I have a story like that that still makes me so angry to think about fifteen years on.

I’ve actually made much worse money when I’ve worked in wealthier neighborhoods. I think it varies nationwide, but in the Boston area a lot of other waitresses confirm this. I once worked in a town famous for having recently built the most expensive public high school campus in the state ($197Million if you’re…

I had a minor bad thing happen to me and it ruined my weekend, but your comment was so good that it went beyond equilibrium. I am so happy right now!

You forgot the passive aggressive, “I’m sure everyone will beat me up for saying this but...,” or “I’m prepared to get totally blasted by everyone on here, but...” that accompanies nearly all of these kinds of posts.

Let’s do some more math! Let’s say a party of 14 is seated in your section. That means you have one other table available in your section if you’re lucky. That 14 top will be in your section for 3 hours. Let’s say you get 3 2 tops at your ONE other table during that time. So you get 6 dollars from each table if you’re…

You had to pay them money in order to qualify for a discount on more money paid to them for food. Also, if you refused to pay it (which I did), you were not allowed to drink soda, coffee, or tea from the restaurant, and you had to bring your own water container—you weren’t allowed to use the restaurant’s courtesy…

The job creator is the most delicate of species, if their nest is disturbed in the slightest they’ll fly off and stop producing shitty minimum wage employment and then where will we be?

I worked at a restaurant that required servers to give 50% of their tips to the kitchen staff. The reason that worked is because the restaurant elected to pay servers the same wage as kitchen staff, well above industry standard minimum wage for tipped staff. We got $12/hour plus half our tips, so it was very fair. If…

Got a general manager fired from my old job. I was the assistant manager and found out he had been taking hours off employee timesheets on the computer, so our labor numbers would look better to corporate. After he was fired and corporate looked into it, they found out they’d have to pay 6 months of backpay to the…

At first I read this as: “there’s a reason we need unicorns” but that would’ve been awesome as well.

Yeah, but in this country when a businessman cheats his employees they’re considered heroes and given lavish praise and tax cuts.

Yeah, but most kitchen staff make at least the regular minimum wage, whereas servers make $2-$3 an hour before tips. So no, servers should not have to tip out the kitchen staff regardless of how important they are to the operation of the restaurant because the kitchen staff is already being compensated for their…

I’m now just imagining the kind of unicorn that would shit out yellow Starburst, though. Like, does he have a chip on his shoulder? If so, is it because he shits yellow Starburst, or is his attitude the reason why he shits out yellow Starburst? Does he plot against the more popular unicorns that shit out stuff like…

I prefer my unicorn kitty.

I want every post to start with “ARGLE BARGLE” forever.

Let me just get the Pinkham’s Law out of the way, because I don’t see any yet and I’m SURE it’ll happen-

ARGLE BARGLE BUT RESTAURANT MANAGERS WORK HARD TOO AND NEVER GET TIPS DID YOU KNOW RESTARANT MONAGERS CARE ONLY ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THE RESTESRAUNT AND ARE SELFLESS ANGELS TO WORK AS HARD AS THEY DO FOR THE…

Have you considered the reason you’re unpopular is because you’re entirely full of shit? Because I’ve worked a significant number of 6-hour shifts (most serving shifts tend to be around 6 hours, unless you’re working a double) and made $30 due to lack of business.

Hey, guess what? You have no idea! “Not busy” can mean “You don’t make any fucking money! Have fun eating Ramen!” It doesn’t mean you only make a meer $15 per hour.

My guess on what really went down:

I still have a picture of myself and a bridesmaid smiling and pointing at our plates full of NACHOS at the reception’s NACHO BAR.