Sucky customers friends

[portia911]

Ok this may be in the wrong place buit here goes

Have any of you been friends with a sucky customer. You know the sort of EW who complains about every experience in a shop or resturant theyu go into, nothings is ever good enough, can't order from the menu but have to design their own dishes to their exact specifications then grizzle and refuse to pay becuase they did'nt like their meal.

I was besties with one for 7 years and ended it because everytime I left the house with her I knew some new drama would unfold and it was just too stressful

[TheSnakeLady]

Related to one. My sis typically can't order off the menu without removing half the ingredients in a dish. Though she doesn't refuse to pay, but she will send it back multiple times if it's wrong.

[Stormraven]

Related to one. My sis typically can't order off the menu without removing half the ingredients in a dish. Though she doesn't refuse to pay, but she will send it back multiple times if it's wrong.

Don't see that as sucky. If I order something special, and I get it done wrong, I'll send it back as well - as many times as needed to get what I ordered.

As long as it's done politely, I don't see where the suck is.

[DeltaSierra]

My ex father-in-law refused to tip. I found it extremely embarrassing, but the icing on the cake was the time me and my ex took him and his wife out to dinner, and he "went back to the table because he forgot something" and I saw him POCKET the money I had left for a tip!!!! When I called him on it he mumbled something like "Oh I thought you accidentally dropped the money and I was going to bring it to you" and then after being told it was for the tip said "I don't tip - they make enough money and why should I pay them for doing their job?"

Got to the point that every time I was ever out to dinner with them, after the meal I'd personally seek out the server and hand them the tip so he couldn't steal it again.

[depechemodefan]

You're ex-father in law is an asshole. What the &%^* was he taking your money, when you can do anything you want with your money?

[smileyeagle1021]

You're ex-father in law is an asshole. What the &%^* was he taking your money, when you can do anything you want with your money?

ditto... and wow, $2.13 an hour is enough... yeah, if I had family members who acted that way I'd disown them in a heartbeat.

[DeltaSierra]

I don't know where he got off taking money *I* left for a tip - but some people are like that. He's not the reason the ex is now an ex, but it's a clue as to how the ex was brought up. Nobody in that family thinks of others before themselves, and I discovered that a little too late.

Suckiness aside, I've tried my hardest to be a GOOD customer, and even when things didn't go my way, I often just grin and bear it, rather than try to cause a stir. Life's too short, and unless its a major thing, sometimes its just easier that way. I try to go out of my way to be a pleasant customer and often it pays off. At the local deli that I patronize, all the workers there know me on sight, and invariably I get a little more than what I order at no cost. It pays to be nice.

[Peppergirl]

I don't know where he got off taking money *I* left for a tip - but some people are like that. He's not the reason the ex is now an ex, but it's a clue as to how the ex was brought up. Nobody in that family thinks of others before themselves, and I discovered that a little too late.

<Blink>

Were we married to the same man, Neecy?

[portia911]

ditto... and wow, $2.13 an hour is enough... yeah, if I had family members who acted that way I'd disown them in a heartbeat.

$2.13? Do you guys not have a minimum wage over there?

[Hyndis]

$2.13? Do you guys not have a minimum wage over there?

People who get tips are an exception to the minimum wage law. Their minimum wage is an absolute joke. Its expected that they make most of their money off of tips.

So in other words, you server's paycheck assumes that you will tip them. If you do not tip them, its their paycheck that hurts.


Incredibly stupid, I know, but its the way things are done in the US.

[smileyeagle1021]

$2.13? Do you guys not have a minimum wage over there?

we do, but in a lot of states businesses are allowed to count tips towards the minimum wage... so at least in Utah they have figured out that a server will earn at least a certain amount in tips which is how much they are allowed to pay under minimum... it's been a while sense I looked into being a server... between being tip dependent and needing to spend at least $10 just to get the certifications to even apply at a restaurant... and that's only if they don't serve liquor which means less tips. If they serve liquor the certification costs more.

[scroob]

i was a waiter forever. we made 4.25 + tips. and, if the tips didn't add up to the minimum wage, we were paid min wage. as a total aside, we used to have "declaring wars" to see who could declare the lowest % for their evening tips. i won when i declared 2 bucks when i'd made 32.

[mattm04]

You're ex-father in law is an asshole. What the &%^* was he taking your money, when you can do anything you want with your money?

If I had a relative like that and went out often with them I would pay with a CC and not let said non-tipper ever see the slip.

[Automan Empire]

YES! I've TOTALLY stopped hanging out with a particular acquaintance after a single awful visit to a restaraunt. It is a local chain with a reputation for acceptable food at very competitive prices, which means the staffing is minimal.

We went during the busy dinner hour. The waitress was spread thin but handling it well. Before she even approached us, he had started in on an ongoing narrative about how awful the service was, setting the stage for acting petulant and demanding, and not tipping.

When she got to our table, I had my stock-off-the-menu order ready down to the sides and everything. He waited till she looked at him, THEN opened the menu, wasting her precious time thinking aloud, and stretching out the order once he settled upon something, and requesting boundary-pushing substitutions and changes on everything. I could see the cooks were cranking, and it was inevitable that such an unusual, picky order would be off on some detail. Naturally, this led to vocal recriminations to her, whining for further extras, and intensification of the ongoing no-tip narrative.

At the time, they had a promotion where every dinner came with a choice of 4 or 5 cheap-but-okay desserts. There were photos of them in the windows, and also in the stand-up plexiglass dessert menu that was on the table the whole time. Our waitress by this time was giving our table a wide berth, and the narrative (by now, screed) shifted to dessert. I watched in horror as he literally GRABBED THE UNIFORM of a DIFFERENT WAITRESS (not ours) as she bustled by with a pot of coffee, and announce loudly, "GEE, WE'D SURE LIKE SOME DESSERT!" Without skipping a beat, she asked what we wanted. He settles back and asks, well what do you have? She goes through the choices, and he takes forever to decide.

I made sure to leave an ENORMOUS tip on my side of the table, so he could see, and never hung around with him again!

[NightWatch]

You know they say if you're out with someone, and they treat the wait-staff horribly, that tends to be a strong indication of how they will eventually treat you. Or at least a good indication of what kind of person they are.