MrMan
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Ok so i was at work tonight, behind the bar in a popular restaurant. It was just me and another guy as the third bloke we were supposed to be working with had just not turned up for some reason. It started to get busy, as it does on Saturday nights, and soon the bar was rammed and so was the restaurant.
About an hour into this busy period i notice a woman at the end of the bar waving at me, so i finished serving someone and walked over to her. She leaned over the bar and said "Now what is your name young man", so i gave it to her. She asked for the name of my workmate too. Turns out she wanted to complain to my manager about the lack of service, when she'd been at the bar for all of 5 mins. I did nothing at the time, but thinking back on it i wish i'd have said something.
I would've told her to look around at how busy it was, there was around 100 people in the restaurant and another 20-30 at the bar. And two bar staff. Thats 130 odd drinks to make, whilst running low on glasses, and with cocktails on the menu that take at least 2 or 3 minutes to make. I mean, sorry, but if she'd put herself in my place for a minute she would've seen i was trying my best to serve everyone and that a short wait to be served was perfectly reasonable.
Sorry to go on this little rant but the more i think about it the more it riles me, i should've told that impatient, stressed out cow what for and i'm pretty angry at myself for not doing so, nothing i can do about it now, so i'd thought i'd share it with you guys and ask:
What is the most annoying aspect you've found to be of 'people' in general? Something that really gets you going...
About an hour into this busy period i notice a woman at the end of the bar waving at me, so i finished serving someone and walked over to her. She leaned over the bar and said "Now what is your name young man", so i gave it to her. She asked for the name of my workmate too. Turns out she wanted to complain to my manager about the lack of service, when she'd been at the bar for all of 5 mins. I did nothing at the time, but thinking back on it i wish i'd have said something.
I would've told her to look around at how busy it was, there was around 100 people in the restaurant and another 20-30 at the bar. And two bar staff. Thats 130 odd drinks to make, whilst running low on glasses, and with cocktails on the menu that take at least 2 or 3 minutes to make. I mean, sorry, but if she'd put herself in my place for a minute she would've seen i was trying my best to serve everyone and that a short wait to be served was perfectly reasonable.
Sorry to go on this little rant but the more i think about it the more it riles me, i should've told that impatient, stressed out cow what for and i'm pretty angry at myself for not doing so, nothing i can do about it now, so i'd thought i'd share it with you guys and ask:
What is the most annoying aspect you've found to be of 'people' in general? Something that really gets you going...