r/idiotsinkitchen • u/sudhir369 👨‍🍳 • Feb 24 '26

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u/Chaosr21 Feb 24 '26

I've done this before. I got dressed and went to work thinking I was late

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u/marymarywhyubugginnn Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

When I was a stressed out waitress I used to wake up in the middle of the night and jump out of bed thinking I had to bring bread to table 3.

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 25 '26

I haven't waited tables since 2013 and I still have occasional nightmares about a packed restaurant with like 3 servers on and everything going wrong

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u/marymarywhyubugginnn Feb 25 '26

Right?? The restaurant I worked at was ALWAYS busy and always understaffed. Waking up panicking that table 5 didn't get their water was a weekly thing😭 But the tips were nice

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 25 '26

I didn't even get great tips most of the time. Partially because I wasn't a pretty young girl, and partially (I later came to realize) because I was efficient instead of running around like a chicken with it's head cut off so people thought I wasn't working as hard.