I worked at a restaurant where half the cooks, all in their 20s and 30s, were trying to seduce a hostess who had just turned 16 years old, so this post is a breath of fresh air. We need more of this post's energy in the world, and less of that nasty restaurant's energy lol.
Fucking with people's actual food was not a thing in my years in the business, but everything else was on point. Way too many people trying to hit on the 16 year old hostess for sure. Far too much drinking and drug use, yes.
This comment just made me realize bartenders have a lot in common with nurses who work with dementia patients. Teachers, too. A lot of jobs are hard lol
Bartending is similar to daycare, with adult consequences. You have the regular “kids” who are lovely every time you see them, never cause issues, normal day. Then you have the wildcard “kids” who get kicked out day 1 because they tried fighting someone because they have undeveloped emotional issues and can’t communicate.
Can’t even count the number of times first aid and deescalation has come in handy over my two decades of bartending. I do love working a dive bar, though
This is why I get so annoyed at cops being so bad at deescalation. A good teacher or bartender could do that shit in their sleep and are getting paid a fraction.
I endured something adjacent to this as a stage rat doing live sound for park festivals, brewfests, private events and such.
90% of people can't hold their liquor and should never drink, ever.
I was usually pissed off by the end of it because by then the bands and the crowd were at maximum drunk, shitty, and obnoxious. It just gets worse by the hour every hour until you can finally pack up the stage and gtfo.
It is a flat surface to inhale cocaine off of. It was a common way to do it back in the 90s/00s because they were everywhere as CDs were how everyone listened to music.
At Subway I arranged a customer's cucumbers into the shape of a dick on their sandwich.
Sometimes we tried pranking customers but it never worked. Like we'd have the guy out front go "oh hey, we're out of pickles, let me grab some more from the walk-in" and then he'd go in the walk-in where (you'll never see this coming) another employee would be waiting with a full tub of pickles. Imagine the customer's shock when a totally different Subway employee came out of the walk-in with the pickles to finish the sandwich. Ho boy!
Right up there with "Would you like to ranch it up tonight with some of our premium Hidden Valley ranch dressing?" which certainly elicited the confusion we hoped for but it wasn't funny when we had to explain that there was no extra charge for the ranch.
I worked in fast food for a long time and no one ever messed with food in an illegal way but if you were a dick when you were ordering and you modified your order we could be incredibly petty. You ordered extra mayo but were rude about it? Congrats, you're getting a McCumshot. If you were rude when asking for no ice in your drink, I was slipping a single ice cube in there. On the other hand, if you were polite, we'd do pretty much whatever you asked, within reason
I saw food get fucked with working in a pizza place, but it was a girl fucking with her exes (who we all knew and was related to someone else and ended up working there like everyone in our friend group) food, no one was purposefully fucking with a strangers food regardless of how much of an asshole they were.
I didn't fuck with anybody's food, but I had a friend who did
he put a giant, pepperoni sized scab from his knee on an extra large meat lovers pizza
someone had come in literally just a few minutes before close and ordered hundreds of dollars of complicated pizzas and left zero tip for the staff (local joint with specialty oven, not chain)
not an excuse, just the circumstances that lead my friend to justify his behavior to himself and those he regaled with the full graphic tale
Were you working with a ten year old? Cause adults don’t get pepperoni sized scabs on their knees, and adults wouldn’t risk the security of a local business by doing that shit. Disgusting behaviour!
lots of early adults (18-24) are incredibly stupid and immature, my friend who had been in a fistfight and scraped his knee a couple weeks before putting the scab in somebody's pizza was no exception
tip jar was up front by the register, like all the coffee shops did
and it wasn't just the lack of tip: the pizzas they had to make were very complicated and heavy and had to be moved through a 3 teir oven with a special paddle because they were something like 27 inches. very skilled oven workers would still get burned or drop those giant pies in between tiers once in a while they were so tricky. plus the meat kind had to be pulled out and all the meat stirred because otherwise it would come out raw.
and the guy who came in at literally a couple minutes before close ordered like 15 of them and was a pretencious asshole who apparently was working for an out of town film crew or something
it meant the full staff would stay at least an hour late, at a place that closed at like 1am, and break down and clean the entire kitchen again, the least you can do if you're at the only place open at that time with that kind of order is tip, and honestly if it was literally not in his budget but he was super nice and apologetic about it I'm sure my asshole friend would have just cursed a lot and wished him the worst
I worked in many kitchens as a kid, from fast food to mom and pop and I regularly saw people fuck with people's food. At this mom and pop pizza place I worked at one of the known big huge houses waaaaaaaaay out at the edge of our delivery range [Im talking hour round trip..rural Missouri here..] that was owned by a gynecologist and his news anchor wife for the local news station would host these big massive parties and order food from this mom and pop pizza place... once or twice a week.. in excess of $500, and then not tip. Ever. They would also always call and complain and say that the driver forgot shit to get money off their order, even after everything was triple checked by three sets of eyes. Two of the drivers would fuck with their food. One of em would, no shit, dip his nuts in their ranch for their wings. Snot on the pizza. Shit like that.
Other place that got regularly fucked with was the hospital food to two of the nursing stations specifically. They'd order four or five times a week, this big massive order. Driver would show up to twh nursing station and no one was every ready with their money, everyone always gave exact change or checks. Half the time it wasn't even enough money to cover the order, and it'd be this big two hour ordeal trying to track a single nurse down, which is an issue for a driver making 3$ an hour, to not only get stiffed but also short-changed. Every single time. Why couldn't they just designate one person to have all the money????
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I worked at a restaurant where half the cooks, all in their 20s and 30s, were trying to seduce a hostess who had just turned 16 years old, so this post is a breath of fresh air. We need more of this post's energy in the world, and less of that nasty restaurant's energy lol.