A True Story: Walmart Cake
A friend of mine sent this picture and the conversation to me:
“Okay so this is how I imagine this conversation went…”
Walmart Employee: “Hello 'dis be Walmarts, how can I help you?”
Customer: ” I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.”
Walmart Employee: “What you want on the cake?”
Customer: “Best Wishes Suzanne” and underneath that “We will miss you”.
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26 Comments
i signed up just to comment on this…
the description you gave is the exact reality.
this is why i don't shop there. that plus the company
they carry. many of the patrons are no different than the
staff. i feel uncomfortable around them. i'm sure there are a
few exceptions to the rule, but those are rare.
walmart employs people out of a public service rather than
a true doctrine of legitimate hiring practices. most of them would
not measure up to traditional standards. it's sad.
i'm sure i will get heckled for this comment, but is it wrong
to have expectations? i mean… if it was fast food then my
expectations would be in-line, but for such a giant retailer? you
have to draw the line somewhere.
I must admit shopping at Walmart is often creepy to me. It usually feels trashy. I don't get the same vibe at a Target.
so you have decided to take the opportunity to make fun of someone who is probably barely literate as a result of our fucked up education systems and probably a prime product of the environment they were raised in. followed by someone who did an excellent job on the lettering and probably realizes they will be yelled at by an incompetent manager if they do not squirt out icing exactly emulating the letters on the form they were given. well done. very amusing.
and to “sqladmin” you're right, as you suspected there is a good chance you're a self-righteous bitch. and me, don't worry I'm a total screwup. but I typically try my best. we could all use more education.
I think we're all laughing at that person's lack of common sense, not poor education. You cannot teach common sense and logic. You're either an intelligent person, or you're not.
ok i think there is enough self-righteousness from both of you to last me a month. using this image as a soapbox to critique Wal-Mart's hiring practices or expounding on the shortcomings of the US educational system is ridiculous.
lighten up. just in case no one noticed - this is really funny. screw-ups happen - no one died, it's unlikely anyone got fired, and i am sure Suzanne did not cry because she got a f-ed up message on her $10 going away cake.
We'll Miss You, Susanne……!
If anything, Suzanne probably got the most memorable cake she'll ever get. A bargain for only $10. :)
O RLY?
I have to agree…everyone needs to lighten up and laugh a bit. Its still funny no matter how it happened. Errors and mistakes can happen lots of ways - unless you are there you can't really know what happened. And let's be honest, there are people with subnormal IQs.
I'll be pissed too, they misspelled “underneath”!
I've seen a lot of comments on natuba, but never anything like this. AMAZING!! Granted I dont like walmart, but the employees shouldn't be picked on cause of a defective pastry text. They have a job cause of this “horrible” company, maybe otherwise they would be on the street. Would that make you feel better? And I would suggest learning how to bake your own cake, I think they teach ninth graders to do it in high school….
it doesn't matter where you go in this country, everyone that's hard core wal mart looks the same. they are idiots, and honestly if all of us stopped giving them our business it would really not affect them. they would still make gazillions of dollars and have stupid employees who don't give a crap.
Ok…let me start by saying that I am a Professional Cake Decorator, for almost 24 years. I don't think this “mix up” was the fault of the decorator or the person who took the cake order. You people have to remember, “cake decorators” at Wal Mart, or any other in-store-bakery, on the most part, have never taken any classes on decorating a cake. And to boot, they probably make minimum wage, too. I think the “mix up” is hilarious! And I'm sure Suzanne got a huge laugh from it as well. From all my years of experience of working with people and their cake orders, I can only remember ONE customer that wasn't satisfied with my work. But remember this one folks…Most people have such High Expectations of what they want on a cake…ie…ordering the smallest cake available and wanting more on it than is possible. We, as decorators, can't take a “dog turd” and turn it into a “gold brick”. This “mix up” has Nothing to do with illiterate people. It's a “common sense” thing, and Most people don't possess that!!!
Them idiots writing that on a cake does not surprise me seeing how stupid they are at that store……..you would think the idiots would at least use a damn dictionary. I think the requirement to work at walmart is to be a dumb ghetto black and have a iq of 1
The requirement to be an employee at Wal-Mart is not to have an IQ of 1 or to be a “dumb ghetto black”. I am an employee of Wal-Mart and I do not appreciate what you have said. I am not a “ghetto black” nor do any “ghetto blacks” work at the Wal-Mart at which I am employed. I am a soon to be college educated woman and I truly do not appreciate my workplace being commented about as you have.
Ok i signed up just to comment too… wow..
people are failing to understand that the reason you are noticing a certain substandard work ethic among SOME of the waltmart's employees is because in corporate America, thats the best that most of these people can do. the cause of that being economic environment, education, and family and moral upbringing. So you get creeped out when you shop with other people that do not have money to shop any other place. to say that walmart only hires ghetto people or only has ghetto people patron their store is an ignorant and narrow minded point of view. these minimum wage and blue collar people that work and patron walmart are the same people that pump your gas, wait on you at your favorite cafe,the same people working behind the desk at a hotel, and while they may not be the smartest, well dressed people they are still human. and they have every rite to get totinos pizza's for $.99 like everyone else.
My graduation cake came from Wal*Mart and the person who did it even spelled “Congratulations” wrong. And that cake cost much more than ten bucks.
The point is, they make stupid mistakes. I understand that Wal*Mart always hires disabled people first, but in a position where it's important to spell well and understand what people are asking for, they should definitely employ people who know what they're doing. And don't start crap saying, “Wahhh, boo hoo, they can't help it.” I KNOW THEY CAN'T. I'm just saying, they should be doing things that don't require them to do things they can't do well. If you have anything to complain about in what I said, I don't care. Just don't expect me to read it because once I navigate away from this page I probably won't come back.
The cake is hilarious and so are the comments. This is awesome. I wish it was my cake. Too funny! Thank you for the laughs. The only reason I am still writing is that the other comments were really long and mine was very short. I am wishing I had some insightful look at society or commerce, but I don't. Best picture on Natuba!
I go to a prep school and the last time I went some red necks started a fight with me and a few other kids cursing out our school. We ended up calling a few football players and put them in their place; what fun that was. Can't wait to go to Walmart next week (sarcasm).
Where's the proof that this cake actually came from wal-mart?
Get off your high horses, you folks are almost as dumb. How many email forwards/stories like this have accurate descriptions? (Google Snopes for examples.) It was probably added because some no-name bakery wasn't nearly as comical, or believable.
I thought the cake spoke for itself and didn't need the descriptive story, anyway.
IT'S. A. FUCKING. CAKE.
Come on, this is hilarious. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be forwarded to almost everyone on the planet by email (today was the 3rd time I've received this). Anyway, some years ago I and my daughter went to a local supermarket to buy a birthday cake for my grandmother. “What would you like on the cake?” he asked. “I'd like it to say 'Happy Birthday Nanny” I replied. “What?” he asked. “It's for my grandmother's birthday, so I'd like it to say 'Happy Birthday Nanny,” and I spelled it “N-A-N-N-Y.” When the person came back with the cake, he had written “Happy Birthday Danny.” It was so funny, so much so that on my birthday, my daugher got me a cake that said, “Happy Birthday Danny” with a line drawn through the “Danny” and my name written underneath (not under neat!).
this cake is a lie…
I aint falling for that again GlaDOS!
I also signed up just to comment on this.
First off, I find it AWESOME, this cake. Sure, I'd be annoyed upon first seeing it if I was the one who ordered it… but then I'd realize how funny it really was.
But, also, you can't go saying that Walmart employees are stupid because of a picture of a cake. Someone here said you can't prove that it WAS Walmart that made the cake. Likewise, you can't prove that the “under neat that” wasn't a part of the order. People do weird things. You never know if the person who ordered the cake didn't WANT it there, just so they could have this picture.
But I work at Walmart. And I was in the top 10% of my high school class. I got a full-ride scholarship. I can't honestly say I have many adult accomplishments, but I think that can be excused, as I am only a month out of high school. My point is that I am not uneducated (going to college in 2 months), from the ghetto (look up “West Omaha” on google), black (Irish. I get sunburns faster than hamburger cooks on a grill), or mentally challenged (I already said how this was disproven… and also, it fits with “uneducated”… so just take it as a “so THERE”)
Think about what you write before you say it.
But thank you for posting the picture! I hadn't seen it yet! Seriously made my evening!
Can someone please answer these questions for me?
1: Who in their right mind would pay for a cake seeing such an
error?
2: Why would anyone go to college to pursue a job at a retail
discount store?
3: What will you do when the “Hulkster” comes for you? LOL,lol,lol….
RE: 3) I would jump in the car with his son … on second thought, I would drive.