I really enjoy your amusing wit when you're venting and bitching about your job. I literally laugh out loud.
Thank you for making me laugh during a time in my life, I mostly spend fretting about eternity and not existing forever.

Brittney, you have to bitch about your job, otherwise the whole job bitching burden is in myhands, an I'm just one man, dammit.

There should be a centralized job bitch blog. That way I could read it during the day and think one of two thoughts:

"It seems I'm not alone in this absurd crap."

or

"Ha, there's a poor fucker who has it worse than I do."

Indeed, a genius post.

Now get that ugly bastard out of your recent photo spot, for the love of god.

Everyone should be required to wait tables for a year. REQUIRED. Then they would know. I did three years in the trenches. I'll spare you most of my stories, save one.

I was working CHRISTMAS EVE at this fine dining Italian restaurant. Usually, I'd take a fat wad home, but we were dead in the water this night. Sullen family with sullen kids comes in. I'm light, bouncy. Making smiley small talk. Anything to brighten them up a bit. Nothing.

So, (and in retrospect, yes, I agree this was stupid of me), when I bring the check out, I'm all HappyWaiterWithoutBeingAnnoying and I say, "Hey, kids! I just heard on the radio that Santa was spotted over town! Better get to bed quickly!"

Young boy looks plaintively at his dad and says, "You said there was no Santa Claus." Father looks angrily at me. I sulk back into the kitchen.

No tip AND a complaint to the manager. After they walked out, though, my manager said, "Let's shut this fucker down." And he gave me a nice bottle of wine on the way out. Or maybe I stole it. I don't remember. Anyway, I got some wine.

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Absolutely. Everyone who goes out to eat should know what it is like on The Other Side.

I've been doing this since I was 18--six long years--and I've got enough stories to create an entirely seperate weblog/site. But anyone who's ever waited tables could tell you the same ones...

There should be a centralized job bitch blog.--eyeballkid

I do own the perfect domain name for such a blog(nametagnation.com) if y'all wanna get together and work on something

I really, really like that idea. Let's talk.

I think I'd be down for that, having been a ten year member of the name tag brigade. Of course, my stories would be dated. I haven't worn a name tag in 5 years.