Friday
Jan232009
The Problem With Phone Orders
January 23, 2009 [answering phone] "Cakey Cake Bakery, Jill speaking! How can I help you?"
"Hi, I need to order a cake for my boss. We have a photo of him playing golf that we'd like to put on it, though - can you do that?"
"Of course! Just bring the photo in on a USB drive and we'll print it out here."
"Great, I'll bring it by this afternoon."
Later...
"Hey, Jill, what am I putting on this cake?"
"Oh, check the counter; I left the jump drive out for you there."
[calling from the back room] "Really? This is what they want on the cake?"
"Yeah, the customer just brought it in."
"Okey dokey!"
Believe it or not, this is a TRUE story: Elisabeth R. worked at the office in question. Besides, how could I ever make up something this good?
Reader Comments (238)
It's not even a very good jump drive. Ah well, it's probably still tasty!
...and she still PAID for it??? Great way to get fired!
Wow. I mean seriously. Wow.
It's uhm... accurate!
(I'm really trying to be positive here...)
OH MY ......Snort. Can't...hold.. it ..in .....BWAHAHAHAAAAA!
holy cow?!
#1 - Oh, I think YOU could make up something that good.
#2 - If they had requested a cake with a jump drive on it, then job well done.
LMAO!!!!!! No, seriously! SERIOUSLY!
This is one of the best. Do you sometimes wonder what goes through the bakers' minds? Thanks for a great laugh to start the day.
Some people are so literal that it's like working with a two year old. Although, to give credit where it's due, at least the writing is legible and everything's spelled right.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! That's hilarious! I needed a laugh like that!
Snort! Of course it's a true story! You could not make something like that up. At least it's half-way attractive!
WOW. This one is a real winner.
Quality
WHAT. That's amazing.
Wow, that is pretty incredible!
So I kind of get how that misunderstanding could happen, but there is no explanation for the green border.
Green. Around a black and grey design. No explanation.
Maybe the decorator is colourblind?
Maybe he lives stuck inside a 50's tv show where everything is shades of grey?
Maybe he flunked the kindergarden class where they learned about colours in the same family?
I really really love that it's a true story. While I, like many other business people, live and die by the junk we carry around on our jump drive, I don't think I love it enough to memorialize it on a cake.
I think we can chalk this up to "common sense fail".
This is hilarious haha
Ooooowww! My head hurts!
I think training the cake decorators is no longer in question. I think training those who do hiring may actually to be in question. Cuz....well...What were THEY Thinking?????
If Elisabeth's boss is Dark Helmet, this isn't half bad.
Amazing.
This one has shocked me more than any other cakewreck has. My expectations for this site has skyrocketed.
Wow, really? I have no other words.
That is awesome!!!
LOL! That's great! Talk about being too literal...
Nooooo... um.. True?? Really??
*Pondering never leaving the house again*
Ok, really? Speechless over here!
ROFLMAO!!!!!
Wow. Have to admit though, its creative nontheless!
Kami B
This is one of my favs. The story is great!
Oh my! I think this might be one of the the worst misunderstandings at a bakery! Yikes!
Love the blog! It starts off my day with a sweet laugh, and I tell you, this is a great story!
Keep it up!
if they made a cell phone look like that, i'm not sure i would have trusted them with a golfer. you're probably better off with a funny story to tell.
This is my new favorite cake ever.
STUPID!!
I... I... I'm just stumped. Incredible stupidity. How? wha? it..? wow.
(also can we please point out that the writing near the bottom of the drive is off centered?!!!)
This is one that made me laugh out loud - thanks!
Okay, the only thing that could have made this funnier is if they included a keyring or one of those retractable belt clip thingies.
*love* it.
Even though this falls into the category of "Honest mistake", I'm glad I make all of my own cakes.
Hope her boss has a sense of humor and a love for flash drives? :)
Oh, I'm confident that YOU could make that up.
Still, it's hilarious.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Wow...you gotta be some kinda stupid to do something like that. I can't believe that!
Obviously Jill is involved in everything but quality control.
I also love the visual aid of the actual jump drive. :)
Um. Wow. I consider myself fairly technologically impaired, and even *I* wouldn't have done that! Although it's possible I would have iced the actual jump drive right onto the cake itself..... No, I wouldn't. And maybe teh owenr of the jump drive is lucky the wreckorator didn't, either!
Thats not even a good jump drive! Love how they kept the green icing border though...because it goes so well.
new favorite! new favorite!
LOL that's fantastic!
wv:carch..if someone had carched this mistake before it left the bakery we wouldn't all be chuckling this morning!
this brings a Zoolander scene to mind.....
Hansel: The files are IN the computer
Zoolander: proceeds to start trying to open up the Mac to *get* the files out.
Too Funny!
Oh wow...that's so sad.
That would be like making a replica of an order form in icing rather than following the instructions written on the form. DAYUM.
Remind me of my daughter's father. When I told him to stop calling me at work...he started calling me on my cell phone... while I am at work. Some poeple too literal for their own good
This is going on my list of favorites. Laughed so hard I cried.
(I would have paid for that cake and brought it to work too...that whole office must have loved it!)