Not all heroes wear capes, and no one exemplifies this more than the brave souls at your local fast-food joint. The job itself is basically a blessing and a curse where employees try to navigate the complex world of customer service with a cheerful smile. There are the long hours, low pay, and lazy management that make it a tough and thankless experience. But at the same time, wholesome colleagues and side-splitting “special instructions” customers add to their orders work as the perfect mood booster workers didn’t know they needed.

There’s not a dull day in the life of a fast-food worker, and people who proudly wear their green and yellow t-shirts know this from personal experience. We’re talking about Subway employees who work hard to provide you with a portion of the good stuff and should get the respect they most definitely deserve.

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So today, we’re diving deep into the aspects of a sandwich artist’s life, the good and the bad, courtesy of the ‘Subway’ subreddit. Although the community seems to be still growing, it provides a safe space for people to talk, share, love (and hate!) everything to do with the sandwich palace. We’ve gathered some of the best posts from the group, so continue scrolling to check them all out! Be sure to upvote your favorites and let us know what you think in the comments.

Psst! For more goodness from the ‘Subway’ subreddit, look no further than Bored Panda’s earlier piece on this feature right here.

#1 Made Sense To Me, Still Makes Sense To Me

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#2 I’ve Put Up A Sign But It’s Gonna Be Ignored Anyway

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#3 First Time Seeing A Sign Like This, Made Me Chuckle

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#4 Holy S**t

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#5 Around 1 Sub Per Minute Sounds Pretty Impressive To Me!

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#6 cryng Inside

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#7 Today Our Regular Karen Came In Acting Kind For The First Time And Handed Us This Note When She Left

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#8 Accurate

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#9 Saw Someone Else Post, I Hung This Up A Few Weeks Ago

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#10 I Actually Have People Ask Why I Have This Up

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#11 Why

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#12 I Gave Them Extra Cookies

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#13 Are You Guys Open?

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#14 So This Is How My Morning Went

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#15 What I Came In To At Work Today… I Open The Store

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#16 Anyone Miss The Old Subway Design?

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#17 Saucy

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#18 Tfw All The Chips Expire Today And You End Up Taking 134 Bags Home

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#19 Thanks! I’m Not Gonna Remember That!

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#20 I’m 10’5/178cm

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#21 Has This Been Done Already

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#22 Everyday

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#23 Little Did This Poor Guy Know, My Boss Forgot To Remove Pickles From Our UberEats

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#24 My Veggies In The Morning Before They Get Destroyed During The Lunch Rush

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#25 Why

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#26 When The Customers Won’t Comprehend The Mask Rule And You’re Just Trying To Do Your Job

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#27 Subway Knight

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#28 We Followed The Special Instructions. This Is Now One Of My Favorite Customers

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#29 Never Seen A Subway With A Drive Thru. As Someone That Worked At A Subway, This Sounds Like Hell!

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#30 Exxxxtra Olives

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#31 Actual Footage Of Me Trying To Seperate Gluten Free Breads Infront Of A Cute Customer Before Toasting Them To Defrost

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#32 Good For You, Buddy. Good For You

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#33 185 Sandwiches In One Hr ..nailed It Whoot Whoot

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#34 Customer Came In, “I Have Another Sandwich But It Wouldn’t Let Me Order It Online For Some Reason”

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#35 My Local Subway Has This Above The Veggies

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#36 When You Outsmart Your Customers By Exposing Your Store’s Secrets

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#37 :0

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#38 My Good Brother In Christ Why Must You Complain Before A Creation You Constructed?

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#39 I’m Bouta Lose It Y’all

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#40 I Thought I Smelled Dr. Pepper

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#41 Went In For A Footlong And I Think She Took It Too Literally

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#42 Someone Asked For A Meatball… Without The Sauce

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#43 Box Of Bread Got Frozen To The Wall

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#44 “Can I Get The White Cheese?” Mfw:

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#45 2 6footers This Morning

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#46 One Of The Nicest Sandwiches I’ve Made

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#47 For All Of Us Out There

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#48 How I Feel After My Shifts

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#49 Which Cheese

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#50 Let’s Get This Bread My Dudes

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#51 Happened Today During Our Lunch Rush

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#52 Fuck You To The Drunk Guy That Came In 3 Minutes Before Close And Did This

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#53 I Got Creative With The Carrot Cake Cookies And Now They Look Like Little Cinnamon Rolls!

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#54 Some Of The Shit They Come Up With Really Surprises Me

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#55 Italian Herbs & Cheese Discontinued?

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#56 I’ll See Your “Happy Sunday” And Raise You Happy Monday

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#57 Happy Sunday I Guess

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#58 Historical Moment

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#59 I Made Sure To Add Extra Jipoltle Sauce

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#60 Employees First Time

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#61 Every Time

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#62 Server Got Mad Because I Asked For Extra Chipotle

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#63 I Want To Tell Them

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#64 Meat Slicer. My Store Is Super Small So We Have No Room For Anything Now