What's the most funny about this film is that all the stereotypical customers in the film are 100% real.
I had an incredibly short career as a server and it WAS NOT something I will ever do again. I did it for 3 months and had all of the customers shown in the film (the a-hole redneck cheapskate, the entitled b!tch who complains about everything, the foreigners, the condescending well off guy who acts friendly, the lame people who act like having dessert is some naughty taboo....) all of them, and it sucked ass.
I've worked in customers service most of my working life but waiting is something of a different beast than say working a register or a certain department in a retailer....there are immediate expectations and the server is the sole brunt of the annoyed customer 99.99% of the time.
I won't say I never screwed up an order, because I have. I won't say all the annoying customers are bad because some of the annoyance really isn't their fault, it just comes from being jaded by the job....but the amount of utter SH!T servers have to put up with from people is mind-boggling. It REALLY is and I will forever respect anybody who has to sling food in front of peoples faces for 8-12 hours a day. I ALWAYS tip well, even if the service is sub-par because you never know what kind of day the person is having. Chances are they genuinely suck at their job and don't care....but chances are they are having a day from hell too. How people can act like such pricks to servers is beyond me.
Working in retail is a really good window into how many people out there are total *beep*
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