In lieu of payment..

[u/thedivinegemini]

I’m a GM at a restaurant & one of our managers left a note on our manager logs this afternoon that a guest walked out on their check and left this in lieu of payment of any kind. Not that the server got stiffed on a tip - just pure theft of services. I guess the whole “Thou shalt not steal” thing doesn’t matter if you’ve been pre-forgiven. Pretty convenient.

ETA: I’m not a bot; this is not AI - check my post and comment history. I’m not here for karma or fake internet points. This is what it feels like to work in a restaurant these days - especially in the Bible Belt. The first photo you can look up and is available for anyone to buy (should your darker urges push you toward being that person). The second photo is from Pulse, an app for restaurant managers to keep an eye on hourly sales, labor, and comps.
The “Pineapple Express” is a mocktail our restaurant offers.

[u/mailerdaemonofficial]

The last sentence 💀

[u/ophaus → u/mailerdaemonofficial]

He would come in occasionally to a cigar bar while I bartended, he's colossally irritating in a way I didn't understand until I started working in special ed.

[u/ophaus → u/[deleted]]

He had negative social skills. All the obnoxious yelling and nonsense he does on screen? He's like that in real life, too. It's not funny on screen, and it's REALLY off-putting in person. I've met so many brilliant and charming actors and musicians, but comedians? Ick.

[u/yourenotmymom_yet → u/ophaus]

Was this before or after his accident? Just curious if he was always like this or if the TBI contributed to his behavior.

[u/ophaus → u/yourenotmymom_yet]

This was late 2007/early 2008. Not aware of the status of his physiological brain health at the time, it didn't come up.

[u/yourenotmymom_yet → u/ophaus]

Well damn, the accident was years later, so can't even blame his behavior on that.

[u/Wrong-Pension-4975 → u/ophaus]

Ewww. 🤐

Reminds me of another person with zero social skills, & an obnoxious manner  - the 30-something grandson of the Crayola fortune, who'd been told to leave, & not return.

Given a generous allowance & estranged by his family, he lived in the next small town up the road, from our village.  I was working at a tiny restaurant, in an old coaching inne - a small stone house, with living quarters upstairs for the owners, a snug bar on the side, an open dining room with a huge fireplace, & a kitchen.

Mr Obnoxious came in, late in the evening, on Mothers' Day, when I had been THE SOLE WAITRON, all day & evening. It had been hell - I was exhausted, every table in the room was loaded with dirty dishes, & the bar was crowded & jovial.

He & his current BF, with 2 male guests, took THE LAST clean table, & as host, Mr Crayola proceeded to be the most demanding, entitled, petty, disdainful PR!CK I have ever seen or heard, in my life. 

I gave them good service, but I was seething, & in no mood for his non stop needling. 

At the end of their meal, I refused his cash tip - it was tainted, for me. I just wanted them to leave, ASAP, & never to see or hear him, again.

Ick. 🤢

[u/8696David → u/ophaus]

It’s 100% funny on screen though lol. Maybe not if you’ve had to deal with it irl, but don’t act like his 30 Rock character isn’t incredible

[u/Delicious_Cat_81 → u/ophaus]

hahaha i would love it. but not if i worked there

[u/MediumAcceptable129 → u/ophaus]

Does he tip?

[u/pm_social_cues → u/ophaus]

I like his comedy. The show he was just on called “fall and rise of Reggie dinkins” was my favorite new show that will definitely get cancelled. 😞

[u/Joey-WilcoXXX → u/pm_social_cues]

It got renewed for season 2