It’s people like you who made my days. Sometimes things happened where the entire restaurant went to shit, and usually as long as people were told what was going on they were understanding.

The restaurant chain I used to work for is now assigning shifts based on a combination of survey scores and upselling monthly specials. The lower your score or sales, the fewer tables you get.

If describing the one day where I walked off the floor sobbing before going home and having a mental breakdown because the weight of that incident on top of everything else I had going on caused me to realize that the vast majority of people are self centered assholes is hyperbole, then fine, I’m being hyperbolic on a…

I’m not a robot. No one is, people have problems that spill over into every aspect of their lives. If you have experienced something horrible like this and you were able to compartmentalize it, that’s awesome. I’m not, and I’m not aware of many people who are. And you don’t have to smile to maintain a professional…

Do you understand that servers have no idea what their tip is going to be until after they pick up the check, most often after the table has left? I wasn’t trying to use my dying mother as leverage for more money, in fact it was the only time I ever spoke about it at work to anyone I wasn’t close to. The table…

Also, as a server your paycheck is based on how well you do the ass kissing song and dance. Retail workers don’t get their pay docked because they forgot the extra side of ranch.

And thanks for not only going full on Godwin but playing the pain and misery is a zero sum game. I’ll remember that the next time I experience physical or emotional trauma to minimize it to nothingness because there are other people who have it so much worse than me.

I knew casinos were uptight about money, but I didn’t know they were that uptight. That sounds like a horrible thing to go through.

I doubt they’d care. They don’t try to use them to pay anything and they only look like real money until you look closer. Besides, didn’t you know that religious groups get to do nearly whatever they please? John Oliver has a great segment on that.

I wish I was kidding. I would love to take a break from America and move somewhere else for a bit. If Australia had jobs for scientists, I’d be over there in a heartbeat.

And don’t even get me started on church paraphernalia that looks like cash. Neither god nor your platitudes are legal tender in this county.

That’s because you’re a good person who is capable of empathy. There’s something about food that turns otherwise decent people into narcissistic sociopaths.

Pay restaurant workers a living wage and I will happily agree with abolishing the tipping system. It’s institutionalized begging.

I had an experience very similar to this back when I was waiting tables. I apologized profusely to the table for the delay and we comped quite a bit of their check, but they still left me zero on over a hundred dollar bill. And complained I wasn’t happy and enthusiastic about serving them. My mother had recently been…

My sympathies. One parent and most of that side of the family fell into that category.

I also have a friend who has a registered companion animal for anxiety issues, but he doesn’t have training and like your friend, she’s not abusing the privilege. I think the people who drag their poorly behaved pets around wherever they go and claim special status are ruining it for everyone else.

There’s a huge difference between a service animal, which are thoroughly trained to assist people with disabilities and perform daily tasks or give some kind of medical assistance and a companion animal, which provide emotional support for people with mental illness or severe emotional problems but don’t have any…

That’s exactly why I hate those movies. That whole idea that if he just tries hard enough then she’ll love him drives me up the damn wall. She’s human being and no really does mean no.

Nor organic pesticides. And yes, they’re allowed to use them.

Weight is still important on large planes, and not just for balancing purposes. It’s been airline policy for years to set a maximum weight for luggage, and when you go over you are charged for it. Really the number of passengers doesn’t matter as much as their weight, because that’s what determines how much fuel the…