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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
EXACTLY. They won't say "Oh my service must have not been that good tonight." They say "wow what an asshole!" - because of course they never do anything wrong and think they are hot shit.
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I just want to clarify that my working knowledge is 100% bar/club based. I am familiar with how restaurants work but I'm by no means going to assume that I know why things happen as they do.
Servers/waitresses/bartenders/whatever deal with a lot of shit every night.
I was behind a bar for over a year, 7 days a week and some of the customer-horror-stories I have are incredible. Guys coming in and tipping me a quarter for a round of drinks, people coming in daily and not tipping at all, people bitching that we didn't serve pitchers of beer (one guy with about 5 teeth asked "what kind of dump doesn't have pitchers of beer"... this was at a strip club), people bitching that they couldn't taste the booze in their drink no matter how much you put in there, beer is too warm, beer is too cold, ice melted too fast, not enough ice, too much ice, my straw is too short, glass was too small, too much soda, too many bubbles, this isn't XXXX liquor and that's what I asked for even though I watched you pour it, prices are too expensive (we ran $5 you-call-its for almost a year). I could go on.
I know for a fact that it wasn't my "service" as I knew all of the regulars drinks and they were waiting on the bar for them before they even sat down and even with a packed bar I was on everyone when they had about 1/4 left seeing if they wanted more. People are just fucking cheap sometimes.
I've never worked so hard for so little money in my life.