r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 18h ago

Discussion She almost ruined a proposal.

This was at Crescent Bay Point Park, which allows people to book it special occasions.

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u/wildwildwaste 17h ago

I got fired from being a busboy at four of these joints when I was 16 (1995ish) for various issues on Sundays, the worst being pouring a half full pitcher of water on top of a couple who wouldn't stop giving a pregnant server shit because her hair was dyed purple.

I learned pretty quick that I wasn't cut out for customer facing roles.

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u/twigge30 16h ago

Doin the lord's work there dude. (Irony intended, not sarcasm.)

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u/Careful-Agent4715 14h ago

i was a server for a bit and worked on mother’s day. one customer was like this, just a nasty woman making everyone’s day awful and i just so happened to knock her pepsi all over her. her children looked both thrilled and terrified, but it was a win for me!

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u/Reflexlon 13h ago

Mother's day is a special hell. I remember a woman walking past a line of like three dozen pickup customers and screaming at a 17 year old about how they ruined the most important day of her life because she didn't have time to wait for her togo order she called in that she wanted brought out to her car. It took 25 minutes instead of the 15 online told her, and she already had been given her food, she just had to come in and make sure everyone knew that she had the emotional regulation of a small child.

Valentines is like this too. I think there are a lot of people who only go out once or twice a year and do not know how to act in public lol. I feel bad for them being so improperly socialized, kinda like a mistrained dog.

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u/_Sahara_Rose_ 10h ago

As a mother with a mother, I refuse to engage in Mother's Day brunch for either of us. If we want brunch, we do it another day or make it at home. It's solely for the reason that I will lose my shit on another customer and their treatment of a service worker. I only worked at McDonald's in my youth for restaurant experience, but I understand how hard it is and how little they get paid (even with tips). I once watched a server get berated by a customer next to me even though I saw they were being kind and professional. When the customer left, I inserted myself and asked if they left a tip (they did not), so I gave the server what cash I had (I think ~$15 - there were two people eating at the table). Shits bad, there's no reason to take it out on someone trying to survive.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes 15h ago

Your customer service skills sound fine to me.

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u/No-Kitchen5212 12h ago

certainly served that customer what they were asking for

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u/TheChildrensStory 14h ago

If I saw that I would’ve left a bigger tip and become a regular.

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u/yorgasor 13h ago

It sounds like their previous baptism didn’t take and you were just trying to help them with another one. Why would they fire you for that?!

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u/1991K75S 14h ago

I worked at every level of restaurant service and was goddamn good at it including charm, wit, food knowledge at dives, pubs, and hoity toity joints and let me assure you that it never got less strenuous dealing with the public. You made the right choice.

I'm out now and have been for a long time:

People generally are going out for a nice time but they occasionally seem to ruin it for themselves. Ultimately we evolved from animals and we have all the animal requirements for self preservation that make us shitty when we are hungry or stressed etc. and we take that out on the busboy/waiter/bartender.

Once I was a bartender it was better but still not perfect but I had a schtick that worked for me which was to engage the troublesome customers with a fictional anecdote about myself told in an amusing way that distracted them from their own shit. It 99% worked great.

People are children.

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u/HomeMadeWhiskey 11h ago

Please share your disarming anecdote!

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u/1991K75S 7h ago edited 7h ago

It was always a little different with parts I made up that were interchangeable. Often involving a beautiful girl who was too good for me breaking my heart by kicking me to the curb. I would use my regulars as foils and they all were somehow part of the story.

No one really knew anything about me.

(There was always morsels of truth cobbled together just to make it more believable).

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u/Medical-Potato5920 14h ago

You mean, cuntomer facing roles.

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u/Exotic_Hovercraft_92 13h ago

"Al público" a los perros racistas de mierda gringos ojetes

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u/AdmiralAdama99 13h ago

Fired 4 times for fighting with church people? My my

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u/wildwildwaste 12h ago

Reading into it a bit. Sundays were our busiest days, I was a jerk who didn't put up with assholes (probably because of some transference stuff).

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u/BioExtract 13h ago

I’d have given you a promotion for taking the initiative

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u/Time_Grape_6511 12h ago

You should have been a bartender.

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u/emlgsh 11h ago

worst

best

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u/EchoTRacing 10h ago

Not all heroes wear capes... unless you do wear a cape... no judgement here.

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u/clarelucy 9h ago

Oh bless your once 16 year old heart. I'd have cheered you on!

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u/DakotaKid69 9h ago

Some people deserve an ice baptism

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u/Umutuku 8h ago

I learned pretty quick that I wasn't cut out for customer facing roles.

Shitty customers weren't cut out for you facing roles.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 8h ago

I'd have given you a raise lol. You didn't use the hot coffee

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u/spicewoman 7h ago

I used to collect those little "good news, you're going to hell!" tracts like pokemon, would get one once a week at least. Then I dyed my hair blue and purple, and NO ONE leaves me them any more. It's been years. I'm too much of a godless heathen to try to save anymore, I guess. XD

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 7h ago

I’d rather cut grass all day in the sun than deal with customers

I don’t have the ability to mask as much as it takes for continuous customer facing roles