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Alumiyum 12-11-2010 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB (Post 2010564)
My first "real job" was as a greeter (hostess) at a restaurant that was just opening. I'm pretty sure I was hired because the middle aged guys doing the interviewing thought I was cute and had a nice smile. I noticed all of the greeters were cute high school girls. These guys - the manager and owner - would always chat me up and ask me if I still had my boyfriend whenever they were in the restaurant. Ick. When they found out I was going to college in California, they tried to recruit me to work at one of their restaurants down there. No thanks.

At the same job, I sometimes helped the servers out by taking out a few lunch orders during a rush. One time I took an order out to a table of businessmen in suits (30-somethings), and when I asked them if they'd care for anything else, one of them says, "How 'bout a hot tub and a rub down?" OMG. His coworkers were totally silent and giving him looks like, "WTH you just hit on a high school girl?!" I just turned and walked away.

In college when I worked at Starbucks one summer, during the opening shift on a Sunday, a guy walked in and butted ahead of people in line to tell me that he wanted "a current scone!"
"OK," I said, "Let me just help these people out first," and pointed to the two or three people in line.
"ALL I WANT IS A CURRENT SCONE!" yelled the man.
"OK, and all they want is a cup of coffee," I said.
Then the man starts to really lose it. He's putting his hands on his hips, running them through his hair, pacing, etc. He's nuts.
"CAN I JUST PAY FOR MY CURRENT SCONE? I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE FOR A CURRENT SCONE."
Finally the manager comes out. If you've worked at Starbucks you know that the managers tell you that you don't have to put up with rude or aggressive customers, so the manager sees and hears this guy, and immediately tells the man to get out of the store. But not before the guy can ask one more time for his current scone.

I told my mom all about it that night and she and I now compare unruly people in public to the "Current Scone Man."
The trick when an "old" guy hits on you: Tell them you're 15. They stop smiling immediately and start sidling away. I still do it and get away with it and I'm 24.

Chicago88 12-11-2010 04:45 PM
Dear lord forgive me, but when I was 18 I worked in a bbq place that was like the hooters of bbq. I bartended and made good money. I was never the flirty, touchy feely, type like most of the girls there. Guys would always be like you know what can I do to get your number? I would say thats an extra 20 dollars on top of my tip and you have to do it in front of my face. Sure enough guys are stupid enough, and I gave them this girls phone number who keyed my car ,slashed my tires, and broke my windows in high school because she didnt make cheerleader and I did. I'd say, call me around 2am when I get off work, if I dont answer keep calling :) I've grown up since then but Id make an extra 200 dollars a week

Alumiyum 12-11-2010 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Chicago88 (Post 2010863)
Dear lord forgive me, but when I was 18 I worked in a bbq place that was like the hooters of bbq. I bartended and made good money. I was never the flirty, touchy feely, type like most of the girls there. Guys would always be like you know what can I do to get your number? I would say thats an extra 20 dollars on top of my tip and you have to do it in front of my face. Sure enough guys are stupid enough, and I gave them this girls phone number who keyed my car ,slashed my tires, and broke my windows in high school because she didnt make cheerleader and I did. I'd say, call me around 2am when I get off work, if I dont answer keep calling :) I've grown up since then but Id make an extra 200 dollars a week
I gotta admit...that's funny.

aephi alum 12-11-2010 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Chicago88 (Post 2010863)
Dear lord forgive me, but when I was 18 I worked in a bbq place that was like the hooters of bbq. I bartended and made good money. I was never the flirty, touchy feely, type like most of the girls there. Guys would always be like you know what can I do to get your number? I would say thats an extra 20 dollars on top of my tip and you have to do it in front of my face. Sure enough guys are stupid enough, and I gave them this girls phone number who keyed my car ,slashed my tires, and broke my windows in high school because she didnt make cheerleader and I did. I'd say, call me around 2am when I get off work, if I dont answer keep calling :) I've grown up since then but Id make an extra 200 dollars a week
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xomanadaxo 12-12-2010 05:15 PM
Can we please get a "like" button on GC? This is about the 1324395982 time I've wanted to hit "like" on someone's post!! :p

nittanygirl 12-12-2010 08:25 PM
Ahhh KSUviolet I <3 that you worked as a server at Pizza Hut too.
I feel like Pizza Hut sucked because no one tips you there but you still do real serving work. I loved Pizza Hut at the same time though b/c I liked my asst. manager (then turned general manager) and he would make us pizzas & stuff for in the back every now and then and was sarcastic and fun haha.
And he took an interest in talking to me about my classes at school which I thought was nice.
It was always dead though except at lunch buffet.

KSUViolet06 12-12-2010 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by nittanygirl (Post 2011223)
Ahhh KSUviolet I <3 that you worked as a server at Pizza Hut too.
I feel like Pizza Hut sucked because no one tips you there but you still do real serving work. I loved Pizza Hut at the same time though b/c I liked my asst. manager (then turned general manager) and he would make us pizzas & stuff for in the back every now and then and was sarcastic and fun haha.
And he took an interest in talking to me about my classes at school which I thought was nice.
It was always dead though except at lunch buffet.
What are the odds? Ha.

We weren't a full-on dine in store, but we had a small eat-in area. I served whenever there were people in there. Most of the time, I was the phone, drive thru, and pick up hand out/cashier girl.

I always said that hell hath no fury like the WEEKEND customers. It's like the ENTIRE world orders pizza on the weekend and is SUPER IMPATIENT about it.

I would take a delivery order and TEN MINUTES LATER, that person is on the phone SCREAMING "OMGWTFWHEREISMYPIZZAI'MGONNADIELETMESPEAKTOYOURMA NAGER!!!!!"

Best thing ever: eating/taking home "mistake pizza" so it didn't get thrown out (yes I know, technically it's verboten but my assistant mgr. hated wasting food).

I also got tips all the time even though technically I wasn't supposed to. I NEVER expected one, but if someone wanted to GIVE me $5 just for handing them their pizza and cashing them out, great. lol.

nittanygirl 12-12-2010 09:18 PM
I did everything too. We'd have a manager, a kitchen person and a "server"/stocker/salad bar/phone + a few delivery drivers on at minimum. Usually I was serving by myself.

I hated impatient people. Or people who lie when they get to pick up their order and say they ordered different toppings. I'd be like uh no I remember talking to you and I repeat the ENTIRE order before I hang up. Sooo annoying.

Tips for carryout were my favorite!! Like thanks for giving me money for doing nothing!!

I miss my free personal pans. I seriously took advantage of that every single chance I got. When I left for school, I ordered my "last" personal pan & the asst manager had them make me a large instead :) He was very nice to me.

KSUViolet06 12-12-2010 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by nittanygirl (Post 2011238)
I miss my free personal pans. I seriously took advantage of that every single chance I got. When I left for school, I ordered my "last" personal pan & the asst manager had them make me a large instead :) He was very nice to me.
Mmmmmmm.

It's so funny, I stopped working there when I came to college and I LOST weight.

Also, tons of people say you stop eating a restaurant's food when you work there because you're around it all day.

That is FALSE for me. I loved nothing more than clocking out to my 4 slices of personal deliciousness, even after 2 years there. lol.

Tulip86 12-12-2010 09:57 PM
So not true... I still love sushi and could eat it all day every day

nittanygirl 12-13-2010 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06 (Post 2011240)
Mmmmmmm.

It's so funny, I stopped working there when I came to college and I LOST weight.

Also, tons of people say you stop eating a restaurant's food when you work there because you're around it all day.

That is FALSE for me. I loved nothing more than clocking out to my 4 slices of personal deliciousness, even after 2 years there. lol.
Second this again. I worked there a summer and a winter break. My personal pans were my favorite and they were such a good chance to experiment with pizza toppings. I miss it. I'd go back this break. The only thing I REALLY hated was closing (since it was by myself I had to clean the ENTIRE dining area, all of the mopping, vacuuming, salad bar break down, bathrooms, silverware, table tents, fill all of the shakers & EVERYTHING. If I could work there this break and only open or work mid-day I'd do it in a heartbeat.

LucyKKG 12-14-2010 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001 (Post 2010571)
Current = Currant? That sounds tasty. I've had a guy ask for a glass of Pine-nut Grig-E-O (Pinot Grigio) once.
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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB (Post 2010595)
Yes, sorry, spelling fail by me.
Ohhhh!!! I'm such a grammar/spelling nerd! I literally thought he wanted a "current scone," as opposed to an old one. Awkward!

Psi U MC Vito 12-05-2011 02:10 PM
Bump

LaneSig 12-05-2011 04:10 PM
I worked at California Pizza Kitchen as a server for a long time. (Part-time job to supplement my massive teacher salary.) One of my favorite things was whenever someone would try to order something that we had taken off the menu. The conversation usually went along these lines:

"Yes, I want to get the Peking Duck Pizza."
"I'm sorry, we don't have that any longer."
"What? When did that happen? It's my favorite pizza, I order it all the time."
"Yes. We took it off the menu about SEVEN years ago."

True conversation. And it happened all the time.

XAntoftheSkyX 12-05-2011 04:53 PM
Before and in between semesters of college, I worked in the cafe of the local Barnes and Noble. I loved my co-workers for the most part (there was one person in the store I couldn't stand for some reason), but the customers were generally awful. The Cafes serve Starbucks products, but are only a vendor, so they can't take gift cards/have every drink. Take that, plus the average Starbucks customer with their inflated sense of self-worth, and the fact that it's one of the nations busiest vacation spots in the summer, and I died a little each time I clocked in.


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