These shorts should be banned too.

Yeah, I made it! :) It was a lot of detailed and hard work.

This is my spouses story. He's an auditor for the state. He basically audits companies to make sure they pay their L&I taxes. He doesn't audit small mom and pop shops, but usually multimillion dollar a year companies. Needless to say, nobody wants to see him when he shows up to audit them.

Oh God I worked at a place just like this!! Eventually the place was falling apart around us and we found out the owner was just using it to launder money and the place got bought out. I was there when the new owners came in to check out the place and what it would need and I had to tell them all the things that were…

I had gotten out of the military and was bartender at a bar/restaurant place. The owner was an alright guy. His nephew though...a completely piece of shit. He was harassing...I mean really harassing the shit out of this young girl that worked there.

I SHALL BE AVENGED!

Yep, lady orders a Zinfandel from the wine list, I bring it, she berates me because it's deep red, not blush, I'm trying to cheat her, I must be stupid or think she is, etc. The owner, who fancied himself a connoisseur, actually brought a glass of Zin and White Zin to the table with the wine list and proceeded to…

I worked at a sushi place and a lot of customers would ask for sushi without rice. I'd say, "Well we also have sashimi." Then they'd freak out, "NO I DON'T WANT THAT. I WANT SUSHI, JUST NO RICE! I WANT TO TALK TO THE MANAGER."

This reminds me so much of an experience I had many years ago while visiting my aunt. She was big into church choir and I went with her to a rehearsal. Afterwards, most of the choir members (maybe 30 people) went to Red Robin "for drinks and appetizers". My aunt said they do this every week after rehearsal. Yeah, that…

I've never worked in the service industry, but I can still remember one of the best encounters I've ever had as a diner. I was working at a temp at a miserable office one summer between my junior and senior year of college. It was only two weeks, and every single day I went into a little cafe up the road, and always…

i hate this so much, like people believe that there is a secret stock of popular items that are reserved to special customers, they just have to figure out the right way of asking and you will just reach under the counter and give them what they want. there was one christmas i worked in retail and every person was…

My favorite are the customers who are under the impression that repeating a question with greater detail or volume will somehow change the answer. At least once a day working at Apple, I had this conversation:

It was literally 45 minutes after we started keeping track of the time. No matter how skeptical you or anyone else is about that fact, I am not exaggerating about the time.

Thanks for the information, but the server/SA is not how this restaurant functions. This person was not an SA, they were a busser. The waitress was clearly busy making sure the table of attractive men was taken care of and neglecting my parents and me. It's a situation that is pretty easy to tell the difference…

Not food service, but I do have one awful customer story. The organization I work for runs several science camps over the summer, and the past month or so we've been going around to different summer camp fairs to advertise. At one a few weeks ago this lady walks up, starts reading over our brochure, and gets super…

I want to get in on this even though I am late. I worked at a coffee shop for a few years. We had two handicapped spots right out front. A lot of people would park there "in a rush" and come in. I would ask them what they wanted really quick and ask them to move their cars while we made the coffee. If we were slow I…

Does this count? I used to get tormented by a guy for working the local McDonalds after school. I lived on the outskirts of a rich suburb at the time. I honestly think I was one of the maybe 10% of the student body that had a job. My cloths were old, my parents had one car, and they basically had to sell everything…

I have a revenge-esque story. During my college years, I spent summers bartending and cocktail waitressing at a local bar. One Friday I was cocktail waitressing and a largish group of people around my age came in. They were my biggest table, and they were ordering rounds and rounds of beers and shots and cocktails.…

THESE ARE ALL WONDERFUL!