Customer rudely demands 'EXTRA' onions, McDonald's employee maliciously complies.

Working at a fast-food restaurant is one of the most challenging jobs. Dealing with rude customers, long hours, and lots of work, all for minimum wage, is difficult. If you are faced with an unruly customer making aggressive demands, always listen carefully to what they say because there may be an opportunity for the egg to be on their face.

On a popular Reddit thread in the Malicious Compliance Subreddit, one McDonald's employee gives a man an order precisely the way he demanded it.

They write:

As a teenager, I worked at a Mcdonald's on a highway rest stop over the summer. I was making the burgers in the back when a belligerent customer came up and ordered a cheeseburger with EXTRA ONIONS. He emphasized I WANT EXTRA ONIONS loudly and repeatedly and banged his fist on the counter because the last time he ordered EXTRA ONIONS, there weren't enough onions on it.

My manager also overheard the order because the customer was loud and rude to the cashier. I looked over at my manager, and he gave me a nod; he knew what I had in mind and that he would have my back.

Cue malicious compliance: Standard cheeseburgers are supposed to have a little sprinkle of this diced onion mix; I proceed to pile on about a cup of chopped onion on top of the burger. To keep it from spilling off the burger, I alternated a slice of cheese between 1/2' thick onion layers, so a total of 1-1/2' thick layer of diced onion and cheese ended up on this burger along with the other toppings.

I microwaved it so the melted cheese fused with the onions to keep it all together as best as possible, wrapped it up carefully, and put it out for the cashier to pick up. It was as tall as a big mac and weighed three times a regular cheeseburger. The cashier picked it up, and her eyes grew wide as she hesitantly bagged it, glanced at the manager as he waved her on, and walked back to her register. The customer snaps the bag out of her hand and says, 'This better have EXTRA ONIONS on it, or I'll be back.'

We watched the guy grab his condiments and napkins and head to the seating area, so the manager stayed at the counter, waiting for any blowback. It wasn't busy, so we sent a staff member to check on the napkin station that was near the guy to see his reaction as he opened up his onion burger.

Sure enough, he unwraps the burger, looks at it inquisitively as onions and cheese spill out the sides, does a little nod and smirk like this was precisely what he was looking for, and takes a massive bite out of it, chews a couple of times, his eyes then go wide and realizes his mistake and immediately spits it out onto the tray.

He sits there sheepishly for a few moments with an embarrassed look on his face while he inspects the burger more closely, and you can see him ponder his next move while he drinks his soda and munches on fries. He tries scraping off some onion onto the wrapper, but the cheese and other toppings come with it, basically left with a plain hamburger and bun.

He tried unsuccessfully to reassemble the burger with less onion and some other toppings, but it was a big pile of onion/ketchup/mustard/cheese with a single pickle. He takes another bite and then throws it down on the tray disgustingly. He finishes his fries, tosses the burger in the trash, and we watch him leave in embarrassment; he doesn't even glance back to the counter on his way out.

The internet is a fan of just desserts.

itenginerd says:

Gotta give him points for having a sense of shame enough to leave quietly.

Vox_Mortem says:

When I was in fast food, we had something similar happen with a lady and pickles. By the time we were done, the bun was soaked with pickle juice. She picked the whole thing up, took one bite, and the whole thing collapsed onto her tray. She sat there and ate every single one of those pickles, though, to give her credit. The entire double handful of pickle chips.

HauntedButtCheeks says:

A friend of mine has a story like this, except he was the customer behind the onion dude and watched in disbelief and horror as the man happily ate the entire onion tower sandwich.

In the immortal words of the film Waiting, 'Don't f*ck with people that touch your food.'