2010 01:15PM

basquille wrote: »

You're not going to a proper deli if the staff in the deli preparing sandwiches are the same staff who are taking your money at the till.

Yeah, but you know what I mean.

In Subway (I know, not a deli), the staff make the sandwiches AND take the money.

pixelburp · 10-09-2010 01:16PM

Thick Deli Workers? I wouldn't know, I make my own tasty sandwiches and take them into work. I just can't work out the appeal of buying overpriced, 'orrible deli sandwiches.

mikemac · 10-09-2010 01:17PM

They remove their gloves though to take the money and put on fresh gloves for the next customer

At least they should be

conorhal · 10-09-2010 01:17PM

mahamageehad wrote: »

oooh pick me pick me!!!

No. I only order off the fat bird, it's the only sure fire way to guarantee that you wont get a stingey ammount of filling in your roll.... :cool:

super_furry · 10-09-2010 01:20PM

Why can't any of them fold a wrap properly?

Basq · 10-09-2010 01:21PM

kraggy wrote: »

In Subway (I know, not a deli), the staff make the sandwiches AND take the money.

In my local Subway, there's ALWAYS three behind the counter.

The 1st person: takes your order, cuts the bread, puts on the base meat, cheese etc. And toasts it.
The 2nd person: takes the sandwich out of the toaster, puts on the salad toppings and the sauce.
The 3rd person: takes your money, asks you whether you want a drink / cookie / crisps and asks if you have a Subcard.

Every time I've been in Subway, this is the case!

10-09-2010 01:41PM

Here was my experience only 20 minutes ago:

Went to local spar, picked up a roll, went to the deli counter. 3 people working behind the counter and 2 customers ahead of me. 2 workers were serving the customers and the 3rd was doing something else at the back.

5 schoolkids came in, stood beside me and ALL got served before I did. I let it slide but said it to the girl who served me (she also served 3 of the kids). She shook her head, put on a sour puss and put out her hand to take my roll.

I said forget about it and left the shop.

I also hate the way they use the big bread knives to apply "butter". This is the reason the layer of "butter" is thicker than anything else that goes into a roll/sambo. And yes, for some reason they always put on WAY too much ketchup. With that said though, where I go they usually put it on first.

Question...why the hell do all these sandwiches/rolls taste exactly the same no matter where you get them?!

kraggy · 10-09-2010 01:50PM

basquille wrote: »

In my local Subway, there's ALWAYS three behind the counter.
The 1st person: takes your order, cuts the bread, puts on the base meat, cheese etc. And toasts it.

The 2nd person: takes the sandwich out of the toaster, puts on the salad toppings and the sauce.

The 3rd person: takes your money, asks you whether you want a drink / cookie / crisps and asks if you have a Subcard.

Every time I've been in Subway, this is the case!

Well in Galway, I've been when there would only be 2 members on at a time and they would carry out all duties.

Leeg17 · 10-09-2010 01:52PM

Ugh , reminds me of a "deli" in a shop close to my secondary school.

Now I fvckin' detest mayo and ketchup with a passion. They used the same knife to spread the mayo/ketchup/button with to cut the bread. Then the blind bats behind the counter would miss the roll with the squeezy bottles of ketchup/mayo and there'd be a big pile sitting there. Splosh and there's a huge dollop of mayo/ketchup both in my rool and outside of my roll.

Oh, and not to mention the one time I got a roll from there, not 1 but two dirty black hairs in it, I nearly puked in the lunch hall. Seems that day hair nets were optional . I'm feeling queasy thinking about it :mad:

Itsdacraic · 10-09-2010 01:55PM

einheisserschre wrote: »

Here was my experience only 20 minutes ago:

Went to local spar, picked up a roll, went to the deli counter. 3 people working behind the counter and 2 customers ahead of me. 2 workers were serving the customers and the 3rd was doing something else at the back.

5 schoolkids came in, stood beside me and ALL got served before I did. I let it slide but said it to the girl who served me (she also served 3 of the kids). She shook her head, put on a sour puss and put out her hand to take my roll.

I said forget about it and left the shop.

I also hate the way they use the big bread knives to apply "butter". This is the reason the layer of "butter" is thicker than anything else that goes into a roll/sambo. And yes, for some reason they always put on WAY too much ketchup. With that said though, where I go they usually put it on first.

Question...why the hell do all these sandwiches/rolls taste exactly the same no matter where you get them?!

Ha ha you loser.

- You let kids cut ahead of you.
- Stood there waiting for them all to be served
- Then when you finally were being served, you left minus a roll.

anniehoo · 10-09-2010 02:06PM

Even if the tiniest bit of butter goes near my sandwich its "sorry no butter,can i have a fresh sandwich thanks".

If theres too little meat its "can i have a bit of extra chicken there thanks" and if theres too much crappy lettuce or lumps of onion its "sorry would you mind taking off some of that lettuce cheers". Perfect sambo and i walk away happy. Thats not hard now is it?

Pyr0 · 10-09-2010 02:06PM

"Ham, butter, lettuce, small bit of egg mayo and a bit of onion please."

Egg mayo is slapped on in generous heaps and the onion is bet into the roll, my eyes water just looking at the amount of onion on it.

youcancallmeal · 10-09-2010 02:23PM

Couple of years ago I would go to the same Spar beside where I work in North inner city Dublin about twice a week and order the same roll. Chicken fillet, cheese, coleslaw and ketchup. I will agree that many might think that coleslaw and ketchup together sounds nasty but I quite like it. So anyway there was this elderly woman who worked in the deli and every time I called out what I wanted on the my roll she would do a double take and look at me like I had 2 heads "Ya wha, coleslaw and ketchup in togeder!?". I would wearily nod and she would make it and then hand it to me with a look of disgust on her face. This exact same routine went on for months until I just stopped going there and went to another deli further away where they didn't judge me.

stovelid · 10-09-2010 02:23PM

Oooh

-A chastised deli worker, yesterday

mikemac · 10-09-2010 02:26PM

She probably was miserable in that job, thought she was too good for it and the only power she had was to judge her customers

Sykk · 10-09-2010 02:41PM

anniehoo wrote: »

Even if the tiniest bit of butter goes near my sandwich its "sorry no butter,can i have a fresh sandwich thanks".

If theres too little meat its "can i have a bit of extra chicken there thanks" and if theres too much crappy lettuce or lumps of onion its "sorry would you mind taking off some of that lettuce cheers". Perfect sambo and i walk away happy. Thats not hard now is it?

Mind telling me where that is? About 3 of the 400 deli's I've been to have workers that can understand English.

Irishcrx · 10-09-2010 02:44PM

Ah no...the worst is when you are dieing for a donar kebab and make the order. You say Donar kebab, no lettuce and can I just have a small ammount of sauce please. It turns up and looks like somebody slaughtered the lamb in the pitta bread and covered up the murder with the lettuce!!

Not to mention you can't pick it up and eat it because theres so much sauce the bread is falling apart =(

changes · 10-09-2010 02:54PM

conorhal wrote: »

No. I only order off the fat bird, it's the only sure fire way to guarantee that you wont get a stingey ammount of filling in your roll.... :cool:

Yeah i do that also, fat doll in my local lamps the food on, i always try to get her

Irishcrx · 10-09-2010 02:58PM

changes wrote: »

Yeah i do that also, fat doll in my local lamps the food on, i always try to get her

Bet she had her dirty fingers in the food when you weren't looking though, stealing the odd bit here and there...

Mr. Presentable · 10-09-2010 03:05PM

Actually OP, my chief problem with the butter offer is that it is various emulsified oils they are spreading, and NOT BUTTER!

stovelid · 10-09-2010 03:19PM

Mr. Presentable wrote: »

and NOT BUTTER!

I can't believe it!

:pac:

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