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If you have about fifteen minutes...
Check this out.
Holy crazy, Batman. Springs1 has a serious mental problem.
http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/1/59793423/ShowThread.aspx
Oh, FFS.
Re: If you have about fifteen minutes...
holy crazycakes.
ANd...call me crazy but, why does this kookadook think she's going to get 5 star service at 3 star chain restaurants?
I thought I'd seen crazy before but I think she takes the crazy cake. She actually documented a $.04 overcharge. And took time out of her day to biitch and moan about it.
Wow. Can you imagine being a server and dealing with someone as obnoxious as her? Someone in the thread mentioned the movie Waiting, and that was the first thing that popped into my head, too. I hope she eats a lot of spit. What a gigantic PITA.
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On a totally OTT level, this reminds me of going out to eat with my brother, who was a server and then assistant manager of one of these food court-upgrade mall trough restaurants.
You could not go out to eat with the guy without him criticizing every aspect of what was happening from the moment you walked through the door. I just wanted to be like, dude, there's other ways to get food, you know. I mean, if this is so freaking miserable for you.
On a semi-related note, what about these types of restaurants' ubiquity makes people expect good food and/or service? They're ubiquitous because they're quite profitable. They're profitable because they serve fairly crappy food at disproportionately high prices that happen to be just high enough relative to, say, fast food, for consumers to think they're actually getting something decent, when in fact they're really not. ::shrugs::
Holy crap, her "blogs" are INSANE.
Seriously, she's INSANE. And obsessed with condiments. Her eating habits are disgusting.
Also, I have to immediately subtract points from people who expect superior waitstaff to be working at Denny's.
I worked as a server in many restaurants, and we used to draw straws for who got stuck with a customer like her.
OMG.
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"One waiter one time kept 31 cents change and only gave me back a 5 dollar bill from a check that was $34.69 that I paid with (2) 20 dollar gift certificates. I found that to be presumsious of him. It WASN'T "HIS" money YET, it was my money. Instead of $4.50 we were going to leave, because his service wasn't so great, he got stiffed all because he STOLE from us. He had NO RIGHTS to that money YET! GIVE BACK ALL CHANGE UNLESS THE CUSTOMER SAYS YOU CAN HAVE IT!"
That girl is crazycakes.
Damn. Anyone who orders "4 sides of ranch" or "2 sides of mayo" with every meal has got to be a little crazy. All those condiments are probably rotting her brains.
This woman is effing crazy as heck. I would hate to be her server. What a nightmare!
Well and honestly, who TYPES ******LIKE THIS****** in ALMOST every SINGLE ******REPLY*****??
I love that they did a confession-type post a few posts up from that in honor of Springs1. They had to type their post like her. It cracked me up.
I'm pretty sure I spit in her food once in college. IN HER ********RANCH**********.
I didn't charge her extra for the spit because it was a classy, fine dining joint.
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Crazy. Nutso. I think it is safe to say that I have never, ever met anyone like her in all of my years of waitressing.
I am very tough on servers-- But I tip well for good service, normal for average service, and if you swear and roll your eyes and spit in my food, you are getting 10%.
But this is crazy. I'm picking someone who couldn't get hired at Hooters, eats out every night...
...wow. That was so amazing I had to log in and comment. Reading her responses had me laughing so hard I was almost crying.
Thanks for the link. I was having a crappy night and was in a terrible mood and now I'm feeling much better.
She is totally insane and I'm sure she's eaten a lot of spit in her food.
I agree that the way she is insane in how she delivers her message, and god knows her eating habits aren't, um, healthy, but some of her points I agree with. If you remove the crazy, she is right to a point. I don't like when serving staff keeps my change. I will tip, and I tip well, but I don't appreciate the presumption. A tip is not requried (I know, but it really isn't) and it's my choice what I leave.
I also don't like having to ask for a side of something five times. Or wait for a refill after asking three times. It's frustrating, and it will impact if I go back to a restaurant again. I also don't believe that the level of restaurant should impact the level of service, on a normal scale. If you go to Applebees or Red Lobster, your service should be the same. If you go to a 4 star restaurant, your service should be the same at all 4 star restaurants. But I don't expect a server to scrape crumbs off the table at Red Lobster.
I tip between 15-20% every time if the service is decent. But I don't understand why I am suppose to tip 20% when the service wasn't good. Just like I wouldn't expect a merit increase if my work wasn't worth it. I don't see the difference.
Again, her delievery was less than sane. And a lot of her message is, um, also insane. It pains me to agree with any of it.
Theoretically, I get you. But in practice chain restaurants attract the least experienced servers. They also tend to have managers who are less experienced. So the servers just don't have the same level of training. It wasn't until I started working for long time managers that I was given some basic information on things like seat numbers, firing orders, etc. I don't expect my servers to know things they haven't been taught and I know that a new server isn't being taught a lot of things I value when they work for a chain.
That thread is now 8 pages long. She's come back and replied about ten times in the same ***INSANE*** tone as always. Entertaining, but it annoys me that anyone who contradicts her psychotic thinking is called lazy and stupid.
I guess I have to accept that it's like trying to argue with a three year old. Pointless and maddening.
I'm not sure what's worse...the thought that she REALLY is like this, or that she's a troll.
Eiher way, woman needs a hobby. Yesterday.
"Hobbie", as Springs1 spells it, not hobby. ****DUHHHH!!!!**** She sure likes to call people stupid and lazy, but she can't even spell correctly, and can barely string together a coherent sentence.