Not like it matters to any of you, but I am not a racist. I grew up in a diverse hometown with wonderfully openminded, hippie parents who are in an interracial marriage themselves. I'm a minority myself. I can truly say that aside from acknowledging a few hilarious racial stereotypes, I judge people based on their character, and treat and view everyone of different races and cultures equally--it feels weird stating that because it's such a given.
That said, I am a waitress and I have been for a long time. I love my job, and I get to have all kinds of amazing interactions and experiences with people from all over the world, even if just for an hour. But sometimes, people are huge a$$holes and I hate them. And after working in the industry for so long, you learn to immediately know a good table from a bad table, just by looking at them. Sometimes people surprise you. But most of the time, they dont.
"Black people don't tip." I'm sorry, but everyone who's worked in a service industry has heard that. Of course, that's not across the board. And it's not just all black people, it's a certain breed of black people. It's the kind of fukking black people that come in without smiling, in their oversized clothes (men) and undersized clothes (women), stomping to their tables, who interrupt you in the middle of a sentence to bark if "ya'll got lemonade". The ones that treat me as if I am some kind of fukking burdensome gnat for encroaching on their special mealtime... I WORK here, a$$hole, this is my JOB. Believe me, I don't WANT to serve you, I HAVE to. YOU walked into MY place, remember? Yes, we have lemonade. No, we don't have wings. Why? Because it's a fukkING SUSHI RESTAURANT. Yes, yes, I see that upsets you. What the fukk do you want me to do? It's my fault we don't have wings. Guess I don't get a fukking tip. It's the kind of black people that suck their lemonades (why always lemonades?) down every 5 minutes, so I have to spend extra time away from my other tables, who WILL tip me, refilling those goddamn things without a thank you, without even fukking eye contact. The same people who need lemons, and sauce, and "ya'll got ketchup?", and more napkins, and a hot glass for my fork, which can never all be in one trip, and nope, now the food is not good enough, send it back and redo it. How hard is it to fukking smile at someone who is being nice to you?! Is "thank you" not a thing to you a$$holes? Grabbing at shyt I put down, yelling at me and snapping their fingers from across the restaurant when I'm clearly helping someone else and WAS JUST THERE A SECOND AGO, and all that so you can ask me how much it costs for a drink. The drink menu, labeled DRINK MENU, is right in front of you. 8 dollars?!?!?! Are you serious? Go away now, servant lady, except I won't say anything, just wave my fukking hand at you like I'm shooing bad odor.
And now I've discounted your food because it had to be remade and you had to eat it after everyone else got theirs, and hell, I'll even discount your ghetto ass boyfriends food because it looks like he's pretty unhappy for some reason, too. Now your bill is 3 dollars and some change. You hand me 4 dollars, again, with no eye contact, and then keep sitting there like you aren't even ashamed of what a cheap a$$hole you are. I fukkING HATE YOU. Do you realize that, in addition to having to tolerate your nasty attitude and your nonsensical, unnecessary requests for the past hour, now I have to actually take money out of my OWN pocket to pay for your fukking meal? Not a lot, sure, but it's even less than just getting zero dollars. Now, I've made negative dollars at work... and still, not even a thank you, a smile, or eye contact as a compromise.
I've always hated the word ******. I think it's a cruel, hateful word that has no place in the world. Except now, I understand what it means. You aren't a ****** because you're black. You're a ****** because you're a rude, ignorant, uneducated, classless member of a group of people, doing nothing but giving truth to and perpetuating the same ugly stereotypes you complain about. Not all black people are ******s, some of the people I love most are black people who are wonderful, kind people, and participate in society. But you, you are a ******. And so is your boyfriend. And your friends are likely to be as well, because self-respecting, nice people would never want to hang out with you. And your kids probably will be, and you, and them, will be the ones to blame for the long life of racism. You have created a racist out of someone who wasn't one before.
Seriously, why the fukk don't you tip? You think you deserve to fukk people over now because your grandfather got fukked over? Is there some kind of annual ****** meeting that teaches you how to behave out in public to make people despise you, and then dare them to say something so now you can accuse them of racism? I'm poor too, a$$hole, but if I don't have enough money to tip I go to the grocery store, or McDonald's, if I'm feeling particularly lazy. God, I fukking hate you and one day, I won't depend on my job so much that I have to suck it up and be nice to you, and I'll tell you how I really fukking feel about you. But until then, no, sorry, we don't have any ketchup.[/quote[
"I'm a liberal I'm not racist"
That shyt doesn't even sound credible
....Servers shouldn't take offense its just hard to see exactly what you are doing that warrants you getting a 7$ or more tip on the low side at 15% ,not saying you don't,but if we don't see it or see how we are benefeiting from it then it didn't happen
....they take our order,might explain something on the menu,ask if we need refills,ask how the food is,bring the check.
...but get mad at the disrespectful bosses unwilling to pay a flate fair rate per hr.....not black people bcuz we don't wanna pay what the restaraunt won't pay you for a hr....I only seen you working for me for about 10 minutes tops
if servers felt they were being soooo mistreated and it wasn't worth it nobody would be one. But its a job that requires no education, has flexible hours, and the potential for great money. I know people who made a career out of it.
