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Topic: It's almost like I have to apologize for people doing their job

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #120,886

Feels wrong getting serviced. Who am I? I'm just a guy with money, making people do stuff for it, might as well be a pimp.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 3 hours later[^] [v] #1,322,672

Not always the employees' fault. We're understaffed at ours so I've recently been telling customers to get back in line, we'll get to them when we're free (usually 8-20 minute wait on something that used to take 2 minutes). My bosses have been scrooge mcducking it with all the money they made during covid, I don't care if we lose customers at this point - cheap bastards are cutting payroll to meet bonus checkpoints. I hear they're gallivanting around Europe again this year so it must be going pretty well for them! Neat!

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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 18 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,676

You're going to businesses that stiff their employees, so the manager has no leverage to tell them to get back to work.

Good service is available, go to a business that pays their employees. If someone is out of line, the manager can threaten to take the money away.

Who cares if the customer is happy when the boss doesn't pay enough for housing and food? I've worked at those jobs in the past, and keeping the job was never a priority.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 57 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,694

@1,322,672 (B)
You make a good point

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,712

Sometimes I see a waiter who is middle aged and wonder where their life went wrong

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 29 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,732

@previous (E)
You get stuck. The pay is a bit better if you stick around a decade or two, and sometimes you get a good tip that saves a bad week.

Anonymous E replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,755

@previous (F)
Like how hard would it be to transition to bartending way better tips and more respectable

boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 10 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,793

could be well off enough already but likes to socialize in a manner where he's busy and get some cash

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 3 hours later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,322,800

@previous (boof)
Fair. I'm not sure what the price point on sanity is but getting a $10K or $20K/year raise if you're miserable might not be worth it.
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