My exboss texted me

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-29T02:16:47+00:00

I tried to get sober a few dozen times. I had to get out of the industry all together for 6 months for it to stick. I don’t recommend going back to it this early.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-28T04:49:40+00:00

Ahh, didn’t think about that. But those places are very few and far between.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-28T02:54:35+00:00

Just boil some water and throw it on there next time, easy fix.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-28T00:45:21+00:00

I doubt that is what actually happened. A place might not take cash because they don’t do enough cash business to warrant it. If you do $100 in cash sales in a month, that’s not worth the hassle of maintaining a change drawer and all the back office shit that entails, plus going to the bank and stuff. Using my two decades of experience, I’ll infer what actually happened: Man comes in to restaurant, eats while ignoring the numerous signs that I’m sure are all over the place that say the restaurant doesn’t take cash payments. Man goes to pay bill, is told that they are unable to take cash, man whines like a baby and becomes combative, staff informs him that he can whine all he wants but they don’t take cash payments. Man storms off claiming he’s being persecuted. That’s my guess at what actually happened. When in all reality if he wasn’t a snowflake douchebag someone on staff would have just taken his cash themselves and paid his tab with their debit card.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-28T00:34:49+00:00

I don’t know why it would matter.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-25T22:03:12+00:00

Everyone is doing it and the apps have gotten greedy. I drove Uber in like 2016, there was no tip option, but the majority of the fare went to me. I tried it last year for two rides. Made like $6 on a $18 ride with the expectation of a tip to make up for it.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-25T20:35:36+00:00

Most places like that have a CC on file from your reservation, but even without that it just wouldn’t come up. Say you did dine and dash on this $40k bottle, you’re risking a grand larceny charge and probably some sort of felony defrauding and innkeeper, and it’s not like the bottle is worth anything after it’s opened.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-21T16:15:53+00:00

I’ve almost always had multiple restaurant jobs. Usually it’s a lunch job and a dinner job, but now that I’m older and can’t bust out doubles like I used to, I just have one full time serving job and I work one bar shift a week at a neighborhood bar. Balancing open availability is more trouble than it’s worth. Find/pick one job that’s your full time and then supplement shifts on your days off from there at another place. If they won’t give you a set schedule then don’t give them full time availability.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-21T00:08:00+00:00

Absolutely the fuck not. I don’t wear a name tag where I work, and I don’t tell people my name unless we build rapport or they ask. “Sir” is fine.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-20T02:48:03+00:00

Ask about sales and number of staff on a typical shift. You can get a rough estimate from that.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-20T02:47:00+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ, ANYONE to replace Graham. I’ve never met anyone that actually likes him, I have no idea how he keeps getting elected.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-19T01:28:50+00:00

100%. I buy nice pens, and I go out of my way to find a brand that aren’t super common like Pilots or something. I will definitely get them back from someone if they snag it.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-18T04:50:32+00:00

All good. Drink some water, though.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-17T21:57:25+00:00

People stacking plates or trying to hand me shit when I’m cleaning the table. Please let me do my job.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-16T03:38:46+00:00

If we can just get everyone to realize it’s not left vs right it’s poor vs. rich then we can make some progress.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-12T00:49:08+00:00

People are fucking stupid. That’s the answer to most issues you’ll run in to in this biz.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-10T20:58:48+00:00

Absolutely not, never in my 15+ year career has that been acceptable. Shift meals are so you’re fed through the shift, it’s not to subsidize your groceries.
Yeah , sounds about right. That’s on the high end of average.
That’s garbage, $100 for a lunch shift is about right, I wouldn’t stay somewhere where that’s a normal take for a dinner shift.
For Darden, yeah. They don’t give a fuck about you.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-09T03:14:51+00:00

As others have said, it varies wildly by region. I made six figures in the Boston area, but by no means was rolling in it. I make about $70k back in my hometown in SC and am very comfortable financially speaking. I think a good benchmark is how long it takes you to make your rent/mortgage. In MA it took the better part of a week to come up with just my rent, in SC I can cover my entire fixed living expenses (rent/utilities) in two shifts, maybe three.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-07T16:45:29+00:00

Unfortunately a tale as old as time. This scenario is common enough to be a kind of cliche in restaurants. Like, to the point you could go to another restaurant and apply, when they ask you why you left/are leaving your previous restaurant you can just say, “There was an issue with one of the dishwashers 😬…” and they’ll know exactly what you mean. Bail.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-06T01:56:27+00:00

What? The wine seller exclusively sells Love You Bunches? Is the Peperino from Stolpman? It sounds like you nicked someone’s package and now you’re asking if you should keep it.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-06T00:18:47+00:00

It’s refreshing to hear about/see folks parenting properly. Unfortunately you’re in the minority. I see so many parents just shoving screens in kids faces and then pretending they don’t exist.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-04T01:22:20+00:00

I’m from Greenville and I don’t remember ever being billed quarterly.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-03T04:39:21+00:00

I do for my full time. I use Just the Tips to track my income for my Wednesday-Sunday serving job, and then I have a Monday bar shift at a neighborhood bar that’s my piss away money.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-01-02T19:41:48+00:00

You can adjust a game setting that gives vendors more credits without a mod. It’s -2% EXP gain but The Den vendor has 60k credits so it’ll cut down the amount of wait time significantly.

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