Archive for November, 2005

Customers Suck: The Singles’ Group

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Howdy to folks popping over from Waiter Rant. My blog isn’t strictly about restauranting, but a fair amount of the posts are. ‘Cause, you know, I basically live at The Restaurant Where I Work(TM), so I can’t help a large part of the posts being about that. They let me come home once in awhile [...]

Managers Ordered To Strip Search Female Employees By “Cop” On The Phone

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

A Hoax Most Cruel — The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky:
She was a high school senior who had just turned 18 — a churchgoing former Girl Scout who hadn’t received a single admonition in her four months working at the McDonald’s in Mount Washington.
But when a man who called himself “Officer Scott” called the store on April [...]

The End Of The World As We Know It?

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

I read this site: LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net. Go forth and read.
Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Got it? Pretty fucking sucktacular, ain’t it? For those of you who didn’t read, let me explain. Oil = Running Out. Life = About to get real shitty.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Oil is a finite resource. See, I’d read this site once [...]

Customers Suck: Laser Pointers

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Some days . . . I’ll tell ya.
So, I’m working last night. Just after I had punched in, a table of three came in — a guy and a gal between twenty and twenty-five years old, fairly clean cut sorts, probably from the local college, and a younger-looking physically disabled girl. They sat in the [...]