Told customer to f**k off

[customersruinmylife]

I was working a kitchen shift. Now, the thing about working in the kitchen is that you do get a bit of a potty mouth. I think its because you're away from the customers and you can say what you want. Imagine Gordon Ramsay, but more obscene, and thats the kind of language you have in our kitchen.

It was dead, I was on my own and I sent one meal out. Apparently the lady didn't like it, and instead of telling someone, she thought she would come in and tell me.

SC: Excuse me!
Me: Ma'am you can't be in here!
SC: This steak isn't cooked well enough! Can you put it on longer!
Me: OK hand it to me, but leave now. It's against the law for you to be in here.

She leaves. I put the steak back on the grill and then send it out again.

All of a sudden, ten meals come through at once. Now, it has been dead, I've probably done about one meal an hour, and all of a sudden ten appear and I'm on my own. I look up at the computer screen and curse it.

Me: OH FUCK OFF!

I look up, and the SC is stood in front of me! With her meal in her hand. She thought I was talking to her because she RAN out of the kitchen.

She never said anything about it to anyone. A co-worker told me she just ate up and left. She must have knew she wasn't supposed to be in there, maybe she felt like she deserved it.

[Bright_Star]

How is it that people think it's ok to be in a kitchen of a restaurant? IF you don't work there then you have no business there.

[iradney]

If it's against the law (ya know, that thing you get huge fines or jailed for breaking), I reckon you can tell someone to buzz off in no uncertain terms.

[blas]

Sadly, customers in the kitchen are not as surprisingly rare or eyebrow raising occurances anymore. Some people have NO shame.

[Plaidman]

Hey, don't feel bad! Ya know in your heart you didn't mean it to her. Granted, even though it was busy, I would have at least tried ta get a message to her somehow that it wasn't meant for her.


However, if you think saying that's bad, you should see what me and my co-workers say to terrible customers.

[queenbb]

i tend to have a potty mouth my self, and sometimes it just slips.

im sure the lady felt like maybe even if it was not directed at her that she deserved it because she was somewhere where she shouldnt be.

i did get scolded once by one of the store managers, he says to me after the customer i was helping had left, that i shouldnt cuss in front of the customers EVER, i do not remember cussing in front of her, and yah sometimes i do have a bit of turrets. so i asked him what i had said

he said that i had said something that included damn. i had to think about it.

oh i said to him you mean when i was actually quoting the customer, that is exactly what she said, i am not the kind of person who will change words of people when i am explaing a situation or repeating a conversation that is releveant to the situation.

he told me i shouldnt have said it anyway.

i never thought of damn as a bad word, i have said it since i was a little little kid,

this lady came up to me and asked me what my name was, i told her my name was damnit tammy. my mom was alittle shocked by this.

anyway, sometimes cussing is pretty bad, i was not there for this one but i guess it happend while i was in the shop, one of our customer service guys started cussing at our mechaincs, some pretty foul language, one of the customers complained, he was caught on tape saying it, and the mechanics even reported him for it. when asked about the whole thing, he lied about it and said that everyone was lying, i guess cameras lie now adays. needless to say he was fired.

[crazylegs]

Try having them in a Photo Lab trying to tell you how to operate machines or telling you you don't need safety equipment, or even better trying to load paper cartridges!

[powerboy]

The cuss words: Who even said that they were bad?

[StevieJD]

I look up, and the SC is stood in front of me! With her meal in her hand. She thought I was talking to her because she RAN out of the kitchen.

She never said anything about it to anyone. A co-worker told me she just ate up and left. She must have knew she wasn't supposed to be in there, maybe she felt like she deserved it.

Good luck.

Those overheard out of context remarks are hard to undo.

[Fenrus]

I feel you. Back in my retail days, I was working the register, and someone brought up a pair of shoes they needed from the back. I didn't have anyone to ring out, and the only co-irker was in the very front of the store, so I ran back to grab em.

Little did I know that they thought I was taking too long, so the customer decided to come to the back right as I exclaimed... something that shouldn't be said at work, due to an entire shelf of jeans falling. My manager talked to me for a good 10 minutes before I could say my side.

[Slytovhand]

A couple of weeks ago, we were all just sitting around chatting (it was a slightly quiet night) and (in context) one of my co-workers had said something like "Oh - why don't you just STFU' - then he looked down and noticed that a call had just dropped through...

He dropped the call :P

We laughed...

[Meadhands]

Look at the bright side: Were you to have seen her first, you would probably have WANTED to say it anyway. Better yet, she actually f**ked off. It doesn't get much better.

[Binky]

In all honestly tho it was a mistake. Funny, but a mistake. In the end she didn't complain and probably knew she was in the wrong for what she was doing. She already knew she wasn't meant to be in there from when you told her the first time.


oh and OFF TOPIC!
Powerboy you avatar scared me LOL I noticed it's little eyes and when it blinked. So funny! I'm like staring at it going....did it just do what I think it just did. Very cool!

[Zombi]

I grew up in Australia, where everybody in everyplace I've ever worked in has had a dirty mouth. It's not uncommon, and as long as you're not using any of the serious ones (f**k and...the other one ), it's mostly accepted. Then I moved to the UK, where cussing in front of your boss is a sackable offence. There was a guy at the store where I used to work who got a verbal warning for saying 'bugger' where a customer could hear. Where customers are concerned, 'bugger' is pretty mild.