What's your day job?

Rb · 23-05-2008 02:33AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Tipping is customary?Like seriously.We're not the states.

Lol, seems my rant took a little longer to write

Rb · 23-05-2008 02:33AM

zuchum wrote: »

I'm a waiter in the corporate suites in Croke Park when there's matches on..

If anyone's ever going to one,I'd like to remind you,that tipping is customary. can get so frustrating.

Tips are for when a member of staff provides good/exemplary service. If you don't do your job well, you don't deserve a tip. The fact that you "get frustrated" would indicate that customers find your service below par (and therefore aren't tipping), maybe you should consider changing your attitude and working a bit harder to actually earn the tip?

This isn't the USA, if you want customers to be expected to tip, go there and work for a much lower basic wage and get your demanded tips.

zuchum · 23-05-2008 02:39AM

Rb wrote: »

Tips are for when a member of staff provides good/exemplary service. If you don't do your job well, you don't deserve a tip. The fact that you "get frustrated" would indicate that customers find your service below par (and therefore aren't tipping), maybe you should consider changing your attitude and working a bit harder to actually earn the tip?

This isn't the USA, if you want customers to be expected to tip, go there and work for a much lower basic wage and get your demanded tips.

My service isn't below par in any way, I work my ass off; it's not like i'm working in a conventional restaurant and not getting tips,for that I'd understand that my service wasn't up to scratch, but we treat the people amazingly well,and wait on them hand and foot for on average 8 hours, and the majority of them leave without saying thank you.

Becuase they're not in a restaurant where they pay, they feel like if they can get away with being stingy they may as well.

There are several people I work with who have to work two jobs,6 days a week, and the days when they don't get tips is a massive blow to them. And no matter what you might think or perceive,I have no doubt in my mind that the sevice we provide is exemplary,and we do it with a smile on our face.

Xavi6 · 23-05-2008 02:44AM

You get paid a wage to do the job. If that wage isn't enough then go look for another one.

zuchum · 23-05-2008 02:55AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

You get paid a wage to do the job. If that wage isn't enough then go look for another one.

People in here are so contrary...

Not saying that we don't get a wage,I'm just saying; the majority of waiters do get tips; that's a fact. It's what happens when one is a waiter.
If people have been waiters that don't get tips they'll understand that it's frustrating when you feel like you haven't done anything wrong, and yet you don't get a tip.
I'm just saying,it can be highly frustrating.

AlmightyCushion · 23-05-2008 02:58AM

Enough about tipping. Lets try and stick to the original topic.

23-05-2008 03:03AM

Rb wrote: »

Lol, seems my rant took a little longer to write

God.I am spending too much time on boards since I finished my exams.This is about my hundredth post in a couple of days!

To Zuchum:I work as a barman in a pub.I get paid a standard wage.Occasionally,I get a tip.However,I do not expect to get tipped as I am getting a standard decent wage.I never expect to get tipped even if I do a lock in till 4AM etc.

JangoFett · 23-05-2008 03:10AM

My day job is a waiter in Subiaco in Perth....I'm living here for a while

I applied to over 70 jobs and the only one that bothered calling me up was a waitering job.

Its a fancy restaurant, we often have famous Rugby and Aussie Rules players and the owners of the teams and stuff and I hate it. The pay is ok, the tips aren't great, maybe $80 a week, about €45-50 a week, a friend of mine gets €50 a day in her job as a waitress in dublin in tips.

I hate the customers and some of the chefs. Some of the chefs gave out to me for talking to another waitress while we were waiting for food to be cooked. Some of the customers barely acknowledge me let alone say thank you. Luckily my name tag gets people talking, my name is Oisín and people always try pronounce it and guess where I'm from...most of them pronounce it like its French and guess that I'm dutch.

I would have quit by now but no other jobs I applied for have contacted me, well, maybe 5 did, I told a lie, but as soon as they looked at my working visa they said they weren't interested. My working visa lets me keep a job for maximum 6 months at a time, and all these places won't employ anyone with a working visa.

I feel better after saying that...

castie · 23-05-2008 03:10AM

Student by day.

Filthy Drunk by nite

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flanum · 23-05-2008 03:12AM

by day..
maintenance spark(fixing the machines when they break) in a factory that makes transformers. (the big green boxes you see on housing estates and up esb poles.. not the robots in disguise)..

by night..

reverse hen threader.

Xavi6 · 23-05-2008 03:13AM

JangoFett wrote: »

My day job is a waiter in Subiaco in Perth....I'm living here for a while

Is the restaurant anywhere near the Subi hotel?

JangoFett · 23-05-2008 03:14AM

I forgot the by night bit

.....by night...A mexican wrestler known only as EL TURFO MAGNIFICO!! He's half mexican and half Laois-an

JangoFett · 23-05-2008 03:15AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Is the restaurant anywhere near the Subi hotel?

It IS the Subi Hotel

Xavi6 · 23-05-2008 03:16AM

JangoFett wrote: »

It IS the Subi Hotel

Ha what a guess! Decent enough spot there at night.

JangoFett · 23-05-2008 03:19AM

Yeah, so it seems, I prefer drinking in the cheap places though!

The weird part about some of the managers there is they drink there, I think thats weird, they go to where they work on their days off.

If you're ever in the restaurant and see a disgrunted looking guy called Oisín...thats me buddy!

Xavi6 · 23-05-2008 03:25AM

Ha ha not a hope of me eating in there at those prices!

JæKæ · 23-05-2008 03:35AM

Junior Vice Sys Admin at a Biohazard cleanup company

I left out the Junior Vice part on my big stack of business cards though.

flanum · 23-05-2008 04:08AM

JæKæ wrote: »

Junior Vice Sys Admin at a Biohazard cleanup company

I left out the Junior Vice part on my big stack of business cards though.

:eek: "biohazard cleanup" is bad enough!

BraziliaNZ · 23-05-2008 04:25AM

ALL of you work in IT, any of you who say otherwise are lying. I always imaged you guys as weird dudes with long hair, glasses, maybe a beard, a slayer/pantera/seputura/possibly metallica t-shirt, a leather trench coat, ugly girlfriends that you really dote on, spend 3/4 of your live on the internet, LOVE star wars...

23-05-2008 04:57AM

Uni student and part-time clothes horse.

Xavi6 · 23-05-2008 05:30AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Uni student and part-time clothes horse.

Clothes horse = Model. Therefore, pics or GTFO

23-05-2008 05:35AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Clothes horse = Model. Therefore, pics or GTFO

Agreed!

23-05-2008 05:47AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Clothes horse = Model. Therefore, pics or GTFO

No freebies! Ha!

Xavi6 · 23-05-2008 05:50AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

No freebies! Ha!

Paypal ok?

23-05-2008 05:58AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Paypal ok?

LOL!:D

castie · 23-05-2008 06:52AM

Its a Trap!

zuchum · 23-05-2008 02:13PM

castie wrote: »

Its a Trap!

a sexy trap

regards all the earlier waiter talk...I'm currently seeking a new job...Handing out flyers was great fun,and amazing pay which I had for two weeks...but now I need more otherwise I won't be able to afford things I've already paid for...

Any body up for hiring a student? I AM willing to be your slave

jester77 · 23-05-2008 02:20PM

Doing nothing, nothing to do, being made redundant at the end of August, so I'm just scracthing myself until that nice big fat cheque arrives

But I must say the internet is beginning to look small :eek:, lol

Hornswoggle · 23-05-2008 03:38PM

Im a journo...or at leasr i was before i found boards... :rolleyes:

Rb · 23-05-2008 04:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

God.I am spending too much time on boards since I finished my exams.This is about my hundredth post in a couple of days!

I made my 9000 post one month ago today. Shocking.

What's your day job?

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