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    In the restaurant, a Paris Hilton came in with her 2 boy toys. I was trying to seat them, and they were taking their sweet time being indescisive on where to sit even though there was a crowd behind them waiting to be seated. I patiently waited and tried to offer my two cents on where to sit, and answered their questions. The bitch decides that I'm getting smart with her, and says, "Little girl, you are very short today." I said, "Thank you, you are very observant," trying to play it off. She then demanded to talk to the manager and smirked at me all night. She told the manager that I was rude and other bullshit. Just my luck, the FOB Japanese head manager was leading the place that night. If you think that the customer is always right here over in the states, try Japan (I'm half Japanese, so I can say this). One customer once complained that I'm "too chatty," which had already put me on the radar. Even though I had said nothing to the bitch except to answer her questions and point out the different places to sit, I was still deemed "too chatty," and the manager is threatening to put me back on training. Yeesh, if one of the other managers had been on duty, they would have at least asked me what happened, and let it go with nothing but a reminder that the customer is always right if she was obviously difficult.

    Man, I fucking love snotty foreign managers who come over here and love to talk about how they came over here but struggled their way up ("Stupid lazy Americans" bullshit). You know, the ones, who have finally earned some authority and abuse it like 21 year olds with booze, as they can finally do to others what others have done to them.
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    Sounds sucky.

    On another note, your title confuses me... is someone sueing someone or being sued or threatened by lawsuit?



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    Well, you are there to make money, not friends. I wouldn't do anything unless you are thrown back into training. Then you need to decide if you can make money at another place equal to or greater than that place.

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    I'm referring to anyone getting their way when they threaten to sue, courtesy of my days working in the nursing home. Sorry, forgot to mention that in the OP.

    I know that I'm not there to make friends, but shit if I'm going to be downgraded at the whim of a spoiled brat and a boss who likes to tell you that you're stupid, replacable, and that most people could learn what I did in 1/4 the time. As for making money, this is cutting into my paycheck in the form of getting my bonus cut and my pay going to minimum wage if I get put back on training.

    I've already been looking onto different jobs b/c I have no insurance and if I apply to a hopital, there's a chance I'll have my nursing school tuition paid for.

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    ^^^ Fuck em then.

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    Good luck then with the hospital job. I was a busser for a very short time at a restaurant and I hated it. Full of power tripping customers and bosses. I was soooo happy to start dancing again after all that.

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    (If OP re: Paris Hilton is true): I predict she will have massive colon cancer that will spread to her mouth.

    I have also been subjected to a terminally ill woman threatening lawsuits, lawsuits......people who are near Death's Door & not "at peace" with the circumstance will latch onto any tiny chance to assert Willpower (= Life.). Cue: pity. Or willful deafness.

    PS I was also subjected to a Japanese resturant busser laughing at me & grabbing my plate of wasabi before I was done because she thought I had stupidly taken too much, not knowing it was hot. Uh, I'm Mexican. HOT is POR VIDA.

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    Yeah, I hope the bitch gets capsular contractions-gone-septic-infection after halfassed surgery becasue it's all she can afford after her sugar daddy dumps her for someone retaining her natural beauty and dies of renal failure and I hope that the boss has banana kids who counteract all of his pretentious Japanese-flourishing-in-America pride.

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    I'm amazed there hasn't been more of a Paris Hilton backlash. My answer as to why a person like her was born into the station of life she is at: "To make other people feel good about themselves!"
    This is a f*cked up thing to say, but she might meet some squalid end & then the TV news anchors will be reading her obit with a straight face.....Only to crack up once the program goes to commercial. I hope they leave the audio on for viewers at home. Such incidents have been known to happen.

    P.S. is the OP story from ? Do tell.....

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    No, that was straight from my pissy self. I'm not a waitress, I'm a hostess, meaning I only have to deal with 1/96th of the shit that waiters deal with.

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    Whoa. I'll be joining you in that job field, the town I'm moving to has a bunch of openings for big-boobed toothy-smiling barmaids & hostesses.

    The last time I was subjected to being smirked at, it was a mentally ill dancer with cottage cheese thighs & crazy stories. As much as that infuriated me, I know she's destined for the gutter, so I can't be witchy about it.

    PS RE: Japanese service industry customs: I noticed on Guam the ONLY time Japanese people would be nice to me was during business transactions...one lady would even bow & it freaked me out. "You're my equal, you don't have to BOW!" Outside of that, they thought I was a Phillipina Bannana-Sex Show girl & would not even look at me.

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    I dunno which is worse: working in a rich, upscale place where daddy's money yuppie kids hang and torture the proletariats for fun, or ok places where middle-of-the-road people expect 5-star?

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    ^ Yuppies, hands down, middle finger up.....I've mentioned before I knew a guy who used to hang out at the local IN-N-OUT burger in south Sacramento to beat up the yuppie kids for fun. (I'm from farm ghetto, I thought this was hysterical.)

    Again, the bitterwaitress website is a great place to learn how to love your food server. I worked as a pizza delivery girl....I never abuse the help. PS I also know someone who spit in the food of a problem customer. I was laughing at that too. The customer was an infamous local high school teacher.

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    Dunno, what actually comes to mind for lower places are the creepy mouthbreathers and frat boys at Hooters who are too cheap to go to strip clubs and accidentally-on-purpose spill cold water on the waitresses.

    Someday, I'm gonna borrow an electric wheelchair, put a cowcatcher on the front, add a nitrous tank, and mow down yuppie kids and socialite wives at Rice Village. Hmm, I'll add spinning blades to the wheels, and brandish a spiked club.

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine
    ^ Yuppies, hands down, middle finger up.....I've mentioned before I knew a guy who used to hang out at the local IN-N-OUT burger in south Sacramento to beat up the yuppie kids for fun. (I'm from farm ghetto, I thought this was hysterical.)
    Any particularly hilarious Schadenfreude stories? Can I find him and hire him? Please?

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    Karma will get them ! I deal with the public all day as well and I just have to step back and think of the good customers I have had it usually far exceeds the bad ones . But just one stupid fuck can really screw up a good day _ why is that ?

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    I lost track of this kid, he was a walking riot. He was also one fourth Korean, BTW. He had the weirdest name too, I won't post it but it was the combination of a name from the "Winnie The Pooh" books & a dirty sounding last name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krazyjane
    ... becasue it's all she can afford after her sugar daddy dumps her....
    Assuming the "she" you're referring to is Paris Hilton, better start wishing for something else 'cause there's not a chance in Hell of her having problems affording much of anything - her Grandfather left her and her sister trust funds containing Hilton stock valued at over $400 million (each!) when they were assigned same at age 21 and, should her parents decide to leave her and her sister the bulk of their estates when they die, they'll likely each become instant billionaires at that point... damned shame, ain't it?
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    Oh, KJ, I'm so sorry you have to deal with this crap! We are in America, there is no class system here. Too many people forget that. In theory, people are not supposed to be treated any differently (legally, anyway) because of what they earn. The UBER rich still have to go through airport security just like everyone else.

    In the town I grew up in, there was a very popular Italian restaurant. This place charged a lot, and was critically accliamed. The beautiful thing about this place, is that they did not subscribe to the "Customer is always right" attitude. Frequently, difficult customers were asked to leave, with the statement of "We don't need your money". It got to be a bit of a local legend, and a sort of entertainment venue. People would go there often just to see the owner give the boot to a nasty person. Occasionally the place would break into applause when said nasty person was tossed!

    Eventually he sold (for a very handsome profit), and now it is owned by some huge corporation restaurant. Their logo had something to do with being an "Itlaian expierence, including the attitude!"


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


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    Thanks guys. The Paris Hilton clone isn't so much the bad part as the manager, who would not listen to my side of the story and told me to keep my mouth shut and let the other hostess deal with the customers. He's a stuckup ass who, when asked a question, will simply roll his eyes, ask why we don't know this already, and tell you that there are people wanting my job and that they could probably learn the stuff faster than I did. If you think that "the customer is always right" attitude is bad here in the USA, try Japan. Also, try a Japanese guy who's finally earned the right to stand somewhere on a hierarchy. 16-year old with car keys, 21-year old with alcohol. He's also an American success story and loves talking about how dumb Americans are compared to the Japanese school system. Dammit, he almost makes me ashamed to be half Japanese.

    Lately, my paycheck has been suffering because he finds little reasons to cut my bonus, not telling me why, just laughing and lamenting how he has to deal with idiots. Usually he's not there (the restaurant is opening at another location and he's been out lately), but he's been around lately. I can't wait till business takes him elsewhere. Yeah, I did deserve that one bonus cut when I seriously fucked up, but I've been on his shit list ever since.

    Yesterday was better. One of the other managers was running the place, and she's very firm but very fair, and will tell you how you fucked up and what you need to do to correct it. She agreed that the Paris Hilton clone was prolly just a rich brat whose hobby consists of making waitstaff sit, stay, and beg. She even told me that she'd ask the head manager why my bonuses have been cut lately. I'm thankful for people like her.

    Paris, that's a great story! I wish more places were like that. It would be dinner theater and a nice supply of Schadenfreude! Man, the nice people should be getting the free desserts instead of the nasty socialite wives who threaten to sue if they find a hair in their salads (her own, as only Asians and Mexicans work in the restaurant and none are blonde, which they should figure out). No wonder people are so spoiled! It's like the two-year old who learns that screaming at the supermarket will get him candy.

    If I'm ever out and I see a spoiled bourgeoise giving staff bullshit, I will speak my mind and tell the brats what the staff cannot. Sometimes this gets me kicked out, but oh well. The waiters and clerks usually give me little winks and grins. I try to make a bit of a scene too to try to embarass the brat. Yes, I know that the managers are going to be caught in a really bad situation afterwards, but I'd love it if someone stuck up for me. Anyone else do this? One of my friends did the same. He was working in a bookstore, and a princess was screaming at the staff because they didn't have a certain book. Her smacked her on the head with a book (not hard), to try to make her snap out of her hysterical ranting. She screamed and threatened to sue, but his coworkers witnessing customers stuck up for him and he just got sent home for the day.

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    I heard there's a place in San Diego, CA where rudeness to customers is a gimmick. Can't remember what it's called, it's like a Hooters but with no boobs & total dick-ness. LOL

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