Thank you for screwing up.

[SOLDIER #819]

I am so full right now.

I entered an Arby's drive-thru and ordered a few overpriced chicken strips and some curly fries. I unknowingly left with curly fries, a roast chicken club, a crispy chicken sandwich with bacon and ranch, and a regular roast beef. I think I'll regret having found a way to cram all of it down my throat later, but right now it's feeling pretty good. Mmm...

So. Has someone's mess up ever worked toward your benefit? Not necessarily in a mean sense... I doubt the Arby's guy is weeping in a broom closet right now... But it certainly can be.

Yeah okay. The regret's setting in now.

[Cain Highwind]

Not too long ago, I went to Best Buy, I picked up a few bargain bin games including a couple of the Ratchet and Clank games, Sky Cooper games, Okami and No More Heroes. Well, for some reason the cashier went to go check on one of the games I was getting, and when she got back she didn't charge for No More Heroes, saving me about 20 bucks.

I didn't really notice until I got home (though when I heard the total as something "$55", I thought, "Huh, I thought it would be higher?"

I later did one of those Online Customer Service polls and actually commented that cashier made an error in my benefit

[Govinda]

Whenever people would **** up (like giving you a fiver's change when you only paid with a fiver, etc) I thought it was ace. Until I got this job.

I work in a busy airport exchange office. Till differences are a daily thing for us. More often than not the more serious ones (by which I mean £100 ($145) or over) are done by new people who can't differentiate/count different currencies properly yet. It happens to all of us when we're really busy. I didn't even think about it when I took the job, to be honest, and even now there are some currencies I can't count without checking.

Then you get customers who want thousands of pounds worth. That's a lot of notes. A $100 note or three can easily go missing, especially in currencies where the numbers aren't easy to see (mostly the weird Arabic ones, apart from UAE, which seems to have been designed with us in mind).

And then we have to spend hours looking for it, not to find it. And then we get a bollocking.

Yes, I did have a shit day. But it's nice that you got some free food. That was, what? Maybe an extra $20 on top of your order? Not too bad. No need to feel guilty.

[Kilala]

Since you opened with a fast food mishap I'll follow on with one that I experienced. Only mine isn't to my benefit xP But it's still a screw up!

It had been a long day, I was tired from all the work and time was running short. So. What is the answer we all ask ourselves? Save some time and get some fast food! As soon as this thought swam through my head I got myself to the closest fast food outlet (I was desperate). It was a Hardee's. Not really my preference but whatever right? When in need of refueling it must be done!
Scanning the menu I decided to go for (not one.. I was so hungry I tell you!) but two of the mushroom burgers. In the description might I add it says mushrooms and a beef burger. I declined the fries that came with the order though. I'm not that greedy.
Having arrived back at home I savagely rip open the back of lush bad fat possessing food, and fling off the burger wrappers. Sinking my jaws into the tender flesh of the bread, I feel the 'Hallelujah chorus' ringing through my ears. Oh sweetness itself... the bread.. the mushrooms... the.... WHAT!? WHAT IS THIS?!
Mushrooms - check.
Bread - check.
Burger - .... ABSENT.
Yes, I had been given two mushroom burgers alright. A bun - filled with mushrooms. No meat.
Devastated I remember dropping the burger in a desperate attempt to rummage in the unforgiving paper bag. It gave me no answers, with the exception of its loud rustling. Defeated I pick up the receipt. What I desired was listed on the receipt... but not only that... they had charged me for two full meals and not just the burgers.
I can tell you.. I wish I had ordered the chips then ^~. Oh and I did eat the mushroom bun. Just so you know .

Now for a screw up for my benefit. *Clears throat*

There was a buy one get one free sale in some game shop. As a game addict I was quite obviously going to snap up the offer. Being blonde I didn't think to see where the division ended in the store for this offer... I was young and naive! Honest... Well if I'm honest there was a sign hanging over the games I was looking at... So anyway, I see two games I like. And they're quite heavily priced so there's me thinking 'Wow what a great offer!'. I take them over, and sure enough I get one free.
Returning home I phone my friend - also a gameaholic - and inform her of the fab new offer. She goes in the next day and picks the EXACT games I did. She proceeds to the checkout. XD Then the man tells her that he's sorry but those games weren't in the sale and then redirects her to the ones that are.
Omigosh I felt so bad ;_; So I returned to the store and returned my free game insisting I rebuy it xD My conscience couldn't live with it xP.

[Unknown Entity]

On the rare day we get Mc Donalds at college, students can get a free cheeseburger with any meal. I always give it away to anyone who wants it who didn't get anything. Once, the cashier told me the cheeseburgers wasn't ready, and that she'd bring one over to our table. She did come over a little while later, and gave it to me. I gave it Grant, and next thing I know another cashier lady has come around to the table and gave us another one! So I gave that one away to Cem.

I bought LOST the game, and didn't like it. So I went back to the shop to get a refund (it was a pre-owned game, so I just went along the whole: "My PS3 won't read it." route). The receipt wasn't printed very well, and half the price was cut out - I knew I'd only payed £12 for it, but they didn't. So... I got £16 back. Only £4, but I put that towards getting lunch. ^^

I more cases though, it happens the other way around, and we get screwed over in a bad way. =(

[SOLDIER #819]

Govinda - That sounds really sucky. I'd go insane if I had to directly handle more money in one day than I make in a year. Really, good luck with it.

Though the extra food totaled to maybe $10 more at most. The chicken strips were pretty overpriced. I was actually guilty about the fact that I had broken what was already a shadow of a diet plan.

Though that reminds me of something like 10 years ago when my dad handed an Arby's drive-thru guy a $100 bill instead of a $10. Guy never said anything, we never noticed until it was too late. Maybe this is karma? Or a way to justify.

...the tender flesh of the bread, I feel the 'Hallelujah chorus' ringing through my ears. Oh sweetness itself... the bread.. the mushrooms...

I wasn't hungry before I read this. But now...

So I returned to the store and returned my free game insisting I rebuy it xD My conscience couldn't live with it xP.

No offense to Loco (if he still works there), but if that store was GameStop I would be skip away humming a tune with my spare cash in one hand and my games in another. I still remember the Phoenix Wright stylus I lost out on because someone working there had to snag 3 of them for himself. I think it was the manager.

But if it's just some local one: that's nice of you!

[Walter Sobchak]

Once, a close friend's girlfriend left her wallet in his car. He took her credit card, and we proceeded to dine out on the town. We are talking restaurants that most people go to as a yearly treat. It was a glorious experience. She is lucky we were not 21 yet.

[Aerif]

Back in September when I was shopping for a suit for a school formal dance, I happened to get very lucky due to a screw-up.

Since I was only going to be wearing it once I went to the cashier carrying a £40 suit that was price seperatly for the jacket, trousers and tie. The cashier was obviously new and when she saw the price she exclaimed "Wow! That's really good value for a suit!", charged me and then turned away. I walked out of the shop with £33 in my pocket, she had only charged me for the tie.

To be honest, the shop probably deserved to make a loss on a product, one of the more expensive jackets in the shop had a price-tag of £299.99. So I sincerely doubt they were upset when the cashier tried to buy the same suit and claimed it only cost £7.