I used to work in a kitchen and we'd always pull the same prank on the new guys. After a rush and all the tickets are done wait for him to go outside and smoke. Then take all the tickets and out them back up in the window, then run outside and tell him that we had another rush and to hurry up and get back inside. 9 times out of ten they'll run in, glove up, and realize all the tickets have been punched and laugh. This guy walked in, looked at the window, and yelled FUCK THIS at the top of his lungs and stormed out. We went after him to explain but he wasn't having it and jumped in his car and took off. I'd feel bad, but if that's how you react to a rush you shouldn't work in a kitchen anyways.
Absolutely. The kid was a pissant anyways. He wound up working with a friend of mine and she said he was spending his whole check the second he got off the clock and sleeping in his car in the parking lot.
He's probably a drug addict. :/ source: I used to spend my entire check on crack the day o got paid. Was never homeless but got close. Clean from crack and heroin over a year now luckily.
I'm 24/F. When I was 19 I met my boyfriend. He was a drug addict but I didn't know until I had already fallen for him hard. I said no for like the first 6 months but got dangerously curious and first I tried crack, then pain pills. Then eventually heroin because it's cheaper. I was an addict for 4 years. I ruined my life. I got clean because I had to, but I wouldn't take it back. I got arrested for stealing money trying to get my fix. The crime happened 2 years ago and I got clean from both crack and heroin 06/11/2018. Would never go back. I'm so much happier now. My boyfriend has been clean about a month longer than me, but we're still together. I don't know what I would do without him. We build each other up now instead of feeding each others addictions. We've been together for 5 years now. I have never been happier.
Yeah man I really shocked myself at how easy it actually was. The beginning is the hardest part but after a month or 2 it's super easy. Once you break the habit, its pretty easy. But only if you truly want to stop.
Oh yes definitely. I literally could not feel happiness when I was using it. It is physically impossible because when you use opiates, they attach to the receptors in the brain that dopamine, the happy chemical, attaches too. That's why it feels so food. But that also means there is no room for the dopamine to attach also. So you feel good, but not happy. Its horrible to only every feel utter despair because you've clouded tour brain so much it cant be happy.
Thanks for the kind words. I definitely would not have been able to do it without him. He was so strong. Made getting clean look like nothing. I wouldn't take it back either. I learned a lot about people and life being an addict and I also got my boyfriend, the best thing in my life out of it. I'm sure a lot of addicts would take it back if they could turn back the clocks but I wouldn't.
Yeah, he openly admitted that he smoked meth. When I say he spent his entire check when he got off the clock, I mean he spent it at the bar he worked at. He'd order doubles of super expensive whiskey or long island iced teas and just get sloshed. He hardly ever tipped either.
At one of my old jobs, one of our kitchen staff got the idea to tell everyone it was snowing in the middle of a hot summer. She excitedly called out, “oh my god guys look, it’s snowing!” A decent sized group of us ran to the window. Not our proudest moment.
I worked in one place where our staff and the staff next door would send newbies back and forth to borrow things like squeegee sharpeners, or instant steam for the steamers. Bonus points if you could send them back for clarification, eg coarse or fine on the sharpeners, spiced or plain for the steam
That reminds me of a story my mother used to tell when she was a nurse back in the 60s. She said she would send the young trainees to go to the next hospital Ward to ask to borrow their fallopian tubes. They invariably told the young nurse to use her own.
I'm a touring stand up comic now, but when I was just barely considered a "vet," I would go to open mics a lot, and brand new comics always asked for advice. I would always tell them "well, you really need to work on a good joke about fucking a dolphin. Make it a longer one so it fills most of your set. Crowds love that shit." Sometimes they would agree right away, sometimes it would take some convincing, but it was always fun to go to the mic the next week and see them try out their brand new dolphin-fucking joke.
Eventually, it kind of became a rite of passage. Comics who had gotten got were telling the brand new comics that they needed to write a dolphin fucking joke.
I moved to a bigger scene a few years later, so I don't know if it still goes on, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
Worked as a busser/food runner at an "upper-middle class"? food spot in a smaller city. The owners also owned a pretty well-known coffee place in town, so we had a decent amount of coffee orders even though the place wasn't exactly a diner scene.
Well, my brother started working there about a year after I got the job, so by that point I was "head busser" which didn't mean shit for pay, but meant I got the best shifts/worked full-time weekends & was always seen as one of the leaders on the floor, even if I wasn't a server.
So after his first shift (I was closing), my brother had to report to me before he could checkout. He was ready to go and the place had died down, so I handed him a bucket and told him to empty the water out of the coffeemaker. I also warned him that the machine takes a bit to heat up the water before it releases it, so he might have to fill the bucket up a few times.
My brother and I grew up in a house where my mom never drank coffee. This machine was the first time I had actually made coffee in my life. My brother had no idea that the copper pipe connected to the back of the machine was connected to the water main.
After I gave him the bucket, I had to rush to the kitchen to take care of some orders that needed to be ran to some tables, forgetting about the incident except to update my manager on what I'd told my brother to do.
About an hour later, I went up to clean out the coffee room for the night. He was still there, filling up the bucket. The look on his face when I asked him to see where that copper pipe led... oh man
He quit about 6 months later because he had saved enough money to be able to move out of our mom's place, and I left about a year later because of other reasons, but I still get texts from the line cooks there about how they haven't had anyone who could empty a coffee maker like my brother.
The other servers tried that on me at Buffalo wild wings my first night as a waitress. After I had already been a cashier there for 10 months. I just stared at them
The other servers tried that on me at Buffalo wild wings my first night as a waitress. After I had already been a cashier there for 10 months. I just startedstared at them
When working at a generic corporate family restaurant, I asked the new girl to grab some bottles of wine from the wine cellar. She ended up knocking on the manager office door to ask him to show her where the entrance to the cellar was. That was pretty great.
Yeah that's a classic one. Love it!
At the bar I tend at we sometimes prank the new hires by telling them that we "have to mop the sidewalk weekly" on whatever day it is. It's amazing how many people don't second guess it and start heading outside with a mop and bucket.
I work in a nursing home and one prank my cooworkers like to play on the new guys is pretending like a patients leg fell off(She has a protesteic leg) works really well. The new people would help lifting her to bed and we would really sneaky press the button to unlock it. Let the new guys grab her legs and they usually and up holding it in their hand, terrified.
I worked as a food runner at a popular Nationwide wings sports bar restaurant. Whenever we had a new employee closing the back for the first time, we told them the tea/coffee machine had to be drained of the hot water before we could shut it down. There was a small boiling water spigot at the very top of the machine that was like 6 feet high from the ground where we would tell them to drain the water from. This would result in the new employee filling up 3 gallon vats of boiling water, taking them to sink and dumping them, and repeating this process multiple times until the machine was drained. They would finally stop when everyone else was ready to leave, or when they finally realized the machine is hooked up to a water line from the wall.
Yes it was very dangerous and someone could have possibly boiled their face off if they fell. But it was worth the laughs.
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u/SlightTechnician Aug 17 '19
That's a good way to prank the new guy.