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The Daily Dot

<p>Moises Mendez II is a recent graduate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a freelance journalist based in New York City writing about everything from music to LGBTQ issues.</p>


Moises Mendez II

person in vehicle (l) the Cheesecake Factory sign (c) person inset on an interview of them in the Cheesecake Factory parking lot (r)

cheesecake factory shooting tiktok

Unclick

‘It boggles my mind’: There was a shooting at a Cheesecake Factory—a server says they had to return to work 2 days later

Woman crying talking (l) Woman mouth open huge crying upset caption 'He whipped out his weener & slapped it on a plate" (c) Woman crying talking (r)

worst first date

‘Girl you left traumatized AND hungry’: Woman says date put his ‘wiener on a plate’ after inviting her over for dinner

Fridge door sign up close caption "Movement of items for personal storage will result in a $50 stocking fee. Please place personal items on the courtesy shelf provided DELANO LAS VEGAS" "No wonder our parents told us not to open these" (l) DELANO Las Vegas building (r)

delano restocking fee

Guest shows hotel’s $50 ‘restocking fee’ if items in fridge are simply moved

Shot of espresso with cream on top (l) Woman holding hand up to make small space between fingers to show size (c) Starbucks macchiato

macchiato normal vs starbucks

Barista says Starbucks macchiatos and ‘real coffee shop’ macchiatos are different

Lyft driver in car caption "Karen put in the wrong address, I fixed it and she's still screaming at me telling me to go to ANOTHER street" (l) Lyft driver opening car door for rider to exit(c) Woman on phone in back seat caption "Refuses to leave and threatens to call the cops so I called them after (r)

karen wont leave car

‘She’s trespassing’: Karen gives Lyft driver the wrong address multiple times, refuses to leave the car

amazong worker walking towards yard (l) amazon box (m) amazon worker throwing packages on dog (r)

amazon packages on dog

Customer says Amazon worker ‘intentionally’ threw packages on their dog

person reaching for cups (l) man talking in car (l)

sunday morning after church customer

Servers say ‘Sunday morning after church’ are the worst type of customers

Security camera footage of a group of young adults caption "These blank just left Tortuga Music Festival and waited till last minute to check in to their room" (l) Man mouth open caption " about to tell them they have to share one bed for all 4 of them" (c) Man dancing caption " Anxiety dump now I'm ready" (r)

last minute check in

‘About to tell them they have to share 1 bed for all 4 of them’: Hotel worker shows why guests shouldn’t wait until ‘last minute to check in’

Chipotle counter with food everywhere messy corn spilled all over caption "on no" (l) Chipotle Mexican Grill sign circular on wall (r)

chipotle oh no

‘If the front end looks like this DO NOT order’: Video of a ‘messy’ Chipotle goes viral, sparking debate

gentrification durags

‘What in the gentrification is going on?’: TikTok of white boys in durags in yogurt shop goes viral

Mcdonald's sign with sky (l) McDonald's worker holding drinks at window drive through (r)

mcdonalds drinks

‘Rude people shouldn’t be allowed to order’: McDonald’s customer takes forever to grab drinks from worker in drive-thru, sparking debate over viral TikTok

starbucks cup on green background (l) Two starbucks workers caption "when a customer asks us why things are turned off on the app when we have them in store" (r)

starbucks app

‘When a customer asks us why things are turned off on the app’: Starbucks workers joke about making items ‘sold out’ on app

woman lost in thought (l) cracker barrel store (m) screenshot of the words "canadian was a code word for black people"

tiktoker exposes code names

TikToker says servers used code name to talk about Black customers at Cracker Barrel

USPS logo (l) USPS sorting machine caption " Stop sending coins, cards, keys, and jewelry through letters. This machine will rip them out." (r)

usps goods machine

‘Envelopes are meant for mailing paper’: USPS worker urges people not to send ‘small rigid items’ with letters in viral TikTok, sparking debate

woman in Sonic visor giving thumbs up with caption "Watch me run a store by myself" (l) same woman dispensing drinks with caption "We got busy!! hurry hurry" (c) same woman breaking down boxes with caption "tbh it's quit exhausting when you work 40+ hours a week with no help, go to school, & have to do it all again 12 hours later" (r)

running a sonic by myself

‘Fast food workers don’t get paid enough’: Sonic manager runs store alone, says she makes same rate as employees in viral TikTok