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    I recently got another job at a casino resort on top of my motel job to help break even plus we've been notified that the motel is shutting down this year.

    Anyway, I have definitely underestimated the work load that comes through high end places like these. Plus I may need to reel in my attitude.

    This week has been particularly strenuous as some of the staff have caught Covid and I got called in to cover shorted days.

    I'm just gonna shoot out my annoyances through a lightning round. SOme of these happened in the same night.

    Coming in half an hour before closing time and ordering the 5 course banquet and cluttering the table with wine and beer glasses.
    Being surprised that there is too much food that comes with said banquet.
    Ordering two live fish dishes and then asking to have one saved for later AS IT'S PUT ON THE TABLE.
    Asking to change the how the leftover Peking duck is cooked WHILE IT'S BEING CHOPPPED UP IN THE KITCHEN.
    Not finalizing your order and asking for a different type of soup with your order.
    Leaving your phones on the table and taking up space for the plates.
    Not remembering your orders.
    Demanding for an olive in the martini when our restaurant has no olives.
    Asking for French wine by the glass, ordering the local variety anyway and calling it disgusting.

    I could go on and on but I think I'm too exhausted to do so.
    Seriously, what is it with rich people eating dinner so late at night?

    I think I may need to reel in my attitude if I don't want my manager to drop me. I should have known what I was expecting when I signed up for this.

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    Seriously, what is it with rich people?
    That part there is all you need

    They're definitely the assholes here, and, sadly, nothing is likely to change that. All you can really do is persist - get through the pack of wolves you've been thrown to and do what you must to deal with it, as manglement at places like a casino will absolutely be on the cursetomers' side 99% of the time. This, despite the fact that they know very well which ones are the actual high rollers and which ones (95%) just think they are. Hint for their benefit: It's not the ones playing the dollar slots; it's the ones who can afford to order $200 lobsters and steaks a la carte and eat them in the private dining room that most of the buffet patrons don't even know exists while sipping on a glass of actual $500+/bottle French wine.

    I cannot speak to "attitude" without further context; just know that the managers will definitely expect you to figure it out or move on.

    In the meantime, however, update your resume and review it to look for errors, then send that sucker out before you need to
    Last edited by EricKei; 01-17-2022, 06:31 PM. Reason: I really need to proffeead my shit
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    • #3
      Betcha it's new money. People thinking that they are acting rich.
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      • #4
        Quoth EricKei View Post
        they know very well which ones are the actual high rollers and which ones (95%) just think they are. Hint for their benefit: It's not the ones playing the dollar slots; it's the ones who can afford to order $200 lobsters and steaks a la carte and eat them in the private dining room that most of the buffet patrons don't even know exists while sipping on a bottle of actual $500+/bottle French wine.
        This right here. Truly wealthy people probably aren't often ostentatious. These people were trying to be.
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        • #5
          It's been my experience that the ones who actually worked for their money (as in, starting at ground level and improving over time) tend not to be the showy/ostentatious ones. People who were born rich or married into wealth, on the other hand, tend to act like OP's dinner guests.
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          • #6
            Back in my days as a server I had to bite my tongue a lot. There are always customers out there like the OP's dickhead dinner guests and money doesn't play much into it. It's more that they feel they are better than the person serving them. What those arse-wipes tend to forget is that if it weren't for servers and all those other people they feel are below them that they wouldn't have any restaurants to go out to in the first place.

            I will never forget the table of old ladies that came in very Sunday after church - they always carried on as if we were somehow below them. One day they actually said to me that they felt bad that anybody had to work on Sundays, that if we actually like working on Sundays that we must be heathens. I very calmly asked the ladies where they would go if we didn't come into work so they could go for their after-Church brunch. That was the first day that they actually left me a tip. I would have told them that I'm indeed a heathen as far as their beliefs go, but I didn't want to blow their mind too much. Besides, these people are everywhere you go regardless of industry.

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            • #7
              When I started working at Arby's after being a computer tech for almost 30 years I meet as customers some of the people I used to do jobs for. Some (just a few) tried to tell me that it must be a downward move of my status. Until I pointed out, since I now worked for a company that did not need me every work day I have no problem running off for a few days to watch an eclipse or a week or two to go on a cruise.

              My work as a tech paid off all my debts, my job at Arby's gave me pocket money to do do what I wanted, when I wanted. Meanwhile, those people at high paying jobs were very limited in when they could run off for their own pleasures.

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              • #8
                Great, earl colby pottinger!
                Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                • #9
                  Quoth EricKei View Post
                  That part there is all you need

                  They're definitely the assholes here, and, sadly, nothing is likely to change that. All you can really do is persist - get through the pack of wolves you've been thrown to and do what you must to deal with it, as manglement at places like a casino will absolutely be on the cursetomers' side 99% of the time. This, despite the fact that they know very well which ones are the actual high rollers and which ones (95%) just think they are. Hint for their benefit: It's not the ones playing the dollar slots; it's the ones who can afford to order $200 lobsters and steaks a la carte and eat them in the private dining room that most of the buffet patrons don't even know exists while sipping on a glass of actual $500+/bottle French wine.

                  I cannot speak to "attitude" without further context; just know that the managers will definitely expect you to figure it out or move on.

                  In the meantime, however, update your resume and review it to look for errors, then send that sucker out before you need to
                  You make a lot of great points, Eric. But I don't think it's quite fair to characterize all rich people who visit casinos like that (or, for that matter, all rich people in general). I'll leave it there to avoid fratching.
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                  • #10
                    mjr - That's fair. I meant to refer to somewhat wealthy people who put on airs, rather than rich people in general.
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                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                    Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                    "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                    • #11
                      A college classmate of mine grew up near a high-end vacation spot. His dad repaired TVs or something like that. The nouveau-riche would name-drop and try to impress him with where they were going for their next vacation. Old money would hang around the shop and talk about fishing.

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                      • #12
                        My wife talked about the Old Money families in the town where she grew up.

                        One of the family members drove an old beat-up 70s-vintage Saab, because he liked it. He could have bought a Lamborghini, or two or three, but he didn't feel the need to. Just drove his beater Saab.
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                        • #13
                          Demanding for an olive in the martini when our restaurant has no olives
                          Ok I'm with them on this one. A "casino resort" should have that.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Rosco the Iroc View Post

                            Ok I'm with them on this one. A "casino resort" should have that.
                            After-all, you never know when you have to serve an agent on Her's Majesty Service.

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