I Work(ed) in a Restaurant, and Now I Understand...

[Preston327]

Worked at Popeyes for two years. I've got a few good ones.

1. I was working the register one night when a friend of a coworker comes in. I know this guy a little because Coworker has driven me to work before with him in the car, and I know he doesn't like me because I'm not "ghetto" like he is/claims to be. I put my shit-eating grin on and just get through his order without any problems, but when I go to grab his change I end up giving him incorrect change (the coins were set up differently than normal, and I was just instinctively reaching for where the quarters should've been). He completely flips out, pulls out a SWITCHBLADE and goes "I could bleed you right now and nobody would do a damn thing about it." I shrugged it off as best I could, gave him his food and waited until he was gone to let the manager know what'd happened. Of course, nothing got done about it.

2. I once had to ask a guy to leave because he walked in obviously drunk with an open bottle of Hennessey and a gun stuck in the front of his pants.

3. I had someone throw a drink back at me when I worked drive-thru. I also had someone attempt to pepper spray me. Those were the only times I ever worked the drive-thru.

4. Coworkers stole $320 out of my register when the manager pulled it, left it on the counter and ordered me to work elsewhere where I couldn't keep watch over it like I should've. The manager then tried to accuse me of taking the money.