Sooubway

**Sooubway** is James' comedic intentional mispronunciation of the popular chain of sandwich restaurants, Subway. In real life, James worked at Subway for over a year. The videos where he talks about his time working there are some of the most popular videos on his channel. However, the Subway he worked at shut down, prompting him to make one last video.

### Sooubway 1

Sooubway 1 was the first episode of the Sooubway series. In this video, he talked about the nature of the Subway he worked at. Subway's former spokeperson was named Jared Fogle, who was later convicted of possession of child pornography and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2015.

The owners owned two different Subways - one of which was inside a Walmart, which in turn was in an Indian reservation (because Arizona). James worked at the other Subway. Since the Walmart Subway was busier, the owners would spend 99% of their time there, so James was usually let off the hook. On the rare occasions the owners did show up, they would pick up some food and critique James's sandwich-making skills, which were always imperfect per the Subway formula.

James usually worked the night shift, and at the end of the night, he would turn on the alarm. However, one time, he got the morning shift and was tasked with turning off the alarm. However, he didn't realize the code had been changed to James's social security number, which he didn't know, so the alarm went off.

Despite not having an actual boss, James did have a store manager who would make the schedules and occasionally tell James to do a better job, but other than that, she was cool. She watches James's videos, as do her little brothers Ivan and Andy.

At Subway, you only work with one other person. When you're not making sandwiches, you have other stuff to do, such as stocking the chips. James and his coworkers spent most of their time catching up on homework and watching Netflix. He worked with a lot of crappy people, but he also worked with a lot of cool people that he would only talk to in a work setting. Tyler smoked a lot of weed, taught James what vaping was, and got James into Clash of Clans. Cory and James watched "How To Get Away With Murder" on Netflix, and has also hung out with James outside of work. Cory and Tyler were the only ones who were actually productive. There was also a guy named Jared who loved Marvel. There was also Sara who made James a bread bowl, and her boyfriend Jay who would talk about chakras and third eyes. There was also Anthonee who helped James count sprinkles for a video.

As James was taking out the trash one day, he found a chip poster in the pile that now hangs up in James's room, to the dismay of his manager.

One day, James was making sandwiches when he noticed the foil was burning on the edges when they toasted them. Then the customer asked for just toasted bacon, and since there was no setting for bacon on the toaster, James’s coworker ended up setting the bacon on fire. She tried to extinguish the fire with the toaster tray, but only made the fire worse. James saved the Subway with the fire extinguisher.

### Sooubway Part 2 (Annoying Customers)

Among the customers James had to deal with, 80% of them were fine. Some would just bug James by asking for a meatball on flat bread. Sometimes, James would have to tell a customer to slow down. Every time someone brought in a list, it was always incomplete.

James would always recommend provolone cheese, since it was the easiest cheese to pull apart with gloves on; James always liked to do things the easy way. However, some people would still go against these recommendations, to James's annoyance. Sometimes the sandwich was all done, but in reality, didn't have any sauce, so James would go back to get the sauce on the sandwich.

James would always count to five in his head after swiping a customer's credit card, and then ask if the customer wanted a receipt. That way, the receipt would print quicker. If someone asked for the manager, James would call himself the manager since there was only one other person in the store who was slightly more incompetent.

James was pretty laid back when he worked at Subway. He didn't like to disobey people, even though he always intentionally went against the Subway formula. However, this didn't stop people from annoying him.

One time, a customer asked for two pastrami sandwiches, which was the most expensive sandwich at Subway, at $10. However, the customer didn't look at the menu close enough, nor did he think Subway still did the 2 for 5 offer, so he refused to pay for it. James made a compromise: he would pay $12 dollars for one sandwich, and James got to eat the other.

There was also a customer with a very heavy accent, who asked for onions on the side. However, James didn't know if he meant in a cup or on one side of the sandwich, and when he asked for clarification, the man responded "ONIONS!"

There was also an old guy who asked for sauce on the top of his vegetables. However, James did it the usual way, since the sauce would be on the same side no matter what.

One time someone tipped in $40 dollars.

There was also this Native American guy who asked for five footlong tunas. After James was done making the tunas, he asked for seven more meatball sandwiches. Normally for an order this large, you were supposed to call an hour ahead.

There was also a woman who asked for extra vegetables, and kept asking for more until the sandwich wouldn't close.

There was no robbers at the subway, but there was thiefs. There was this one guy who ordered sandwiches and his kid asked for a water cup. However, he filled the cup with soda. However, he let it slide. There was also this guy who snuck in chips.

Finally, there was this time when James was playing Clash of Clans in the back, and on the security camera, he saw a woman reach over the register and take three large cups. However, James did nothing to stop it.

### Sooubway Part 3

When James was moving into college for the first time, he felt lonely and homesick. So one day he decided to get some Subway to get a taste of home. As it turns out, the employee making his sandwich was a huge idiot. He noticed his favorite sandwich, the Turkey Italiano (which was a Ham BMT with turkey instead of ham), was not on the menu. When James asked for a Ham BMT but with turkey instead of ham, the employee refused to make him his sandwich. So he just got the BMT instead. When the employee finished making James's sandwich, he started working on the next customer's sandwich leaving James waiting to pay for his.

When James worked at Sooubway, he didn't like wearing his nametag because he didn't like it when strangers knew his first name.

One time, a customer pulled up to Subway. James recognized her as someone who went to her mother's funeral, and now has just found her father died shortly afterwards. Cory came in to console the woman.

One time, a bunch of people came in after closing, and James let them in anyway to his co-worker's dismay.

One time James brought a laser pointer to work because he knew he would be bored, except his co-worker was shining it at the cars. When James intervened, the co-worker wouldn't stop after two warnings. He was later fired for the incident, after a customer asked for the manager. James decided to take the blame out on his coworker, since even though James was the one who brought in the laser pointer, it was the coworker who was at fault for causing a safety hazard.

Before he worked at Subway, James liked to go to a taco stand, and get the usual carne asada fries, before he realized they were 2000 calories. But when he was employed by Sooubway, he learned that managers don't care if you order the same thing, unless you are mean to them or tell them about a family death.

He then recommended some games for Subway workers:

* Guess the sandwich
* See how long you can stay in the freezer (James's record is 1 hour)
* Bring in some vanilla ice cream and make all sorts of stuff with it

### Sooubway 4: The Final Sandwich

He talked about the history of the Sooubway videos. People thought that he called it Sooubway so he wouldn't get sued, but this is actually not true, since a) James wasn't successful enough to be sued, and b) they were still dealing with the Jared Fogle sex scandal. James called it Sooubway as a joke, so he would refer to it as a "small local sandwich shop" before revealing that it was Subway. However, he has continued to call it Sooubway to avoid copyright issues. He didn't think there was a reason to make another Sooubway video since there was only a finite number of stories he could have told, but then, the Subway he used to work at shut down. This upset James, so the only thing he had left to do was make one last Sooubway video, as a tribute to the "original" Sooubway.

This story happened a few years after James stopped working at Sooubway. He was falling behind on a video, so he was in a mentally damaging mindset called "crunch mode". Because of this, he was working all day on this video, to the point where he was hungry and his dog Floof hadn't been taken out. Therefore, took a break and ate Floof, or rather, walked Floof to his local Subway, and before he walked in, he held Floof to his arms since he was not a psychopath. Taking your dog to a restaurant is tacky and against health codes, but he was going to Subway, where they are so laid back and careless that one time, a kid showed up unsupervised with no shoes or shirt and was simply ordering a cookie; James gave him the cookie anyway despite the fact that he was clearly breaking the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" policy, since he had money. The boy had probably completed a swim lesson and was with his mom at the supermarket, and asked her for permission to go to Subway, which his mother accepted.

James walked into Subway with Floof in his arms. The employee, who was the only other person in the store, stopped James and asked if Floof was a service dog. Floof was not a service dog, but an unofficial emotional support dog for James. James didn't want to lie to the employee, so he told the employee that Floof was not a service dog. The employee then banned Floof from entering the store, since he was worried that the health inspector would fire him. James argued that the nearby ramen place lets Floof into the store all the time, which he knows because he's already been there twice this week; the only reason why he went to Subway was because he didn't want to look weird to the ramen place employees.

The employee then called James's bluff and said that he would make the sandwich quick. This delighted James, so he ordered a footlong ham sandwich on a white bread with American cheese. He speedily put the sandwich together, despite American cheese being the hardest to pull apart with gloves on, and asked James if he wanted vegetables, which made James think that the employee was working *too* quick since he didn't yet ask James if he wanted the sandwich toasted, which he didn't. Afterwards, Floof jumped over the counter, peed on the olives, and attacked the employee.

This reminded James that some employees are more laid back than others, and James was one of the more laid back employees. One times, James was recognized as TheOdd1sOut at his former Subway. James decided to tell the employees that the floors at the Subway are the same ones he used to mop, and that he missed a spot, after which the employee was so stoked that he let James into the staff area, which was against every health code imaginable. However, the employee didn't care.

James then felt nostalgic since everything was left the same. The bulletin board had the same papers on it, including one that had all the employees' phone numbers including James's, which had been crossed out. This shocked James to the point where he stabbed his written phone number with a pencil. He then remember that one employee found the WiFi password and wrote it under the desk; that writing was still there as well. The employee who let James in the back room didn't know about this, and he typed it in; it still worked. James then made the employee promise to keep this secret. However, this promise is no longer in effect since that Subway is no longer open for business.

James says that he will miss that Subway. It was gross and James didn't necessarily love working there, but it was the most memorable job he had as a teenager, as it was the only job he had. It will probably turn into a nail salon, but James will forever remember that it used to be his roaming grounds. James then made a makeshift funeral for his former Subway, by burying a foot-long in its memory.

## Trivia

* In the third video about Subway, James claims that he made more money from the first two videos about working at Subway than he did actually working there for over a year.
	+ In the video, James also mentioned that the couple who owned the Subway he worked at saw the first two videos.
* Sooubway is a purposely mispronounced version of Subway. James states that he says Sooubway because he thinks it's funny as stated in "Sooubway Part 4" . However, now that he's made a popular series about it, Sooubway has become a non-copyright alternative.
* In the fourth episode, James claimed that Sooubway Part 4 was his most requested video idea. It was released "posthumously", after the original Sooubway closed down.
* The original Sooubway presumably closed down after the landlord refused to renew their lease on the building. This decision was probably made as the laid-back nature of the particular Subway took a toll on the building's overall maintenance. The health inspector may have also shut it down for similar reasons.
* If the Sooubway re-opens, James might make a fifth video. However, the alleged "Sooubway" that James used to work at has become a poke bar, according to Google Street View.