Yes! I should be writing! But, instead, I rant!

[rabid1st]

I went out tonight for a late supper and found my local hangout innundated with a team of some kind...teenagers, twenty or so with about six adult chaperones. And here I use the term "adult" very loosely.

I arrived for the last ten minutes or so of the team visit, but even out in the street I could hear the braying and yeehawing. Okay...so...they're young and they've won a tournament or match or bout of some kind. They are entitled to let off some steam...get a little loud. But these people were ROWDY! Still...some allowances could be made for exhuberant youth. That is...if the "adult" supervision had realized what was happening around them. Realized that they were disrupting the lives of a lot of people.

In a way...they did realize what was going on around them. But it didn't quite register that they were somehow acting as a catalyst for the events they saw transpiring.

It seems that they noticed the wait-staff giving them "dirty looks"...and one little girl in particular stood out for them. I know this girl in passing, from my frequent visits...she's waited on me. And she is charming and friendly to a fault and not one to react badly to simple enthusiasm. In fact, she's much more likely to join in and yell with you. Her manager has had cause to speak to her about being TOO chummy with the guests. She does admit that she frowned in the party's general direction, but only because she was being asked over and over if she could get them to settle down. And she was having to scream at people in other booths in order to be heard over the braying and yeehawing.

Whatever, it matters not to me, if this girl (she's 17...and tiny...and a scholarship student...and charmingly soft spoken...and as I was saying) it matter not to me if she was scowling at the table of yokels and sticking her tongue out at them. Nothing non-verbal short of flashing her ass could have been grounds for the way the "adult" berated her.

This lout called her useless and stupid and told her that she would never be anything in life because all she was fit for was wiping up after other people. This keeper of braying yokels deserves all the bad Karma she's got coming for humiliating a child. Especially as she also stiffed her waitress...26 people and no tip? Just what barn were you raised in lady?

So...if...say...this obnoxiou so-called "adult" happened to have left a very fancy and expensive looking video camera with the winning match, bout and/or game sitting on the table in said resturant...FAR be it from me to run after her and tell her of her error. No...I think Earl Hickey would agree with me when I say, we should let Karma take its course.

Rae

Comments

[androidlusts.livejournal.com]

HA ! I hate it when people are rude.

[fidesangelus.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a horrible experience and that @$$hole deserves to have forgotten the camera. I hope it goes missing from the restaurant.

[androidlusts.livejournal.com]

and gets sold.. thus giving the waitress a tip.

[principia.livejournal.com]

One waitress for 26 people? What BS is that to begin with?

I doubt your scholarship-bound waitress would stoop so low as to heeb the jackhole's property and sell it to obtain her tip... but one wonders if the management will somehow magically find a way to get her a bonus.

In all fairness to the management

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I believe there were two or even three waitresses serving...none of them got tipped. I only know that when one of them was told by the obnoxious lady that "your tip is on the table" only...there was no tip for her...nor for the other people who served. I was in a position to see the tables clearly (and the camcorder) and nobody took the tip...there simply was no tip left.

Rae
hoping that management would be nice about it...really they should simply make like so many places and charge a mandatory tip for large groups.

Re: In all fairness to the management

[principia.livejournal.com]

That level of horsesh*t is exactly why many places charge a minimum gratuity for parties over 6 - if there's legitimately a problem, you can always complain to the manager and it can be removed/reduced.

*wishes we could transport the lot to The Vortex in Atlanta and see how long they'd last before one of the waitstaff was gladly empowered by the management to throw their asses out*

[timeispassing.livejournal.com]

That is so messed up!!!!!!!!!!!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

It is. It really is. Asshats!

[fishface44.livejournal.com]

I think the video camera should be considered the tip-after all, they did say the tip was on the table, and that is exactly where the camera was left sitting...

[webeh.livejournal.com]

The tip wasn't already included in the bill? Lame!!!!

Wow, those "adults" were harsh to the girl. I think she should have make them all feel like idiots by rattling off her scholarship status. Pushing my credentials in their face is what I usually did when people tried to degrade me at my old minimum wage job. That usually shuts them up and makes them feel extremely foolish. A student's got to pay for school some how.

[auntiesuze.livejournal.com]

What a bunch of assholes! I think you're right...Karma intervened and that lovely camera was left. I'd totally pawn it and split the funds amongst the stiffed waitstaff.

I can't believe that the tip wasn't automatically included for a party that large. I haven't been anywhere recently where parties of 10 or more weren't charged a standard gratuity. Horrible.

Also, I think the manager should have been involved. If the party was that much of a disturbance to the other customers, it shouldn't have been left to the waitstaff to try to deal with them.

[wickedgillie.livejournal.com]

I'd at the very least like to see the tape of their big ole victory get erased. Because I am petty like that. I waitressed for bulk of high school and college. And that kind of behaviour is the largest reason why I'd never in a million years do it again.

Karma = bitch. ;)

[roxyk630.livejournal.com]

I would have so gotten up and punched said yokel.

BTW, reason I'm here... Can I friend you?

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Oh...absolutely! Friend away!

Nice to count you among the readership.

Rae
handing you a small welcome basket...you can imagine it filled with chocolates or whatever.

[roxyk630.livejournal.com]

I meant to ask that after the Disheveled conversation... then we had a huge storm... anyway! XD yes! Thanks!

;) totally.

Ooooooooooooooooo....Should I be worried about you handing me naughty undies? ;) FANTASTIC. Dark chocolate is my favorite!

[crimedoc1.livejournal.com]

Why are people so rude and inconsiderate? It drives me NUTS.

This evening we went to my son's school (he's in 1st grade) for "Winterfest". There was a little holiday concert with the school chorus (4th and 5th graders - very cute). My son heard the concert during school and loved it. He was really looking forward to hearing it again and was excited for us to hear it as well. He kept telling his sister how great it was.

Unfortunately, many people in the audience were less appreciative of the kids' hard work. Parents chatted with each other during the singing, or talked to their kids. Kids talked to each other, or ran around the cafeteria playing and the parents did not control them. The music teacher did ask people to quiet down but most just ignored him.

I wonder how these parents would feel if one of THEIR kids was up on the stage being treated like this? I mean, okay, it's just a little kid concert but those kids and their teacher worked pretty hard, staying after school to practice. They deserved better. We actually left early because we were so frustrated at being unable to hear the music. My son says that at the concert he heard during the school day, none of the kids said a single word, just sat quietly and listened. Sounds to me like some of the parents could learn a lesson in behavior and consideration from their own children. It is a bit depressing that my four-year-old daughter was better behaved than most of the adults this evening.