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Change is good, just not all at once.
2008-01-12 09:22:00 So my new GM is making a few changes at my job. He’s making some changes that I’ve wanted for a while; enforcing uniform standards, cell phone usage being stopped. He’s also changing a few things that I don’t agree with. He’s overstaffing the place. When I say overstaffing, I mean there’s bartenders in the ... More About: Change , Good
Poll Results, Stupid Name of the Week (1/11)
2008-01-12 09:02:00 This last weeks poll didn’t seem to be too popular, but I made it quick and wasn’t really thinking about the fact that a lot of people just don’t play video games. This weeks is on alcohol! Samus (the badass bitch from Metroid) (22%, 14 Votes) Mario (17%, 11 Votes) Pac-Man (after eating a flashing power pellet) ... More About: Results , Stupid , Poll , Week
RagingServer.com is back online bitchez!!!
2008-01-11 12:53:00 So apparently a firewire cable connected to the server that holds our precious RagingServe r was loose yesterday morning about 9 am, and the server crashed as a result. RagingServer.com was down for about 21 hours, and I was in my own personal Hell. I’m back though, so be ready for the normal poll result and stupid ... More About: Online , Back
Round Table, vol 3 is now up, a little late
2008-01-10 05:01:00 Eric, we don’t know what happened to ya, but Tony over at has filled in and done this weeks edition of Round Table . Everybody needs to check it out, and remember, if you want to be included, go to the RoundTable page here at RagingServer. These will normally be posted on Monday night, Tuesday Morning (US ... More About: Late , Round Table
I don?t work for free, bastards!
2008-01-09 11:59:00 Working in a cocktailing area can be a bitch sometimes. We get people who sometimes don’t want to start tabs with us, and insist on paying us every time we bring them a drink. Last night, I had a couple of guys learn real quick that I’m not going to keep getting drinks for them ... More About: Work , Free
Wow?it really has been 2 days hasn?t it.
2008-01-08 13:25:00 Manuel pointed out something in a comment this morning about how I haven’t posted for you all in a couple of days. I just had to take a bit of time to myself. Resting, relaxing, and more resting. I worked a little on my hopefully soon to be titled, written and published book, and I ... More About: Days
When you clean, you find money!
2008-01-06 09:42:00 People always look at me crazy when I’m pulling out the booth seats and sweeping behind them. The other cocktails hate doing it because it means more work. The dining room staff doesn’t do it at all because well….I don’t really know why. They’re supposed to do it every night. We’re all supposed to do ... More About: Money , Find , Clean
?Do you have a coat room??
2008-01-05 10:35:00 I got to work early today. I was in a good mood when I got to work early, despite being very tired from little sleep and getting up early this morning. I was ready to work and make money. This is after I was asked earlier in the week to come in Yesterday (aka, Thursday) and ... More About: Room
Poll Results, Stupid name of the week (1/04)
2008-01-05 09:55:00 It’s that time again…let’s see the final results on the recent video gaming poll: Do any of you play/have/enjoy any of the following video game systems (the old ones include emulators downloaded)? Playstation/PSP/Ps3 (26%, 35 Votes) Computer Games all the way, i lika da MMORPGS (19%, 26 Votes) Nintendo/Super Nintendo/Nintendo 64 (19%, 26 Votes) Game Boy/Color Game Boy/Game Boy Advance/ ... More About: Results , Stupid , Poll , Week
Round Table, vol. 3 is coming Monday
2008-01-04 09:50:00 It’s back, after the holiday hiatus. Round Table vol. 3 will be hosted this coming Monday , January 7th, by the great and wonderful…. If you want to get in a submission, go to his page and leave him a comment, or you can always send it to me and I’ll send it to him, just ... More About: Round Table
Spineless Managers and the Discount Epidemic
2008-01-03 13:03:00 Lobsterboy at Red Lobster Blog has a post up that got me thinking. Restaurants these days are full of managers who lack backbone. They give in to the tiniest complaint that a customer gives, worried that corporate will find out about it and they might not get a bonus. God forbid a manager tell a ... More About: Managers , Discount , Epidemic
Sick Fuckers
2008-01-03 08:29:00 Some of the people who have found my site just since the new year started are just sick fuckers. Nasty. Maybe I should just stop posting things that involve sexual words. Then I won’t have the “Chesters” and other freaks finding my site by searching for those things. New posts coming soon, I promise. Just had ... More About: Sick
New Years Eve, the After
2008-01-01 10:57:00 I’m plain and simply put exhausted. We closed an hour later than we normally do on Monday nights, but none of the servers knew we were going to. We were short staffed all around. 4 total dining room servers, 2 cocktail servers in the bowling alley, and 3 of us in the ... More About: Years , New Years Eve , New Years
New Years Eve?.I don?t want to go in
2007-12-31 23:47:00 I’m in the car on the way to work tonight, and I just realized that I really don’t want to go to work tonight. It’s going to be short staffed, and busy as Hell just like it has been the past few nights. I’m so tired of getting my ass kicked at work, and yes, ... More About: Years , New Years Eve , New Years
That booth is made for FOUR people not FOURTEEN!
2007-12-30 10:45:00 As you all know, I work in an area that is a first come first serve area table-wise. That means, as tables get up and cleaned, people don’t have to wait for a host stand. This also means that people who go to the host stand in search of a table and are turned down, ... More About: People , Made
Why do people do sexual things in restaurants?
2007-12-29 11:43:00 Over the years, working in various restaurants, and yes, even eating in various restaurants, I’ve seen some not so savory things. I’ve seen guests having….relations..with each other, I’ve seen guests having relations with employees, I’ve seen employees having relations with employees, I’ve seen managers having relations with employees, and managers having relations with other managers. ... More About: People , Restaurants , Things , Sexual
Poll results, Stupid name of the week (12/28)
2007-12-29 09:34:00 This week’s poll is now over, and not surprisingly there weren’t many votes to be tallied with the holiday. Lots of you read Mystery/Suspense type books…interesting. Mystery/Suspense (57%, 46 Votes) Fantasy (46%, 37 Votes) Science Fiction (38%, 31 Votes) Horror (37%, 30 Votes) Biography (23%, 19 Votes) Trashy Romance/Harlequin/Erotic (19%, 15 Votes) Read? Why read when I have TV and the ... More About: Results , Stupid , Poll , Week
Another Coming Soon
2007-12-28 03:38:00 Well, with the new year coming, there’s also some new ideas in the works here at RagingServer.com. The Horror Story submission page, and Horror Story section that I’ve talked about before is up, as the RagingPartner has just finished it. These stories will be credited to the person who wrote them. I won’t necessarily ...
The RagingT-Bird is close to death?
2007-12-27 10:59:00 My beautiful car, my 94 White Ford Thunderbird, is currently hovering at deaths door…and I don’t know how I’m going to save her. About a month and a half ago, I saw the little light come on that said “Low Coolant”, and having had previous problems with overheating vehicles, I promptly bought more coolant and put ... More About: Death , Close , Hell , Bird
I?m not working holidays in 2008!
2007-12-26 12:41:00 I’m mainly speaking about Christmas Day. Last night, I found out just how quickly the spirit of the season vanishes from people. Not only did I have people barking orders at me left and right, yelling at me because I couldn’t be in 9 places at once, and stiffing me, I also had 2 lanes ... More About: Holidays , Working , 2008 , Workin
Merry Christmas to all and to all?
2007-12-25 08:11:00 LEARN TO TIP YOUR FUCKING SERVER!!! I, and the other servers who had to work today, did not come to work on Christmas Eve for you fucking bastards to come in, drink, eat, and fucking stiff us! We could have stayed at home with our families and made no money. But no, we came to work ... More About: Merry Christmas , Merry
To the restaurants that serve flavored lemonade and tea
2007-12-24 12:03:00 I really must demand that you stop serving it immediately! I am so tired of people trying to order strawberry lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and raspberry tea. Last night, I had a guest actually argue with me, telling me that we DID have strawberry lemonade and I just didn’t want to serve it to her! She said ... More About: Restaurants , Lemonade , Nade , Serve , Mona
Special Christmas edition of the Round Table
2007-12-24 08:51:00 This week, since nobody was actually scheduled to host “The Round Table ”, I’m doing a Christmas edition. And without further ado: Over at “Will Work for Tips”, it’s proven that I’m not the only server who has to deal with stupidity on a regular basis, and this dirty Bitch would have pushed me ... More About: Special , Edition
I am not your damn babysitter!
2007-12-23 10:26:00 Tonight, around 7 pm, I had some of a group come in. It was 2 ghetto as hell adults, and 6 ghetto as hell brats. They all tried to pile into a 4-top booth. They told me they were waiting for more people to arrive. They merged into the booth right next to the first ... More About: Damn
Invasion of the ?Big Boned? Babies
2007-12-22 10:08:00 There was fat everywhere. I don’t know where they all came from, but there were great big fat people roaming all around the place. Most of them couldn’t fit in our booths, being that the tables don’t move, so they were pulling up stools to the tables. I wondered if the barstools might be absorbed ... More About: Babies , Invasion
Poll results, Stupid name of the week (12/21)
2007-12-22 09:02:00 It’s that time again. This week, I asked you all what I should do about the Jerry Springer invite. Here are your responses: Dude, it?s Jerry Springer, don?t bother (49%, 89 Votes) Make sure you have another job first, Ribeye, then do it! (16%, 30 Votes) Yes, Go for it! (16%, 29 Votes) Find a way onto ... More About: Results , Stupid , Poll , Week
Cheerleaders are demons sent straight from the pits of Hell
2007-12-21 10:44:00 Every few months, we get groups of people in my restaurant that make me want to sacrifice small animals to the gods to make them go away. These “people”…and I use that term loosely, are cheerleaders. Little high school cheerleaders. Screaming at the top of their lungs, wearing next to nothing, dancing ... More About: Hell , Cheerleaders , Straight , Demons , Mons
The Raging Server Pens have arrived!
2007-12-21 09:24:00 Too bad I can’t ship them anywhere, and cafepress doesn’t offer ink pens. These are for us Nashvillians everyone. They’re so cute too, I’m so happy that RagingPartner took the time to design these for me. I’m going to give a few out at restaurants, not quite sure if I’ll use them ... More About: Server , Pens , Serve
My blog readability level
2007-12-20 09:54:00 I somehow thought my reading level would be higher than that….I feel saddened that it’s not. My feelings are hurt. After an hour of clicking trying to get it to read my blog, it gives me some fucking elementary school bullshit. I call shenanigans. Fuck you, criticsrant.com! Copyright © 2007 - RagingServer.com If you're reading this ... More About: Blog
Just some pet peeves I?m throwing out there.
More articles from this author:2007-12-20 08:52:00 Another of my “Things to do and not to do” series tonight, mainly because I’m tired and as such my brain just isn’t working correctly right now. Here are some of the things you can do to make your servers happy when you go out to eat. If you say you’re ready to order, be ready ... More About: Peeves , Pet Peeves , Some 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
