- A fellow waitress politely pulled out a chair for a female guest when seating them at a table. The reponse: "I think I can pick my own chair, thank you."
- Rather than asking me to, a lady said this about her check: "YOU DIDN’T SEPARATE IT FOR US!"
- "I didn’t want anymore tea, I had it just how I like it. Thanks anyway."
- A woman shoved a handful of trash at the hostess and said, "I saved this for you."
- A man walked in on his cell phone, made no attempt at eye contact, just flashed two fingers at the hostess. When she attempted to ask his name and the name of his guest who’d be arriving later he looked pissed.
- A grumpy old man to my manager: "WHY DON’T WE PUT THE PLATES HERE INSTEAD OF ON TOP OF MY PAPERS." Before she’d even put down a single dish.
- A man at a table of four agreed everyone would like to hear the specials. Then once I began to speak he struck up conversation with the guy next to him. Then later on, naturally, he asked me what the soup du jour was.
Bitchy Things People Said or Did Today
April 7th, 2005 | Work Related
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I hate people.
I’m getting flashbacks to my tenure in the food service industry. It’s amazing how shitty people can become when they’re not doing the cooking.
The only people worse than this are pet owners who ignore their pets after they grow up. If one more wingnut moves in next door with a big dog that’s left outside to bark ALL FUCKING DAY AND NIGHT… His/her car will get the eggwash to end all eggwashes.
I swear, there should be licenses authorizing folks to eat in public places and to own pets. Most of the population would fail the test, I’m sure.
I can sympathize with the tea comment.
There’s nothing more annoying than getting your tea to just the proper mix of sweetener and lemon and having someone refill it while you’re not paying attention.
Bunch of savages in this town.
“It’s the soup of the day.”
And I’m with Chris on the tea thing.
Ya know what? I am not a shitty server. I know that people sweeten and add lemon to iced tea. And that adding more tea might upset your precious balance of citrus and aspartame. Which is why I always attempt to make eye contact, or if possible, ask before refilling tea.
Neither of those was possible at that juncture. Guy is still an asshole.
o.k. now imagine instead of serving food
you are creating artwork for packaging.
you spend 16 hours creating a series of layouts,
getting the colors right, illustrating your pieces,
combining them into something nice,
just to have some ass hole decide “I don’t like this ”
so you throw your work into the trash can never to be even seen by the client. then you have to come in the next day and do it all over again.
I recently completed work on the latest Cascade Complete layout with the water wheel. it took 14 rounds of revisions and over a year of work to get to the final layout. and that was just the concept to make it. I had like 6 other concepts, all in the trash.
My savages at the hotel think I like parking cars in the rain for free. They also think it a major inconvenience that they might wait fifteen minutes at the airport for their complimentary hotel shuttle.
But we in the service industry just keep on smiling.
You’re not alone, Brittney. I’m on your side with the tea thing.
If I recall my food service past correctly, more people will bitch about not getting refills than about throwing off the mixture. Not refilling or interrupting people over and over again seems to tick more folks off. At least that was my experience.
The sugar is located on the table for a reason. I consider things like sugar, salt, pepper, ketchup, and any other spices or condiments on the table to be my responsibility when I go out to eat. Besides, I’d rather have more tea that I can add sugar to (not that I ever add sugar to tea. Sorry, but sugared tea grosses me out) than have to flag down a waiter or waitress to get more.
If you want a perfect and unrefilled cup of tea, and it’s important enough to you that you’ll throw a shitfit if the tender balance is thrown by some wantonly hot-water-spewing server, then you’d best have it at home.
I’m guessing this tea fetishist’s kitchen table is not in your section, and thus is safe from your evil waterings.
people get called asshole for wanting servers to treat them like they were Louis XVI
this sort of thing never once occured to the great painter henri matisse
he could choose any chair and guests could come and go freely
henri matisse never got unbalanced tea leaves
not like you
Seymour said it best:
“I can’t relate to 99 percent of humanity”
Don’t you just love working with people?
I work with sales reps who swear that my job is to make sure they never earn a dime again. Yeah, that sure encourages the team spirit, let me tell you!
BTW, I just watched the “America We Stand As One” video that’s linked on the left.
Wow… I’m all for patriotism, but yeesh, that’s just plain bad. He should stick to coordinating stunts.
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