We're not allowed to go home...

[iviles]

Of course, we all live where we work. There's cots in the back where we sleep. Unless, of course, we're of the robot variety. Then we never need sleep and food all!

lol i know my favoret is those run in 2 sec before I can close the door and are shocked when I throw them out cuz I actualy have a family to go to. Or those that knock on the window thinking that I'll let them in cuz theres no way have any paper work to do or money to count.

[customersruinmylife]

lol i know my favoret is those run in 2 sec before I can close the door and are shocked when I throw them out cuz I actualy have a family to go to. Or those that knock on the window thinking that I'll let them in cuz theres no way have any paper work to do or money to count.

The other night a large group of ladies started shaking our doors trying to get in. All the staff were sat down drinking, half the lights were out and they tried every possible way of entering the bar, including windows! When we yelled at them to go away one of them screeched "WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!"

Yes, its February, its 2am, and you're wearing very little, you're going to last outdoors aren't you?

[Seshat]

That should be the title of a cookbook.

Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man

[Dips]

Of course, we all live where we work.

That brings to mind a guy my co-worker, Carl, had to deal with. Carl does tech support from his apartment in New York (our office is in eastern Massachusetts), so he actually does live where he works.

The company pays for a work phone line which Carl answers between 9 and 4:45 on weekdays; when he is off-duty he shuts off the ringer and lets the calls go to voice mail. The greeting states his hours and explains he will return calls during those hours

One guy, who somehow found out Carl works at home, became quite outraged at the fact that Carl would be right there and wouldn't help customers while he was on his own time.

He stated there was "no good reason that [Carl couldn't] take calls up until midnight."

That seems very reasonable. It gives Carl 8 hours a day to sleep and one hour for eating and personal care. That frees up the rest of his entire day to serve customers.

[Rapscallion]

If memory serves, isn't Carl blind?

Rapscallion

[Banthor the Unruly]

The other night a large group of ladies started shaking our doors trying to get in. All the staff were sat down drinking, half the lights were out and they tried every possible way of entering the bar, including windows! When we yelled at them to go away one of them screeched "WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!"

Yes, its February, its 2am, and you're wearing very little, you're going to last outdoors aren't you?

Why do people think that if they somehow manage to get through the door after hours they will still be able to shop or get serivce? I had a few customers pry the automatic doors open (they were closed, not locked) AFTER I told them we were closed, only to be told again in person, and kicked out.

"Well we would tell you to leave, but you crossed the threshold, so now you can now shop until we can get you to say your name backward."

[Dips]

If memory serves, isn't Carl blind?

Rapscallion

Yes. Carl is totally blind.

[friendofjimmyk]

I have to interject my two cents here...because, after all it's a message board. I have worked in quite a few restaurants over the course of my life...I was in the biz for over 10 years...anyway, I digress...

I loathed the customers that came in and sat beyond the end of my shift or the past closing time. They were the bain of my existence...I perfected a death stare once when I worked for a restaurant that did not allow the pass off between servers. (yes, that's right, if they were your table...you kept them til they left...no if's and's or buts about it)

However, restaurants I've worked at that allowed the server pass off would usually require that the current server inform the table of the switch...even go as far as introducing the new server to the table....

I don't think that's really unreasonable and a matter-of-fact, I think it's rather courteous and polite.

[MadMike]

Why do people think that if they somehow manage to get through the door after hours they will still be able to shop or get serivce? I had a few customers pry the automatic doors open (they were closed, not locked) AFTER I told them we were closed, only to be told again in person, and kicked out.

At the old supermarket job, when closing time came, we'd lock the "In" door, but leave the "out" door unlocked so that any stragglers could leave. I'm sure everyone can guess what happened.

[purplecat41877]

At the old supermarket job, when closing time came, we'd lock the "In" door, but leave the "out" door unlocked so that any stragglers could leave. I'm sure everyone can guess what happened.

I'm going to guess that people got in anyway. Also, that they insisted that since other people were shopping that they should shop too.

[ArcticChicken]

I absolutely love it when a woman (and it's always a woman) at the supermarket gets huffy when I try to close my lane. "But the lines are so long!" That's what you get when you shop at 5pm on a weekday. I actually told one woman "Ma'am, I am closing, I've been here an hour longer than I was scheduled, and I'm going home now." Shockingly enough, that actually shut her up.