• @bird@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    So, so many; I have spent far too long in hospitality.

    A relatively benign one: At a small coffeeshop. Found a quirky little hat behind the counter - a tweed fedora thing with a rakish orange feather in it. Full of youthful high spirits and caffeine, I proceeded to lark around the shop in the hat (yes I wish I still had that much energy), much to the amusement of my coworkers. A lady walks in, interrupting us. She’d left her hat.

    At a bar: A nonzero amount of customers buying a bottle of beer and then pouring it into the tip jar (edited to add: thinking it a glass for their beer). Some version of “how was I supposed to know?!”, repeatedly. I don’t know, maybe the fact it was covered in chalk pen, contained money, and was very, very ugly?

    At a pub: boomer getting very angry at me because he’d asked for a spiced rum and coke and I’d offered Sailor Jerry’s (cheapest). Apparently that was a wussy drink. No, he clarified, a girly drink. He chose some other rum with coke. Yeah drink your sugar water old man.

    • HubertManne
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      57 months ago

      I don’t get it. Why are they buying a beer and pouring it out?

      • @bird@aussie.zone
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        47 months ago

        Oh, should have clarified: they thought the tip jar was a glass for their beer. When I’d already asked them if they wanted a glass.

      • Drusas
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        37 months ago

        Probably just thought it was funny to cause the staff a bit of hassle.