Rude woman tried to humiliate new waiter at restaurant— but instead got a call from her manager and nearly lost her job
During a busy shift, a customer asked him to prepare something that was not even on their menu.
Kindness costs nothing, yet most don't spare a minute to help others. Instead, people go beyond imagination to plot distinct ways to pull others down. A customer dining out at a restaurant tried to humiliate a waiter in a similar fashion. She was being unreasonably difficult and was constantly trying to embarrass the server during an already stressful shift. However, another waitress who was in charge found a surprising revelation about the customer that put her job at risk. The waitress (u/littlebityprettyone) posted the incident on Reddit on December 6.
The male server was an older guy who had just been released from prison. He was a little awkward, shy, and worried about making mistakes. During a busy shift, a customer asked him to prepare something that was not even on their menu. The waiter informed the senior waitress about the situation, and she asked him to check in with the cooks and serve the customer. The lady had left no stone unturned to stress the waiter out. Every time he went to her table, she would ask for something or the other, making it quite impossible to impress her or keep her satiated. "This carried on for their entire meal, incredibly needy and demanding his full attention with zero apology or kindness," the waitress said.
Somehow, the night ended as the male waiter approached his senior, inquiring about an employee discount. "That's when he shared that she had spent the entire meal berating and making fun of him because 1. She was a trainer at our other location, and 2. He was the worst waiter she had EVER seen," the waitress said. Soon enough, she found that the customer was trying to scam the restaurant by stacking discounts. The waitress was obviously furious, and so she immediately reported her to the front-end manager dealing with employees across all chains of the restaurant brand. Now, as part of her revenge, she gathered all employees to celebrate the loudest "birthday celebration" they had ever seen. By now, the rude table was regretting their attempt to scam. In the meantime, the front-end manager called the trainer's original restaurant and informed them about her. That's when the front-end manager handed the call to the rude "trainer," and she broke into tears while explaining why she shouldn't be fired.
The male waiter was new, and the fact that the customer behaved so rudely with him despite being from the same industry made it even worse. But guess what? Rude behavior from customers is something servers experience more often than not. In fact, over three-fifths of restaurant employees report experiencing disrespect from customers. Moreover, almost 50% said they have endured it from managers, according to the Snagajob-Black Box Intelligence survey. This means the servers aren't only treated badly by the customers but also by their management.
Meanwhile, reacting to the Reddit post, u/lanky-awareness-7450 commented, "Great read. Being a server at a sister restaurant should have given her empathy for someone new. Instead, she decided to torture him. She deserved to get fired." Similarly, u/impressive_rush5018 wrote, "Well done! I worked in the restaurant industry for a very long time, and if someone is working as a waiter at a substantially higher age than normal as a first-timer, I'm sure they are terrified. The way the leader acted, being a restaurant employee herself, was abominable. The way you and your bosses handled it... immaculate. I'm glad to hear she got fired on the spot. Nothing like instant karma." u/cute_recognition_880 wrote, "Wow, that's true pro revenge and she with her companions definitely deserved every bit of it."
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