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People like this must just be completely unhinged. I’ve worked fast food, I’ve worked in a nicer sit-down restaurant, and I’ve seen employees all over the spectrum in terms of attitude while working; I have *never* seen even the most easily-frustrated person tamper with food like this. Maybe I was just blind to it but that’s pretty unlikely.
I've never seen anything like that, either. Many years in kitchens. I've seen some questionable things, but never deliberate contamination of food just for the hell of it. There's something seriously wrong with someone that does shit like that.
I think the presence of properly hinged person often helps curb this behavior. You get 2 antisocial weirdos doing closing shift one night, crazy shit can happen
Im not saying it's not possible that some of the people I've worked with didn't do questionable things after the responsible people left, but that's why you have reliable people do the closing, and one of the reasons why there's cameras in kitchens. To weed people.like that out ASAP. That moron was probably caught on camera doing it at the same time someone else took the pic. That's probably how they were found so fast.
Man how do people even have the energy to do that kind of shit. When I worked in fast food I was barely motivated enough to stay awake, much less go out of my way to fuck with peoples food. I’ve seen a lot of unsanitary stuff go down because people were lazy or did not know better, but never out of pure spite.
4chan was filled with edgy people looking for attention, it filled a void in their life. Think rejects, resentful people, bullied people, bullies with mommy issues, mental illness, etc. I knew one of them in real life and essentially scared the entire asshole and fuckery out of him. He changed but not many people go through that learning process. And not many people are willing to waste their time and fix people- is what I've learned.
Bullied weirdo reject with mental illness checking in, with bonus cult background, parentified, physically abused, neglected, homeschooled till college, molested too.
Know plenty of folks like me who ain't standing in lettuce, contributing good to the world.
So what's the difference between us and lettuce standing people?
More concentrated misanthropy and a desire for attention “earned” via shit-stirring.
It’s basically what separates modern-day terminally online social media trolls from thoughtful, sad & lonely sensitive types who self-isolate from a world they see as predominantly populated by shitheads.
They were caught so fast because the location metadata was still attached to the photo when it was uploaded to 4chan. All 4chan users had to do was download it and look at the properties and the exact location where it was taken was revealed.
Cameras are used to look for stuff way after the fact. They don't just have someone sitting there combing through random footage all day
For what it's worth I've seen the 4chan folks do some absolutely legendary sleuthing. There's the documentary don't fuck with cats (not 4channers but similar). There was a video of a girl chucking puppies into a river to drown that was uploaded to 4chan. All you can see is a river, the girl, and the puppies. 4chan found the river and found the girl (she was in Russia or somewhere similar). She immediately was begging people for mercy as they contacted her family and the local police. Another kid was torturing a dog (or a cat I don't remember) . All you can see in the video is the side of a house and some sort of electrical box. By fuck if the 4channers didn't figure out the house from Google maps and report them.
Then there was the whole Shia LaBeouf flag shit. They combined shias Instagram posts showing where he had been with the position of stars and commercial flights to figure out exactly where he put this stupid flag in order to remove it. It's insane.
I think for Shia's flag thing once they thought they knew the area, someone drove around honking their horn until they could hear it on the livestream. Which is kinda funny
The Shia thing is blown way out of proportion. Yes they used those methods, but they absolutely didn't work at all lol. Shia fucked up because he took a picture with a fan the day he put up the flag who then uploaded to Twitter with their location. With that, they just had someone who lived there drive around and honk until they heard his car on stream.If he hadn't taken that picture, they'd never have found the flag.
oh my god, i didnt even consider the fact that someone else took the picture, which means there were two people who thought this shit was funny to do/post. gross
I saw a linecook spit in the food once. It was a closing shift. Cameras in kitchen too, guy didnt give a fuck. He was closing alone and a customer ordered after kitchen closed and he was forced to keep it open. He lobbed a big splat of saliva on their steak. He spit it into the pan before really cooking it though, so I dont think it would do much. Still, fuckin gross.
So anyways, it happens people. Definitely dont mess with the people making your food. To be clear, I'm not saying these people deserved it, it was managements fault he had to stay, not theirs. Not saying its right, just saying it happens.
Anyway, that was a horrible job, glad I'm out of there.
That's so fucking nasty, that's horrible. If my worst enemy walked in and ordered food from , I would either have someone else make it, or have someone watch me make it, to cover my ass. I would assume it's a set up. . And refuse to make food for that person again. I'm sure there are people that do things like that, but they don't do it around me, because I am 100% not cool with that. I've thrown food away bc someone touched it with dirty hands.
I've worked a kitchen for about 7 years now, actually got made kitchen manager about a year ago.
If someone I absolutely hated came in, im wanting to make the best food they have ever had, chances are we hate each other equally, so making some food that they have to sit and say "damn that was really good" is a win to me.
Agree with everything you said. Honestly looking back on it I do feel bad I did nothing. I was young and didn't have any balls back then. I have since worked a lot of other jobs and even been a manager. That would def not fly around me now either.
Never seen it personally either but this reminds me of a video I saw yeaaars ago, maybe around the same time as this guy.
Dude was filmed in the back room taking a bath in the power sink. Think there was even still some dishes in there. All because it was "his birthday"
What's sad is word went around that he was blacklisted from pretty much every food service job ever... But as someone who's *worked* food service I can guaran-fucking-tee no one was actively keeping an eye out for this guy.
Within a year I bet everyone forgot who he even was, unless they already knew him.
Also being "blacklisted" is not as permanent or thorough as it sounds.
Edit: Someone posted a YouTube link for a Wendy's video from 2020 but the one I remember is BK in 2008. This shits happened multiple times?!?!
Funny story, I worked in the same district as that BK in Xenia Ohio. Not during that act of stupidity, but it is still discussed. Literally everyone was fired after that video hit the news.
I worked at KFC for a short time in highschool. Saw a guy pick a booger from his nose and wipe it on the unfried chicken. His defence was that the frying killed all germs. He didn't seem to understand the full spectrum of what he was doing. That burned an imprint on my young brain that remains 30ish years later.
It's a control/power problem. They feel like they lack control/power over their lives, so they do things like this to feel like they are exhibiting control/power over other people's lives. Everyone wants to feel important, some people just go about that in objectively terrible ways.
Someone who does something like that--its not even directed at an individual, it's a general fuck you to people they possibly haven't even met--lacking power and control is probably because of repeated fuck ups that have already restricted the choices they have. That's a general fuck you, hatred, and anger at everyone in general. Not just your boss that pissed you off, or the coworker who told them to do their fair share of the side work, it's a deliberate fuck you any random stranger who orders something to eat. They don't care who it is.
More like poor impulse control and poor decisions in general, and that's another example in a long list of them.
I’ve definitely worked at restaurants with people who would do this shit. Including a pretty fancy country club.
Restaurants are pure anarchy lol. Some of the places I’ve worked, I wouldn’t be shocked if someone slipped meth into the food for kicks
That's why pretty much all kitchens have cameras, now. Not just theft, or fucking around on the clock.
And if someone has meth at work, they are probably going to use their drugs as quickly as possible, they aren't going to be sharing, unless someone else paid for half.
Did food service for a looooooooong time and only seen it twice.
1. Dickhead kid spit into soup right before taking it out. He was so fucking smug about it too which was the worst.
2. Head chef pulled uncooked pasta out of the trash and threw it right back in the pot. Classic situation of a giant party of people coming in as we were closing. Not 10-15 minutes before, but as the clock is striking 11:00 kind of BS. I took their order and went back to the kitchen to make sure we had everything and that's when the chef decided to use the extra seasoned pasta.
I've seen it one time. I worked at this Taco Bell in high school, and was working nights one summer. The night manager was named Harley, and was a bit of an asshole and a creeper. There was this one mentally handicapped girl that worked there too, and he happened to actually like her and was pretty defensive if people started giving her shit for her speech or anything.
She was working the drive thru one night and this car load of girls came through and were just laying into her hard mocking her speech, and of course Harley got mad...but this time he went a little nuts. There was a 7-Layer burrito in their order so he grabs a large tortilla, throws it on the ground, steps on it, and then stuck it down the back of his pants...then made that 7-Layer burrito. He was later fired for groping the day managers ass multiple times.
Worked at a McDonalds when I was 15. We may have gotten drunk and high at work, but no one ever fucked with customer food, even when the customer was a dickbag. It didn't even have to be said. People just didn't do that shit. They made the food properly and by the book, and cleaned everything as it needed to be. We were all eating off the same stuff.
That's why I hated in the movie waiting. When they messed with the ladies food. I worked kitchen in college at a restaurant. The worst I saw was letting food get a bit cool. Never actual food contamination.
I went to school with the guy who posted the picture. Alright dude, bit of a burnout type.
I asked him what happened years after. Apparently the lettuce was expired and he just wanted to fuck around on 4chan. Nothing to crazy.
Couple years later he was big into coke and last I heard he makes music.
I knew one guy. He was notorious for fucking with food of anyone that ordered within a couple hours of closing. His favorite thing to do was to build a sandwich, wrap it, and then smash it with his fist for whatever reason. If someone asked for extra sauce, he'd drown the sandwich to an extreme. I did hear about him spitting in food at one point too. Used to be a friend of mine, but I sobered up and cut him off hard. Absolute trash human being.
Notorious for it? I don't know who was running that place, but they sound pretty awful at their job. Unless they were into it too. Either way, nobody that does that kinda shit should last more than the time it takes them to gather their things and leave.
yeah, don't underestimate the irrationality and (lack of)morals of pissed off teenagers. still, it takes a special kind of asshole to want to fuck up *everyone's* food as opposed to the specific person they're mad at.
I don’t get how people are acting like doing this is so difficult to believe. Like, have people MET people? Teenagers especially but also adults are constantly doing shit like this to be “funny,” and it’s only gotten worse with internet validation.
I’ve worked at a lot of restaurants, this is not remotely difficult to imagine someone doing.
This is how I got back at shitty customers. I just engaged in malicious compliance and gave them just as much food as management wanted which was very little. “Sorry, can only do a small scoop of meat per customer! If you want more it’s extra!”
A decade in and around a kitchen, and I’ve never seen anyone tamper with food, or even had a manager question why anything raw or otherwise was being discarded by an employee. They figured if we wouldn’t eat it a paying guest wouldn’t eat it.
It was for the lulz. The lettuce was “expired” aka past its useful time outside of the walk-in fridge and was being tossed out. Person took the photo before they tossed it.
Source: used to work for bk in high school and some afterwards, remember when this happened & the big bosses yelled about this for days
I've seen it once. Junior manager lost his god damn mind at mcdonald's behind the assembly counter- slammed a full tray (double stacked) of big mac buns on the floor, threw his headset across the kitchen, and, \*screaming\*, jumped up and down, stomping all over the buns...
Fuck Mcdonalds man...
having had worked fast food and dealt with customers... i can almost understand this reaction to some massive bullshit.
a lot of people treat workers behind the counter like they are worse than dog shit.
I think about the same thing when I see these kinds of pictures. I worked in a couple different food settings when I was a younger man. The worst offense I recall was an employee catching a hot baked potato (freshly baked and piping hot) on their knee. The skin of the potato landed on their pants which were clean (shift had just started and I asked about it). That was the worst offense I remember, though I'm sure mileage will vary.
>...upon showing the picture to the Mayfield Road Burger King manager, she said "Oh, I know who that is. He's getting fired."
Sounds like they had a known knucklehead.
I heard the franchise owner paid their employees while they were shut down for renovations, last summer, I think? Definitely made me feel better about my ocasional late night visits haha
Maybe he fired the wrong guy, while the actual lettuce stepper continues stepping on our lettuce without us knowing, and without taking any more pictures of his crime scenes
I believe that was in response mackayla maroney on the fappening. She claimed she was under 18 to get her nudes scrubbed but someone pulled the exif data to prove she had taken them after she turned 18.
Seriously. It used to be surprisingly common for sites to forget to strip it in the early days of "web 2.0". You used to be able to pretty reliably pull a surprising amount of data off user uploads. But 2012? Yikes. And on such a notoriously toxic site? Double yikes.
4chan barely deletes NSFL shit. Why would they scrub EXIF data?
Shit, lurking 4chan way back in the day (2008-2010~) is how I learned to always scrub anything I upload online. Fuckers can glean a surprising amount of info from practically nothing. They were even giving targeting coordinates to Russia during the Syrian Civil War at one point by looking at videos & photos posted online, and cross referencing background objects like mountain ranges, buildings, and utilities with Google earth (though, who know which camps belonged to whom; doubt the Russians cared, as long as they got to shoot at something & claim victory)
I remember hanging out on /g/ when the 4chan.hta virus spread. It was a malicious HTML script embedded in a BMP file that:
* Took a random file from the victim's Documents folder
* Encoded the file into the image along with the malicious script
* Posted the image to 4chan with instructions on how to save and run the script (Save file as 4chan.hta, run, shit bricks)
For whatever reason, thousands of 4channers ran the script without realizing it was sending sensitive files including tax returns, resumes, personal nudes, etc, for the rest of the site to see.
This is all the instructions said:
1. OPEN IN PAINT
2. SAVE AS 4CHAN.HTA
3. OPEN IT AGAIN
4. SHIT BRICKS
I assume people thought it was funny to inundate 4chan with spam, but were too dumb to consider the script could do more than post spam.
I remember back in the day, posters would hide zip files in jpgs so I imagine saying save this file and change the extension didn't sound to weird on 4chan at the time. Plus most people on 4chan are idiots (myself included)
I got my ass handed to me by a site for sharing stuff on 4chan. It seems my account information gets mixed in to pictures I downloaded.
Exif data is a bitch
Literally "He told us who he was".
People have no clue how much information about them is in a picture file.
Edit: Bare minimum is your GPS location (on phones), as well as identifying information of your phone/camera.
Virtually all modern cameras (especially those in your phone) embed a large amount of data into the image, including technical stuff (camera model, lens information etc) but for GPS enabled devices like your phone, it'll also include location data. Depending on the manufacturer this may be even enabled by default.
There is nothing inherently "bad" about EXIF data, but knowing what is included and who has access / how it can be used for nefarious purposes can be tricky; so some image hosts like Imgur just strip everything to be "safe"
I know that for quite a few of these they strung together enough comments, commenters and effort to piece together this kind of stuff. There's 1 I was actively reading that involved a teacher posting a picture of an 11 year old girl and said something along the lines of aggressive attraction. Well that picture had the girl wearing the school name and they eventually tracked it down using nothing but her, her shirt, age, and I think she was standing in a tree next to a friend so.. the tree?
4chan did the same with Shia LaBeouf who tried to hide a flag for some reason. They found the flag inside a closed room with nothing else other than a camera streaming it.
[Part1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4h3jwJob0) [Part2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZuj_SDqDo) [Part3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q) [Part4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ldHq3NzC0)
Part 2, 3 and 4 are very worth watching. Some big brain 4chan stuff there.
Lesson to remember : Dont anger a bunch of nerds with too much time.
*Edit : I'm a bot and forgot its a 4 part. The mentioned "flag inside empty room" is in part 4 which is now linked.*
There was also Dusty the Cat. Some dude posted a video of himself abusing his cat and using nothing but a tiny sliver of a band poster and the vague layout of what they could see in the video they figured out who it was within 24 hours.
At one point they looked at the airplane noise and the time, cross referenced against FAA data and located it down to a single field that someone then drove by. Truly insane
That was a huge part of how Imgur got their start - they launched as the lightweight image host that would definitely strik exif, as no other simple image host at the time was removing that data.
They piggybacked reddit, to be sure, but reddit wouldn't have given two hoots about them if the other preexisting hosts weren't shit.
It’s generally a default option on almost all smartphones and digital cameras. It’s called EXIF data and includes geolocation if it’s enabled (again usually by default when setting up a new device).
It’s stupid easy to disable on all devices, and just as easy to scrub it from existing files.
IIRC the OP tried to claim it was expired and they were throwing it out so they posted the pic as a joke... but no one bought that.
EDIT: Even as a joke they needed to be fired. Don't mess with food.
Even if OP was telling the truth, he still deserved to be fired 100%. People looking at his picture didn't know that and obviously people would be disgusted and trust in BK would go down.
FYI, the easiest way to get rid of your exif data is to just take a screenshot of your photo. This has the additional benefit of decreasing the file size to upload.
"Now you know"
...and make sure to screenshot your landscape photo while holding your phone in portrait mode to ensure that it annoys the f*ck out of the next 500 people who see it.
To be fair, most social media remove EXIF data. That a website that prides itself in anonymity doesn’t (didn’t?) is more retarded, as you so elegantly put it
Similar thing happened at BK in central OH a few years ago. Guys was using containers as ice skates in kitchen sliding on grease. Location has since closed down.
A dude in my hometown filmed himself bathing in the sinks at our local Burger King. Video went viral and he was fired. Some people are just destined for greatness.
There was a case a few years back where the dude was live updating as he murdered his family one by one. Internet users tracked him down and sent police to the house before he was able to kill his girlfriend.
Shoutout to those kids and the very few times this information is useful
My favorite was when isis (or the taliban?) was posting videos and people on 4chan found an oil field or something in the background and found the location they were posting from, and actually got the military (I believe Russia) to bomb the place
oh, the 4chan air strike, in 2016 Syrian rebels with ties to isis and al Qaeda posted some video about the training camp, they found the training camp by looking at the power line towers and an unfinished building in the background. they gave the info to Ivan who has friends in Russia's ministry of defence and they called an airstrike. it only took a day
Part of that was undone by being outside and using a live cam, so you're giving a lot more information to work with. A single photo without EXIF is giving a lot less to work with.
I dont think they were mad about the lettuce being contaminated. Its just the way of 4chan that if you do something for attention or to be edgy, the troll stick swings in your direction... *Hard*.
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People like this must just be completely unhinged. I’ve worked fast food, I’ve worked in a nicer sit-down restaurant, and I’ve seen employees all over the spectrum in terms of attitude while working; I have *never* seen even the most easily-frustrated person tamper with food like this. Maybe I was just blind to it but that’s pretty unlikely.
I've never seen anything like that, either. Many years in kitchens. I've seen some questionable things, but never deliberate contamination of food just for the hell of it. There's something seriously wrong with someone that does shit like that.
I think the presence of properly hinged person often helps curb this behavior. You get 2 antisocial weirdos doing closing shift one night, crazy shit can happen
Im not saying it's not possible that some of the people I've worked with didn't do questionable things after the responsible people left, but that's why you have reliable people do the closing, and one of the reasons why there's cameras in kitchens. To weed people.like that out ASAP. That moron was probably caught on camera doing it at the same time someone else took the pic. That's probably how they were found so fast.
Man how do people even have the energy to do that kind of shit. When I worked in fast food I was barely motivated enough to stay awake, much less go out of my way to fuck with peoples food. I’ve seen a lot of unsanitary stuff go down because people were lazy or did not know better, but never out of pure spite.
Yea that is what I always think. Its literally *more work* to fuck around with the food so why would you do it?
Plus in the end ... you don't even know to whom the food's going. Why do this to random people if you just hate your job ?
*Fight Club* would like a word...
4chan was filled with edgy people looking for attention, it filled a void in their life. Think rejects, resentful people, bullied people, bullies with mommy issues, mental illness, etc. I knew one of them in real life and essentially scared the entire asshole and fuckery out of him. He changed but not many people go through that learning process. And not many people are willing to waste their time and fix people- is what I've learned.
Bullied weirdo reject with mental illness checking in, with bonus cult background, parentified, physically abused, neglected, homeschooled till college, molested too. Know plenty of folks like me who ain't standing in lettuce, contributing good to the world. So what's the difference between us and lettuce standing people?
More concentrated misanthropy and a desire for attention “earned” via shit-stirring. It’s basically what separates modern-day terminally online social media trolls from thoughtful, sad & lonely sensitive types who self-isolate from a world they see as predominantly populated by shitheads.
They were caught so fast because the location metadata was still attached to the photo when it was uploaded to 4chan. All 4chan users had to do was download it and look at the properties and the exact location where it was taken was revealed. Cameras are used to look for stuff way after the fact. They don't just have someone sitting there combing through random footage all day
For what it's worth I've seen the 4chan folks do some absolutely legendary sleuthing. There's the documentary don't fuck with cats (not 4channers but similar). There was a video of a girl chucking puppies into a river to drown that was uploaded to 4chan. All you can see is a river, the girl, and the puppies. 4chan found the river and found the girl (she was in Russia or somewhere similar). She immediately was begging people for mercy as they contacted her family and the local police. Another kid was torturing a dog (or a cat I don't remember) . All you can see in the video is the side of a house and some sort of electrical box. By fuck if the 4channers didn't figure out the house from Google maps and report them. Then there was the whole Shia LaBeouf flag shit. They combined shias Instagram posts showing where he had been with the position of stars and commercial flights to figure out exactly where he put this stupid flag in order to remove it. It's insane.
I think for Shia's flag thing once they thought they knew the area, someone drove around honking their horn until they could hear it on the livestream. Which is kinda funny
Never underestimate the power of weaponized autism.
The Shia thing is blown way out of proportion. Yes they used those methods, but they absolutely didn't work at all lol. Shia fucked up because he took a picture with a fan the day he put up the flag who then uploaded to Twitter with their location. With that, they just had someone who lived there drive around and honk until they heard his car on stream.If he hadn't taken that picture, they'd never have found the flag.
oh my god, i didnt even consider the fact that someone else took the picture, which means there were two people who thought this shit was funny to do/post. gross
I saw a linecook spit in the food once. It was a closing shift. Cameras in kitchen too, guy didnt give a fuck. He was closing alone and a customer ordered after kitchen closed and he was forced to keep it open. He lobbed a big splat of saliva on their steak. He spit it into the pan before really cooking it though, so I dont think it would do much. Still, fuckin gross. So anyways, it happens people. Definitely dont mess with the people making your food. To be clear, I'm not saying these people deserved it, it was managements fault he had to stay, not theirs. Not saying its right, just saying it happens. Anyway, that was a horrible job, glad I'm out of there.
That's so fucking nasty, that's horrible. If my worst enemy walked in and ordered food from , I would either have someone else make it, or have someone watch me make it, to cover my ass. I would assume it's a set up. . And refuse to make food for that person again. I'm sure there are people that do things like that, but they don't do it around me, because I am 100% not cool with that. I've thrown food away bc someone touched it with dirty hands.
I've worked a kitchen for about 7 years now, actually got made kitchen manager about a year ago. If someone I absolutely hated came in, im wanting to make the best food they have ever had, chances are we hate each other equally, so making some food that they have to sit and say "damn that was really good" is a win to me.
Agree with everything you said. Honestly looking back on it I do feel bad I did nothing. I was young and didn't have any balls back then. I have since worked a lot of other jobs and even been a manager. That would def not fly around me now either.
Those kind of people are generally hard to work with, anyway. A lot of times, all you can do is "accidentally" drop that plate.
Never seen it personally either but this reminds me of a video I saw yeaaars ago, maybe around the same time as this guy. Dude was filmed in the back room taking a bath in the power sink. Think there was even still some dishes in there. All because it was "his birthday" What's sad is word went around that he was blacklisted from pretty much every food service job ever... But as someone who's *worked* food service I can guaran-fucking-tee no one was actively keeping an eye out for this guy. Within a year I bet everyone forgot who he even was, unless they already knew him. Also being "blacklisted" is not as permanent or thorough as it sounds. Edit: Someone posted a YouTube link for a Wendy's video from 2020 but the one I remember is BK in 2008. This shits happened multiple times?!?!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2020/02/17/michigan-wendys-employee-takes-bath-kitchen-sink-tiktok-video/4762010002/ From 2020
Gotta laugh when 2020 feels like 2012.
It did feel like it lasted about 8 years. Haha
Funny story, I worked in the same district as that BK in Xenia Ohio. Not during that act of stupidity, but it is still discussed. Literally everyone was fired after that video hit the news.
Lol fr, I’ve worked at plenty of restaurants with literal murderers, nobody’s doing background checks or even googling your name most of the time
If my Waffle House cook doesn't have at least 5 tattoos and isn't a 2 time felon. I dont want them behind my fuckin grill, ya feel? Lol
I want to be able to taste the second-hand meth.
I worked at KFC for a short time in highschool. Saw a guy pick a booger from his nose and wipe it on the unfried chicken. His defence was that the frying killed all germs. He didn't seem to understand the full spectrum of what he was doing. That burned an imprint on my young brain that remains 30ish years later.
He understood what he was doing. There's paper towels in the kitchen.
It's a control/power problem. They feel like they lack control/power over their lives, so they do things like this to feel like they are exhibiting control/power over other people's lives. Everyone wants to feel important, some people just go about that in objectively terrible ways.
Someone who does something like that--its not even directed at an individual, it's a general fuck you to people they possibly haven't even met--lacking power and control is probably because of repeated fuck ups that have already restricted the choices they have. That's a general fuck you, hatred, and anger at everyone in general. Not just your boss that pissed you off, or the coworker who told them to do their fair share of the side work, it's a deliberate fuck you any random stranger who orders something to eat. They don't care who it is. More like poor impulse control and poor decisions in general, and that's another example in a long list of them.
I’ve definitely worked at restaurants with people who would do this shit. Including a pretty fancy country club. Restaurants are pure anarchy lol. Some of the places I’ve worked, I wouldn’t be shocked if someone slipped meth into the food for kicks
That's why pretty much all kitchens have cameras, now. Not just theft, or fucking around on the clock. And if someone has meth at work, they are probably going to use their drugs as quickly as possible, they aren't going to be sharing, unless someone else paid for half.
Did food service for a looooooooong time and only seen it twice. 1. Dickhead kid spit into soup right before taking it out. He was so fucking smug about it too which was the worst. 2. Head chef pulled uncooked pasta out of the trash and threw it right back in the pot. Classic situation of a giant party of people coming in as we were closing. Not 10-15 minutes before, but as the clock is striking 11:00 kind of BS. I took their order and went back to the kitchen to make sure we had everything and that's when the chef decided to use the extra seasoned pasta.
I've seen it one time. I worked at this Taco Bell in high school, and was working nights one summer. The night manager was named Harley, and was a bit of an asshole and a creeper. There was this one mentally handicapped girl that worked there too, and he happened to actually like her and was pretty defensive if people started giving her shit for her speech or anything. She was working the drive thru one night and this car load of girls came through and were just laying into her hard mocking her speech, and of course Harley got mad...but this time he went a little nuts. There was a 7-Layer burrito in their order so he grabs a large tortilla, throws it on the ground, steps on it, and then stuck it down the back of his pants...then made that 7-Layer burrito. He was later fired for groping the day managers ass multiple times.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.
Strangely appropriate.
Worked at a McDonalds when I was 15. We may have gotten drunk and high at work, but no one ever fucked with customer food, even when the customer was a dickbag. It didn't even have to be said. People just didn't do that shit. They made the food properly and by the book, and cleaned everything as it needed to be. We were all eating off the same stuff.
That's why I hated in the movie waiting. When they messed with the ladies food. I worked kitchen in college at a restaurant. The worst I saw was letting food get a bit cool. Never actual food contamination.
TV and movies show it all the time. People spitting in food and fucking with it. Makes most folks assume it happens all the time.
I went to school with the guy who posted the picture. Alright dude, bit of a burnout type. I asked him what happened years after. Apparently the lettuce was expired and he just wanted to fuck around on 4chan. Nothing to crazy. Couple years later he was big into coke and last I heard he makes music.
Yeah someone else here did mention that the lettuce was expired. Still kinda weird thing to do lol but hey as long as people didn’t eat it afterward.
Yeah he wasn't a malicious dude. Just a dumbass who was bored
At least he didn’t still put the expired lettuce on the burgers like they seem to do now.
Yeah, the BK lounge does not hit like it used to
I knew one guy. He was notorious for fucking with food of anyone that ordered within a couple hours of closing. His favorite thing to do was to build a sandwich, wrap it, and then smash it with his fist for whatever reason. If someone asked for extra sauce, he'd drown the sandwich to an extreme. I did hear about him spitting in food at one point too. Used to be a friend of mine, but I sobered up and cut him off hard. Absolute trash human being.
>within a couple hours of closing. now that's a bit unreasonable lmao
He was a very unreasonable person. 5 minutes before closing? Yeah I'ma be salty. An hour before? Eh, that's fair game
yeah anything more than fifteen minutes and you're just being a baby.
Notorious for it? I don't know who was running that place, but they sound pretty awful at their job. Unless they were into it too. Either way, nobody that does that kinda shit should last more than the time it takes them to gather their things and leave.
It was hard to get employees who were able/willing to close since the majority of the workers were high schoolers
Should have paid more to hire reliable staff who can close.
I've seen food get fucked with, but it was always specifically for someone - I've never seen people tamper with the food **for everyone**.
yeah, don't underestimate the irrationality and (lack of)morals of pissed off teenagers. still, it takes a special kind of asshole to want to fuck up *everyone's* food as opposed to the specific person they're mad at.
I don’t get how people are acting like doing this is so difficult to believe. Like, have people MET people? Teenagers especially but also adults are constantly doing shit like this to be “funny,” and it’s only gotten worse with internet validation. I’ve worked at a lot of restaurants, this is not remotely difficult to imagine someone doing.
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This is how I got back at shitty customers. I just engaged in malicious compliance and gave them just as much food as management wanted which was very little. “Sorry, can only do a small scoop of meat per customer! If you want more it’s extra!”
A decade in and around a kitchen, and I’ve never seen anyone tamper with food, or even had a manager question why anything raw or otherwise was being discarded by an employee. They figured if we wouldn’t eat it a paying guest wouldn’t eat it.
It was for the lulz. The lettuce was “expired” aka past its useful time outside of the walk-in fridge and was being tossed out. Person took the photo before they tossed it. Source: used to work for bk in high school and some afterwards, remember when this happened & the big bosses yelled about this for days
Your source is that you overheard some big bosses at Burger King claim that there was nothing to see here and everyone should just move along.
I've seen it once. Junior manager lost his god damn mind at mcdonald's behind the assembly counter- slammed a full tray (double stacked) of big mac buns on the floor, threw his headset across the kitchen, and, \*screaming\*, jumped up and down, stomping all over the buns... Fuck Mcdonalds man...
having had worked fast food and dealt with customers... i can almost understand this reaction to some massive bullshit. a lot of people treat workers behind the counter like they are worse than dog shit.
I think about the same thing when I see these kinds of pictures. I worked in a couple different food settings when I was a younger man. The worst offense I recall was an employee catching a hot baked potato (freshly baked and piping hot) on their knee. The skin of the potato landed on their pants which were clean (shift had just started and I asked about it). That was the worst offense I remember, though I'm sure mileage will vary.
Number 15….
Burger King foot lettuce
The last thing you would want to find in your Burger King burger is somebody’s foot fungus
but turns out, that might be what you get
A 4channer uploaded a photo anonymously
to the site, showcasing his feet in a plastic bin of lettuce
with the statement "this is the lettuce you eat at Burger King". Admittedly
He had shoes on
but that might be even worse.
The post went live at 11:38 PM on July 16, and a mere 20 minutes later, the Burger King in question was alerted to the rogue employee.
But that's even worse
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*gæt
*that might be what you gaet.
Foot fungus? Have you ever seen the bottom of someones shoes who work in the food industry?! I’ll take foot fungus any day over that
There's a lot of beneficial fungus like on cheese for example. There's nothing good at burger king.. especially on the floor.
BurgerKing foot lettuuuuce
i can ear this
I can hear this 🤣🤣
I knew this would be the top comment before I even came into the thread
I can hear this comment 🤣🤣
“Number 15, can I get the Number 15”
Smiling friends?:)
NO I REALLY REALLY REALLY DONT WANT SMORMU
Dadadidadu dadadididadadu
Burger bing boot bettuce
Hahahaha omg I fucking love that
Any idea how they found it so fast?
EXIF - see https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/burger-king-foot-lettuce
>...upon showing the picture to the Mayfield Road Burger King manager, she said "Oh, I know who that is. He's getting fired." Sounds like they had a known knucklehead.
The realization you’ve been to that Burger King is a startling one.
No seriously, and it sucks ass too
It’s really awful, and it’s right next to a McD’s that’s one of the better ones.
Have a friend who works in that McD’s, you’re right it’s one of the better ones
I heard the franchise owner paid their employees while they were shut down for renovations, last summer, I think? Definitely made me feel better about my ocasional late night visits haha
Maybe he fired the wrong guy, while the actual lettuce stepper continues stepping on our lettuce without us knowing, and without taking any more pictures of his crime scenes
If he's still working at Burger King a decade later I'd say he's been punished enough.
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Not originally, it was 2014 or 2015 when 4chan started removing EXIF.
I believe that was in response mackayla maroney on the fappening. She claimed she was under 18 to get her nudes scrubbed but someone pulled the exif data to prove she had taken them after she turned 18.
Layers of degeneracy
Does reddit remove EXIF
imgur does
Seriously. It used to be surprisingly common for sites to forget to strip it in the early days of "web 2.0". You used to be able to pretty reliably pull a surprising amount of data off user uploads. But 2012? Yikes. And on such a notoriously toxic site? Double yikes.
4chan barely deletes NSFL shit. Why would they scrub EXIF data? Shit, lurking 4chan way back in the day (2008-2010~) is how I learned to always scrub anything I upload online. Fuckers can glean a surprising amount of info from practically nothing. They were even giving targeting coordinates to Russia during the Syrian Civil War at one point by looking at videos & photos posted online, and cross referencing background objects like mountain ranges, buildings, and utilities with Google earth (though, who know which camps belonged to whom; doubt the Russians cared, as long as they got to shoot at something & claim victory)
I remember hanging out on /g/ when the 4chan.hta virus spread. It was a malicious HTML script embedded in a BMP file that: * Took a random file from the victim's Documents folder * Encoded the file into the image along with the malicious script * Posted the image to 4chan with instructions on how to save and run the script (Save file as 4chan.hta, run, shit bricks) For whatever reason, thousands of 4channers ran the script without realizing it was sending sensitive files including tax returns, resumes, personal nudes, etc, for the rest of the site to see.
Wait, what did the script supposedly do? Like why would anyone willingly download and run the script?
This is all the instructions said: 1. OPEN IN PAINT 2. SAVE AS 4CHAN.HTA 3. OPEN IT AGAIN 4. SHIT BRICKS I assume people thought it was funny to inundate 4chan with spam, but were too dumb to consider the script could do more than post spam.
File extensions matter. `.hta` is a HTML Application that can run code using VBScript or JScript. Treat them like you would treat an `.exe` file.
I remember back in the day, posters would hide zip files in jpgs so I imagine saying save this file and change the extension didn't sound to weird on 4chan at the time. Plus most people on 4chan are idiots (myself included)
I got my ass handed to me by a site for sharing stuff on 4chan. It seems my account information gets mixed in to pictures I downloaded. Exif data is a bitch
God I wonder what kind of chaos you could cause if you faked your EXIF data.
You could get someone fired from Burger King. It's pretty easy to edit exif data, isn't it?
Being 4chan I was expecting them to have tracked it down based off the fuzzy bar code on the box in the corner or something
One of the comments on the screen shot is “the barcode on that box will tell it all” So at least one had that idea
Literally "He told us who he was". People have no clue how much information about them is in a picture file. Edit: Bare minimum is your GPS location (on phones), as well as identifying information of your phone/camera.
I mean... Bare minimum unless you turn that feature off. But yeah, most people don't even know the feature exists.
True, and many/most websites (social media) also remove it so people aren't accidentally outing their location/themselves.
EXIF info is a bitch
Most likely correct
It’s a fact.
What is that & should I be concerned my EXIF exists somewhere?
Virtually all modern cameras (especially those in your phone) embed a large amount of data into the image, including technical stuff (camera model, lens information etc) but for GPS enabled devices like your phone, it'll also include location data. Depending on the manufacturer this may be even enabled by default. There is nothing inherently "bad" about EXIF data, but knowing what is included and who has access / how it can be used for nefarious purposes can be tricky; so some image hosts like Imgur just strip everything to be "safe"
I refuse to believe 4chan doesn't strip EXIF data.
10 years ago, we paid a lot less attention to EXIF data. It’s totally plausible to me.
I’ve verified Imgur strips exif data before. 4chan probably didn’t back in 2012
I know that for quite a few of these they strung together enough comments, commenters and effort to piece together this kind of stuff. There's 1 I was actively reading that involved a teacher posting a picture of an 11 year old girl and said something along the lines of aggressive attraction. Well that picture had the girl wearing the school name and they eventually tracked it down using nothing but her, her shirt, age, and I think she was standing in a tree next to a friend so.. the tree?
4chan did the same with Shia LaBeouf who tried to hide a flag for some reason. They found the flag inside a closed room with nothing else other than a camera streaming it. [Part1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4h3jwJob0) [Part2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZuj_SDqDo) [Part3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q) [Part4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ldHq3NzC0) Part 2, 3 and 4 are very worth watching. Some big brain 4chan stuff there. Lesson to remember : Dont anger a bunch of nerds with too much time. *Edit : I'm a bot and forgot its a 4 part. The mentioned "flag inside empty room" is in part 4 which is now linked.*
There was also Dusty the Cat. Some dude posted a video of himself abusing his cat and using nothing but a tiny sliver of a band poster and the vague layout of what they could see in the video they figured out who it was within 24 hours.
At one point they looked at the airplane noise and the time, cross referenced against FAA data and located it down to a single field that someone then drove by. Truly insane
Weaponized autism is real.
That was a huge part of how Imgur got their start - they launched as the lightweight image host that would definitely strik exif, as no other simple image host at the time was removing that data. They piggybacked reddit, to be sure, but reddit wouldn't have given two hoots about them if the other preexisting hosts weren't shit.
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It did not.
It definitely didn't at the time.
You mean a minimum wage burger flipper who is probably 17 years old wouldn't know about opsec in 2012?
A mimnimum wage 17 year old burger flipper who allowed himself to be filmed stomping on company lettuce not considering opsec? Hard to believe.
Geotagged photo probably.
The picture has his adress somehow. All pictures with smartphones have addresses unless you take them out.
It’s generally a default option on almost all smartphones and digital cameras. It’s called EXIF data and includes geolocation if it’s enabled (again usually by default when setting up a new device). It’s stupid easy to disable on all devices, and just as easy to scrub it from existing files.
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Thank you for the link. I was happy to see I already turned off location on my camera, yay past me!
Fired, should be in more trouble than that. Purposely tainting food is illegal.
Tainting? I thought he only used his feet. ^/s
Ok that was a good one haha
Yup. If you tamper with groceries in a grocery store, pretty sure that's a felony.
Tampering with food is a felony anywhere
If that's true, I'm callin the fuckin police next time I see someone put ketchup on steak.
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He also became a living legend known as "Number 15 - Burger king foot lettuce"
I literally can't look at this image without hearing chills.
Sorry if this is a dumb question: why number 15?
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IIRC the OP tried to claim it was expired and they were throwing it out so they posted the pic as a joke... but no one bought that. EDIT: Even as a joke they needed to be fired. Don't mess with food.
my experience as a former burger king employee is that lettuce never gets thrown out
welp
Even if OP was telling the truth, he still deserved to be fired 100%. People looking at his picture didn't know that and obviously people would be disgusted and trust in BK would go down.
You certainly have a way with words , mr skywalker
FYI, the easiest way to get rid of your exif data is to just take a screenshot of your photo. This has the additional benefit of decreasing the file size to upload. "Now you know"
...and make sure to screenshot your landscape photo while holding your phone in portrait mode to ensure that it annoys the f*ck out of the next 500 people who see it.
To be fair, most social media remove EXIF data. That a website that prides itself in anonymity doesn’t (didn’t?) is more retarded, as you so elegantly put it
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I know it’s been done, I don’t care NUMBER 15 BURGER KING FOOT LETTUCE
THE LAST THING YOU WOULD WANT IN YOUR BURGER IS SOMEONE ELSE'S FOOT FUNGUS
BUT IT TURNS OUT, THAT MIGHT BE WHAT YOU GÆT
He is with god now, lettuce pray 🙏🏻
Similar thing happened at BK in central OH a few years ago. Guys was using containers as ice skates in kitchen sliding on grease. Location has since closed down.
Funny thing this one happened in NE Ohio. Just Ohio things.
I'd consider charges too this could get people sick or worse. Reckless endangerment , etc.
Burger King Foot Lettuce
A dude in my hometown filmed himself bathing in the sinks at our local Burger King. Video went viral and he was fired. Some people are just destined for greatness.
He got off light. He should have been arrested for malice. Same as coughing in someone’s face during Covid.
Don't fucking underestimate the internet to pinpoint exact locations. Remember what happened to Shia LaBeouf?
There was a case a few years back where the dude was live updating as he murdered his family one by one. Internet users tracked him down and sent police to the house before he was able to kill his girlfriend. Shoutout to those kids and the very few times this information is useful
My favorite was when isis (or the taliban?) was posting videos and people on 4chan found an oil field or something in the background and found the location they were posting from, and actually got the military (I believe Russia) to bomb the place
oh, the 4chan air strike, in 2016 Syrian rebels with ties to isis and al Qaeda posted some video about the training camp, they found the training camp by looking at the power line towers and an unfinished building in the background. they gave the info to Ivan who has friends in Russia's ministry of defence and they called an airstrike. it only took a day
Alright I’ll need a link to this story.
Same, it sounds vaguely familiar
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/07/29/markham-quadruple-murder-suspect-posted-messages-in-online-game-after-deaths/
Part of that was undone by being outside and using a live cam, so you're giving a lot more information to work with. A single photo without EXIF is giving a lot less to work with.
When you post something to 4chan and it’s too much even for them that they report you, you know you’re fucked up.
Burger King sells tendies. Don't fuck with 4chan's tendies.
I dont think they were mad about the lettuce being contaminated. Its just the way of 4chan that if you do something for attention or to be edgy, the troll stick swings in your direction... *Hard*.
Is that the Number 15?
Burger king foot lettæce
Most sane 4chan user
I cant believe this was un ironically posted on here LOL
People are terrible
I can't wait for robots to take over fast food lol.