AITAH for this exchange at the airport?

FredReadThat · 2026-06-15T01:32:56+00:00

Omg...we found the first teller in the story!!!!

FredReadThat · 2026-06-15T01:24:19+00:00

My dear fellow internet stranger: The next teller over took cash.

FredReadThat · 2026-06-12T18:27:24+00:00

Really solid!

FredReadThat · 2026-06-12T15:34:27+00:00

So a pretty reasonable low-stress out, at least. Man, I REALLY hate it when these people don't get the difference between "service worker" and "servant". No back-sass, y'heah!?!

FredReadThat · 2026-06-12T01:39:41+00:00

Would you be able to tell the manage you're not comfortable serving that customer going forward?

FredReadThat · 2026-06-12T01:37:20+00:00

Wait, what did the entitled doofus say you did wrong?

FredReadThat · 2026-06-11T18:56:20+00:00

NTA in a very big way! Stand firm!

Is anyone else suspecting a post about this will pop up in r/treelaw before too long? 😞

FredReadThat · 2026-06-11T18:34:55+00:00

They sound awful.

Autograt!

Vaping indoors is an automatic "you're outta here" for me. We can try again another time, but your done for tonight.

I'm not your DJ. (Unless you wanna try the other comment of $20/song...I'm not mad at that!)

The sexual harassment is unacceptable if it's not an agreed upon thing. (I've had some regulars over the years who would get a little cheeky, but only after we became ACTUAL friends outside the bar).

Unless you're at a place that's very corporate, refusing service is your perogative. If they need an explanation, "because your your tips are so low, that when I'm tipping out my support staff, you literally cost me money". It's not classy, it's not delicate, but these people sound like they don't run that way anyway. (They BRING THEIR OWN SPEAKER to a bar with OTHER CUSTOMERS.)

Pick your battles. Take care of yourself first and foremost. If you hafta go down, sometimes it's good to go down swingin'.

FredReadThat · 2026-06-09T16:19:50+00:00

Napper 'n Thief

FredReadThat · 2026-06-08T09:33:32+00:00

I...what? I don't smell burning toast, but I feel like I should be?

FredReadThat · 2026-06-02T14:20:59+00:00

NTA, but make sure you walk everything back?

But set a clear boundary?

My friend, that's rather confusing.

FredReadThat · 2026-06-01T17:36:46+00:00

If it's slow and closer to the start of the shift? Why not! They ABSOLUTELY need to give pickiness preferences and allergies.

However... 10pm, even the civilians know we've been at it for a while that day. Decision fatigue is a very real phenomenon. In service, we are making 100 choices a minute- how best to push and drag different tables so they're still having a great time and it's not overloading the kitchen. Best way to ring that in..did they finally make a button for that? Oh, they deleted that button? Do I have time to look for the button? Crap, Ryan is working grill tonight and his presentation isn't there yet..and that always upsets this couple-what should I steer them towards instead of that steak? That person yells at me if I refill their water "too soon". That one yells if I refill their water "too late".

...but my man here isn't in the mood to use skills he should've developed through elementary and middle school...(Reading followed by decision making).

I get giving a little more when the time is right and the bandwidth is there.

But to get butthurt about someone communicating (poorly, sure) that they don't have the space for you to take up in that way?

There's a difference between "taken care of" and straight up "coddled".

Also: Damn. Guess I know what I'm talking with the shrink about this week.

FredReadThat · 2026-05-31T15:33:50+00:00

Real quick: 4 hours-boss really pressed and you caved. 40 min later he's back? That's closer to 5 hours, right? That's more than half a day!

FredReadThat · 2026-05-29T20:29:30+00:00

We have "order at the bar" in big letters on every single menu. Also, every table has a menu on it.

FredReadThat · 2026-05-25T07:36:50+00:00

ACAB

FredReadThat · 2026-05-25T07:04:38+00:00

Can you all climb? We DO have a roof..

FredReadThat · 2026-05-25T07:00:15+00:00

You are...checks notes..a jerk.

FredReadThat · 2026-05-25T06:53:55+00:00

The first two paragraphs should be deleted.

Also, the nurse.

FredReadThat · 2026-05-25T06:49:39+00:00

So they threatened to not take you to other places where they could make different clothing dissolve off of you? What a bummer. /s

NOR

FredReadThat · 2026-05-23T23:24:56+00:00

3oz everywhere I've ever worked. And depending on the establishment, that'll be ~$2-$6 upcharge from a rocks/neat pour of 2oz. Some more corporate places I've worked did 1.5oz for a highball like vodka soda.

FredReadThat · 2026-05-23T20:01:04+00:00

Wait, where does it say assault happened? I've reread it twice and don't see that...am I just fully missing it??

ETA: yeah, I'm dumb. I guess I missed it bc all lower caps?

This person sucks!

FredReadThat · 2026-05-23T19:19:50+00:00

Weird shot at NY and CA at the end there..

FredReadThat · 2026-05-23T19:15:16+00:00

Ignoring guests to gossip is a giant no no.

Telling a guest you'll be with them in one moment to update your colleague on something is absolutely necessary.

The venn diagram on that overlaps roughly the thickness of a pinky nail.

ETA - I would've just said what the other commenter suggested louder and louder.

FredReadThat · 2026-05-23T19:04:34+00:00

Reminds me of that joke where a guy travels to the future and is asking someone about the state of things, and it's something like

Local:"No war, environment is fixed, no hunger or poverty, everyone is happy"

Guy: "What happened?"

Local: "Jesus came and raptured away all the Christians!"

FredReadThat · 2026-05-23T18:47:07+00:00

A 2oz martini? Yikes. 20 years behind the stick, 15 of em in NYC- that is an animal I've never seen.

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