I was a waitress once, not a good one. I tried my best, but undiagnosed ADHD and bipolar made it really hard. But I remember one older guy who had $15-20 bill asked me what my biggest tip was, I told him it was $50 on an engagement party table, he tipped $51 on a $15-20 bill. I think he could tell I wanted nothing more than to make people smile. I also wore cheap colored clip in extensions and I'd give them to little girls who loved my green and pink hair. I loved that job, but had a mental breakdown and had to go into a day treatment at the mental hospital. I feel bad that I had to quit suddenly, but they were so nice about it. that Chili's was such a good environment, kind bosses, fun coworkers, I wish I could have maintained my mental health, because that was some happy memories
Just to add I had two attempts while I worked there, I'm lucky I didn't lose use of my hand after cutting to the bone. I know that it's my fault, I am my own responsibility, and I'm an adult. But I loved being a waitress, especially acting like I don't understand rudeness and meeting it with a smile. IDK I grew up in a bad environment, so being okay during cruelty is easy enough.
-hugs- i FEEL for you. I have adhd and bipolar too. It's like running life on hard mode. Lucky/unlucky, i got ptsd too and so i now get disability and stay home. I still work but i get to say 'f you' if people are nasty to me because my job is to occupy my time not to make a living
I wasn't diagnosed with bipolar, ADHD, and ASD until I was 37 years old. I ran around undiagnosed and unmedicated for over three decades of my life, almost four. I'm sure I've been a massive jerk to people back then, but I try not to beat myself up over it too much. However, getting my diagnoses sure answered a ton of questions I had about why I was the way I was.
Hey friend, i hope life is treating you well nowadays at least, and that you cherish those fun memories you made in the industry! Just wanted to say that I can tell you were a good server by this entire comment. All a "good" server is, is someone who does the job with love. I hope if you have the chance to serve in a good restaurant again when you're in a good place (whenever that is trust me i know the feeling) that you take the opportunity. Take care friend, i know it's not our circus but our monkeys really do get in the way some days don't they?
People, for the love of fucking god. Your servers are human beings with feelings and lives of their own. In America, they live only on the money you give them, they don't make minimum wage like other workers. Please, again, for the love of god, treat them well!
Story 9, the priest that dined and dashed but came back with a lot of people. If I were the manager, I would have sat them, served them as usual and at the same time called the cops for the previous incident. And after that banned him. It would have made the point all the more clear.
@@annika5893 nooooo, confront him in front of everyone. Politely of course, but bring a copy of the receipt and tell him you’re more than happy to add it onto his current tab, but make it very obvious that he owes the restaurant money, and give him the opportunity to make it right.
My mom was always a nightmare to go to restaurants with. She'd find anything to complain about. It was so embarrassing. I really don't know how my dad managed to stay married to her for as long as he did. They're finally divorced and I don't speak to her. Anyway, b/c of her and me just generally wanting to be a decent person, I treat people with kindness when I'm out. If I notice a restaurant closes soon I always ask if it's ok to come in and order. I'll get it to go if I have to. I'll tip more sometimes too. I tip well in general. I've never been a server, but I've worked retail and other customer service jobs. People can be so awful so I try not to be.
same, but with my grandma! She’ll talk like “oh black people are always so nice to me for some reason” like….grandma, you’re a rich white lady. She does this at family lunches at restaurants with my other grandpa right at the table and after the POC waitress leaves. (My grandpa’s a Mexican man)
I used to work at a Turkish bakery and I am not Turkish nor do I speak the language Only reason why I worked there is cause they were the only ones that took me in and alot of customers were English speakers so I took care of them One day the bakery was packed I attended this woman that started to speak Turkish and I was like “oh I’m sorry ma’am but I don’t speak Turkish” she immediately started to throw a whole fit she started speaking English screaming “if you’re not Turkish why are you working here” and just having a tantrum I was already having a bad day and I was in the urge of tears I just ran to my Turkish coworker to take care of the lady and I’ll take care of the customer she was serving The new customer was so sweet she saw the whole thing happen with the other lady and she told me “are you ok? Don’t worry you’re doing a great job” she was so nice and was the little highlight of my awful day
about a month ago my manager who is a sweet old 60-ish lady was dealing with a customer, I did not hear what started it but my manager was telling the customer "you're really being a prick" and the customer responded "I don't fucking care", so I as a 6 and a half foot tall giant with a baritone voice puffed out my chest, threw my voice as deep as I can, and said in a loud and firm voice: "It would be in your best interest to shut up there and take the service provided before we have to remove you from the store", man looked like a deer in headlights, shut up and finished his order, I refused to take him at my register because I see how he treats servers
Ooh. People who don't leave after closing piss me off. I worked at a brewery a few years back, and it was a Tuesday night. We closed at 10, but would let people finish their meals/drinks etc. It was 11:30 and a group of dudes were still in the beer garden, smoking. They bought heaps of booze just before closing. I asked them to please finish their drinks and leave because I had to clean up and go home. They laughed and said "It's our Friday night!" I said "That's great for you, but it's actually Tuesday night, I've been here for 12 hours and I want to go home" They just stared at me. Worst part was there was a pub about a 10 minute walk down the road that was still open where they could have continued their party. Fucking jerks.
I work at a grocery store, not a restaurant, but I think my customer from hell story still fits. context: whenever someone doesn't want the extra couple of coins in their change when they pay with cash, we put those coins on the register next to the card scanner just in case someone ever comes up a couple cents short. actual story: there's this one customer who always comes in, and he works at another nearby store. what he does is he buys something cheap like a single jug of water, and then gives the cashier a couple of bottle deposit slips (which give you money if you recycle bottles and cans). this already pretty much cuts the price in half, and on top of that, he'll want to pay cash where this gets interesting is that when he pays cash, he starts by grabbing every last one of the coins I mentioned earlier (which are for people in need), and then pays for the rest with change of his own (which means he's effectively paying with nothing but change, and is also technically stealing from poor people). this man is literally more stingy than Mr. Krabs if this wasn't bad enough already, he's also extremely creepy to my female colleagues, to the point where they've said they want to run and hide in the break room whenever he shows up. a couple weeks ago, he even asked one of them (who is 16 or 17) if she was married (and this dude is probably in his mid 30s) this dude comes in almost every day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, and it's at the point where next time he harasses an employee, he's getting banned from the store.
Story 16: Pho is pronounced like the first few letters of the word fun, not foe. There's a restaurant near where a friend of mine lives called Pho King Good if you want a clear example of how to pronounce it.
I waitressed before I became a nurse. I think it helped me in dealing with people. Some patients can be really difficult. But their families are much worse. I knew they were feeling helpless that their relatives were so ill and it help me tolerate the abuse!
The Perkins story about the two ladies not leaving. I would explicitly state to them if they don't order before 10 minutes is up (because I already told you multiple times the kitchen will be closed) I will be choosing their desserts. And since the manager approved it and I already had a ride, NOPE! I'm outtie 5000, you stay 2 hours and chit chat with your gal pals as you clean. Hell to the no.
Omgerd... The first story basically happened to my family and at Red Lobster on my birthday. Lol old lady came up to the table and basically said because we were all adults and they had a baby in their group they needed us to hurry up. The manager threatened to kick her out but not before my Aunt looks this broad in the face and says. "It's my Nephew's 25th birthday and if you wanna enjoy your next one I would suggest minding your business". She can be a savage sometimes, that was 7 years ago. Good times. 🤣🤣
The pizza phone story (#32) - what customers should know, the place keeps notes on you so if you're crazy they're going to put that in your profile. Anywho, some people love ordering via phone, though.
No 48 would have gotten all the coffee shop employees to go to the wallyworld, and found out what section she worked at, then, while looking directly at her, all would deliberately trash the entire area, and then ban her from the coffee place. Or report her to wallworld corporate as not projecting a good impression of the chain while in uniform, which would get her at least a reprimand. Then still ban her.
Story 11: not in a restaurant but a supermarket, but we had that happen! Customer was a serial waffledong to everyone over everything. Didn't know who he was? (like, for example, you started the previous day and hadn't memorised the regulars yet?), angry looks, sarcastic comments, pointing to his hat (also about 30% of our customers wore stuff advertising various cafes and the like. Less than 5% of those people worked at the places in question.). Offer boxes as you were instructed to in training the previous day? Get an expression like you'd offered to befoul his groceries before he growled "bags". Have the same thing repeat a week later because you're still new? The a week when you're helping a colleague when he comes in... they weigh two similar but usually different items (think washed potatoes vs earth potatoes). They usually cost different amounts even though they're so similar, since one has more time into it. But "don't you know they cost the same today?! You should know that because *I* put them in the same produce bag". He spent about five minutes yelling at her because his receipt was one line longer and "didn't we know he had to store those for 7 years?!". Nevermind that we were trained to weigh these things separately for stock control. When he finally sold off the business that meant he frequented our store, the whole place celebrated. He was so disliked that even the parking attendants, who were fairly casual about letting people jump into certain spaces if they knew they weren't restaurants (but also knew they would be quick, and/or the rest of those spots were open). Nope. they saw him coming and would send him to the casual lot. I learnt he asked about job openings while I was away on a month of holiday. I never saw him again even though he had still been coming in every week or so as a casual customer.
Story8 : That guy in Story 8 is the absolute worst! I can’t believe he thought it was okay to treat someone like that. No meal is worth that level of disrespect. Seriously, how do people lose all sense of decency in public?
The number of these customers who are Christian (particularly church leaders) is horrifying! As a strong Christian myself, I can say that this is the OPPOSITE of how our religion teaches us to act. The fact that so many church leaders and members do things like this really puts a bad mark on Christianity when really they’re just being bad Christians…
Can't believe you would act entitled just cause you're being served at a restaurant. Like chill Greg, you're a customer at Applebees, not the king of Britian.
I was a gas station worker alone during the day. Covid was going on and we had to make coffee drinks for customers on request and there were signs on the machines stating this. I have more than a dozen people in the stores line and a guy wants a coffee and i said " really?". I make him the coffee and go on with my day and i see he made a 1star review for our station lol
Couple years ago at my first job at Cracker Barrel I worked as a server and most of the time I dealt with pretty difficult people, like most servers, but this one couple made me almost walk out one night. Little context I used to wear this big heart pin on my apron with the trans pride colors and most people would bring it up asking if it's for me or if I was just showing pride when it was June. I would always tell them that it was for myself. Well this one night I was going about my usual business of tending to customers when I got this one couple. It started off pretty normal until it was time to give them their check. When I went to their table to drop it off they had asked me about the pin asking what it meant and if it was for me or for a friend. At first I thought it was going to go the usual way of me saying that the pin is for myself and that I like to be prideful everyday. But no this couple decided to try and get all religious and trying to say "It's just Satan trying to corrupt you!" or something along those lines. They practically kept me at their table as they went on a whole tirade trying to convince me to not be trans. As soon as they got up to leave, after "praying" for me, I went back towards the kitchen shaking in anger and just waited for them to actually leave to start my cleaning duties as I really wanted to just walk out.
I was a busser for a Red Lobster location, and there was this server who clearly LIED on her application. She had no server experience, got very stressed and was horrible is stressful situations.
I went on a date recently and when she showed up i could tell she'd already been drinking but meh, not a total deal breaker. The deal breaker was when she got even more drunk and started to be super rude to our server. Im BOH for life but ill always stick up for my FOH ppl. I found our server and apologized profusely, made sure my date had a ride home, tipped our server like 40%, and got the hell outta there. Bullet dodged!
Story 3: I think it was less about the server and more about the "customer trying to get free stuff from the restaurant. Back when I served in a restaurant, if a customer complained about a bad experience, the manager could comp the food and give vouchers for their next visit.
The Elton John story is literally just funny copypasta lol 😅 it's been posted around for AGES with names changing every time, it's kinda pretty obvious from the wording also why didn't you finish reading it
If you are like one of the customers described in any of these stories, DO NOT come to my restaurant for any reason. As the AGM, I very firmly believe that the customer is NOT always right. If you come in and act a fool, I'll have you removed by the necessary authorities and will press any and all charges I can possibly shoot for as hard as I possibly can. I'll pay for any attorney or court fees out of my own paycheck. You will not treat my employees this way, ever. If we've made a mistake or something was forgotten, or something isn't what you expected or you just don't like it as much as you thought you would, that's absolutely fine, we'll make it right for you without judgement from us at all. Provided you approach us in the correct manner, and talk with us as if we were human beings too, just like you. If you aren't satisfied with something, we WILL make it right. If you are going to act like an entitled child you'll get NOTHING but a new shiny pair of connected bracelets courtesy of Buffalo's finest.
“Shiny pair of connected bracelets” 😂 I heard a LEO tell a kid at my old job (high school world geography teacher) that one day when he jokingly asked if he could touch the officer’s firearm LOL
I was a server a looooooong time ago. One time I had a customer that was speaking kinda quietly (in a loud restaurant), so I asked him to repeat what he said, this was at the very beginning when they just came in. From that point on, he yelled everything he was saying to me. Yelled so loud, everyone in the restaurant could hear. He was with a wife and kids and when they were leaving the wife came up to apologize to me.
I'm just waiting to hear a story about my dad on these.. He's not a boomer, but sure acts like one. He was BRAGGING to me the other day that he yelled at the people at a fast food joint because they got something wrong or "they were trying to make me overpay" or something to that degree. I keep telling him to go to therapy, but he won't because "that's weak" I feel so bad for all the people he's terrorized... I'm surprised he's not banned from anywhere yet. Or maybe he is and I don't know.
This happened about 20- 25 years ago. I was delivering pizza for Pizza Hut at the time and I was very noticeably pregnant I was about 8 months at the time. A party of people ordered almost $500 worth of food. Which made me have to waddle back and forth to the car three times. (That's fine I wasn't expecting anybody to help me) but the lady was an absolute b*tch to me. Called me a stupid cow because she thought that I could bring everything in in one shot. I looked her dead in the eye and I said are you kidding? I'm pregnant. She says that's no excuse, then hands me a $2 tip! I was fuming
I worked at an opticians and the higher ups made us do our last eye test 15 mins before closing, it takes more then 15 mins to help someone buy glasses so we never went home on time......
As someone who works in a restaurant, no we don't agree with tips either but the manager doesn't pay you more if you don't get tipped. A lot of these waiters and waitresses are making 3-5$ an hour, if you don't tip them they simply can't pay their bills and have to work 2 extra jobs. Until we get rid of tipping culture the only person you're hurting is the waiters.
Story 72 The lady who followed the workers around was probably super lonely. The workers were probably the only interactions she got with adults/other people. When I worked call centers we'd get people like that all the time calling in and just talking.
If I was wait staff for someone who never tipped, I'd act as obnoxious as possible, just to spite them. And if they asked me why I was, I'd simply reply," what's the point of acting nice? You don't tip me anyway."
1:59:25 That's not racist. You work in a restaurant. "The help" refers to your job, not your race, and is perfectly accurate and applicable to the situation, if a bit old-timey in phrasing. Pretty clear that the only racist in that story is the server him/herself.
100% It sounded like basically asking if anyone had dietary restrictions.. when they ask if I want whipped cream on my Italian soda they don't charge more when I say yes.
I think for story 55 just shows you that famous people are just people. They're good, bad, or ok. There's also a factor they could've been having a bad day and that's day you're meeting them. They maybe rude just because of their mood. I am not saying that this celebrity wasn't being rude in this story. But I am not gonna judge someone over one bad interactions somebody had with them.
It's literally a 10 year old copypasta, my brother in christ it's so obvious that it's a joke. Electrical interference? Kept yawning and winking at me? Like bro. How easy are you to trick, it's literally purposefully written to be funny, it's so obvious 😭😭 you really believed it? It's been posted about Limmy, about Nicholas Cage, about idk Obama like bruh
1:16:09 this is a well known celebrity copy pasta. Though usually it takes place at a pharmacy, grocery store or super market. I first heard this with Nicolas Cage. It's fake.
People suck especially 16year Olds who think they can do whatever. Was working at taco hell... and kid threw a drink at me for no reason. It was a bad night and tried to pull the kid through the drive threw window well kid and mom came back I told her what happened and she turned and started beating the teen in the store yelling I taught you better and beat him all the way out of the store after mom apologized to me.
I work as a busser in a restaurant, and it's so sad the amount of teenagers that will order like 80 dollars of food, leave MAYBE 60 on the table and leave making the waiter have to pay the difference out of their pocket plus no tips on half the tables.
some wholesome story.. not a worker obviously but i was homeless when i was in my teens and would often use mcdonalds in the winter to get through the night. i'd usually take the scraps but occasionally when a certain person was working they'd give me a meal of whatever was leftover in the kitchen :') i think it got them in trouble tho.. i dunno. i kinda wish i knew where they were now so i could thank them.
I genuinely dont understand people who act this rude. Its free to have a nice attitude. Yeah maybe somthing pissed you off that day. Maybe youre just having an off day. That doesnt excuse you taking your anger and frustration out on an innocent person. If you cant do that then stay home and cook and serve your own food. The most messed up part is these same people would be so upset if someone treated them the way they treat other 😂. Oh the irony of it all makes me hate people.
It's so nice to have a story that's just hilarious nonsense and totally unique among all the mean and stüpid people with chimpanzee manners. Like, I feel like I'll never be the same after hearing the bunny story. I know that one's true because it's much too ridiculous to make up!
13:27 this may seem like bigotry, but you have to realize older people are more prone to thinking that way because that’s the way they grew up I understand in today’s world that it’s not it’s looked at, and it’s frowned upon. I live in Virginia and there are a lot of older couples and older people that still think like that I’m not standing up for them, though it may sound like that.
number 47 i can sorta relate to the poor guy not knowing Spanish despite being Mexican but for me its Finnish for you see when my great grandfather migrated his family to America from Finland in the early 20th century, he was like well we are Americans now and so we must only speak English and because of that my dad and his brothers where raised only speaking English no clue if there dad spoke Finnish because he was just a boy when he came to the states, because he only spoke English around us but yeah I don;t know the language or the culture and is wanting to learn but not sure where to start
1:58:52 Do I just not know what 'help' means but how is that racist..? It might be classist but not all restaurant workers are black so.. even if your particular establishments are.. I don't get it.
I know it's a cultural difference but hearing the way Americans get vexed about low tips sounds entitled to me. I do know that a lot of employers don't pay a full wage and that's why they get tips. Doesn't change how it sounds to me thoigh
As someone who works in a restaurant in the USA, we hate it just as much as you there's no reason the employer can't pay them a full wage, but idk if you realize how low it actually is. Most waiters and waitresses make 3-5$ an hour. If you don't tip them which most people don't, that's 120-200 dollars a week full time. That's why most of them work 2-3 jobs. If you're in the US and can't tip when eating out, get fast food. Even 10% is better than nothing.
This is very tangential but I really dislike when people go gluten-free just because it's trendy or the latest fad diet or whatever. First of all, you're denying yourself good food and possibly contributing to an unhealthy relationship with food. (I've been there. It might not feel like a big deal, but eating disorders can really sneak up on you.) And, secondly, the trendiness of gluten-free diets actually can make things worse for folks with celiac or a gluten allergy. Before it was a trend, gluten-free foods were usually made with those sensitivities in mind, so care was taken to avoid cross-contamination and trace amounts. But once it got trendy, the market was flooded with products taking advantage of the trend, which often are made on the same equipment that makes the gluten versions, risking cross-contamination.
Idk if you realize dude, but most waiters and waitresses make 3-5$ an hour, if you can't tip don't eat out they rely on tips to pay the bills and for daycare etc. as someone who works in a restaurant, yes we all think they should just pay waiters and waitresses a full paycheck, but by not tipping the only person you're screwing over is the waiter/waitress. On a 40 hour work week, if they make no tips thats 120-200 dollars a week. That is not doable and why most of them work 2-3 jobs.
37:37 that was a racist thing to say. Image if someone stereo typed a black neighborhood like you did to a white neighborhood. I know your just reading the comments you see but talk about double standard.
No it's not ridiculous, I don't think you've worked in a restaurant. As someone who works in a restaurant we completely agree with you, they absolutely can pay a full wage, but they will not ever give it to you. They make THREE TO FIVE dollars an hour, if you don't tip they can't pay their bills. If you can't tip the only person you hurt is your waiter because the restaurant makes money from your food. If you can't tip them get fast food, or petition the government to make it a law to not have to tip. No one likes tips we don't make the rules.
I was a waitress once, not a good one. I tried my best, but undiagnosed ADHD and bipolar made it really hard. But I remember one older guy who had $15-20 bill asked me what my biggest tip was, I told him it was $50 on an engagement party table, he tipped $51 on a $15-20 bill. I think he could tell I wanted nothing more than to make people smile. I also wore cheap colored clip in extensions and I'd give them to little girls who loved my green and pink hair. I loved that job, but had a mental breakdown and had to go into a day treatment at the mental hospital. I feel bad that I had to quit suddenly, but they were so nice about it. that Chili's was such a good environment, kind bosses, fun coworkers, I wish I could have maintained my mental health, because that was some happy memories
Just to add I had two attempts while I worked there, I'm lucky I didn't lose use of my hand after cutting to the bone. I know that it's my fault, I am my own responsibility, and I'm an adult. But I loved being a waitress, especially acting like I don't understand rudeness and meeting it with a smile. IDK I grew up in a bad environment, so being okay during cruelty is easy enough.
Hope you're doing well ❤❤
-hugs- i FEEL for you. I have adhd and bipolar too. It's like running life on hard mode. Lucky/unlucky, i got ptsd too and so i now get disability and stay home. I still work but i get to say 'f you' if people are nasty to me because my job is to occupy my time not to make a living
I wasn't diagnosed with bipolar, ADHD, and ASD until I was 37 years old. I ran around undiagnosed and unmedicated for over three decades of my life, almost four. I'm sure I've been a massive jerk to people back then, but I try not to beat myself up over it too much. However, getting my diagnoses sure answered a ton of questions I had about why I was the way I was.
Hey friend, i hope life is treating you well nowadays at least, and that you cherish those fun memories you made in the industry! Just wanted to say that I can tell you were a good server by this entire comment. All a "good" server is, is someone who does the job with love. I hope if you have the chance to serve in a good restaurant again when you're in a good place (whenever that is trust me i know the feeling) that you take the opportunity. Take care friend, i know it's not our circus but our monkeys really do get in the way some days don't they?
People, for the love of fucking god. Your servers are human beings with feelings and lives of their own. In America, they live only on the money you give them, they don't make minimum wage like other workers. Please, again, for the love of god, treat them well!
Story 9, the priest that dined and dashed but came back with a lot of people. If I were the manager, I would have sat them, served them as usual and at the same time called the cops for the previous incident. And after that banned him. It would have made the point all the more clear.
Show the cops the security footage, & all the people in the priest's group.
@@annika5893 nooooo, confront him in front of everyone. Politely of course, but bring a copy of the receipt and tell him you’re more than happy to add it onto his current tab, but make it very obvious that he owes the restaurant money, and give him the opportunity to make it right.
My mom was always a nightmare to go to restaurants with. She'd find anything to complain about. It was so embarrassing. I really don't know how my dad managed to stay married to her for as long as he did. They're finally divorced and I don't speak to her. Anyway, b/c of her and me just generally wanting to be a decent person, I treat people with kindness when I'm out. If I notice a restaurant closes soon I always ask if it's ok to come in and order. I'll get it to go if I have to. I'll tip more sometimes too. I tip well in general. I've never been a server, but I've worked retail and other customer service jobs. People can be so awful so I try not to be.
same, but with my grandma! She’ll talk like “oh black people are always so nice to me for some reason” like….grandma, you’re a rich white lady. She does this at family lunches at restaurants with my other grandpa right at the table and after the POC waitress leaves. (My grandpa’s a Mexican man)
I used to work at a Turkish bakery and I am not Turkish nor do I speak the language
Only reason why I worked there is cause they were the only ones that took me in and alot of customers were English speakers so I took care of them
One day the bakery was packed I attended this woman that started to speak Turkish and I was like “oh I’m sorry ma’am but I don’t speak Turkish” she immediately started to throw a whole fit she started speaking English screaming “if you’re not Turkish why are you working here” and just having a tantrum
I was already having a bad day and I was in the urge of tears
I just ran to my Turkish coworker to take care of the lady and I’ll take care of the customer she was serving
The new customer was so sweet she saw the whole thing happen with the other lady and she told me “are you ok? Don’t worry you’re doing a great job” she was so nice and was the little highlight of my awful day
about a month ago my manager who is a sweet old 60-ish lady was dealing with a customer, I did not hear what started it but my manager was telling the customer "you're really being a prick" and the customer responded "I don't fucking care", so I as a 6 and a half foot tall giant with a baritone voice puffed out my chest, threw my voice as deep as I can, and said in a loud and firm voice: "It would be in your best interest to shut up there and take the service provided before we have to remove you from the store", man looked like a deer in headlights, shut up and finished his order, I refused to take him at my register because I see how he treats servers
Ooh. People who don't leave after closing piss me off. I worked at a brewery a few years back, and it was a Tuesday night. We closed at 10, but would let people finish their meals/drinks etc. It was 11:30 and a group of dudes were still in the beer garden, smoking. They bought heaps of booze just before closing. I asked them to please finish their drinks and leave because I had to clean up and go home. They laughed and said "It's our Friday night!" I said "That's great for you, but it's actually Tuesday night, I've been here for 12 hours and I want to go home"
They just stared at me.
Worst part was there was a pub about a 10 minute walk down the road that was still open where they could have continued their party. Fucking jerks.
I work at a grocery store, not a restaurant, but I think my customer from hell story still fits.
context: whenever someone doesn't want the extra couple of coins in their change when they pay with cash, we put those coins on the register next to the card scanner just in case someone ever comes up a couple cents short.
actual story: there's this one customer who always comes in, and he works at another nearby store. what he does is he buys something cheap like a single jug of water, and then gives the cashier a couple of bottle deposit slips (which give you money if you recycle bottles and cans). this already pretty much cuts the price in half, and on top of that, he'll want to pay cash
where this gets interesting is that when he pays cash, he starts by grabbing every last one of the coins I mentioned earlier (which are for people in need), and then pays for the rest with change of his own (which means he's effectively paying with nothing but change, and is also technically stealing from poor people). this man is literally more stingy than Mr. Krabs
if this wasn't bad enough already, he's also extremely creepy to my female colleagues, to the point where they've said they want to run and hide in the break room whenever he shows up. a couple weeks ago, he even asked one of them (who is 16 or 17) if she was married (and this dude is probably in his mid 30s)
this dude comes in almost every day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, and it's at the point where next time he harasses an employee, he's getting banned from the store.
Story 16: Pho is pronounced like the first few letters of the word fun, not foe. There's a restaurant near where a friend of mine lives called Pho King Good if you want a clear example of how to pronounce it.
So we've been pronouncing it wrong this whole time?
Best name for a pho restaurant
Basically just say half of the F word
I always thought that youtubers just played up the idea that they were gonna get comments about how they mispronounced something. But here you are
"Pho king good"
I waitressed before I became a nurse. I think it helped me in dealing with people. Some patients can be really difficult. But their families are much worse. I knew they were feeling helpless that their relatives were so ill and it help me tolerate the abuse!
Story 8 is insane- spitting food at someone is assault…. That man should have been 86’d and had the police called on him…..
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narrator fell for the elton john story lmao. its a copypasta.
Good of you to write that because I did too :D
Oh thank god, I thought it was real too. I love his music.
Elton John is a notorious douchebag
A party of 40 without reserving a banquet room? There must be a word more apt than dopes.
You guys should make a podcast!!
No.
F off with this idea.
Why would you suggest that...
@@pequenaesposa3286 cause we need one
stupid idra
The Perkins story about the two ladies not leaving. I would explicitly state to them if they don't order before 10 minutes is up (because I already told you multiple times the kitchen will be closed) I will be choosing their desserts. And since the manager approved it and I already had a ride, NOPE! I'm outtie 5000, you stay 2 hours and chit chat with your gal pals as you clean. Hell to the no.
Oh no, Jeff Smith. I remember when he would have Elmo on his show. It was pretty funny watching him get angry with a puppet.
Omgerd... The first story basically happened to my family and at Red Lobster on my birthday. Lol old lady came up to the table and basically said because we were all adults and they had a baby in their group they needed us to hurry up. The manager threatened to kick her out but not before my Aunt looks this broad in the face and says. "It's my Nephew's 25th birthday and if you wanna enjoy your next one I would suggest minding your business". She can be a savage sometimes, that was 7 years ago. Good times. 🤣🤣
1:17:10 Dude, it's a copypasta. It didn't happen.
The pizza phone story (#32) - what customers should know, the place keeps notes on you so if you're crazy they're going to put that in your profile. Anywho, some people love ordering via phone, though.
No 48 would have gotten all the coffee shop employees to go to the wallyworld, and found out what section she worked at, then, while looking directly at her, all would deliberately trash the entire area, and then ban her from the coffee place. Or report her to wallworld corporate as not projecting a good impression of the chain while in uniform, which would get her at least a reprimand. Then still ban her.
Story 11: not in a restaurant but a supermarket, but we had that happen! Customer was a serial waffledong to everyone over everything. Didn't know who he was? (like, for example, you started the previous day and hadn't memorised the regulars yet?), angry looks, sarcastic comments, pointing to his hat (also about 30% of our customers wore stuff advertising various cafes and the like. Less than 5% of those people worked at the places in question.). Offer boxes as you were instructed to in training the previous day? Get an expression like you'd offered to befoul his groceries before he growled "bags". Have the same thing repeat a week later because you're still new?
The a week when you're helping a colleague when he comes in... they weigh two similar but usually different items (think washed potatoes vs earth potatoes). They usually cost different amounts even though they're so similar, since one has more time into it. But "don't you know they cost the same today?! You should know that because *I* put them in the same produce bag". He spent about five minutes yelling at her because his receipt was one line longer and "didn't we know he had to store those for 7 years?!". Nevermind that we were trained to weigh these things separately for stock control.
When he finally sold off the business that meant he frequented our store, the whole place celebrated. He was so disliked that even the parking attendants, who were fairly casual about letting people jump into certain spaces if they knew they weren't restaurants (but also knew they would be quick, and/or the rest of those spots were open). Nope. they saw him coming and would send him to the casual lot.
I learnt he asked about job openings while I was away on a month of holiday. I never saw him again even though he had still been coming in every week or so as a casual customer.
Story8 : That guy in Story 8 is the absolute worst! I can’t believe he thought it was okay to treat someone like that. No meal is worth that level of disrespect. Seriously, how do people lose all sense of decency in public?
I am so so sorry for what you guys have to go through I wish you all the best
I literally NEED this on Spotify
The number of these customers who are Christian (particularly church leaders) is horrifying! As a strong Christian myself, I can say that this is the OPPOSITE of how our religion teaches us to act. The fact that so many church leaders and members do things like this really puts a bad mark on Christianity when really they’re just being bad Christians…
Can't believe you would act entitled just cause you're being served at a restaurant. Like chill Greg, you're a customer at Applebees, not the king of Britian.
I was a gas station worker alone during the day. Covid was going on and we had to make coffee drinks for customers on request and there were signs on the machines stating this. I have more than a dozen people in the stores line and a guy wants a coffee and i said " really?". I make him the coffee and go on with my day and i see he made a 1star review for our station lol
Gotta love the manager who blamed OP for the parents not parenting
Couple years ago at my first job at Cracker Barrel I worked as a server and most of the time I dealt with pretty difficult people, like most servers, but this one couple made me almost walk out one night. Little context I used to wear this big heart pin on my apron with the trans pride colors and most people would bring it up asking if it's for me or if I was just showing pride when it was June. I would always tell them that it was for myself. Well this one night I was going about my usual business of tending to customers when I got this one couple. It started off pretty normal until it was time to give them their check. When I went to their table to drop it off they had asked me about the pin asking what it meant and if it was for me or for a friend. At first I thought it was going to go the usual way of me saying that the pin is for myself and that I like to be prideful everyday. But no this couple decided to try and get all religious and trying to say "It's just Satan trying to corrupt you!" or something along those lines. They practically kept me at their table as they went on a whole tirade trying to convince me to not be trans. As soon as they got up to leave, after "praying" for me, I went back towards the kitchen shaking in anger and just waited for them to actually leave to start my cleaning duties as I really wanted to just walk out.
If Elton John treated me like shit, I'd just hit him with "Hey, watch me do an impression of your dad" and walk away
That one was a copypasta. First I read it, it was Bill Murray in a grocery store in New York.
I was a busser for a Red Lobster location, and there was this server who clearly LIED on her application. She had no server experience, got very stressed and was horrible is stressful situations.
I went on a date recently and when she showed up i could tell she'd already been drinking but meh, not a total deal breaker. The deal breaker was when she got even more drunk and started to be super rude to our server. Im BOH for life but ill always stick up for my FOH ppl. I found our server and apologized profusely, made sure my date had a ride home, tipped our server like 40%, and got the hell outta there. Bullet dodged!
Story 3: I think it was less about the server and more about the "customer trying to get free stuff from the restaurant. Back when I served in a restaurant, if a customer complained about a bad experience, the manager could comp the food and give vouchers for their next visit.
16:31 just so you know Mr Narrator, pho is pronounced "fuh"! I didn't know until recently either
The Elton John story is literally just funny copypasta lol 😅 it's been posted around for AGES with names changing every time, it's kinda pretty obvious from the wording also why didn't you finish reading it
There is a cafe in Manchester UK, where the food is meant to be but the servers are rude , it is a gimmick as the servers are acting.
there was a location in brighton not gonna mention the restaurant but got shut down because they found cocaine in the toilet
u guys should consider making a podcast on spotify, keep up the good work ^w^
If you are like one of the customers described in any of these stories, DO NOT come to my restaurant for any reason. As the AGM, I very firmly believe that the customer is NOT always right. If you come in and act a fool, I'll have you removed by the necessary authorities and will press any and all charges I can possibly shoot for as hard as I possibly can. I'll pay for any attorney or court fees out of my own paycheck. You will not treat my employees this way, ever. If we've made a mistake or something was forgotten, or something isn't what you expected or you just don't like it as much as you thought you would, that's absolutely fine, we'll make it right for you without judgement from us at all. Provided you approach us in the correct manner, and talk with us as if we were human beings too, just like you. If you aren't satisfied with something, we WILL make it right. If you are going to act like an entitled child you'll get NOTHING but a new shiny pair of connected bracelets courtesy of Buffalo's finest.
“Shiny pair of connected bracelets” 😂 I heard a LEO tell a kid at my old job (high school world geography teacher) that one day when he jokingly asked if he could touch the officer’s firearm LOL
I was a server a looooooong time ago. One time I had a customer that was speaking kinda quietly (in a loud restaurant), so I asked him to repeat what he said, this was at the very beginning when they just came in. From that point on, he yelled everything he was saying to me. Yelled so loud, everyone in the restaurant could hear. He was with a wife and kids and when they were leaving the wife came up to apologize to me.
I'm just waiting to hear a story about my dad on these.. He's not a boomer, but sure acts like one. He was BRAGGING to me the other day that he yelled at the people at a fast food joint because they got something wrong or "they were trying to make me overpay" or something to that degree. I keep telling him to go to therapy, but he won't because "that's weak" I feel so bad for all the people he's terrorized... I'm surprised he's not banned from anywhere yet. Or maybe he is and I don't know.
1:17:30
Brother, that's a copypasta. It didn't happen. Nice speech though- too bad you took the bait.
This happened about 20- 25 years ago. I was delivering pizza for Pizza Hut at the time and I was very noticeably pregnant I was about 8 months at the time. A party of people ordered almost $500 worth of food. Which made me have to waddle back and forth to the car three times. (That's fine I wasn't expecting anybody to help me) but the lady was an absolute b*tch to me. Called me a stupid cow because she thought that I could bring everything in in one shot. I looked her dead in the eye and I said are you kidding? I'm pregnant. She says that's no excuse, then hands me a $2 tip! I was fuming
I broke up with a guy for insisting on making the waitstaff stay past closing time and THEN leaving a skimpy tip. Rude is rude, Dude!
Next time you wonder why no one wants to work in customer service and your burger is taking so long, think about these stories...
"Levitating top chop" 😂
I'd love to see other similar-format reddit reads from this channel, like Tales from Tech Support and other similar subs
Pov: Why I'm about to stay up to 12 am
I worked at an opticians and the higher ups made us do our last eye test 15 mins before closing, it takes more then 15 mins to help someone buy glasses so we never went home on time......
Tips are appreciated but shouldn't be forced.
yes, so true
So screw over the employees
You should tip well, especially in the USA where a tip decides whether they can pay for rent and their one meal a day.
As someone who works in a restaurant, no we don't agree with tips either but the manager doesn't pay you more if you don't get tipped. A lot of these waiters and waitresses are making 3-5$ an hour, if you don't tip them they simply can't pay their bills and have to work 2 extra jobs. Until we get rid of tipping culture the only person you're hurting is the waiters.
@@EvanToler I don't want to sound harsh but why not find another job if people rely on tips from strangers?
Ps, rare stake is supposed to be cool in the center
Story 72 The lady who followed the workers around was probably super lonely. The workers were probably the only interactions she got with adults/other people. When I worked call centers we'd get people like that all the time calling in and just talking.
If I was wait staff for someone who never tipped, I'd act as obnoxious as possible, just to spite them. And if they asked me why I was, I'd simply reply," what's the point of acting nice? You don't tip me anyway."
1:59:25 That's not racist. You work in a restaurant. "The help" refers to your job, not your race, and is perfectly accurate and applicable to the situation, if a bit old-timey in phrasing. Pretty clear that the only racist in that story is the server him/herself.
Are you guys sure you didn't already upload this one?
Tips are appreciated in Australia.
Early to my beautiful kings post 🙏🙏
For story 3 holding up 2 fingers can mean f*ck you in some places. She probably mistook you for someone else anf that was the final straw
Story 68 1:35:27 OP is totally in the wrong here. They phrased it like it was free, like choosing what salad dressing you want.
100% It sounded like basically asking if anyone had dietary restrictions.. when they ask if I want whipped cream on my Italian soda they don't charge more when I say yes.
Hardly from hell, but the worst customer I ever had left no tip and then backed into my car leaving the restaurant.
Did you get their info?
Was it on purpose or were they just a shit driver
People. For obvious reasons, don’t be rude to the person who will be alone with your food.
I think for story 55 just shows you that famous people are just people. They're good, bad, or ok. There's also a factor they could've been having a bad day and that's day you're meeting them. They maybe rude just because of their mood. I am not saying that this celebrity wasn't being rude in this story. But I am not gonna judge someone over one bad interactions somebody had with them.
It's literally a 10 year old copypasta, my brother in christ it's so obvious that it's a joke. Electrical interference? Kept yawning and winking at me? Like bro. How easy are you to trick, it's literally purposefully written to be funny, it's so obvious 😭😭 you really believed it? It's been posted about Limmy, about Nicholas Cage, about idk Obama like bruh
1:16:09 this is a well known celebrity copy pasta. Though usually it takes place at a pharmacy, grocery store or super market. I first heard this with Nicolas Cage. It's fake.
People suck especially 16year Olds who think they can do whatever. Was working at taco hell... and kid threw a drink at me for no reason. It was a bad night and tried to pull the kid through the drive threw window well kid and mom came back I told her what happened and she turned and started beating the teen in the store yelling I taught you better and beat him all the way out of the store after mom apologized to me.
I work as a busser in a restaurant, and it's so sad the amount of teenagers that will order like 80 dollars of food, leave MAYBE 60 on the table and leave making the waiter have to pay the difference out of their pocket plus no tips on half the tables.
What is the game in the background? It looks so distinctly familiar but i cant place the name
Battle block theater
oh no, narrator fell for the copypasta
some wholesome story.. not a worker obviously but i was homeless when i was in my teens and would often use mcdonalds in the winter to get through the night. i'd usually take the scraps but occasionally when a certain person was working they'd give me a meal of whatever was leftover in the kitchen :') i think it got them in trouble tho.. i dunno. i kinda wish i knew where they were now so i could thank them.
I genuinely dont understand people who act this rude. Its free to have a nice attitude. Yeah maybe somthing pissed you off that day. Maybe youre just having an off day. That doesnt excuse you taking your anger and frustration out on an innocent person. If you cant do that then stay home and cook and serve your own food. The most messed up part is these same people would be so upset if someone treated them the way they treat other 😂. Oh the irony of it all makes me hate people.
It's so nice to have a story that's just hilarious nonsense and totally unique among all the mean and stüpid people with chimpanzee manners. Like, I feel like I'll never be the same after hearing the bunny story. I know that one's true because it's much too ridiculous to make up!
why would tomato sauce have mushrooms
13:27 this may seem like bigotry, but you have to realize older people are more prone to thinking that way because that’s the way they grew up I understand in today’s world that it’s not it’s looked at, and it’s frowned upon. I live in Virginia and there are a lot of older couples and older people that still think like that I’m not standing up for them, though it may sound like that.
Battle block Theater what a game that was lol
reusing background footage :(
can you bring the yellow guy back we don’t like the green one
not going after him it would not be considered as self defence just get the police 19:51
number 47 i can sorta relate to the poor guy not knowing Spanish despite being Mexican but for me its Finnish for you see when my great grandfather migrated his family to America from Finland in the early 20th century, he was like well we are Americans now and so we must only speak English and because of that my dad and his brothers where raised only speaking English no clue if there dad spoke Finnish because he was just a boy when he came to the states, because he only spoke English around us
but yeah I don;t know the language or the culture and is wanting to learn but not sure where to start
1:58:52 Do I just not know what 'help' means but how is that racist..? It might be classist but not all restaurant workers are black so.. even if your particular establishments are.. I don't get it.
Ok nvm apparently in ye olden times it had racial connotations.. 🤷♀🤷♀
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I know it's a cultural difference but hearing the way Americans get vexed about low tips sounds entitled to me. I do know that a lot of employers don't pay a full wage and that's why they get tips. Doesn't change how it sounds to me thoigh
As someone who works in a restaurant in the USA, we hate it just as much as you there's no reason the employer can't pay them a full wage, but idk if you realize how low it actually is. Most waiters and waitresses make 3-5$ an hour. If you don't tip them which most people don't, that's 120-200 dollars a week full time. That's why most of them work 2-3 jobs. If you're in the US and can't tip when eating out, get fast food. Even 10% is better than nothing.
Yes but the other narrator
This is very tangential but I really dislike when people go gluten-free just because it's trendy or the latest fad diet or whatever. First of all, you're denying yourself good food and possibly contributing to an unhealthy relationship with food. (I've been there. It might not feel like a big deal, but eating disorders can really sneak up on you.) And, secondly, the trendiness of gluten-free diets actually can make things worse for folks with celiac or a gluten allergy. Before it was a trend, gluten-free foods were usually made with those sensitivities in mind, so care was taken to avoid cross-contamination and trace amounts. But once it got trendy, the market was flooded with products taking advantage of the trend, which often are made on the same equipment that makes the gluten versions, risking cross-contamination.
ngl its craz that ppl complain about no tip in some of these posts
Idk if you realize dude, but most waiters and waitresses make 3-5$ an hour, if you can't tip don't eat out they rely on tips to pay the bills and for daycare etc. as someone who works in a restaurant, yes we all think they should just pay waiters and waitresses a full paycheck, but by not tipping the only person you're screwing over is the waiter/waitress. On a 40 hour work week, if they make no tips thats 120-200 dollars a week. That is not doable and why most of them work 2-3 jobs.
@@EvanToler ye buddy but my food says it costs 30$ and it stays 30$
@@GREENDIET2137 a 20% tip on that is 6 dollars, if you arnt willing to pay 6$ so someone can pay their bills you're just an ass
@@GREENDIET2137 then order for pick up or go get fast food. The tip is for the service they provide.
@@EvanToler20%???? Are you insane? 1 euro per 10 euros order is the standard. Wtf.
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thats a health code violation 55:51
this video coaught my intrest because i thought i would be mentioned as a customer that happen some time ago
37:37 that was a racist thing to say. Image if someone stereo typed a black neighborhood like you did to a white neighborhood. I know your just reading the comments you see but talk about double standard.
It was a description, not even racist
@@joshuaguenin9507 Again just change the race and see how not ok it'll become to say. Racism is racism no matter the race.
@@crtcrt7163 just because you think it was racist doesnt mean it was
@@joshuaguenin9507 If it was referring to Africans Americans would you still be saying that?
@@crtcrt7163 yes, because its describing the makeup the neighborhood. Again, because you find a problem doesnt mean there is a problem
would volunteer work count for this
I’m blocking this content creator. Too many dang adverts.
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you are technically american tho Canada is in american 48:49 so is mexico and the us
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Waiters complaining about not getting tipped enough is ridiculous. Tell your boss to pay you more.
No it's not ridiculous, I don't think you've worked in a restaurant. As someone who works in a restaurant we completely agree with you, they absolutely can pay a full wage, but they will not ever give it to you. They make THREE TO FIVE dollars an hour, if you don't tip they can't pay their bills. If you can't tip the only person you hurt is your waiter because the restaurant makes money from your food. If you can't tip them get fast food, or petition the government to make it a law to not have to tip. No one likes tips we don't make the rules.
If as a waiter you asked for a full wage they'd laugh at you and fire you.
@@EvanToler so why are waiters paid normal wage in countries with high standard of living?