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)
LMAO!!!!
EPIC FAIL
I guess computer lessons are going to become the next required qualification of baking jobs. :P
OMG.
I actually burst out laughing at work.
...wow.
Wow. Just... wow.
So ... How many bytes in that?
WV: messer -- yup.
Ekio, you can easily do this cake for your hubby. Unlike the wreckerator, you'll just want to make/find/use stencils for the contour of the jump drive and the lines within so that all the shapes are symmetrical. After the icing sets for half an hour to crust a bit, gently use a high density foam roller to get it perfectly smooth. And then it's, ah, a piece of cake!
I'm now considering doing something similar for my partner. He would probably get a kick out of it.
vw: smiestru. At the end of the smiestru, you take final exams. lol
I'm amazed the person who ordered it actually paid for it and picked it up! Unless s/he didn't? Maybe they gave her another cake?
Sof said... So I kind of get how that misunderstanding could happen, but there is no explanation for the green border.
My guess is that another decorator had the cake made up ready for the picture of the golfing boss on the assumption that green would go with a golf scene. Unfortunately, nobody shared the plan with the wreckorator.
Ha ha ha ha ha. That sounds like something that would happen to me.
When did they hire Amelia Bedelia?
Festive!?
Hopefully the boss wasn't being admitted for some kind of amputation surgery that would have made his love for playing golf difficult and now all he has to commemorate the occasion is a cake with Elizabeth's jump drive on it.
I'm surprised they didn't just stick the actual jump drive on and add a few flowers!
THAT is classic. I can only imagine when the person who ordered it first looked at it!
That is so incredibly awesome.
This is amazing. Absolutely amazing.
That's pretty silly, but what I find amazing is that the ad at the end of the post when I looked was for "Diaper Cakes." Do they not read your blog?
This blog is so funny, I laugh so hard all the time. What the hell are these people thinking?? I promise that if I do anything like this I will send it to you I swear!
i really want to know how the convo went down when the customer came to actually pick up the cake.
"yeah, we've got your cake over here. let's take a look and make sure everything's the way you wanted it..."
"oh, um..you must be mistaken. that's not my cake. it's supposed to have a picture of my boss golfing on it. but that IS a very large, icing version of the USB stick i dropped off with the picture on it..."
This one has got to be in the top 10 of wreckiest wrecks- it is awesomely bad in such a magnificent way!
ahuahuuahuhahuauha
I can't believe it's true! ahahahah
It's better to have the pendrive cake that has a cake with the pendrive on it! :P
Let's be positive! :D
Wow. That hurts my brain. uggghhh.
Still, in the decorator's defense, I'd have to say that no one actually mentionned there being a photo put on the cake. If they just said "the jump drive on the counter", then that's just poor instruction.
It's actually a fairly nice looking cake. Ridiculous, but the decorator did a good job.
Surely the green border is from a subsequent interaction, where they yell "hey, what color should the border be?" and the other person yells back, thinking of grass on a golf course, "green, of course".
For some reason, this one is making me die of laughter. People are so "der, yup!" sometimes all you can do is laugh.
Cat's Creations said...
Hey! Maybe when they cut the cake the boss' picture was on the inside!
Hahahahahahaha....!
that is AWESOME.
I wish something like that would happen to me just to have the story :-D
This has got to be one of my all time favorite wrecks now. It's just too good to be true. I love it.
Wow, that person did a good job replicating it though.
Seriously, there are actually people this stupid in the world? Who knew?
OMG I need to stop giggling before I hurt msyelf. This has to be one of the best literal mistakes yet!
I'm sorry, where did all the common sense in the world go?!?
That's amazing! Seriously. I would have lost it if that happened to me!
It would be extra awesome if the office was some kind of IT/technology office, LOL.
wow- that's such an entertaining wreck! I wouldn't even be mad!
Well, if they work for Lexar, it's perfect.
Really didn't have a comment, but when I saw my word verification, I just had to think something up...because it fits this so well.
WV: bableth "As the wreckorator bableth, so the cake wrecketh"
Wow. LOL some people are SO literal-minded! I SO would've demanded a refund!
and to think that i thought he just placed the usb drive on the cake.
this is even better!
That wasn't the bakers fault. It was the arrogance of the person ordering the cake. Like a counter person at a bakery is familiar with a "jump drive". They expect a photo. Well deserved final product.
This is like one of those MasterCard commercials, you know:
1 trip to cake store - $5 gas money
1 cake for boss' birthday - $20
Look on face when boss sees the cake - PRICELESS!
To anonymous at 8:49 p.m.
If you read the post, you will see that they asked the person who ordered the cake to bring in a USB drive and that the picture would be printed out there. Not everyone is a Luddite.
I would so...totally pay for it and give it to my boss and I am sure he would laugh when I told him the story behind it...
I swear sometimes people are idiots!!
in all fairness to the decorator, it's spot on...
At least it wasn't another photo cake. We all know just how much you love those!!
Really?!! ... I mean .. seriously? .... I mean... someone's got to be screwing with you. Really.
See, I have no trouble believing this one at all.
In the words of Peanut the puppet....WTH is wrong with you....FOCUS!!!
That's sad...why didn't someone go out back to at least look at the picture? I would have.
wvotd mushi: Someones brain was a bit mushi the day that cake was made.
this is def one of the most mind-blowingly fabulous posts. oh god how could this have happened?
The sad thing is, this is something I would do. I'm a bit of a dope. :-)
lmbo!!!!!
WOW!!! Common sense is not over-rated! lol!