I’ve been at this restaurant for ~ 2 months now. I have served before but this place is a completely different ballgame than to the last place I worked at so it’s been a hard adjustment. but I’ve been putting in the work to get better and earn my coworkers’ respect. I learned everyone’s names, the hostesses, the bussers, the cooks (a lot of servers don’t bother because they think they’re above boh non servers), I pick up everyone’s shifts even if they call out the day of. not trying to paint myself as a saint, I fuck up!! I make mistakes, I know I’m far from being the best server but I’m fucking trying!!! there are people who take 1001 smoke breaks, who straight up tell managers they’re not coming in THE DAY OF because they don’t feel like it, who pick fights with customers. these aren’t one time offenses either, but the most they get? a stern talking to. I’ve never seen anyone get fired, I’ve never even heard someone offhandedly mention an ex coworker who got fired.

today was obviously an insane friday night, I made a mistake. someone asked for medium well steak, I accidentally put in a medium rare. I don’t feel like chasing down a manager to void my mistake (and risk getting yelled at) so I just ask one of the cooks to do me a favor and cook it medium well instead, he agrees to it but the head chef overheard and didn’t like this. he said “you put in medium rare, you take medium rare to customer”. we have a full house and online orders coming in, why the fuck would I bring out the wrong order on purpose just to get it sent back and have the table wait at least 30 minutes for a new steak?? I tell him that’s ridiculous and he walks out of the restaurant. word gets around that I’m the reason he left, the story gets twisted to I put in the whole table’s order wrong, not just one person’s, and asked the cook to fix it. now people are coming up to me calling me a dumbass, how the hell did I put in spaghetti when they asked for a steak (never happened). I’m venting to one of my friends, I tell her I need a day off from this restaurant and either my manager was in the vicinity or someone overheard and snitched because very soon after, I got pulled aside and was told that I was being a baby for wanting to take off, I can’t blame other people for my mistakes (I never did) and threatened to fire me if I didn’t come to my next shift.

I’m at my wit’s end. I’m tired of people tearing me apart for making mistakes while they laugh at their own. or they don’t notice they made one because I saved their ass. I’m tired of management refusing to fire incompetent workers so they don’t have to waste time hiring and training new people. I’m just sick of all of it!!!