Kiss My Ass You Fucker!!

The BBQ Pit
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i’m going through hell week… you know the one where all your professors seem to think that their class is the only one you’re taking and assign a shitload of work. i have three papers due all within a week of each other. not small ones either. major ones that count for about a quarter of your final grade.

have i explained this to my work? of course. they all know that i’m in college and that it’s my first priority. only one person doesn’t seem to understand this:
benny.

it’s not like he wouldn’t know what i’m going through. he just graduated last semester. (of course i don’t see it doing much for him since he is a fellow server). about a month ago he stepped up into management. it didn’t last very long. maybe three weeks. he said something about not getting paid enough. we all think there’s more to it. so about a week or two ago he stepped down. granted he still has some managorial duties. he makes out the schedule (or rather throws one together) and can do somethings on the computers that we can’t. but it does not give him the right to treat us all like shit.

he’s still on a power trip and likes to tell everyone how to do their jobs. maybe tell isn’t the best word. he demands that we do things differently. and his tone is insulting. there is not an ounce of niceness in this guy. he tells us all off without even listening.

now i’m no stranger to waiting tables. this is not the first time i’ve done it. i know what to do and how to do it. i’m damn good at it… probably one of the best this place has. what gives this guy the fucken right to treat me like a five year old with a behavior disorder?

take tonight for example. there are four of us working. one guy has worked the through shift. he’s suppose to get cut first. benny worked a double, he has next priority. patrick (my life saver tonight) came in right before me. there was suppose to be one person to come in after me.

i asked patrick to do me the biggest favor in the world and let me go home before him. this could give me an extra half an hour to an hour to finish up the paper due tomorrow morning. patrick agrees. of course the last guy never shows. this means that i just asked patrick to close for me. despite the fact that he loathes doing this and tries to get out of it every chance he has, he goes ahead and does this for me.

guess who has a problem with it? the jackaaaa… i mean benny. does this effect him in any way? no. does he raise hell about it? yes. he proceeds to tell me that this is a job and i can’t pull shit like this. i try to stay calm… doesn’t work. i proceed to tell him that school is more important and that there are other jobs. of course the manager gets dragged into this (which he sides with me). the rest of the night benny is a cold ass bitch to me. great, now my hours are gonna get cut… oh well, like i said. there are plenty of other jobs out there.

and let’s not forget to mention that last thursday it was benny who was suppose to close. who got stuck with the last table? me. who sat me that table? benny. who didn’t get out of there until after 11 (we close at 10)? me of course.

i did manage to get out of there and finish my paper. it’s only 2am and class isn’t until 11. i can get plenty of sleep and make it in time. all this cost me was half a pack of cigs (given to patrick for the huge favor he did me) and hell on earth from benny.

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OK, justified gripe. Well stated, on the whole… but, given the title, I’m guessing your shift key works. Capitalize, dammit! :wink:

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Get yourself another job and quit your bitching. Fucking Uni students ! you pricks give me the shits you wouldn’t know what real trouble was.Wait until you have some kids and REAL problems.

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Yeah!! um, dont write in the pit til you have lost a leg in Nam , or something :rolleyes:

Benny is not your boss, I think you should just explain to your direct boss that you want more shifts, and tell him why you have less than normal.

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Um, yeah, welcome to the boards Hairy. Nice generalization and extremely intelligent contribution there. (cough)wanker(cough)

As far as i could see, the OP’s main bitching was with a co-worker who was getting on his/her case for doing something that was in no way interfering with the running of the business.

In my experience (in the past, thankfully) of working in the service industry, it’s common practice for staff members to swap shifts and closing duties with one another. Bosses and management never usually have a problem with this, as long as the work gets done by someone. If ShadiRoxan’s friend Patrick was willing to work later so that Shadi could go home earlier, i don’t see what difference it should make to Benny.

This is one area where i don’t have so much sympathy. When i was in university and we had three major papers due within a week of one another, we had generally been told about those papers at the beginning of the semester. Just because you decide to leave all your major work until the last minute is not your professors’ problem. I’m not saying i was a perfect student in this respect–far from it, in fact–but if i fucked around in the early part of the semester and was then left with heaps of work to do in the last couple of weeks, i knew that it was mainly my own fault.

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If you want to last here you might try not being such a moron. Not that I care one way or the other, but acting like a Jerk will get you a real short run here. In any event, its up to you.

Sorry about your “shits”, Hairy, must be messy.

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Speaking as one who’s done some of this work myself, you’re absolutely right here. The exceptions usually had one thing in common–something didn’t go right during the swapped shift. For instance, if (and this is purely hypothetical) ShadiRoxan was particularly favored by the local Skeet Shooting And Gardening Club, who dine there every month and drop a bundle of money, and they gave the semi-manager a hard time because they couldn’t have Shadi, then Benny might be angry with Shadi for having gone home early and “caused” the trouble. It’s not fair, but I’ve seen it happen a lot. My bets are that something happened that night that Patrick couldn’t quite handle, but Benny thought Shadi could have.

The good thing is, Shadi, the manager backed you. Don’t worry about Benny. Benny is being petty, but the manager seems to know what’s what, by this one example. You keep doing a good job, be polite to everyone you work with, and the manager will never do anything to you just on Benny’s say-so.

And as far as cutting hours, no sweat, you’ve got papers to work on anyway, right? And then when your papers are done, have a nice, calm, polite talk with the manager about the schedule. Don’t accuse anyone of anything, just make it clear that you’re able and willing to work more, and your hours have inexplicably been cut down lately. Besides, if my guess is halfway accurate, Benny won’t cut your hours much, if at all, because he needs someone good on the schedule.

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Yeah good point people I was just having a bad day and was letting off some steam. I cop this sort of whingeing from my daughters (Uni and High School) and 99.9% of the time it’s there own fault due to some stuff up and I just spat the dummy when I saw this post. I meant no harm but just wish that these kids these days take some responsibility for their actions and not blame everything on their boss or Teacher. And yes I have had some pretty shitty Bosses and just learned to suck it up until something better came along.Cheers

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I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard the phrase “kids these days” used with a straight face.