From Cake Bitch:Let me set
the scene a bit first... I work in a bakery that is inside of a grocery
store. There are two of us cake decorators, but I usually work the bulk
of the hours. We take pride in making our cakes as nice as we can, and
not just some shitty decorations slapped on a
frozen-ass-pre-baked-pre-iced cake... so anyways....
This guy
comes in and walks up to the counter, he wants to order a cake. Great.
Fantastic. Sure I'd love to help you with that!! /huge grin...
This guy
was probably from some country over in the middle east, because his
poor excuse for English was more or less going straight over my head
leaving me tilting my head to the side like a confused puppy... think
Apu from Simpsons... only thicker accent.
Ok so he begins to attempt to
order this cake...
Quarter
sheet? (8" x 12") fine. It's after this we start running into
problems...
He proceeds to whip out a picture of some double layer 14"
round cake
w/ cream cheese icing, metallic purple grapes and a wine glass and
bottle,
and blah blah blah whatever.
For one, the ONLY double layer cakes we
make are 8" double layer rounds... that's it.
We don't even do wedding
cakes at my store for lack of a delivery van... sorry guy, you're out
of luck there. Still want the quarter sheet then? Ok good.
So
I originally thought he wanted a photocake, you know one of those cakes
you get with a picture on it... since he brought in the picture and
all.
Turns out he wanted the cake to look EXACTLY like the one in the
picture... um... right well, a quarter sheet is a rectangle and that's
a round so... it won't really look like that. What? You want
buttercream icing? Oh well, that's fine but that's cream cheese icing
in the picture so... it's going to be white and not off-white
yellowish... (so far you can probably guess where this is going to
go...)
He then proceeds to tell me that he wants the wine glass and the
bottle on there too, Ummmmm ooookay well, this is only a quarter sheet,
there's not really a ton of space to put that kind of thing on there.
Not ONLY that but this fucker wants the glass AND the bottle out of
CAKE... on TOP of the other cake...
I don't fucking think so. We don't
do sculpture cakes at my store, we may take pride in our cakes but we
have a limit.
He started to get pissy w/ me after this... because I was
having a hard time understanding what it was he wanted.. ENGLISH MOTHER
FUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!?
So after I had the order form filled out to the BEST of my abilities... I repeat it back to him to make sure it's right.
Me:
Okay so we have a quarter sheet marble cake, with buttercream icing,
you want a wine glass and a bottle out of purple icing (omg gross...
nasty ass shit.... purple icing takes like what i would guess battery
acid would taste like b/c of all the food coloring... and he's going to
have HUGE mounds of it on his cake... oh well not my problem...)
airbrushed lightly with silver... some grapes and vines also airbrushed
lightly with silver, and Writing Happy Birthday on the cake in script
in purple, and your <impossible to pronounce Indian name here> on
the bottle and the year you were born .... your total will be
<Price>. Is that correct? (this asshole better be glad I'm not
charging him extra for the time it's going to take me to make this
thing...)
Him: Wait... no double?
Me: Excuse me?
Him: I want double...
Me:
I'm sorry but we don't make double layer quarter sheets, only 8"
rounds. You said you wanted a quarter sheet , if you would like to
change it that's fine but I can't fit all those decorations on a tiny
8" round.
Him: Oh... well... ok then.
Thank fucking god.
Okay
so, I start working on this guy's cake... not EVEN 5 minutes later I
get a phone call.. I immediately recognize the voice on the other
end... FUCK. now what?!?!? ///Sigh.. he wanted to make sure I had the
order correct... whatever dude, let me do my damn job kthx.
I
spent an HOUR and a FUCKING HALF doing this asshole's cake... that's
like 5-6 times longer than it usually takes me for an intricate
order... I made SURE it was as perfect as I could POSSIBLY get it. So
that asshole wouldn't complain.
A few hours later.. he comes into the store again.
Me: Oh did you want to pick up your cake early? (it was for tomorrow pick up...)
Him: No, I want to see it to see how it's coming...
Me: Oh, okay well, (resisting huge urge to just stab this guy in the face w/ my huge ass cake knife...)
This
is where I learned from my co-worker that he's been a problem before
and has been known to come in and "look at his cake" and then leave it
if he doesn't like what he sees.
Me: Are you going to -take- your cake?
Him: Well... I wasn't going to right now but....
Me:
Well... SIR... if you want to see your cake you need to take it. This
is not food network. I am not Duffy. This is not a "specialty" cake
shop. If you would like your cake now that's perfectly fine, however, I
don't have time to be running back and forth to get your approval.
Him: Ok.... well, I take now.
I
run to the cooler and grab his cake. I show it to him and he has the
FUCKING nerve to complain about it right off the bat.... the urge to
stab is getting higher...
Him: The side, it is too white. Can you put more silver on?
Me: Sure.... /Grit my teeth while I get airbrush and put a light coating of silver on the side.... hows that?
Him: Still too white a bit more...
//applies a bit more... eyes going red....
Him: //scrutinizing look... but now... now it's too dirty looking. Can you take some off?
This
is where I just blew my top.. I was so pissed, but while STILL being
somewhat polite as I POSSIBLY could manage and not look like a COMPLETE
bitch... as I would get written up...
Me:
Look. you TOLD me to put more silver on there because YOU thought it
was too white. I can't just "take it off" it's airbrush!! That would
require stripping the ENTIRE cake and starting all over. If you don't
want your cake, pick something out of the case and I'll write on it for
you, but I am not adding anything to it, and I am NOT remaking your
cake simply because I did exactly what YOU told me to do.
Needless
to say he took the cake and paid full price. I haven't seen him back
since. A
nd I hope, for his own safety, that he doesn't show his face
again or I will downright refuse to make another cake for that
picky-ass douchebag...¬.¬
Not to mention that knife I spoke about
eariler....
~ Cake Bitch
Custys Who Can't Read
I swear people are blind AND stupid!
I never seem to get the "do you work here?", but at least 3 times a night (I only work 5 hours) I get "Can I pet your dog?" even though she wears LARGE patches on her vest that say "DO NOT PET - SERVICE DOG".
What's worse is when they reach down to pet her when its OBVIOUS they can see her vest and patches!
I SO want to invent an invisible hat and coat that shocks people when they pet her while she is working.
I could sell it to every service dog owner I know.
A short time later the Law of Retail Hell Gravity reared its ugly head and Pharmacy Psycho left this message:
Well, it finally happened.
Someone asked me if I worked there.
Just so you know, I had my hands full of balloons that I had to inflate that had the store logo on them!
Yes, I was wearing the store uniform and yes, I wear a nametag with the name of the store on it.
*facepalm*
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