Judge Smails
02-21-2008, 04:25 PM
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Restaurant sorry over F word bill (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7253002.stm)
Joe Delucci's owner Mr Langsdon said the message had been meant to be seen only by kitchen staff and he did not know how it ended up as an item on the receipt.
He said: "That shouldn't come out on the bill, so we've got to find out what's gone wrong there.
"But we have apologised unreservedly to the girls concerned and said that they're very welcome to come back and have a free meal and we'd like them to."
I'm sure that at some point in all of our lives we all must have worked in the service sector. Any interesting stories about getting back at pain-in-the-ass customers?
I'll start: While in college I paid the bills by driving a towncar. I Basically took executives to and from the local airports. One morning I was 15 minutes late picking up this horrid bitch because she lived in a new development that wasn't on the maps yet. It was 5:00 am in the morning, it was dark and I couldn't even see the street-signs.
Right away she starts in about how she's going to miss her plane and what's the matter with me? She says that she must be my first ride of the day and why didn't I make sure I was on time? Well after about ten mintes of hearing how worthless I was I told her not to worry and that I'd make sure that she got to the airport on time.
Maybe I'd just seen Stripes the night before or something, but I gave her the ride of her life. I must have been doing 100mph on the Parkway, weaving in and out of traffic, riding the shoulder, cutting off trucks, blowing through tolls. Now all of a sudden her tune changed and she says it's OK, she's got plenty of time, her plane doesn't leave for another two hours. "Oh no miss, you just sit back. I've got everything under control. I just wish I hadn't had all that cough syrup." In retrospect, it was really dumb because if I'd been pulled over I'd have lost my license. But, I was young and reckless.
When I finally got her to the airport, with time to spare, she spills out of the back and I remember to this day that she gave me a $25.00 tip on a $40.00 fare. I think she fgured that I must have been a psycho and didn't want to piss me off for fear of what I might do to her right there in the airport drop off zone.
Restaurant sorry over F word bill (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7253002.stm)
Joe Delucci's owner Mr Langsdon said the message had been meant to be seen only by kitchen staff and he did not know how it ended up as an item on the receipt.
He said: "That shouldn't come out on the bill, so we've got to find out what's gone wrong there.
"But we have apologised unreservedly to the girls concerned and said that they're very welcome to come back and have a free meal and we'd like them to."
I'm sure that at some point in all of our lives we all must have worked in the service sector. Any interesting stories about getting back at pain-in-the-ass customers?
I'll start: While in college I paid the bills by driving a towncar. I Basically took executives to and from the local airports. One morning I was 15 minutes late picking up this horrid bitch because she lived in a new development that wasn't on the maps yet. It was 5:00 am in the morning, it was dark and I couldn't even see the street-signs.
Right away she starts in about how she's going to miss her plane and what's the matter with me? She says that she must be my first ride of the day and why didn't I make sure I was on time? Well after about ten mintes of hearing how worthless I was I told her not to worry and that I'd make sure that she got to the airport on time.
Maybe I'd just seen Stripes the night before or something, but I gave her the ride of her life. I must have been doing 100mph on the Parkway, weaving in and out of traffic, riding the shoulder, cutting off trucks, blowing through tolls. Now all of a sudden her tune changed and she says it's OK, she's got plenty of time, her plane doesn't leave for another two hours. "Oh no miss, you just sit back. I've got everything under control. I just wish I hadn't had all that cough syrup." In retrospect, it was really dumb because if I'd been pulled over I'd have lost my license. But, I was young and reckless.
When I finally got her to the airport, with time to spare, she spills out of the back and I remember to this day that she gave me a $25.00 tip on a $40.00 fare. I think she fgured that I must have been a psycho and didn't want to piss me off for fear of what I might do to her right there in the airport drop off zone.