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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 7:21:19 AM   
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No busboys, the servers in the dining room cleaned their own tables, and this wasn't a club place, it was a hotel lounge, one of only 2 large ones in town, so we were always busy. No entertainment, just pool tables, and a sound system that we controlled. It was like a pub style place with a lot of locals and in the summer slammed with tourists. The owners were super cool about not putting on an overabundance of staff so we could make that kind of money as long as we could keep up with it and the service didn't suffer. So it was usually just one bartender in the pub on weeknights and a cocktail server on weekends. We didn't tip out back of house staff ever, they made a good salary, but I would always give the dishwasher some cash anyway because usually he ran and got me ice and kept me in clean glasses all night so it was worth throwing him 20 bucks or so.

I will work there again starting in May til about September this year, it's an awesome way to make some extra money and I only do it a few nights a week. Plus, we get all those strapping sailors in there sooooo it's ok on the eyes too. .

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 7:25:23 AM   
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]now, if ya could make the snow schtuff goi away....

LOL

wait.. summer? hmmmmmmm

summer navy uniforms..

ok, this could work...

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 7:27:23 AM   
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Greedy get the hell out of dodge, I am serious, get up here, we would have so much fun!! You wouldn't even notice the snow!

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 7:30:38 AM   
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Snow is my kryptonite.. LOL

but I will get up to visit, sooner or later  (maybe next summer, if I can swing the finances)

ok,.. I *think * the sleepies are getting bolder.. so I am gonna TRY to sleep..
*much love*

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:25:39 AM   
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ETA..Icarys you rock.

My Mother rocked..She's the one that put up with all the crap so we could have food on the table.


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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:34:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

The comment about tips being a significant part of the front of house staff's pay?
It's an irksome and irritating job, and the fact that a lot of employers weasel out of paying a living wage on the assumption that patrons will make up the shortfall doesn't help. Sadly, there's plenty of stuff that might make you forget that...

I said no such thing.

I said I work HOTEL RECEPTION, which is NOT the same as wait staff.. which is why I prefaced my initial post with soemthng along the lines of "leaving aside food service ..etc"

I have worked food service (albeit, almost 30 yrs ago..).. I would never presume to compare hotel recption to wait staffing..

(and as I am sleep deprived and off to bed , I will give the caveat that I am not making as much sense as I should be, I think... but fuck it, I am SLEEPY...)

Mea culpa: that was aimed at the post I quoted, not the ones you'd made earlier in the thread. Sorry about that.

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:37:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Mea culpa: that was aimed at the post I quoted, not the ones you'd made earlier in the thread. Sorry about that.


Oh TFFT! My degree of confusion had reached a level where you couldn't measure it with existing technology :)


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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:41:47 AM   
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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:43:42 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

It seems a bit garbled, true enough.


Nah it's probably just me - these new painkillers are banging :)

No criticism implied or intended BTW - I was just really perplexed :)

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:55:31 AM   
Moonhead


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Status: offline 		I should have double checked that he was talking about waitrons before I posted, really. Small wonder I upset the bloke...

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 8:56:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
I should have double checked that he was talking about waitrons before I posted, really. Small wonder I upset the bloke...


Bloke?

Oh christ, now I'm confused again :(

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:05:21 AM   
Moonhead


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Status: offline 		Greedytop, not Aynne.

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:14:19 AM   
Moonhead


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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:16:42 AM   
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Greedytop, not Aynne.


GT isn't a bloke :)

<proffers painkillers>

I think you're going to need these more than me :)


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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:22:05 AM   
Moonhead


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Status: offline 		Arse. That was a bit of a faux pas.

Sorry, Greedytop. I apologise again.

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:44:36 AM   
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I'd never try that in case they pissed in my soup.



Huh? What? You mean they're not supposed to do that?



<shuffles off, muttering to self, to write many many letters of complaint. Wonders whether the spit is supposed to be omitted too. Starts fundamental re-assessment of his place in life.>

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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:47:20 AM   
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GT's a man!!! GT's a man!!!     

Oh frabjous day! 'Tis brillig!

GT's a man!!!

Go out, dear people, and spread the word.





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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:51:04 AM   
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What've they got you on painkillers for, btw? Nothing permanent, I hope.


Yeah it's permanent (well, for life at any rate - if it changes after I'm dead that'll be a bonus) ... about 25 years ago I (through no fault of my own) ended up cutting a car almost in half using a motorcycle as a blunt instrument :)

So it's either take the painkillers, or not walk ... move ... sleep ... little things like that :)

I had my annual meds review the other day and they've changed my dosage and types, from single type to a sort of cocktail. So far the results are very encouraging, although there's always a period of "WTF?" while one's system gets used to the new lot. Hence the perpetual confusion ATM.


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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:52:40 AM   
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Go out, dear people, and spread the word.



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RE: Have you ever complained about service in a store, ... - 2/3/2011 9:58:02 AM   
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I'm just glad I'm not one of the guys making the faux pas....


*loves GT and her womanly boobies....
(see Mr RF I am breastobsessed....)

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