Don't Advertise

So today my own personal Chris Angel came and notified me that a table was unhappy with their food. I walked over to the table to see two guests with royal blue polos that had a familiar yellow BEST BUY embroidered on the left chest region...

The guy had a burger that he ate 3/4ths of GONE...EATEN...GONE...GRRRRRRRR

The three bites that were left were just too under cooked for him to eat. GRRRRRRRRRR

So I asked him what I could do for him (I DIDN'T WANT TO PAY FOR HIS FOOD B/C IT WAS GONE)...I gave some options. He asked me to remake it...togo...

GRRRRRRRRR

He probably brought that back to someone at work. Don't ever go somewhere advertising where you work and then ask for something for free...

IM THINKING...

I may just hit up Best Buy...but a CD & some blank CD's and then show back up 5 mins later and ask for my money back on the CD...

hahahaha...some people

Prayers Please

My best friend's mother passed away today. She had been sick and fighting for awhile now. Now she is at peace. Now she is with her keeper. Pray for her daughter, Trudi, pray that she find the peace that she needs. That she has the strength she needs. Thanks!

Future Skanks of America

Me & Shauna were shopping one day and we came across a teenie bopper t shirt that said:
I heart BOYS!

And I pondered to my sister, "we wonder why these young girls run around acting like skanks...we are making them clothes to encourage the behavior..."

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...

Anywho...I walked into the women's bathroom and stumble upon Nickle and four future skanks!!!

I have got to paint a visual of what these skanks were wearing...because the visual makes it better...

The Birthday Girl- a white polo (fitted) with a pair of jeans

The Ring Leader- booty shorts, pink addidas, and a pink fitted tee that read, "Vote like a girl, Palin 08"

The OG- booty shorts, neon Air Force low tops, a pink fitted tee with a pic of Lil Wayne on it, a piece and chain...hanging to her belly button, and a cocked white cap with her name on it...and a pink cell phone that she needed to have surgically removed from her hand

The Skank- this chick was wearing a clubbing shirt, with booty shorts, and she had her hair teased and curled in individual ringlet curls...with too much of the wrong color of lipstick

Nickle went into the stall as I entered the adjacent stall...the conversation was priceless...I wish I would have had a video camera...this was good...

First I hear one of the four girls (the birthday girl) saying, "noone told me that we were dressing gangster. I just look like a preppie white girl...maybe I could pop my collar and wear your chain and I will look more gangster."

Then the ring leader laughs her off and replies, "I didn't tell you...but you don't look gangster at all."

One of them then told the ring leader that she was acting like a bitch. She laughed and said that she enjoyed acting that way.

When Nickle and I met again on the outside to wash our hands we looked at each other without needing to say a word...

Not needing to, and not saying a word are two different things...as soon as they left the restroom we were all over ourselves laughing at these little girls. They couldn't have been gangster if they wanted to...

When their table got paged the ring leader stuck her head outside and said, "Skanks...the table is ready."

WOW...so then later the girls took a group bathroom break again...we had all been cracking up about the first visit so I wanted to share...I told Smartleg and Justice about the trip and they followed them in to hear about the guy that wasn't texting the OG back...

LESS IS MORE

I felt for the taker of that table...especially when the end came and I heard the shrill screaming of an over excited teenager, "Attention everyone, my best friend is celebrating her 16th birthday today and I want all of you to join me in singing her happy birthday...Happy Birthday to you...yada yada yada...Thank you all"

She stood in her friggin booth and sang the whole song...BY HERSELF...no love from the rest of our patrons...

This was a HOllarious table...but I can't even be mad at these 15/16 year old girls that are trying to grow up too fast...I have to place some of the blame on their parents...SOME, bc I was "grown" when I was 15/16...

But really...this is what I wanted to tell the girls

Ring Leader...be nice to your friends...skanks is not a term of endirement and bitchiness is not attractive and you can't even vote...do you know what you are representing with that tee or did your mommy buy it for you

OG- clothes do not make you gangster...if you like an artist, buy his cd...put him on your myspace profile...not your tee...the Forces were clean...Im not mad at that...but you are not gangster...and when you text a guy every 5 seconds...don't be surprised when he doesn't want to text back...don't try so hard

Birthday Girl- Try to stand out by dressing different than your friends...not the same...be you...and you don't have to be friends with girls that are mean to you...don't pop your collar, or rock a piece n chain if it isn't you...be you

The Skank- Club shirts should be saved for the club, not for dinner with your other friends that can't get into the club and their parents...your hair looked really pretty...but don't wear so much lipstick...and coordinate your colors with your outfit...

WHERE ARE YOUR MOTHERS?!?!?!?

Top 10 Call In Excuses

I think a strong characteristic of a good manager is the ability to listen...so I asked my people...what they thought were good "Bad" excuses to call in.

The excuses poured out rapidly...I had to narrow down to 10!!!

If you have been around for a bit you may be able to identify who belongs to what excuse...drop a comment and see if you can connect the dots...be aware that some of these excuses come from former places of employment.

As a supervisor I think that all call in excuses are "bad"...these will be in white

As a person I understand that life happens...these thoughts will be in blue

As someone who has covered for some of these excuses...I think, well lets just say that I really value my personal time...and scowl at anyone who takes that from me!! These thoughts will be in red!!

Here we go!!!

#1. My cat died.
When Josh dies...I will call in...
I hate cats, they don't even qualify as animals...ewww

#2. The morning after you came in all dolled up to have drinks and announce that you were going out on the town...you call in to say "I'm sick"
I have been there...if you have to work the next morning, don't get waisted face if you can't handle waking up and doing your job the next day...
This is BS...you aren't sick you are hungover...or with a majority of my peeps...still drunk...call it like it is...

#3 I need to study
Been there...they are called all nighters
That is why we have availability that lets you choose how many days you want to work...and a request book so that you can ask off for additional days.

#4 I'm GAY...

Ok...so this is a spinn off story from another place...and I have to share. A friend of mine told her boss that she was calling in, but she didn't want to tell her why at that current time bc she didn't want to hear her judge her. She came into work the next day and told her why she called in only to hear her boss say..."oh I thought you were going to call in gay"...
CAN YOU DO THAT...was my friend's first question...and since I know you can...hmmmm

#5 My sphinkter broke last night
This is again borrowed from the same call inner as #4...I mean who is going to ask to see a doctor's note on that...NOT ME...and I am not going to ask on the status either

#6 I have surgery tomorrow
that stinks...who wants to have surgery
wait a second...they don't schedule surgeries for the next day...they schedule those days out...YOU KNEW

#7 It is a pretty day...I can't get out of bed
if you can't get out of bed today...don't worry about tomorrow either...no one wants a fair weather employee...hahaha get it
sorry...nothing humane about this

#8 My show is on tonight
TIVO BIATCHES
ok, with that being said...before I had TIVO I SERIOUSLY considered it a few times!! Then I realized you could watch Grey's Anatomy online later that night!

#9 I lost my tampon
the girl who gave me this excuse was so comfortable with saying it, that I wasn't so sure she had not used it before...I didn't want to ask then, and I am not going to elaborate now...ewwww

#10 I passed out somewhere...and I don't know where I am
PERSONAL PROBLEM...
and your next call needs to be to get some help from what ever it is that you are on...that is sad!!!

SO HERE IT IS PEOPLE...I AM STOKED TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE GET THIS RIGHT!!!! COMMENT IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO THE EXCUSES BELONG TO!!!

Burned

Burned food is gross...but there is a difference in burned chicken and chicken with grill marks. Usually when you cook chicken on a grill you get those...I mean it is kind of inevitable.

I got called to a table with two CLEAN plates...

The guy starts off asking me if I remember him...

NO I don't remember you...I see thousands of people each week...sorry...(that is what I thought...I gave him a simple no)

He told me that he comes in all the time.

His smart ass date then asked him if the chicken was burned every time he came in...shut up biatch...and let your man try and get his meal for free...

He said that his chicken was burned on his plate and it took about 10 mins to get back out to him. Then he wanted a refill on his coffee but the coffee got thrown out.

IT WAS 11:25 (we closed at 11)

GRRRRR...

This cheap jerk SPLIT the meal & ONE cup of coffee with his date...then tried to get it free

I asked him if I could get him a dessert on us, but he didn't want it. I asked him what I could do...and his answer was, "Whatever I could"

I felt like I got burned...I was not going to buy his meal so I just gave him 1/2 off...

BURN

Ode to Joy...Part Three

If you haven't read Joy's other two blogs...please...read on...this was almost all in one night...

BE NICE TO YOUR SERVERS...
YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THEY DEALT WITH BEFORE YOU!!!

Joy got sat a 4 top and scowled at it before even greeting it...I have to admit, at first glance, I thought she was being close minded and hoped she would be pleasantly pleased...

Not so much the case...

As she passed out the food she got the lecture that I would later get...

The man didn't like his portion of mashed potatoes...so I brought another generous portion out...

First of all I would like to disclose that the reason a majority of Americans are obese is the freakishly LARGE portions restaurants like mine serve people...there is nothing small about the portions...

I approached the table with Mash in hand ready for a lecture...

The man didn't just want to lecture me about feeling "cheated" on his portions...but he wanted to school ME on how to portion things more uniformly

He stared my telling me that he felt "cheated" by his portion of mash potatoes...and that his rice portion (that is bagged and weighed ) was "hardly there"...and that his Chicken Fried Steak...THAT IS ALL PRECUT AND THE EXACT SAME OUNCE WEIGHT...was 1.5 times smalled than the other person who ordered it...

REALLY...REALLY

After explaining that every aspect of his meal was inadequit he told he that he wasn't complaining about his steak, because he was eating that...

My internal thoughts were...YES ASSHOLE...You are complaining about your steak...You're eating it has NOTHING to do with it...because every other part of your meal that you are complaining about is half eaten as well!!!

So I asked him if the portion of mashed potatoes that I brought him was enough or if he still wanted more...he said that it was enough...

I passed by one more time to see that clean plate...LITERALLY...NOTHING ON IT!!!!

After they left I commented to Joy that they must have been fun...only to receive a hand written note from this prick that goes as follows:

I was VERY disappointed with the meal today, our server was good and none of this was her fault. The meal proportions were RIDICULOUSLY small. Two other members in our dinner group had the EXACT same plate...except notably bigger. The chicken fried steak was easily 1.5 times larger on their plate. I had less than half of the mashed potatoes they had, and the rice was almost not there at all. You should make sure the cooks are using the same proportions at all times!

FIRST OF ALL

They are portions...not proportions...

SECOND OF ALL

3 Chicken Fried Steaks are made by ONE cook...all the portions are the same...just ONE out of the THREE of you like to complain to get a free meal!!!

AND THIRD OF ALL...

Not on my clock sweety...I can eye ball a portion and tell you if it is that far off...when your Chicken Fried steak that you have already eaten the edge off of 2 of the 4 sides is still covering 3/4ths of your plate...it is enough of a portion...

Ode to Joy...I have no idea what she did to the restaurant Gods to piss them off enought to bring her this kind of behavior...but she better ask for some forgiveness...

I COULD NOT HANDLE ANOTHER NIGHT LIKE THIS IF I WERE HER!!!!

Ode to Joy...Part Two

When a table walks in your front door loud and obnoxious...chances are that they are going to be loud and obnoxious at the table as well...

Joy's 5 top proved to be just that!!!

The overly obnoxious chick asked if we had bibs...

I don't think the blog needs to go ANY further than that...

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?

Ode to Joy...Part One

This is a 3 part blog...bc Joy is just that kind of person...

part One came a few weeks ago...

We are a store that is considered the snobs of all the other corporate stores...we get LOTS of transfers and are PICKY about the transfers we do get!!!

There was this one chick that came in several times that I asked why she didn't transfer down here from Htown...her response was that her GM would not transfer her...

My thoughts were...WHY...that helps his turnover and his schedule making manager's work load...well she must SUCK...

She came in the other day with a group of 20 and I figured out why he didn't transfer her...

She sat in Joy's section in a 2 seater booth with another girl...the rest of her 20 top was ordering food, but she just order 2 Dasani bottled waters...totaling $4.78

She handed Joy a $5 bill and asked her to bring her change...the girl with her said, "no girl, you gotta tip her..."

This little bundle of happiness replied (RIGHT IN FRONT OF JOY,) "Why, she didn't do anything for me..."

Her friend turned to Joy and said..."just keep the change, don't worry about it."

Then the nontransferable heffer pointed her finger at Joy and said, "You better bring me my change!!!"

Joy met her request and mustered up 22 pennies...shiny and old and dropped them on sunshine's table right in front of her...

She wasn't going to steal her Joy!!!!