Here lately at my job, I’m noticing an increasing trend on the day shift. It involves the servers cutting themselves off the floor as soon as one of the night shift servers arrive. There’s a certain couple of them who shall remain nameless..**Hawk** who completely refuse to take any more tables 30 minutes to an hour before they’re scheduled to get off work. I sure as fuck wish that I could refuse to take any more tables when it comes close to time that I’m scheduled off but no, I’d never get away with that. I’d also never get away with being even half as lazy as some of these people are…refusing to carry a fucking sweet tea urn, or get ice.
Let’s say someone comes in and opens. 10 am. they’re not scheduled off until 5. That’s a scheduled seven hour shift, but it’s posted all over the place that if it’s busy, you won’t get cut. Would any of you who serve be allowed to get cut if it was busy just because one of the night shift was at work? No? I didn’t think so!
I think some of the kids working today, and I say kid even though the person I’m talking about is close to my age, are just pampered, spoiled snotty little fucking brats. Go work at a restaurant where you have to do triple the work and you’ll never fucking last. We have it easy where I work. Minimal running sidework, minimal early out and closing sidework. Yet some of these people…one main one who shall remain nameless…think sidework, running sidework, and silverware are deadly things. God forbid you try to get a table stocked or a section swept, you’d think someone killed and ate their beagle!
Then we have the cooks who don’t make my life any easier. Playoff game today. Busy Busy Busy, and the kitchen fucking crashed. We’re talking hour long checks on appetizers. This is with a manager ON THE LINE with the moronic cooks. I’m sorry to any who get pissed off at me for bad mouthing cooks, I had a horrible backlash last time. Actually, no I’m not sorry. How hard is it to not crash a kitchen with 8 cooks, a manager, 2 expediters, and only 9 fucking tickets in the window! Not even big tickets, oh no. These were little 2 and 3 top tickets. Yet we still had hour long, medium rare steaks coming out well done, salads wilting, and ice cream melting.
Finally, we have the guests. Many of these guests thought we were going to babysit their kids while they sat getting drunk and watching the game. Sorry, after last night, my patience was running thin at work. I was yelling at people left and right. Kids running around or skating on those demonic heelies were really catching the brunt of my hatred today. Parents getting drunk, they got it too.
The ghetto/redneck merged table that I had tonight really pissed me off. They brought their kids out, and I’m thinking “Bubba and Lametriana here are gonna hook me up”. They seemed pretty nice at first. Then I carded Lametriana for her long island. Wrong move there. She was clearly old enough to drink, however, I was not getting fired for allowing her to do so without proper ID.
“Well I don’ wanna walk all da way ta my cah! Cain ya just brang da drank?”
“No ma’am, I cannot. I’m sorry.”
“Dat’s jus fuck up!” Cussing me in front of her 6 and 8 year old crotch spawn. Great example to set for your kids, bitch.
They later told me that they only had 170 to spend. They let the kids play many games, ate lavishly, and she finally got her ID even though she bitched at me about it. They tell me about 120 bucks in to let them know how much their tab was because of the 170. Every round, I had to take them a new ticket. Finally, when it reached 168 bucks, they gave me the 170 and told me to keep the change.
I had to leave the building for a few minutes to keep from killing them. I had to pay about 8 bucks in tip-out for those bastards to eat. The string of shit I was yelling as I went out the back door would have made a sailor cringe. Once outside, in the below freezing weather, I yelled at the top of my lungs and was burning up.
“That fucking bitch, that dirty fucking redneck bastard, I hope the two of them rot in hell. Let their kids burn…” and so on. How the fuck dare they! I gave them nothing but polite and happy service.
The best table of the night was one that tipped me 30 bucks on a 45 dollar check. British people at that! Well, 2 of them were british, the other two were american. They tipped me so big because of taking up “my” table for so long. It wasn’t even in my section. It started out being my section, but it didn’t stay that way. These guys were awesome though. They took the time to talk to me, and asked me to eat dinner with them. The wives came, and they loved me, especially when I carded them for their drinks. Instant adoration.
I was scheduled off at 10 tonight. I told everyone that at 9:30, I was going to stop picking up tables and cut myself off the floor, just to see if I could get away with it…like “the Hawk that shall not be named” did, but I was too busy and didn’t even realize when 9:30 passed. We ended up running out of so much shit, the kitchen closed an hour early which pissed off a bunch of guests. We ran out of fries. Pissed off one woman really bad, because she got almost the last of what we had. Was at a friends table, but I got to hear about it. “I know yall kitchen about ta close but dat don’ mean I gotta get da bottom off da barrah. Ain no way I be servin dis shit and I damn sure ain gonna eat it!” She wouldn’t accept any of the free and normally upcharged alternatives, oh no, she had to have fries. Too bad for her, we were out.
Too all who didn’t know, I am still a thief. I still round up and down depending on the amount of change due. Always give bills, don’t always give coins. I figured that I might as well admit it with Springs1 posting it in every other comment about how I’m a law breaking criminal, and by LAW, I have to return *************************************************************EVERY******************************************************************************************
single fucking penny, because that’s not my money yet and it’s evil and wrong and I’m mean and uncaring.
Sorry bout all the stars, everyone, but I was driving home a point. Don’t steal, hunt down every single penny, regardless of if the guest is in a hurry or not!
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