Bottomless cups

I will enlighten you to one of the tables that I had to deal with tonight at work, just because I don't think it's quite fair to let these scumbags off that easy. The table consisted of 2 older couples who at the start proved to be pretentious assholes. When they were seated in my section, my table was the 3rd table that they were seated in. A little bit of musical chairs on a Thursday night! I knew I was in trouble when I approached the table and was completely ignored, HELLO THERE IS A HUMAN BEING STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU! When the did finally bless me with their acknowledgement the reply to my question of "what can I bring for you to drink" was huh?! Oh boy oh boy!

One of the women proceeds to order a glass of white zinfandel, (drink a real glass of wine!) with a slew of limes on the side and a glass of ice + a glass of luke warm tap water with an orange slice. Is she outta her mind? Lady we aren't running a fruit stand! I tell her we don't have oranges but I would be more than happy to put a lemon in her water (all the while gagging on my words) and she looks at me like I have 9 heads. No, she says, I don't like lemon. Fine whatever, I get the round of drinks and prepare myself for what is to come--pure hell!

After they consumed their meals, like any good waitress I asked if they would like desert and/or coffee. Yes we'd all like to have FRESH decaf (like I would possibly serve you old decaf, or perhaps regular in a decaf pot). Just a trick of the trade there folks! As I'm refilling their "fresh decafs" I cannot help but overhear their conversation. They are talking about someone, I'm assuming/hoping it isn't me. "Yes, she is JUST a waitress, she means NOTHING to me, she acts as if she's living in Fox Chapel (a ritzy part of the Burgh). mmmm, I am standing right there! Um hello, waitress here! Just then I happened to find that bottom to your bottomless cups of coffee!

Needless to say they didn't tip me appropriately, bastards! God I cannot wait until I can get the hell out of this business!

Hey folks, TIP your servers and for godsake be nice!

EATING SHIT

Well things didn't go as well as I'd hoped for at work and the situation with the "princess". The problem is that the owner that was addressed (there are 2) favors this woman to begin with so I'm sure he felt threatened that I was beefing with his prize waitress. What a load of crap, I know it sounds petty and childish but it is true.

I get called into the "office" and she is there too. He proceeds to yell at me about questioning her and who do I think I am blah blah blah. I tried to explain that I was merely asking a question but my words fell on deaf ears. She had all morning to defend herself to him so his opinion has already been formed.

What can you do? I hate that I have to eat shit but I gotta do it. I wanted to do nothing more than walk right out the fucking door, but rent is due soon and bills must get paid, so on and so on. I know that I didn't do anything wrong but it's hard to go into a place knowing you are less valuable than others. And yes I was told in those exact words, that I am indeed less valuable than this other waitress. They blame it on the fact that I won't be working for them for the rest of my natural born life, but deep down I know they just don't like me. That's okay cause I really don't like them either. This is just a job. Graduation cannot come soon enough and I'm doing everything in my power to be able to get out of that death trap before my soul is crushed. Wish me luck!

Angel wings

There is a woman that I work with who dislikes me. Without going into the long history of how this came to be, let's just say that we've had differences in opinion. She has not talked to me in about 5 months which makes for an extremely uncomfortable work environment. Last night this woman exploded on me; unjustly I might add.

She had started a side work duty but instead of finishing it she was just going to walk out the door. Well I've had enough of her hoity toity attitude thinking she doesn't have to do anything before she leaves and that someone will clean her mess. I very calmly approached her at the hostess stand and asked in a nonconfrontational way if she was planning on finishing the job? The manager was present for the infraction that followed. She completely flipped out calling me a bitch and telling me to fuck off. I was in awe, I could not believe the reaction I got and couldn't say much of anything, my jaw was wide open in shock. She stormed out the door and left me speechless.

The manager who witnessed the situation reassured me that she was indeed out of line and will go to the owner and explain what had occured. I'm not a baby and her words didn't really hurt, what upsets me is that this woman thinks her shit doesn't stink and all of us are sick of her better than everyone attitude.

I'm sure that apon my arrival to work today I will be called into the office to discuss what went on last night. I'm not intimidated but I'd like to have the air cleared between the two of us. I'm sick of walking around on egg shells around her and I'm sick of being ignored and treated like shit. I think its high time that this woman is called on her shit and has her angel wings clipped!