Life-hacking Man Orders All Chipotle Ingredients Separately, Divides Twitter

Here's a puzzler for you: A man walks into Chipotle and asks the staff to individually package all the ingredients for a taco so he can make it at home. Is the man a genius? Or a giant douchenozzle?

This is the question that has sparked heated debate on Twitter for the past few days, for on July 2nd, Josh Williams asked Twitter users to render their judgments upon him for his peculiar request.

Started asking the folks at Chipotle to individually package my ingredients so I can assemble it all at home.

Am I weird? Or brilliant? pic.twitter.com/OUXbJH3c7g

— Josh Williams (@jw) July 3, 2017

Now, it is a fundamental law of Twitter that if you want people to engage with your tweets, asking them about food is a time-tested way to go. Williams learned this the hard way, as like vultures, the masses descended upon his tweet with hard takes upon his supposed life hack.

There were some supporters of Williams' work:

However, the majority of replies came from people pointing out the myriad issues with Williams' request, namely: Chipotle workers don't get paid enough for this s***.

person behind you in line gotta be hot pic.twitter.com/zEUgRbsW05

— E (@MackHardRd) July 3, 2017

Most news outlets were unimpressed with Williams' supposed hack. Select All wrote:

"Just don’t do this again, and don’t go giving thousands of people on the internet the idea that it’s okay to do it, either. We the people at Chipotles everywhere -- both in line and working at the restaurants -- thank you."

From the Daily Dot:

"This kind of reaction is to be expected any time you’re making your life easier at the expense of others. If you actually think this is a great idea, here are a few other life hacks you might enjoy:
1) To save gas put your car in neutral and let the driver behind you push.
2) Avoid a costly divorce by not telling your wife about the affair.
3) Feeling claustrophobic on the bus? Stop holding in that uncomfortable flatulence."

Even Lifehacker, who by virtue of their name alone you'd think would be into this sort of thing, called the stunt "obnoxious" and Williams "the most hated non-politician on Twitter." For his part, Williams handled the criticism with good humor, remarking how the entire fiasco got his tweet statistics he would never see again in his life.

86% conversion on 1M impressions.
These are numbers I'll never see again. pic.twitter.com/ERPaUGBBwL

— Josh Williams (@jw) July 4, 2017

What can we learn from this? Is there some truth to be gleaned from the latest massive ravaging of one man's menchies all because he made Chipotle workers do extra work? From Chipotlegate, let us take away two lessons:

1) Never make fast food workers do extra menial work. Their lives are hard enough.

2) Never tweet.