How can you read these stories and still think that all servers do is take an order and deliver food? People, like you, can be intolerable bags of dick and being a good server means being able to deal with the MsTristeds of the world while smiling. Yes, anyone can take an order and deliver food, just like anyone can…

I know, I just envision this moodswinging (although continous BCP helps keeps things reasonably even), waking up dripping then freezing so figuring out what to wear to bed is always a challenge and changing the sheets 3x a week is a MFer too, the coochie drying out (TMI, I KNOW), libidoswinging (I HATE YOU I WANNA…

In many places they do *not* get minimum wage. There is a lower minimum wage for "tipped" workers. The justification for this is that the workers supposedly get part of their pay from the customers. This is, of course, a big assumption. But that is the system here, like it or not. When people say "I don't believe in…

I mean this sincerely: there is no way to say the phrases "I will argue against the servers" and "think these servers need to suck it up," without being an AWFUL human being.

I DEMAND...

"When I was a kid I waited tables at Olive Garden and I saw a grown-ass woman pick her nose, pull out a long, greasy booger and wipe it under the table."

Things you think can't happen and people are exaggerating or indulging in a little hyperbole? No, if you can think of it, it's probably been done. A scene for you...

I wear cardigans (long, short, boyfriend, twin set, whatever) as more of a security blanket, but I'll shed them....reluctantly....at around the 80 degree mark.

I worked the overnight shift at a gas station while I was in law school/studying for the bar exam/waiting for results, since it let me get in MANY hours of studying at 4am when the whole place was dead. But you would not believe how many people assumed that just because I was working a minimum wage job I was…

I've done the same thing with customers trying to cut in line. One particular example was when I was a teenager working at Sweet Factory. Our store always got slammed during the holidays, so on one of these days the line was crazy long but we were getting through it. The thing is the line goes to my right. There…

In my city, that's a health code violation. It doesn't matter what the Yelp review says.

Yeah. I try to be pretty laid back but this guy was driving me up the wall. The guy I was helping out, he pretty much saved my life when I got out of the military because I was a train wreck, drinking myself into oblivion. Butch gave me a job and that got me the stability to get my shit together, dry out, and get into…

THIS! It has always bothered me when people are disrespectful of someone's job. If you're a person who is passionate about their job who doesn't want to date a 34 year old who hates their job and is unwilling to take steps to change that, fine. Completely understandable. If you're just a normal person who looks…

One of the bartenders is newly pregnant and he told her no, she can't have water out.

Just about the same thing happened to me while I was working at an aquarium during a summer during undergrad. I was sweeping outdoors, and the parent *pointed* at me - not subtly - while making the delightful and very audible comment. What is wrong with people? I'm a medical student now, but that's not even the point.…

I was working at a marina. I ended up pumping this guy's gas into his boat. Now in his defense, I am wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and was just done with cutting down a tree, so I got scratches and shit all over me. I'm nine days into a two week shift there.

Well then I hope her cake tasted terrible and the photo was super pixilated!

Ah...my sister pulled something similar moons ago. We're in the middle of a nasty fight, and she goes "at least I have a degree!"

That attitude is just so weird. Of course, it's elitist and shitty, too. There's zero wrong with working as a cleaner, server, whatever and no one should feel like less of a person or ashamed of a job. Work is work.

I can't possibly be the only server who thinks putting "extra love," whatever the hell that may mean, in a person's omelet is unconscionable, no matter how much of a dickwalrus the person is? I mean, unless "extra love" means "too much black pepper" or something. In my more than 20 years of serving, no matter how…