The stories are different, but the reason they might sound similar is because there are a lot of horrible customers out there, and this is a place for servers to vent about them. It would actually be better if they were just the same stories repeated over and over because that would mean there aren’t as many asshole…
Resturants should just straight up have a “staying past closing” service charge. Tell late diners about it before they sit down and explain that it’s a sliding scale based on how many and what staff has to stay to accommodate them. If you’ve finished but choose to linger for 10 minutes after close you get dinged 10…
My father was a reference librarian at the the Vallejo public library for most of the ‘70s. Trivial Pursuit came out in the ‘80s. Guess who always won.
“Was that so hard?” = “The situation has been resolved to my satisfaction, but I’d still like to start a fight about it.”
Yes, assuming someone with even a half functioning brain that’s the only explanation. Because if you spend a half an hour haggling over 13 cents, you value your time at exactly 26 cents an hour. No one who is not willing to take a job at 26 cents an hour should spend a half an hour arguing about 13 cents. There has to…
Yeah, it’s fair to say life is a lot harder than that. Very few people NEVER have shitty days, so
And for every tale of comeuppance that wasn’t plotted, but just occurred because karma will bite you in the ass eventually since stupidity and meanness is its own particular reward, you’ll get fifteen or more whining, bleating twatwaffles who are outraged and reaching for their fainting couches because a server deliber…
some coffee-based form of NDA
That and “Let me educate you.” Both those phrases basically push the MURDER EVERYONE button in my lizard brain.
Desert: Where we berry the bodies of customers who say “cream brulee.”
My wife works with a girl who came back from traveling - on the company CC - and called a place she went to for dinner and told them she was shorted a dollar. Again, this wasn’t even her fucking money. She made such a stink on the phone and demanded they SEND HER A DOLLAR. They did. It was a wadded up stained bill in…
I LOVED this when I visited Australia. They don’t even have pennies - everything was either rounded up or down to the nearest $.05. It was brilliant.
There probably is in that the non-assholes look at the time and think “Oh jeeze, they’re closing in 5 minutes. I don’t want to keep anybody after work...” and go someplace else.
The "hot enough" thing drove me off the wall. People would come in and order their lattes at 190-200 degrees, MILK CURDLES AT 180 YOU NASTIES. Also, steaming it to much hotter than the typical "extra hot" setting makes the milk spit viciously and I'm not about to burn myself just so you can melt the lining of your…
Two things that need to branded into the souls of every human being before they’re allowed out on their own.
I have to say, BCO has spurred two important changes in the way I act in restaurants.
“Lord, beer me strength.”
My #100 of #451 book ends that were made from Ray Bradbury’s house after it was razed.
@Charlie Jane Anders: I loved T2, but T1 even with it's lower quality production values was in my opinion a better film.