So before I go on holidays and hopefully relieve my summer work stress, I figured I'd have just one more long-awaited rant. After serving on-and-off for almost 6 years, there are a few things about people in restaurants that really piss me off!! This may be you so PAY ATTENTION!


5. There can be 50 clean, available tables but for some reason people are compelled to sit at the One dirty table. It's like they enter the door, see people leaving and plan to sit in the table those people were in just to piss us off. The funny thing is, when people sit at a dirty table now, I take my sweet-ass time getting to the table, and cleaning it. On average, I would say that people who sit at a dirty table get their drinks 5 minutes after those who sit where they are supposed to, at clean ones.

4. As soon as customers sit down at a table, they immediatley begin looking around for their server. It's a good thing because otherwise I wouldn't see you!!! It seems stupid but when you are on your way to a table and they are looking around for you like you are taking forever, all I want to do it smack them upside the head with menu's and tell them "if you think I am talking my time, get your own damn drinks!"

2. It is really annoying when I greet a table (like I do 30 times a day) and they ask me how I am. You don't care, and as soon as I say "Good, how are you" you are going to ignore the question and order your drink so why even bother! Now I just ignore it cause I really don't give a flying fuck how you are and you want to know how I am? Well, I have had to deal with bitchy, demanding, stupid people (much like yourself) all day, my feet are bleeding, and I need a fucking drink, sorry you asked aren't you!

3. People who, when you are at their table, ask for the bill. Ok fine, so I walk accross the room, print out their bill, bring it to them and without even looking at the bill, they will immediatley hand you their credit card along with the bill! Why could you have not just given me your credit card in the first place, rather than sending me to get a bill that you din't even look at. Now I have to cross the room again, take your payment and walk back to your table to give you your card back. Really!!


1. The number one thing I hate about serving is: people that don't tip!! I really wish sometimes that we had an automatic gratuity included in the price so people have no choice! I understand that if I give shitty service, then I don't deserve a tip; however, I give great service most of the time so quit being a stiff bastard and pay me! Oh and, if you food takes a long time or isn't cooked right, that is not my fault. I did my part, I rang in your order and that is all I can do. Don't penalize me by not tipping because our kitchen is full of usless teenagers. What people probably don't realize is, if I don't get a tip, I actually lose money because regardless of how much I make,I still have to tip out my bartender and the kitchen a percentage. So if I didn't get any tips, on an average night it would cost me like $30 to work!! There are known people that come in all too often that no matter what they do not leave a fucking dime!! So fine, you don't tip me I'll be a bad, bitchy server to you! Get your own fucking beer!

Really, what are people thinking when they go out for drinks or to eat...oh that's right, they don't think. They don't think of the person serving them as a person, we are just some slave that has to serve you and if we're lucky you'll give us a pat on the head.
And that is what I have to say about serving! Although it definatley has its perks (an average of $20/hr under the table) there are also disadvantages of having to serve stupid, lazy people. I wish everyone would have to serve for a day to experience the bullshit we have to put up with and then see what they would be like as a customer afterwards.

Today, Friday August 11th is officially my first day off since my birthday weekend of July7-9th. After 32 consecutive days of work, I almost got a full day off. Although I didn't have to go to work or get paid today, I did have an extensive amount of paperwork to complete and bring to the office. SO it is my first day off, aside from 4 hours of bullshit for work.

Only 5 more shifts at the Ability Society.
My life is full of countdowns right now because it is the only thing that is keeping me sane.

After weeks of deliberation, I have decided not to work for the Ability society while in school, for several reasons:
For one, the endless hours of paperwork and time spent (unpaid) at the office preparing program matierals are annoying enough right now, let alone when I'll have endless hours of school work to do. It just doesn't seem feesible or worth the time to spend extra unpaid hours just to be able to do my job at a satisfactory level.
Secondly, I am getting really friggin sick of driving out to Leduc! I am not about to spend 2 hours a day after school just to get to and from my job! And I am not going to drive on QE2 in the snow, it is a bad enough highway in the summer!
Thirdly, when I first started this job, I didn't care much about what the pay was, I was just happy to have my first "real" job that will count toward my career; however by the time I have paid for gas to drive to Leduc and Westmount all the time, plus having to get my car fixed (not to mention the fact that I mainly bought my car just to get this job!), when it's all said and done, I am walking away from this job with about $400 over 4 months. I know money isn't the most important thing, but I am not about to basically pay to work for them!!
And finally, it had to be said, working with children is bad enough but I still don't quite understand how I have had the energy and the patience to work with autistic kids!! I don't think I could keep my sanity if I was working with autistic children while in school; talk about STRESS!

So, back to the life of school and Boston Pizza, atleast I know what to expect.

25 days till school...... I already feel as if the summer is gone. May, June, and the first week of July was my summer. I got a few days at the beach, a kick ass camping trip, and lots of drinking and having a good ol' time. Since I've been working each day and usually both jobs each day, I spend what little time I have either with Brad or sleeping. Summer is over to me but I forget that I will have almost 2 weeks in BC, so I guess that will be the end of summer.

I am still unsure of the real reason I am looking forward to returning to school. I know the nostalgic feelings will disappear once I'm in to the 3rd or 4th week of classes and I remember how much I despise homework! School will then become this awful burden that I have to get rid of in anyway possible, be it avoidance or completion of it (coming soon, countdown to Xmas holidays, lol). I guess I am looking forward to things settling down and knowing what my schedule will be like everyday for the next 8 months.
Honestly, I think I am most looking forward to the slack-ass approach I take to school. I know it's bad, but I know that unlike work, if I wake up in the morning and I don't feel like getting up, let's face it, I probably won't!

So bring on the life of procrastination, writting paper's into the wee hours of the morning the day they are due, and again using the wonders within my never-ending colon! (inside joke!) I love being a student :D