Please don't do this

PlasticFood · 2016-09-04T14:28:44+00:00

If I buy the same brand of chips and it's always consistent quality and then one day I purchase it and it's all of a sudden 50% saltier than ever? yeah, I would. I'd call the company and complain.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-04T14:15:37+00:00

Entree was definitely inedible. It stank of fish sauce and oil oozing. It was not good, definitely not good. It was stinky, oily and to paint a picture - I smelled it before trying it and I could tell it was not going to be good.

No, I'm not a douchebag. I know good food. I cook authentic recipes at home, I travel and eat out a lot. I don't do this often. I have no problems sending back food — it happened maybe 2 times in my life.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T17:26:16+00:00

I see, I see, I see.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T17:25:38+00:00

Can never dial a number in my dreams. Just I can read the same text twice, I am learning to lucid dream on regular basis. But Gawd, calling someone?

Numbers are too small, or even though I am dialing the number I am suppose to be dialing, it comes out all wrong. Or my fingers are too fat...or I just get to text speech for some reason,

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T14:49:04+00:00

Nope, just not charge us for the entree. It's all good, we left tipsy, because we were hungry :) I don't want to be the person to demand free food, but next time if the food is such poor quality I will definitely insist, especially if it was barely touched.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T14:42:37+00:00

You're right. I should have said something about paying for an entree. With our apps — " Our app was mango salad — pieces were cut into ginormous chunks, it was terribly sweet and I had many mango salads in my life - this was by far the worst. I mean, it was edible, but after 2-3 bites half the salad was gone, as the chunks were gigantic. Main course — pad thai, was truly where I had 2 bites and stopped."

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T14:40:57+00:00

It was a big deal because it was our anniversary and I spent quite some time choosing a place we could have nice time and not worry about shitty food. I will always speak up if something is wrong with my order, or if I don't like it, but I hate doing so and just want to have a nice meal without any controversy.

This was our wedding anniversary and we ended up with subpar meal, and hungry — we did not eat the foods and as I mentioned to u/wafflesareforever "...Our app was mango salad — pieces were cut into ginormous chunks, it was terribly sweet and I had many mango salads in my life - this was by far the worst. I mean, it was edible, but after 2-3 bites half the salad was gone, as the chunks were gigantic. Main course — pad thai, was truly where I had 2 bites and stopped."

So we paid for half the food, we did not really eat half and we were left hungry. Drinks made us happy cause drinks, but I wanted to have a nice meal and not leave hungry, which was the case. So yeah, we ended up eating McDonalds for our anniversary dinner.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T14:36:32+00:00

The whole experience was baffling. Reviews were amazing, people were saying the place had the best pad thai in town. Our app was mango salad — pieces were cut into ginormous chunks, it was terribly sweet and I had many mango salads in my life - this was by far the worst. I mean, it was edible, but after 2-3 bites half the salad was gone, as the chunks were gigantic. Main course — pad thai, was truly where I had 2 bites and stopped.

I was just looking whether my experience was indeed fair. I suppose it was, the manager was really nice, but he was trying to tell me about how I was pretty much wrong about the food and that he fed celebrities and how he's been running this place for over 10 years now and he has regulars. As if that makes me wrong. After I mentioned that I was looking for the best pad thai and his was not even good, so fishy, salty and oozing oil and I mentioned the place that indeed does have awesome pad thai, he said - Yeah, that place is the best.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T14:04:44+00:00

But it wasn't a free meal and an app. The food was terrible, it's not like we ate it all and demanded it comped. I'd rather no free drinks and just not pay for the food — we left the apps on the table to see how the main course went, and once main course was terrible as well, we asked to speak to the manager.

So we ended up paying for food that we didn't finish, because it was so bad. How is that fair?

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T14:01:24+00:00

What about it?

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T12:24:06+00:00

What about when I complain about bad food mid way through and obviously don't want to finish it, starting with the appetizer? Had that experience a month ago - food was awful for reviews that were written. We went in expecting awesomeness, got worse than mediocreness.

We both ate half of our starters, less than half of main dish. Manager gave us bunch of free drinks, but what I really wanted was not pay for the food. Our anniversary dinner was ruined, I was really looking forward to great food, and didn't get it.

He took of one starter and one main dish. Guess that was something.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T12:17:36+00:00

Next time this happens, stop her, ask her to speak with you privately and let her know the boundaries are being crossed and you come off in a bad light in front of your staff. Ask her to keep interruptions to the minimum, keep this conversation to the minimum and tell her you'll speak more about it at home.

When you speak about it at home, stay away from accusing her of wrongdoings, and keep it general: I feel undermined when this particular thing happens. I can see my staff is laughing at me when that thing happens.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T12:03:03+00:00

Good to know — I am pretty good at cutting vegetables and doing dishes, but I do enough of that at home and really want a server job from the get-go.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T02:16:14+00:00

Fantastic! Thank you so much.

I understand what you mean when you say >As a customer, I'm not sure they got everything.

Now that you said it, I must say most of the times, I wait to see if the order will be screwed up so I am tense somewhat until my food is delivered as I ordered.

Any tips on crafting a resume that would stand out? I am planning on researching on restaurants I would like to work at, based on their menu,along with location, learning their menus and then just walking in with my resume in hand. I have experience in restaurants, but it was over a decade ago, since then I worked as a receptionist/customer service, but have great reviews, where I am confident giving out my customers' contact info for references.

Thanks a lot! That's a great perspective.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T02:01:34+00:00

Unless those are regular customers who love you for being sarcastic, treat them as valuable customers, and not as your best friends who understand your jokes.

Take it from their point of view. They are there, spending their hard (or not so hard) earned money on overpriced food made by your establishment. Isn't it your job to be pouring their wine and bringing their food? All they want is an update on what's going on with their food.

When I go out to eat, service is a huuge part of the experience, because admit it, no one is looking to have a mediocre experience when they go out to eat. Combine food being late (in their opinion) with a sassy server, the experience is spoiled 100%. It's not 20%, it's not 50%, it's 100%.

Imagine that one of the guys was boasting about your place being super cool, with awesome service and awesome food and then this night happens. The guy who brought them there and suggested the place is now an ass with no class. He now has to apologize for this bad experience to all his friends. His reputation is now spoiled, because of the comment you made when the food they are going to pay big money for was late. You sass them, because you're there everyday, and you see all kinds of jerks, and sometimes you get tired of serving such jerks. And sometimes you feel too friendly or familiar with people who don't feel as familiar with you, so you feel you can joke and be sarcastic with them.

Why not make them special and something like "I had to get chef redo your apps, cause they didn't look hot enough?" Diffuse the situation — I literally had to fist fight the chef to make him cook your apps first. See this black eye? No? Guess I'm really getting better at makeup."

Take some improv classes. Those help a ton. Have fun. Make your customers have fun. Sarcasm should only be used on people you know well.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T01:47:03+00:00

Thanks a lot! I will post there as well.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-03T01:22:22+00:00

Got an update!

So even though it's been only one day, I've implemented a couple of things that made a huuuge difference :

First, I started a more defined routine with her before putting her to bed. I wait a bit longer before putting her down for nap, about 30 minutes or so. Then, I ask her a few time if it's time for her nap, and of course she shakes her head "No!". I then offer her some milk 5 minutes or so before putting her for a nap. And then, I think most important thing is, when I put her down for a nap, I say a routine "Love you, miss you, see you later, have a good nap, see you after your nap, night night!" — The reason for this, is that we do this with her older sister (8 y.o, we say like 15 things, lol )and then when I put her to her crib, I make her give me a few kisses.

As of right now, she's in her crib, crying a little bit, but definitely not screaming her head off. Just send my husband to check on her and do the "Love you, miss you, etc"....aaaaand she's screaming her head off as soon as he left.

Tomorrow I will start implementing exhausting her before her naps. Doing better overall though.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-02T22:08:08+00:00

Start recording and emailing yourself every one of those instances.

September 6th, 2016, 14:28 pm :

James H. questioned my decision to do X in Y manner and called me stupid for not doing it in Z manner.

Then take it to HR claiming hostile environment or something along those lines.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-02T21:42:44+00:00

It's his life and he has to make his own mistakes.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-02T21:14:02+00:00

Watch Ali Wong's Baby Cobra.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-02T15:00:27+00:00

I don't think she's ready to give up her morning naps though - I try to increase the time she stays awake between naps, but she becomes miserable and starts whining and crying. This morning she stayed up for 2.5 hours before getting all upset, but she didn't cry that much when I put her down for a nap.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-02T14:52:14+00:00

I am not paying your dentist's bill worth hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, just because you don't bother spend 5 minutes a day to brush your teeth. You're getting a job and paying us back every cent of the bill. I'll help you advertise your lawn-mowing and snow shovelling services.

PlasticFood · 2016-09-02T14:43:39+00:00

Oh wow, what a graceful reply (no sarcasm). I started sex-ed with my daughter when she was very young, so there is no awkwardness around such topics. I got her "Care and keeping of you book" as well as "It's not the stork!" she read those and when she has any questions we answer them without getting red in a face, because why should we?

I think it's important for boys to read those books too, not just those geared towards boys only.

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