You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by BigThief

Yeah jayswin, still showing next day shipping for me.

Having a kids birthday party?

[Ped]

I ordered something from prime on Friday, and it said delivery next day, but once I ordered it, it switched it to next Saturday (Not condoms, though)

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Why should someone accept something other than what they specifically paid for? Mistakes aren't the consumers' cost to bear, and getting an order right isn't a big expectation of a business.

Because I realize mistakes happen and that one is completely inconsequential and actually to my benefit?

Don't think about it so much as a mistake this poor soul had to bear...think of it more as a human to human. If you were having coffee at my house and I gave you a bit more than you wanted or the sugar:cream ratio was slightly off your preference, would you really complain? If so, we definitely wouldn't be friends lol.

Same thing at Tim's. A person at work just trying their best. No way in hell am I going to make their day a little tougher over a giant nothing. Guarantee that worker went to bed that night daydreaming about throwing that coffee in Jiri's face.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

You’re aware you don’t have to drink the whole coffee right?

You are missing the point.
I order a certain size, with a certain # of sweetners and cream.
If there is more coffee then it throws of the flavor i'm looking for.

That's why it grinds my gear.

A large coffee with 1 cream and 1 sweetner is not the same as a small coffee with 1 cream and 1 sweetner.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

You are missing the point.
I order a certain size, with a certain # of sweetners and cream.
If there is more coffee then it throws of the flavor i'm looking for.

That's why it grinds my gear.

A large coffee with 1 cream and 1 sweetner is not the same as a small coffee with 1 cream and 1 sweetner.

You're wrong.

Just talked to my office manager. She used to work at Tim's. There's a different button for the cream and sugar dispenser based on the size of the cup. Ratios are identical.

[Jiri Hrdina]

First I didn't know that. So a single shot is a different amount based on the size? What a time to be alive. I don't think this is true though for sweetner since those come out of packets.

Second though - didn't specify this was Tim's and only Tim's.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

First I didn't know that. So a single shot is a different amount based on the size? What a time to be alive. I don't think this is true though for sweetner since those come out of packets.

Second though - didn't specify this was Tim's and only Tim's.

That's fair, but McDonald's is definitely the same because it was like that when I worked their in the early 1990s.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

First I didn't know that. So a single shot is a different amount based on the size? What a time to be alive. I don't think this is true though for sweetner since those come out of packets.

Second though - didn't specify this was Tim's and only Tim's.

Just talked to my office manager again. Also different buttons for sugar dispensing based on coffee cup size. Sugar comes out of a hopper.

Sweeteners are always from the packs, though.

Tims only on that info.

[Sliver]

I know somebody who worked at Tim Horton's...AMA

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I know somebody who worked at Tim Horton's...AMA

Why do people still go there?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

First I didn't know that. So a single shot is a different amount based on the size? What a time to be alive. I don't think this is true though for sweetner since those come out of packets.

Second though - didn't specify this was Tim's and only Tim's.

If you order a double double, it wouldn't make sense for the small coffee to have the same cream and sugar as the xl, would it? Which is why if you drink doubled double XL's, you are dying soonish.

[Johnny199r]

People who insist on congregating and having loud public conversations when you're trying to work or in an otherwise quiet place.

No self-awareness? Maybe sometimes, but in my opinion just a lack of respect.

[kevman]

You could just drink your coffee black. Problem solved.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Sliver

You're wrong.

Just talked to my office manager. She used to work at Tim's. There's a different button for the cream and sugar dispenser based on the size of the cup. Ratios are identical.

The real crime is when you order a large DD and they double tap the XL cream or sugar by mistake and you get behind your desk at work and take a sip of the abomination. Terrible way to start a work day.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Sliver

You're wrong.

Just talked to my office manager. She used to work at Tim's. There's a different button for the cream and sugar dispenser based on the size of the cup. Ratios are identical.

So those guys that are ordering extra larges with four sugars are getting diabetes 8 times more sugar than the average joe?

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Having a kids birthday party?

Ah, Eww. You're gross.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

So those guys that are ordering extra larges with four sugars are getting diabetes 8 times more sugar than the average joe?

I like to think sugar doesn't give you diabetes, but a bad attitude does.

[Sliver]

I think some of you guys have fast food restaurant staff confused with top-knot-sporting face-tattoo-having baristas.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

So those guys that are ordering extra larges with four sugars are getting diabetes 8 times more sugar than the average joe?

Correct. There’s a lot of cream and sugar in a large or XL double double.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah, but, like, then they're going to dump that coffee, make another one, waste a cup, waste a lid, waste the coffee/sugar/milk, potentially get in #### all because the coffee will taste a tiny bit different this one time. I think being easy going for the odd time this happens isn't a big expectation of a customer.

Yes and no. Some people must have a specific routine or it screws them up. Some call it superstition. IMO it's honestly a modernized version of "getting up on the wrong side of the bed" situation where everything is wrong after that.

Now, that being said on top of knowing it's Timmie's, AFAIK, Jiri isn't totally wrong in his belief that the ratio of sugar/cream to coffee could be different. I had a friend who was a manager at a Tim Hortons who said that until around 12-15 years ago before he stopped working there to advance his career, each click of the cream/sugar shot was the same amount. So indeed, the flavors could be different for a double double S vs L vs XL. But I think they had changed the machines to ensure the ratio was the same for all sizes. Someone who has had the same habit for decades might not have known about this.

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

You are missing the point.
I order a certain size, with a certain # of sweetners and cream.
If there is more coffee then it throws of the flavor i'm looking for.

That's why it grinds my gear.

A large coffee with 1 cream and 1 sweetner is not the same as a small coffee with 1 cream and 1 sweetner.

As far as I know, Timmies addressed the proportions around a decade ago. A double double S/L/XL should be the same coffee/sugar/cream ratio now.

Originally Posted by Fuzz

If you order a double double, it wouldn't make sense for the small coffee to have the same cream and sugar as the xl, would it? Which is why if you drink doubled double XL's, you are dying soonish.

I definitely remember this was an issue in high school/early post secondary. I knew someone who drank double double smalls and quad quad L/XL.