CileTheSane

They've always been like this

When I worked at McDonald's I used to keep the DriveThru headset on after closing while I was doing paper work to tell people "sorry, we're closed" if they drove up to the speaker board. (Mind you, the building lights and menu board lights are off at this point. Something we call a "clue".)
That stopped after one too many people screamed "FUCK YOU!" into the speaker board (for us following our posted hours and me politely informing them instead of ignoring them.)

You quickly adopt a policy of "just ignore them and they'll figure it out."

There's no way your order is worth me turning everything back on, unless it is way too large to be something quick.

I don't know why this wasn't the case long ago.

It's also terrible for occasional discussion. A forum I can read the titles, go to the discussion I'm interested in, and read all the context. Discord if I'm not keeping up withe channel constantly I need to try to find where the relevant context for the current conversation starts, and hopefully it's one I'm interested in.

"Sorry I'm late, Traffic was murder".

"Someone tried to kill you in traffic?!"

Murder: something very difficult or dangerous

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder

"Island" only has an 's' as a stylistic choice writers started to use to make it look more Latin. The word "Island" does not have any Latin roots.

Language changes. Trying to fight it just makes you an old man yelling at the cloud.

Literbox is in there. Why would I smell up a different room of the house?

"has enough time passed that we won't get bad press for this?"

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

Working at McDonald's at the time. The HR manager went on bereavement leave and a replacement was brought in. The day the HR manager came back she was told she was demoted and was put as the DriveThru order taker for a couple months before finally being fired and given severance.

A month or 2 later the old restaurant manager who was now the "Systems Manager" and in charge of all the admin tasks stopped doing unpaid overtime, so all of his duties were taken away and he was put as DriveThru order taker.
For 3 months he came in for exactly 8 hours every day, only did order taking in DT, and left. He was still being paid his restaurant manager's salary during this time, the new restaurant manager was in over his head and would not ask the old restaurant manager for help. Eventually the old RM left to work for a competitor working with the old HR manager.
Apparently the owner called the competitor to scream at them for stealing his staff

It's okay, they sent out $10 gift cards for Uber Eats to apologize (that they immediately cancelled).