Dumbest thing you have ever been asked at work

[Newcastle Uni]

My favorite manager started his career with the store as a bagboy in his teens. His first suspension (he liked to cause trouble, like me) came after an older lady asked him "Do you have cotton balls?" He said, "What the hell do I look like, the Easter bunny?" 😛

My funny/dumb customer checker story was when this pompous rich a-hole in his young 20s pulled up, screeching his Porche to a halt, and got out, entering the store. Always hard to impress, I ignored him completely. After about 15 minutes he walked up to me, I was the only nite checker up front. He glared at me, huffed and said, "Doesn't anybody around here know what LOX is?? Some idiot just sent me into the electrical aisle!" (locks.) Sneering back at him with an equally disgusted look I said, "It's fish~try the frozen deli aisle~DER! Where are you from anyway?"
(It was obvious he didn't belong in that neighborhood, which was a little rough.) So he snottily says "Stanford Ranch." I rolled my eyes and said, "Isn't that a HOME FOR BOYS?" (I was new to the area and didn't know Stanford Ranch was an upscale community in a town nearby~I had confused it with Stanford Home for Boys) but it didn't matter, by then my co-workers were howling at the whole thing. He knew they were laughing at him at stomped off for his lox, ticked that some wise ass checker chick had yanked him off his pedestal and kicked his ass without lifting a finger....
XOXO

It seems like jealousy. Would you have been so rude to this guy had he come from a less auspicious background?

 

[some1somewhere]

I'm a waitress....on parties of 8 or more we add (Gratuity). Well....this idiot that read his bill said to me.....was is (GRATINUITY) no one ate that.
I had to explain that it wasn't a dish it was his tip! I love working with the public.

As a bartender I understand, and in a small town (I first started in a large college town) no one understands how to tip. It is hard to make people understand that I don't make squat unless they tip. I could give a list of things that we did to people that didn't tip but that isn't the thread.

 

[Newcastle Uni]

As a bartender I understand, and in a small town (I first started in a large college town) no one understands how to tip. It is hard to make people understand that I don't make squat unless they tip. I could give a list of things that we did to people that didn't tip but that isn't the thread.

I think tipping is ridiculous. Why should customers subsidise your wage? Instead of thinking about ways of getting customers to tip more, you (and others) should be looking at ways of making your employer pay you a decent, liveable wage. That's just my opinion.

 

[some1somewhere]

I think tipping is ridiculous. Why should customers subsidise your wage? Instead of thinking about ways of getting customers to tip more, you (and others) should be looking at ways of making your employer pay you a decent, liveable wage. That's just my opinion.

Well, I disagree with you, if you are going to pay for a service (ie getting your food served/drinks made/made confortable/treated well,) you should pay for it. Honestly, I believe if you can't tip you shouldn't go out. I know that I am not the only person that thinks that. I think that I could start an entire thread with the things that I have done (in a night club/sportsbar) to those that don't tip.

Yeah you can say your owner should pay me more, well I know the owner and she doesn't make a huge amount compared to what she should working 80 hours a week, and being responsible if anything goes wrong (meaning that she could go to jail). I know what she does, and should make twice that amount. or about 100x what I make with tips.

Think of it this way, if you were paying me a "livible wage", then I wouldn't be concerned about tips, and not service you well, and the price of food would be higher as you would pay if it somehow. More likely the increase would be more than you think. Being that it would set manager against employee. Also either manager/employee would not be able to back each up on issues like cutting someone off. As someone who has lived on tips for 6 years on and off, I know that I wouldn't have gotten as much done with my barbacks, if I didn't have a standard and tipped them according to that standard. I don't know that my waitresses would have gotten their stuff done, if they were not dependent on me for drinks, and I wasn't dependent on them for a % of their tips. Think of it this way. If wasn't required to serve you, but was guarteed my pay, by service wouldn't be as well. Your drinks would cost at least twice as much to conpensate for those that don't tip and you would get worse service. AND So if you tipped noramlly (without the increase) a lot I have no longer the motivation to serve you well.

My goal is to get everyone at least 20%.

My only compliant is that this area isn't used ot a real restuarant, but more a buffet. Surprizing I have trained the rednecks to tip.

 

[lightninbug]

The DUMBSET THING???

Back in the 70s & 80s I worked as an outfitter in the rockies; taking packtrips up to the high country and naturally, we're busy during Hunting Season with maintaining 3-5 Hunting camps.
As is usually the case in every crowd, there was one who knew it all, seen it all, done it all etc.

THIS was the guy who asked me after everone had started to leave & saddle up for the hunt, "Tell me, When do the Deer Change into Elk?"

I started to laugh til I saw he was serious! Needless to say, we in the crew ALL had a good laugh over that one for months.

In the Immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Wadda Maroon!"

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