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Originally posted by 9selah9:
“i have to leave my family to go to work on christmas, and personally i wish it were the other way around”

And people who are not in your situation don’t realize that.

Might I take this time to provide you all with a little mini-rant.

1. If you are going to eat out, do not do so fifteen minutes until the end of a shift. People have things to do and places to go. Their schedule says that they get off at 3:30 and their professor only expects them to be ten minutes late for class after they pick up their little brother from school. 4:15 is not acceptable.

1.5 Do not ask “Are you closed yet?” If the doors are not locked, the answer is no. Rather ask “What time do you normally close?” If you don’t have an hour between now and then, go away. Go buy a pot pie or something.

2. The job description of an employee of any typical business is not “Whatever you want.” Do not tell an employee what he or she is paid to do. 9 times out of 10, someone else is getting paid to do what you are telling the wrong person to do. Furthermore, the person is now going to get yelled at, rather than paid, for not doing what they would have been doing if they had not been doing what you told them to do.

3. Buy a watch. Closing time is closing time. Really. Some of us have lives outside our jobs.

4. The customer is typically wrong! Your initials are nowhere on the progress board and you know nothing about that job. (especially if you’re old and grew up in a town without electricity)

5. Get some glasses. The hours are on the door.

6. Stop running into things every time H2O comes out of the sky. People have to stand around in that stuff and write reports all day long because you cannot drive.

7. When it snows so badly that the snow plow is stuck, managers say “If we get less than ‘X’ people in then next hour, go ahead and close down and let everyone go home.” So if there’s a blizzard, tornado, hurricane, holiday, or power outage, go home. Get that pot pie I talked about. You can heat it over some candles. Because, frankly, we all want to go home, too.

8. If I tell you that you have spyware, don’t tell me what the tech support guy said. He was obviously wrong seeing as your computer still doesn’t work.

9. Seriously, go home.

10. Finally, last but not least, for your information, when you complain and the manager calls me into the office, I do not get scolded or demoted or whatever. Here is the transcript of the conversation:

Boss: “That guy said his stake was rare.”
Me: “That’s how he asked for it.”
“Yeah, I know. I was right over there when he ordered. I just told him I would talk to you so he wouldn’t ask for his money back.”
*I try my hardest to keep a straight face, so as not to illuminate my manager’s complete lack of any fuck to give* “Ok. Do I have to cook another one?”
“No. He seems to be enjoying that one pretty good. If he asks I’ll tell you.”
“Ok. Can I go on break?”
“Are you caught up?”
“Ten minutes.”
“Ok. Check out with whoever’s back there when you get caught up.”
“Ok.”
“Hey,” as I am walking away. “I want to be out of here no later than 15 after.”
“Ok. That’s fine with me.”

P.S. I mean it. If you don’t want to waste your gas, call and see when they close. They will tell you the truth. I swear.

P.P.S. Always be sure to thoroughly debitchify your church group before eating out Sunday afternoon or someone will be forced to salivatize their food.

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