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Fri Aug 3, 2012, 03:12 PM

Citizen Worker (1,785 posts)

53. Reminds me of a story a friend told me years ago. He was on an out of town job as a painter with a

crew of four. They regularly patronized a run of the mill eatery. One day dissatisfied with the service my friend left a 3 cent tip as an insult. A year or two later they were back at the same place and the same wait person was serving. When the crew was done with their meal and as the table was being cleared the wait person took three pennies and slammed them down on the table saying, "I believe you left these here on your last visit." My friend was embarassed and I laughed a good long laugh.

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146 replies	Author	Time	Post
If you harrass/berate/shit on someone in the service industry because you feel like doing it... [View all]	WilliamPitt	Aug 2012	OP
My daughter works in retail and the abuse she and her co-workers take from customers is repulsive...	Scuba	Aug 2012	#1
there's something mean lurking in us	Whisp	Aug 2012	#48
I think some people learn this behavior from their parents	flamingdem	Aug 2012	#133
+1 Tee-hee. n/t	Smarmie Doofus	Aug 2012	#126
Regardless of the reasons behind it.	FBaggins	Aug 2012	#2
More than half the people I ever worked with in service jobs were going to college.	DCKit	Aug 2012	#3
What amazes me is how many people don't seem aware that others will judge you by how you	gkhouston	Aug 2012	#64
To me, that's a litmus test of a person's character. How s/he treats	raccoon	Aug 2012	#96
I used to have a boss that would call his wife and just SCREAM at her	Trunk Monkey	Aug 2012	#101
Poor woman. nt	raccoon	Aug 2012	#110
I ride by his home every day on my way home from work	Trunk Monkey	Aug 2012	#114
This message was self-deleted by its author	darkangel218	Aug 2012	#4
never screw with someone who touches/serves your food	NightWatcher	Aug 2012	#5
...with a side of 'Waiting'	WilliamPitt	Aug 2012	#9
I found the best scene...hold your stomachs folks.	canuckledragger	Aug 2012	#24
yeah in my case it was drivethrough window experience	arely staircase	Aug 2012	#70
While generally a fine theory to keep in mind, gracing food with DNA is not as common as the public	Kurovski	Aug 2012	#10
Thanks but I won't be testing that theory anytime soon!	Walk away	Aug 2012	#26
Keep right on telling yourself that.	99Forever	Aug 2012	#33
I worked in the business for seventeen years.	Kurovski	Aug 2012	#36
yeah. never saw anything gross in years of working in kitchens. mostly just...	Tunkamerica	Aug 2012	#88
Thank you.	Gormy Cuss	Aug 2012	#136
That is a good point, i suppose it's in keeping with the current mentality that there are always	Kurovski	Aug 2012	#137
"This tastes like piss and flies, doesn't it"?	-..__...	Aug 2012	#42
Yep or has scissor at your head. nt	valerief	Aug 2012	#43
I once read a hilarious web page with stories by waiters fucking with asshole customers...	Odin2005	Aug 2012	#76
Even without that, people who do so are just assholes. (nt)	Posteritatis	Aug 2012	#83
My daughter works in retail at an outlet store	Redford	Aug 2012	#6
It's an incredibly obnoxious thing to do	sibelian	Aug 2012	#7
NEVER simply WATCH it happen!	Skittles	Aug 2012	#15
I remember once standing in line behind an exec at our office cafeteria	magical thyme	Aug 2012	#29
I'm obviously too British...	sibelian	Aug 2012	#35
me and my brother as English school kids	Skittles	Aug 2012	#61
Oh, which of you is in the kilt?	sibelian	Aug 2012	#82
yeah, me in the kilt	Skittles	Aug 2012	#130
YAAAAAAYYY!!!	sibelian	Aug 2012	#144
I LOVED the kilt pin	Skittles	Aug 2012	#145
I thought you were American. You talk like one.	raccoon	Aug 2012	#97
I am indeed American	Skittles	Aug 2012	#131
What a great photo, Skittles!	Cooley Hurd	Aug 2012	#98
I don't know what is in my hand in that pic	Skittles	Aug 2012	#132
When you catch someone out behaving badly to clerks	annabanana	Aug 2012	#71
yes it IS!!!	Skittles	Aug 2012	#135
And I can bet you crack open the proverbial can of whoopass on them.	Quantess	Aug 2012	#95
CORRECT!!!	Skittles	Aug 2012	#134
Good thread. Nothing makes me madder	Populist_Prole	Aug 2012	#8
+1	freshwest	Aug 2012	#28
Same here, and interestingly enough my kindness is usually returned. I also stick up for them when	smirkymonkey	Aug 2012	#127
Actually that's a good way to test a person	Populist_Prole	Aug 2012	#129
Because, eventually, they'll end up treating you that way.	smirkymonkey	Aug 2012	#141
I worked for a year at a well known pharmacy chain part time	Marrah_G	Aug 2012	#11
I used to work at Walgreens	TheFarseer	Aug 2012	#103
Sometimes I wonder if people do	HappyMe	Aug 2012	#12
Yes they know they can get away with their power trips, so they do it.	darkangel218	Aug 2012	#16
If a patient loses it,	HappyMe	Aug 2012	#19
yep	azurnoir	Aug 2012	#52
I particularly enjoy giving shots to assholes. I would find an 18 gauge for that one. nt	eilen	Aug 2012	#102
A lot of these people get pushed around at work, at home, where ever,	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#31
h	femrap	Aug 2012	#62
"I just want to be a hermit."	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#63
This message was self-deleted by its author	femrap	Aug 2012	#74
I feel like I'm living in a different universe than you guys.	noamnety	Aug 2012	#106
Precisely	Sherman A1	Aug 2012	#85
Whenever I was dating, I'd see how my date treated busboys, waiters, cashiers, etc.	FSogol	Aug 2012	#13
Me too.	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#34
Someone who is rude to a waitress	Freddie	Aug 2012	#39
Yep. Very Telling. n/t	BrendaBrick	Aug 2012	#47
+1	uponit7771	Aug 2012	#55
A well known test that assholes make sure to pass	Tunkamerica	Aug 2012	#89
I did that, too! I thought it was a great test of character to see how they treated service	IndyJones	Aug 2012	#139
NOT ME	Skittles	Aug 2012	#14
You have also failed...	agent46	Aug 2012	#17
The reason people do it is because they know the employee can't talk back to them	Major Nikon	Aug 2012	#18
Sure the employee can talk back... problem is, most of the employees don't realize it.	LooseWilly	Aug 2012	#87
I think most retail employees realize they won't get away with it without being fired	Major Nikon	Aug 2012	#94
I got insulted by a telemarketer the other day.	Initech	Aug 2012	#20
Never. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I can't even remember the last time I had bad service from anybody	Booster	Aug 2012	#21
I brought up an incident about this recently	reflection	Aug 2012	#22
A most excellent on that restaurant manager/owner!	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#38
Absolutely.	Wait Wut	Aug 2012	#23
Agreed. People that seek to aggrandize themselves on the servants this way suck.	freshwest	Aug 2012	#25
You all did a wonderful thing	susanr516	Aug 2012	#59
I always judge a person by the way they treat service workers	nichomachus	Aug 2012	#27
My business is basically a service business but I am much sought after...	Walk away	Aug 2012	#30
The Source for All of Our Economic, Political, Financial, and Social Problems Is....	Yavin4	Aug 2012	#32
huh? you have to consume to live. people have always consumed & traded, i don't think that	HiPointDem	Aug 2012	#46
In the past, we had a balance between consumption and production	Yavin4	Aug 2012	#50
oh, i see what you mean. not sure "consumption society" is the right term, though.	HiPointDem	Aug 2012	#51
It's similar to this	stopwastingmymoney	Aug 2012	#68
i understand. just saying, 'consumption society' doesn't really express that, imo.	HiPointDem	Aug 2012	#86
maybe you do. but most people realize they're in the same boat.	Tunkamerica	Aug 2012	#90
I was cleaning my anger while waiting in line at Starbucks- and it just went off! nt	Poll_Blind	Aug 2012	#37
It's bullying plain and simple	4th law of robotics	Aug 2012	#40
Spending a night or two in jail for it would correct the problem...	Comrade_McKenzie	Aug 2012	#41
A head waiter recently told me of a story about a customer.	geardaddy	Aug 2012	#44
That's kind of sad and submissive sounding :-(	Walk away	Aug 2012	#77
Sounds more like a "Power Bottom"	Kurovski	Aug 2012	#107
I think what he was saying was that the guy should go fuck himself.	geardaddy	Aug 2012	#142
"Rachel Needs a Vacation" fund raiser...	-..__...	Aug 2012	#45
The real trick is being the customer behind them when it happens and SAYING SOMETHING.	cecilfirefox	Aug 2012	#49
Same here!	LeftofObama	Aug 2012	#56
I was in that kind of situation recently...	begin_within	Aug 2012	#73
Reminds me of a story a friend told me years ago. He was on an out of town job as a painter with a	Citizen Worker	Aug 2012	#53
funny	Tunkamerica	Aug 2012	#91
Much Of It Is Race Based Too Boot	DallasNE	Aug 2012	#54
'Pretty in/Pretty' out. (as opposed to 'garbage in/garbage' out).	chknltl	Aug 2012	#57
It's karma in the micro	stopwastingmymoney	Aug 2012	#69
Almost like they're real people... maybe they'll give you free pie.	Tunkamerica	Aug 2012	#92
I used to work at the county appraisers office; measuring houses in Kansas.	Blanks	Aug 2012	#58
I'm a lunch lady in an elementary school	Cairycat	Aug 2012	#60
Sounds like you are on the front-lines there Cairycat,	BrendaBrick	Aug 2012	#66
I got out of the service industry because I realized that the customers	GoneOffShore	Aug 2012	#65
I Used To Tell My Fellow Service Workers... "We Are Here To Serve Them, But...	WillyT	Aug 2012	#67
D.Z. Akin's has a note on the menu, "Too much aggravation to server, $1 surcharge."	begin_within	Aug 2012	#72
I have noticed that more money a person has, the more likely they are to shit on waiters.	Odin2005	Aug 2012	#75
One of THE most revealing behaviors ever.	patrice	Aug 2012	#78
I only berate when needed. . .like when my service is shitty, my server has an attitude problem and	Suji to Seoul	Aug 2012	#79
I was for ten years a ticket agent at National Airport in Washington, DC.	SheilaT	Aug 2012	#80
I've never understood people who feel the need to act badly.	Stonepounder	Aug 2012	#81
There is a LOT to that	HillWilliam	Aug 2012	#120
I think everyone should be required to work in the service industry at least once..	siouxsiecreamcheese	Aug 2012	#84
Yes, it's a real eye-opener	slackmaster	Aug 2012	#93
"La Seur peas" oh that made me laugh	nadine_mn	Aug 2012	#146
My daughter	Doc Holliday	Aug 2012	#99
I work as a security guard	Trunk Monkey	Aug 2012	#100
I learned fast that as a Civil Servant you have even less rights ...	bayareaboy	Aug 2012	#104
Respect and a Hello/Good morning	elbloggoZY27	Aug 2012	#105
I have zero tolerance for petty tyrants.	Zorra	Aug 2012	#108
+1 n/t	area51	Aug 2012	#109
It happens on both sides of the aisle IMO	lunasun	Aug 2012	#111
I have never harassed, berated or insulted a service worker.	RebelOne	Aug 2012	#112
Agreed. I'm in telephone customer service.	mwooldri	Aug 2012	#113
I've worked burger-flipping jobs myself when I was younger.	backscatter712	Aug 2012	#115
I don't think	JonLP24	Aug 2012	#116
You mean like this?	crazyjoe	Aug 2012	#117
^^^^^Precisely Like THAT^^^^^	NYC_SKP	Aug 2012	#143
I always tip well and the wife didn't get it at first.	sarcasmo	Aug 2012	#118
Agree. nt	Honeycombe8	Aug 2012	#119
I only berate them when they're incompetent.	TransitJohn	Aug 2012	#121
I agree -	Zax2me	Aug 2012	#122
People in the service industry OWE you good service.	Bonobo	Aug 2012	#123
Nobody getting paid $7.50 an hr owes anyone who abuses them anything.	Zorra	Aug 2012	#124
Yes they do.	Bonobo	Aug 2012	#125
"Western sense of entitlement"? LOL. Yeah, I suppose that's true...	Zorra	Aug 2012	#128
It gives me a tremendous sense of pride in and gratitude for my fellow DUers	WilliamPitt	Aug 2012	#138
I've never understood people who belittle service workers.	Lone_Star_Dem	Aug 2012	#140

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