Is This Chipotle "Life Hack" Actually A Dick Move?
Here's a puzzler for you: A man walks into Chipotle and asks the staff to individually package all the ingredients for a taco so he can make it at home. Is the man a genius? Or a giant douchenozzle?
This is the question that has sparked heated debate on Twitter for the past few days, for on July 2nd, Josh Williams asked Twitter users to render their judgments upon him for his peculiar request.
Started asking the folks at Chipotle to individually package my ingredients so I can assemble it all at home.Am I weird? Or brilliant? pic.twitter.com/OUXbJH3c7g
— Josh Williams (@jw) July 3, 2017
Now, it is a fundamental law of Twitter that if you want people to engage with your tweets, asking them about food is a time-tested way to go. Williams learned this the hard way, as like vultures, the masses descended upon his tweet with hard takes upon his supposed life hack.
There were some supporters of Williams' work:
However, the majority of replies came from people pointing out the myriad issues with Williams' request, namely: Chipotle workers don't get paid enough for this s***.
person behind you in line gotta be hot pic.twitter.com/zEUgRbsW05
— E (@MackHardRd) July 3, 2017
Most news outlets were unimpressed with Williams' supposed hack. Select All wrote:
"Just don’t do this again, and don’t go giving thousands of people on the internet the idea that it’s okay to do it, either. We the people at Chipotles everywhere -- both in line and working at the restaurants -- thank you."
From the Daily Dot:
"This kind of reaction is to be expected any time you’re making your life easier at the expense of others. If you actually think this is a great idea, here are a few other life hacks you might enjoy:
1) To save gas put your car in neutral and let the driver behind you push.
2) Avoid a costly divorce by not telling your wife about the affair.
3) Feeling claustrophobic on the bus? Stop holding in that uncomfortable flatulence."
Even Lifehacker, who by virtue of their name alone you'd think would be into this sort of thing, called the stunt "obnoxious" and Williams "the most hated non-politician on Twitter." For his part, Williams handled the criticism with good humor, remarking how the entire fiasco got his tweet statistics he would never see again in his life.
86% conversion on 1M impressions.These are numbers I'll never see again. pic.twitter.com/ERPaUGBBwL
— Josh Williams (@jw) July 4, 2017
What can we learn from this? Is there some truth to be gleaned from the latest massive ravaging of one man's menchies all because he made Chipotle workers do extra work? From Chipotlegate, let us take away two lessons:
1) Never make fast food workers do extra menial work. Their lives are hard enough.
2) Never tweet.
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Qnomei
Chipotle kinda sucks. I ate there one time, never again. However, I know of a restaurant that started out literally as a hole in the wall. It was situated in the back of a small but split building. The name was pretty generic, "Taco Burrito Mexico" but they served the best damn $5 burrito I have ever eaten. You get about a pound of meat and the tortilla is stuffed with beans, cheese, vegetables and such.
They were so good, that by word of mouth alone they expanded to three locations.
IanArcad
Yeah, it's a dick move, but Chipotle charges you $6.80 to stand in line for $2 worth of food scooped by hipsters and illegals, so really who was the dick first.
ObadiahtheSlim
TheAssociate
> 1) Never make fast food workers do extra menial work. Their lives are hard enough.
Might I suggest growing tougher skin?
TheLastMethBender
If someone came to my job and basically said, can you just give me the parts and ill do all the work for you that would be great. Less shit I have to do.
Cashier at a Chipotle-type place here.
This is absolutely 100% a huge dick move, and I've had customers do this exact thing before. A guy ordered queso sauce, a tortilla, rice, beans, etc., and wanted us to ring it up as a "disassembled quesadilla kids meal". It completely fucks with the cost of the item and throws the kitchen for a loop. The line gets held up because everybody is trying to figure out what the hell the guy is talking about, and me, the cashier, has no idea how to compensate for the cash he's cheating out of by getting these expensive-ass ingredients and calling it a cheap kid's meal.
Fralor
>expensive
w2gMk
There's clearly a reason why those ingredients are sold together…. people in such a rush to "save" money, or have their own convenience are too big headed to realize that its costing other people theirs.
WezliGiantsbane333
I guess I just don't see the difference between having someone else throw the ingredients into the burrito vs doing it yourself. I guess as long as you're paying full price for the burrito or whatever, then its not that huge an issue.
If you aren't paying for all the ingredients though…that reminds me of an old Almost Live! sketch.
1. Go to ice cream store, buy just a cone.
2. Ask for free samples of every flavor
3. "Dispose" of free samples onto the lip of the cone
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until satisfactory amount of ice cream is achieved
5. Enjoy your almost free ice cream cone
Walrus the Tree
See, it's a reasonable enough problem: you want your burritos a certain way, might as well do it yourself, right? But this guy is circumventing a much easier solution that may feel like less of a "living in the future" solution, but is much more of a "living in reality" solution:
Buy the damn ingredients from a grocery store like every one else who wants to make their own food at home.
King_Epo
Plus you can make like 8 Chipotle sized burritos with better taste and ingredients for only about $15 in ingredients if you buy from the grocery store.
BraveSirJimOfLawl
Also why go to Chipotle anyways? Taco Bell has way better """"Mexican"""" food for cheaper.
Kenetic Kups
Taco Johns is far, far better than taco bell
taco bell is sub mcdonalds for ingrediant quality
if you want a place like chipotle, go to qdoba
Wambamsamman
and less ecoli
BraveSirJimOfLawl
"Can I get uhhhhhhhhhh
beef and cheese burrito beef and cheese on the side?"