Further investigation revealed the gun Brooks was in possession of was a pellet/BB gun.

Weak. You can't motivate employees with that.

vartian: I think I just did the then/than thing too. I always do. It was explained to me once but I am somewhat language retarded.

When you become actually retarded Fark Independent^TM then you can worry.

whatever gets my pancakes to the table in a timely manner.

Guns don't shoot people. They just inflate egos.

/ or something.

The guy is doing it wrong

The beatings will continue until morale improves...

There has to be a better way to motivate your employees pointing a gun and threatening to shoot them

What the hell are you saying.

CtrlAltDelete: A few years ago I sleepily stumbled into an IHOP behind the Mondrian Hotel on Sunset Blvd after a quick walk to Ralph's for some Pepto Bismol and being followed by some dude who really wanted me to buy his food stamps.

While bullsh*tting with the cordial and pleasant waiter, he told me that his apartment roommate had just been murdered the week before, and he was kind of 'bummed.'

That was my second strangest trip to IHOP.

Ok, I'll bite. What's your strangest trip to IHOP?

Well there wouldn't have been a problem if they'd just MARKED IT ZERO!

Deez Nutz: Well there wouldn't have been a problem if they'd just MARKED IT ZERO!

This isn't Nam Smokey, this is pancakes. There are rules.

Dust: Does it seem odd to anyone else that IHOP and Waffle House together account for approximately 99.6% of all restaurant-located violent crimes?

Chuck E. Cheese is trying to break that monopoly. Except they rely on their customers.

NEWSFLASH: IHOP introduces the new Blam Blam breakfast to compete with Denny's long-standing favorite, the Grand Slam.



Only a farked up state like New Jersey considers a BB gun a firearm.

My boss has 'interesting' motivational skills:

I fell ill while on a 'long weekend' holiday, I emailed my co-worker, HR and my boss Monday evening to say I was unwell and if I made it back home it would only be to take to my bed for a few days. My boss then emailed me Tuesday PM to check whether I was coming in to work and I replied I was still 'away', laid up in bed, didn't wake until mid-day and would either be staying put or getting home somehow to see my doctor and when I got back I'd check with him how much time could be considered illness or holiday. I tried to get an appointment with a local doctor, but with the current swine flu situation, I was referred to the phone-based service who said I hadn't got swine flu (which I kinda figured) and told me to stay in bed for a few days.

When I got back Thursday I saw my doctor straight away, who diagnosed a major chest infection put me on double-dose antibiotics and signed me off work for two weeks, backdated to the start of the week.

Waiting at home was a hand delivered letter inviting me to a disciplinary hearing Friday (yesterday) for 'unauthorised absence' with the maximum sanction being dismissal for 'gross misconduct'.

When my wife emailed PDFs of the sick note and hospital chest X-ray form to my boss, he kindly postponed the hearing until I return to work.

Go figure.

There's has to be a better way to get greenlights submitting so fast you forget to proofread.

/not subby
//still applaud the headline

linker3000: My boss has 'interesting' motivational skills:

I fell ill while on a 'long weekend' holiday, I emailed my co-worker, HR and my boss Monday evening to say I was unwell and if I made it back home it would only be to take to my bed for a few days. My boss then emailed me Tuesday PM to check whether I was coming in to work and I replied I was still 'away', laid up in bed, didn't wake until mid-day and would either be staying put or getting home somehow to see my doctor and when I got back I'd check with him how much time could be considered illness or holiday. I tried to get an appointment with a local doctor, but with the current swine flu situation, I was referred to the phone-based service who said I hadn't got swine flu (which I kinda figured) and told me to stay in bed for a few days.

When I got back Thursday I saw my doctor straight away, who diagnosed a major chest infection put me on double-dose antibiotics and signed me off work for two weeks, backdated to the start of the week.

Waiting at home was a hand delivered letter inviting me to a disciplinary hearing Friday (yesterday) for 'unauthorised absence' with the maximum sanction being dismissal for 'gross misconduct'.

When my wife emailed PDFs of the sick note and hospital chest X-ray form to my boss, he kindly postponed the hearing until I return to work.

Go figure.

man, england blows

/i kid
//hope you feel better!

Dust: Does it seem odd to anyone else that IHOP and Waffle House together account for approximately 99.6% of all restaurant-located violent crimes?

where'd you pull that little fact from?

This is why white people shouldn't be allowed to hold management positions.

CtrlAltDelete: Kalashinator: Ok, I'll bite. What's your strangest trip to IHOP?

That would have to be the Village of the Damned incident.

This was at the IHOP in Canton, Ohio.

A coworker and I were on an assignment in Canton covering a state championship high school football game. We wanted to get something to eat before the long drive back up North so we stopped at IHOP.

When we entered the restaurant, it seemed to be very nearly full, only there were just a few unimpressive looking vans outside in the parking lot. What's more: everyone was dressed like they were extras from Little House on the Prairie.

And they were eating in complete silence.

All of them.

No music, no speaking, just the clinking of forks against plates.

A server came over to seat us, but she looked... off. Like she was about to cry, or that she was trying to signal us somehow with her eyes that she was being held here against her will.

"Just two then?" she said, a little too loudly in contrast to the dead f*cking silence of the dining room.

And then, I swear to god, every last one of those motherf*ckers stopped eating and stared at us. All of them. Even the kids.

We decided to eat at McDonalds.

I still have no idea what the hell that was about. They weren't Amish. We have lots of Amish around here; they're friendly enough people and they talk to each other and they don't dress like that.

Who knows.

maybe they were all hardcore gamers!

Not an IHOP, but a hotel in Manchester, UK:

I was running a training course in a conference room. The hotel was considered the most luxurious in the area and when I and the students entered the magnificent white-walled ballroom/dining room for lunch, at every white-linen-covered table sat women in long white 'medical-style' tunics and the queue for the buffet was the same - about a dozen 'white-coated ladies'- it was surreal - white everywhere; like 'heaven's dining room'.

Turned out that one of the major cosmetics companies was having a showcase/training event and there were around 150 'beauty technicians' there for the day, in full corporate uniform!

I think this guy is my former coworkers husband, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

shanrick: There has to be a better way to motivate your employees than pointing a gun and threatening to shoot them, even if you are just a manager of an IHOP

Just saying.

-3.
I mean....if you're gonna wordnazi, get it right fer chrissakes!

Since this is now my new favorite image... Why not?

Pathman: Dust: Does it seem odd to anyone else that IHOP and Waffle House together account for approximately 99.6% of all restaurant-located violent crimes?

where'd you pull that little fact from?

his ass like everyone else.

i wouldnt be all that motivated to serve drunk guidos either if i worked at an ihop on the jersey shore

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