A Comment on Comments
A few days ago, I wrote a blog post called “I’m Not Your Fucking Coinstar Machine” about how it can be very annoying when a customer pays their check in all coins. I expected some people to have a negative reaction to it, but it really brought out the ire in plenty of folks. Therefore, I get to respond with a Comment on Comments blog post.
First off, the blog is called The Bitchy Waiter and it’s kind of my job as a blogger to find things to bitch about. I never said that paying in all coins was the most annoying thing ever, it is just one of the slightly annoying things that happen on occasion. I also was not complaining about being left spare change as a tip. I was referring to the customer who chooses to pay their bill in almost all coins making the server have to count that shit out and then lug it around in their pocket for the rest of the day. One comment in particular deserves a direct response:
Anonymous said: Get a real job and people will pay you with real money. an easily predictable comment? You have an easily predictable complaint. You should be happy that costumers decide to subsidize your shitty wages. If servers actually stood up for themselves and demanded living wages, you wouldn’t be scrapping together quarters. 2.50 an hour is outrageous, but guess what, it’s not your costumers’ fault, it’s your own for accepting it. Gratuity goes both ways, you are so busy complaining about coins that you forget to be grateful that your costumers keep you employed while you keep yourself underpaid. Here’s a thought, if it bothers you, next time give it to someone else, or give it back to the costumer… Can’t do that can you?
Oh, Anonymous. Dear, sweet, dumb fuck Anonymous. I want to look at your comment in pieces.
Get a real job and people will pay you with real money. an easily predictable comment? You have an easily predictable complaint. Really? The old “get a real job” comment? How many times do we have to tell you this, Ass Wipe? Waiting tables is a real job. The money that is made waiting tables pays for real things like rent, electricity and food so I never understand how it’s not a “real job.” Taxes are also paid on that money. Yes, you are right that you made an easily predictable comment just as you consider mine an easily predictable complaint. The difference though, Dick Head, is that the website you read the complaint on is built around just that: complaining. If you don’t want to read about a waiter bitching I would suggest you go to almost any other website on the Internet, but you should especially avoid one called The Bitchy Waiter, Dumb Ass.
You should be happy that costumers decide to subsidize your shitty wages. I have never once in my life asked a costumer to subsidize my wages. Costumers have nothing to do with my job unless a costumer who works on Broadway happens to sit in my section, but unless they specifically told me they were a costumer, I would not know that. You make no sense.
If servers actually stood up for themselves and demanded living wages, you wouldn’t be scrapping together quarters. I don’t see how servers standing up for themselves is going to make an act of congress happen that will change federal laws for hourly wages. I don’t know if you have noticed or not, but most of the time, a big group of people standing up and demanding things doesn’t make something happen overnight. A Million Waiter March on Washington DC isn’t going to suddenly make the restaurant industry decide to pay servers $15 an hour. Besides, I don’t know any servers who are scrapping together quarters. What are “together quarters” and how does one scrap them?
2.50 an hour is outrageous, but guess what, it’s not your costumers’ fault, it’s your own for accepting it. Again, I don’t know how costumers have anything to do with this argument. I do not wear a costume to work. It’s called a uniform.
Gratuity goes both ways, you are so busy complaining about coins that you forget to be grateful that your costumers keep you employed while you keep yourself underpaid. I’m so confused. How does gratuity go both ways? Are you saying that gratuity is bi-curious or a two-beer queer? Furthermore, costumers do not keep me employed and I do not keep my self underpaid. I make plenty of money on my own while Tony and Academy Award winning costume designer Ann Roth has nothing to do with it.
Here’s a thought, if it bothers you, next time give it to someone else, or give it back to the costumer… Can’t do that can you? The next time I get a butt load of coins, I will keep them but bitch about it. It’s what I do. I will not give them back to the costumer (assuming that it was a costumer who gave it to me in the first place) because they are my wages. I just don’t like wages that are heavy. I like wages that fold and fit in my wallet, Douche Bag.
But thank you for your comment!
Trina Close
You really do have great hair. Hair envy aside, reading your blog makes my morning.
Jeff
Those Damn costumers again. They always find their way onto the internet. We really should do something about that.
Cheers, BW. Keep on rocking this blog.
Anonymous
Wage hike without tips means the cost of dishes will go up. But they will still complain about that so….
Asha
I love the comments on comments epic!!!
ana
I don’t mind when I get $2 in quarters and the rest in bills. But when the quarters is all I get and that customer was rude, and inpatient, I make sure that They see me throwing that money to the trash.
James
If the “costumer” had a real job, they wouldn’t be paying in change. Tl
Meh
To be fair, writing to your local representitive in congress, writing senators, or writing anyone in political power will usually get the issue more to the forefront of their minds.
I don’t know how y’all live in a “server wage,” state. I mean, I literally can not understand how you are able to afford to stay alive. Especially if you live in a big city.
I say if you live in a server wage state, flood ALL your representatives with letters. Hell, BECOME your local representatives. Bitchy Waiter 2020!
Mmp
Honestly I wouldn’t wait tables for an hourly wage unless it was above $20 an hour and reasonably no restaurant would pay that and I don’t fault them for that. But I can make $20 on a decent 4 top in about an hour with 3 other tables that might be big or small or good tippers or bad tippers but it still comes out to be more than these suggested wage increases of about $15. If I was going to work for hourly pay I’d get a cushy/less stressfull job like folding sweaters at a J.Crew or answering phones in an office.
Been there done that
I’ve chased people out of a establishment with some .37cents after a lunch of 6 something, out the door, told them they needed it worse then I , of course my 2 weeks was already in but oh it felt good, that & the mailman having anxiety attack @ a 1/2 a cup of coffee leaving his ( I’m sure stolen grocery adds) as a tip running again telling him he forgot his tip…. He’ll of a dirty look from that 1. Oh the feeling of letting people know how you feel after so many years!!!! The Power YES !!!!!! I miss being a server though, I was damn good at it & people who think it’s for air heads & just don’t care people, I have news for you that attitude is in any business, I consider the service I did for 25 years a careerer, hard to eat somewhere when there is tables that need bussing or plates pulled can’t relax! Love these sites though Ty for the internet!!!!
Jason
Costumers…. LOL
Karma Girl
I don’t care if you’re a waiter making your living off tips, some poor cashier working for minimum wage, or a freakin’ fat cat CEO. No one likes to be paid in coins. It’s irritating as all hell, and if this douche bag commentator were given part of his paycheck in quarters, you better believe he or she would be throwing a fit.
SR Driver
Fuck yeah, a comment on comments is one of my favorite things on this blog!
Hailey
If we all get “real jobs”, who is going to serve your bitchy ass food?
Mellie
I love it when someones comments sound so idiotic that you have to read them out loud to understand them, and then you turn them into something even more idiotic and hilarious than I could even fathom… I nearly choked on my lunch…love you Bitchy!
Kylie
Fab blog. Keep up the bitchy comments…as a fellow customer service specialist, your words make me smile even on the darkest days!!
Amy
I am a costumer. I design and build costumes for a variety of theater companies and frankly this post was one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. Thanks, Bitchy Waiter!
Geoff Burkman
Bitchy, I think you were much too kind to this jackanapes. Much, much too kind. But that’s just me, I guess.
sally
Is making costumes a “real job”? If so, I need to add it to my resume’ because I’ve been making them every Halloween for years. And I do in fact get paid in coins for it…, well, UNICEF does anyway. 😉
xyz
The ‘costumer’ auto correct (or misspelling, whichever it is) has always made me laugh. Thank you for addressing that, in particular. Hilarious.
k. wolchko
Restaurants can’t exist without customers, that is a given…But customers have to realize that if servers were paid a fair hourly rate like everyone else in other professions, the food prices on the menu would have to be raised substantially. It would have to be taken under consideration, if a single person came in for lunch for their “lunch hour” their meal would have to cover MOST of the hourly rate of the server (let’s say for arguments sake it’s minimum wage). So your $7.95 burger & fries could now possibly cost you $12.95 or $13.95. So… the way servers get paid now ($2.50 -$3.00 per hr) is more economically sound for the customer…because we all know most would leave a $2.00 – $3.00 tip…not a $5.00 – $6.00 tip.
So my question is to the person that doesn’t feel a server has a real job…If the server was paid a fair regular hourly rate and tips were done away with…..would they now have a real job? or Would you just find something else to complain about? Oh, yeah right…the rising cost of a burger and fries…….
Meh
That’s actually a false belief many conservative candidates would like you to think. In actuality, if we made sure that large corporations were not allowed to fuck over their workers with systems like they have in more “socialist” European countries, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, multinational food corporations would need to increase the food cost by only 4.3%. Economists have done a lot of studies over it.
Now, I was against Oregon’s living wage bill because they didn’t do anything to make sure that people didn’t get screwed like: rent regulation, tuition regulation, or some way to make companies give actual documented reasons for firing people. But if enough people stand up and say something then I am positive that some change will come about.
Especially if we vote in someone who actually listens to the people. ahem ahem Bernie Sanders cough cough.
Felicia
The “Get a real job” argument bothers me. What do you think would happen if those people in “not-real jobs” suddenly up and GOT “real jobs”? That’s right, there’d be no one left doing those jobs. No more waiters, no more cashiers, no more grocery baggers or cart-pushers. No one left to run the gas stations and convenience stores. No line/short order cooks making food in restaurants. In short, no one providing the dumbass customers complaining about people who need “real jobs” with the goods and services the dumbasses obviously so desperately need. It’s like the religious idiots who shop on Sunday and complain that the store should be closed on Sundays as it is a holy day. Well, moron, if you weren’t out shopping on a Sunday, there would be no need for the store to be open, and then you’d be sorry the store was closed.
TL;DR: People suck.
ExCakeDecorator
I’ve thought of this so many times. Even if it was just for a few days it would be GREAT ! People would go ballistic 🙂 It would be great entertainment, wouldn’t it ? Those who work in all forms of customer service could sit back with some popcorn and enjoy the free show.
I visualize “costumers” running around like chickens with their heads cut off, much wailing and gnashing of teeth like in the Exorcist when the priest pours holy water on Linda Blair…. all because they couldn’t get their usual fix of whatever.
Bottom line is people just DON’T think. In fact, I envision a day when “costumers” have gotten to be so bad that people flat out refuse to work in customer service.
Sean
You spell customer wrong.
Anonymous
Did you even read the post
MrsMac
No, he spelt costumer correctly.
Robert
I’m sorry but a “customer” would be someone who makes a purchase or buys a meal at a restaurant. They have absolutely nothing to do with designing clothing and accessories for stage and screen. What you are looking for is “costumer” as that is what the original comment was talking about.
Alex
I saw that comment on the page, and I just shrugged it off because it was another douchebag deciding to be a douchebag again — but your response made it even better! Also, Vaanja’s comment gave me some great memories working cocktail waitress a couple of years ago, absolutely hilarious.
Tanya
This is my favorite blog!
Vaanja
The third rudest thing I’ve done as a server was to a customer who paid a $69.01 tab with $70 in ones. I gave him his $.99 back in pennies and three nickles (coworkers were quite willing to chip in for enough coins).
Felicia
Like a BOSS. Well-played, sir or madam. I’m still working up the courage to slap someone’s change on the counter the next time they toss their bills on the counter, myself.
Monica
I love how you have this listed as the THIRD rudest thing you’ve done as a server! I have cracked up! It sounds exactly like something I would’ve (and HAVE) done during the many years I waited tables. I know I did much worse than this on the rudeness scale, so I’d LOVE to know what you ranked as your top two shining moments in server retaliation ahead of this one! It makes my heart smile to know others out there take pride in their creativity when it comes to sticking it to annoying customers!
chacha1
What I particularly love is that the anonymous “get a real job” comments are INVARIABLY chock full of misspellings, improper word choices, and bad grammar. It makes a person wonder what kind of “real job” that person has. One that doesn’t involve reading and writing, perhaps.
UofMGIrl85
I think it’s funny that there is someone who complained about you complaining… seems pretty hypocritical to me. People just like to be negative, and it’s really easy when they’re behind something like the internet… where they can be as big and as bad as they want to be. I appreciate your quick wit and sarcasm… and because I’m in the food service industry, I get it… I wouldn’t lose any sleep over someone who clearly has nothing better to do than complain themselves.
Joe Hertel
I love this blog
Jennifer
I love reading this after a long day at work. People don’t understand that this is what keeps is from yelling at them when they want their whole order on separate plates. Thanks for the laughs and smiles keep them coming.