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Yesteday, in Our Fair City, we had a rather substantial power outage that lastest from 4:30 to about 7:00 and affected a major portion of our downtown area.
This, of course, breeds a HUGE amount of suckiness on behalf of EWs!
(read in our major paper) One server at one of our more premiere restaurants in OFC is located on the 54th floor of one of tallest buildings had just got to work for her shift when the power went out and was waiting in the lobby to go up (apparently their change rooms are in the basement of the building to leave more room for the restaurant itself).
As she was waiting in the lobby, an irate customer approached her furious that he had made reservations 3 months ago for a window table and was not happy about this situation!
WTF dude! I'm sure it was her fault entirely. She really just wanted to lose an entire nights tips (the tips there are great!) and pay so she caused the power outage just to piss you off?
Myself - I was fortunate (again!). I had just stepped off the subway and was walking across the street towards my local pub when the power went down (my stop is the last stop before the subway usually goes down and shuttle buses start running when there's a power-off situation).
In my neighbourhood - it's a strange set-up for the hydro situation. We border on 2 areas - the main grid for OFC and a former region. It's always a scattering of who has their power off and on. Across the street - a smattering of stores were out and some on either side of those stores had their power on.
/BG
DH meets me and we sit down on the patio to watch the usual mayhem a power-outage causes during rush hour. No end of suckiness with the traffic - but nothing earth shattering.
However, as this is my local, and I am very familiar with the staff, owner, regulars, etc., we know what to expect during these unexpected events. Only one chef in the kitchen on a Monday - it's usually a slow day food-wise. Weekday Chef is keeping staff apprised of how long orders will take since he's backed up and working alone. Staff relays wait times to customer. Customer agrees or order is cancelled.
Since, as I mentioned, this pub is across the street from the last working subway stop on the line, it's slammed by 5:30. Totally full! Chef is not prepared for it. Not enough of anything has been prepped for this. People are complaining, but are placated by the speed of drinks coming out, so meh - nothing too much there.
Doors are being kept open from the restaurant to the patio so the servers can get in and out quickly. Not environmentally great, but hey, when you have a tray of pints in hand, you're not going to be trying to hold open a door every few seconds and people are walking in and out all the time. I go inside to check out the power situation on the TV newscast and get another bevvie (server is slammed and only on her 4th day, so I'm getting our drinks from the bartender to help out).
Asshole and girlfriend gets to the patio, gets to the doors, walks through and promptly closes both sets of doors, loudly announcing -"Are we cooling the outdoors now?".
Owner gets up, re-opens the doors and sits back down again glaring and saying not to touch the doors - he is not at home here.
Unperturbed, the idiot then asks "Well, are you serving then?".
Dude - everyone's watching the news, the lights are on, the bartender is right in front of you pouring pints and mixing drinks. The restaurant is full and you're seriously asking if we're open and serving drinks?
My friend with a great streak of sacrasm merely turns to the owner sitting beside him and says in all seriousness - "I think he's cut-off before he's even been served"
.
Sure enough - owner does indeed say that, yes, unfortunately, they are closed due to the power outage
.
Idiot and girlfriend turn and walk out - a bit puzzled, but do leave.
Everyone just cracks up!
Morons...
Yesteday, in Our Fair City, we had a rather substantial power outage that lastest from 4:30 to about 7:00 and affected a major portion of our downtown area.
This, of course, breeds a HUGE amount of suckiness on behalf of EWs!
(read in our major paper) One server at one of our more premiere restaurants in OFC is located on the 54th floor of one of tallest buildings had just got to work for her shift when the power went out and was waiting in the lobby to go up (apparently their change rooms are in the basement of the building to leave more room for the restaurant itself).
As she was waiting in the lobby, an irate customer approached her furious that he had made reservations 3 months ago for a window table and was not happy about this situation!
WTF dude! I'm sure it was her fault entirely. She really just wanted to lose an entire nights tips (the tips there are great!) and pay so she caused the power outage just to piss you off?
Myself - I was fortunate (again!). I had just stepped off the subway and was walking across the street towards my local pub when the power went down (my stop is the last stop before the subway usually goes down and shuttle buses start running when there's a power-off situation).
In my neighbourhood - it's a strange set-up for the hydro situation. We border on 2 areas - the main grid for OFC and a former region. It's always a scattering of who has their power off and on. Across the street - a smattering of stores were out and some on either side of those stores had their power on.
/BG
DH meets me and we sit down on the patio to watch the usual mayhem a power-outage causes during rush hour. No end of suckiness with the traffic - but nothing earth shattering.
However, as this is my local, and I am very familiar with the staff, owner, regulars, etc., we know what to expect during these unexpected events. Only one chef in the kitchen on a Monday - it's usually a slow day food-wise. Weekday Chef is keeping staff apprised of how long orders will take since he's backed up and working alone. Staff relays wait times to customer. Customer agrees or order is cancelled.
Since, as I mentioned, this pub is across the street from the last working subway stop on the line, it's slammed by 5:30. Totally full! Chef is not prepared for it. Not enough of anything has been prepped for this. People are complaining, but are placated by the speed of drinks coming out, so meh - nothing too much there.
Doors are being kept open from the restaurant to the patio so the servers can get in and out quickly. Not environmentally great, but hey, when you have a tray of pints in hand, you're not going to be trying to hold open a door every few seconds and people are walking in and out all the time. I go inside to check out the power situation on the TV newscast and get another bevvie (server is slammed and only on her 4th day, so I'm getting our drinks from the bartender to help out).
Asshole and girlfriend gets to the patio, gets to the doors, walks through and promptly closes both sets of doors, loudly announcing -"Are we cooling the outdoors now?".
Owner gets up, re-opens the doors and sits back down again glaring and saying not to touch the doors - he is not at home here.
Unperturbed, the idiot then asks "Well, are you serving then?".
Dude - everyone's watching the news, the lights are on, the bartender is right in front of you pouring pints and mixing drinks. The restaurant is full and you're seriously asking if we're open and serving drinks?
My friend with a great streak of sacrasm merely turns to the owner sitting beside him and says in all seriousness - "I think he's cut-off before he's even been served"
. Sure enough - owner does indeed say that, yes, unfortunately, they are closed due to the power outage
. Idiot and girlfriend turn and walk out - a bit puzzled, but do leave.
Everyone just cracks up!
Morons...
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