Today, at my prestigious sous chef job, I was preparing to plate up expensive entrees for a function of 150 people. After arriving to work 2 hours early to finalize finishing touches, they call the restaurant 5 minutes before their booking stating, 'We can't be bothered anymore, sorry.' FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at work, I got to wait on one of those tables where everyone had very complex orders, and some of them sent their food back. When the time finally came for me to bring them their check and receive my well-earned tip, I returned only to discover that they'd dined and dashed. FML
Today, at work, 5 minutes after I'd sent my help home, we got an 83 dollar order. I'm the only cook. FML
Today, I came in to work early at a restaurant to help out. I stocked, baked pies for the next day, cleaned and set over 50 tables, and vacuumed the entire two stories. When I went to send an order for the first customer of mine, I realized I hadn't even clocked on. Four and half hours of work wasted. FML
Today, as a restaurant manager, I had a large party of difficult guests. They sat in their private room they'd reserved for three-and-a-half hours, then caused a huge scene when it was time to pay. One guy even ran at me like he was going to hit me. FML
Today, I was at a fancy restaurant with my boss, trying to make a good impression. I ordered the most expensive steak on the menu, only to later realize I'd forgotten my wallet. My boss had to pay for the meal, and I'm wondering if my job in accounting is now on the line. FML
Today, I had my first shift as a server at a restaurant after getting stuck behind an accident and arriving late, apologizing profusely. Apparently no one knew I'd been hired but I was still yelled at for tardiness. They then made me clean a fridge for 4 hours and paid me in pizza. FML
Today, my boss replaced me, with my 25 years experience, as head chef with her son, who has a GCSE in food studies from 15 years ago and hasn’t even worked a restaurant before. I’m sitting here, watching our customers send food back untouched because it’s so bad. This has ruined us. FML
Today, I was doing my first shift waitressing in a café. Not an hour in, I'd already spilt tea over somebody and dropped two whole meals. Looks like this won't last much longer. FML
Today, I was out having a nice dinner to celebrate being hired for a job I was really excited for after two places didn't work out in a year. In the middle of dinner, I got an email from the director informing me that the school has to close due to lead levels in the building. FML
Today, my boss told me they were letting me go because they "could no longer afford to pay me." Never mind the catered lunch they had the day before, which cost more than a week's worth of my salary. FML
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Top comments
odamaliekh 26
Doesn't your job have some kind of policy for that? I mean, they can't just cancel orders.. I hope they gotta pay for it, but still a huge bummer for you. Sorry OP!
onlychildFTW 34
So what happens in the situation? Because of the size and it sounds preordered, do they still have to pay a %? Or is it just a we didn't go so we don't pay type of thing? Also that sucks you did all that work for nothing. Hopefully you still got paid for the time you put in no matter what though! Hopefully you got to eat the expensive food. Haha.
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Comments (73)
FusionPlacebo 26
This should be like any other professional job. If they don't call at a certain time, they still have to pay. **** them, OP. And **** their lousy excuse.
captaincarlz 17
I work in an industry where we book restaurants and other things for large groups. Our restaurants won't even make a reservation with us until there is a contract signed, and they don't start prepping or setting aside tables until the group has pre-paid in full. While it sucks OP made all that food and then they cancelled, if the restaurant didn't set a contract and get paid upfront, it wasn't very smart on the restaurants part.
BurkeJabMama 6
I hope they still had to pay for the food & prep time. I can barely handle when my kids don't eat their dinner let alone how much work you put into a meal they never showed for.
beeferjay 34
I would think they'd be nicer in Australia, but I guess asshole isn't just an American thing
RedPillSucks 33
maybe some homeless people got really nice donated meals?
LiLMAMA0523 35
Wow that's really unprofessional. I would never do business with them again.
sparkles8595 20
That really sucks. I'm a cake decorator so I know it takes time to put things together, and then when the customer calls last minute and tries to change the color or something else on their order and it's already done, or if they just don't show up all of our hard work goes down the drain and we have to throw it out. Usually we give it to a homeless shelter so it doesn't go completely to waste, but it still hurts our feelings that someone placed an order just to not show up. Its also a waste our time we could have used to do someone else's order that we had turned down.
FYlife604 18
Around here, custom cakes are pay upfront or no service. Seems you should do the same.
sparkles8595 20
I can't control that because the company i work for doesn't want this.
Kurby14 21
as a chef, this also pisses me off. it's happened to my work too. I really hope they were already charged for the meal at least!
middlenamefrank 8
I bet the staff and all their families ate great yesterday, courtesy of the party that canceled! What a great day! You got to do your favorite thing, someone else paid for it, and you got to treat all your friends, coworkers and their families.
shadowdragon0820 20
eat it yourself