OK seriously, I love my job *most* of the time… I tell you though yesterday and today was like bitch, moan and complain fest! Monday\’s special du jour was classic mac & cheese. So this one rather nice although pain in my ass customer was like what\’s that? I\’m like its mac and cheese (meanwhile I\’m thinking WTF you don\’t know what mac & cheese is are you kidding me?) Well whats in it? Cream sauce, cheese and pasta that\’s pretty much it. Can I see it? Where is it? No its in the oven. Is it Kraft dinner? (are you for real lady?) so I said you betcha! Oh well can I have this like this and only half of that oh and can I have this for my son and so on. OK fine, so she wants me to split one in half so she can share it with her aunt. Fair enough the portions are a little on the large side anyway. I bring the food to the table and all I hear is OMG that\’s half its the same size as Corey\’s! No its not, I promise you its only half. Are you sure? Yes… Corey could see I was getting a little steamed… He\’s a good guy, I like him. Anyway then she announces to me that she needs to move because the lights on the ceiling fan/along with the ceiling fan are giving her a migraine. Thankfully Shane and Dana showed up and saved me from her!
Move on to Today (Tuesday) it was warm-ish outside and stupid hot inside because I had the oven on and 3 out of 4 burners going all morning so we opened the front and the back door so that we could get a nice cross breeze in there. All the customers were comfortable because it was a tad too warm until Miss High Maintenance shows up… First off it would seem that she knew 90% of the people in there which is the norm at my work. So she\’s at this table and stops to chat it up with one of her friends before placing her order. Friend says oh I haven\’t see you in a while. Miss High Maintenance replies (rather loudly I might add) Oh I just got back from MEXICO. The whole room fell silent, you could hear a pin drop! I\’m thinking OK lady there\’s a MAJOR flu going around that originated from Mexico, the US is about to declare it an epidemic and the media is making it sound like the entire nation is going to die anytime now its so OVER hyped and you make an announcement like that? I was appalled!
They place their order and go sit by the window, beside the open door. Less then a minute later I hear this: umm excuse me miss (talking to Krystal not me) can we close the door please we\’re a little chilly… Yeah I bet the 15 degree weather we have here must not compare to flu ridden Mexico! So we had to close the door much to EVERY-ONE\’S dismay! So the second she was up to leave, that damn door was open again in no time flat! OK yeah it gets a little windy but the fans don\’t do anything except push the warm air around. Then the tea room rejoiced! It was quite magical I tell you…
Then one of our older, \”more distinguished\” spoiled, old pain in the ass customers whom the boss likes to ass kiss arrives. Asked Krystal if she could turn the fans down because it was too windy in the tea room (WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME!) so she did and she shut the front door, again and of course made all of our customers bitch that it was too hot. Boss lady says oh humor him he\’s a good customer blah blah blah. You see, I don\’t go outta my way to kiss anyone\’s ass EVER! So it was a small victory when even he thought it was too warm in there and he himself opened the front door.
Its tiny, 8 tables that\’s it. I\’m willing to bet that, actually I know that if he would have complained like that in a bigger establishment that they wouldn\’t have \”humoured\” him like our boss expects us to. Thank God its almost Wed, which brings me that much closer to Friday!